This is an old #rppc #postcard that I bought at a shop in #Schenectady a couple of years back. Fascinated with it but never sure just what to do with it. It's a real photo postcard showing "Dick on Mohawk River at Schenectady in 1917 while working in G.E."
General Electric's main plant was very close to the #MohawkRiver, and I can attest that even decades later, the river was subject to some mighty freezes.
These 1920s #FilmPhotos sat undeveloped for 100 years, until now: https://zorz.it/ZXyVQ
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When I took this – or even ten years ago, for that matter – I could not have imagined that city newsstands would almost completely disappear someday. This is from November 1979, in downtown #SyracuseNY. His name was Pete Mussi, and he was a fixture there for decades. He's holding up the afternoon paper, because at the time a city the size of Syracuse could still support two newspapers.
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Took this picture in 1977, and it fascinates me to this day. It just has that certain something, entirely by accident.
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Hmm. Here's a closeup of the pin on his lapel. Doesn't mean anything to me. Has anyone seen this? Kind of looks like a stylized Greek Lambda .. maybe, or a bell-shaped graphic. Depending on whether you focus on the positive or negative. Could also be three (white) trees?
With help from my wife's eagle-eye for identifying faces, I think we've been able to move this photo out of the "unknown" bucket! I've always really liked this photo, and now I'm pretty sure it's my great-great-grandmother (not yet sure who the man is .. definitely not either of her husbands .. hmm)! Probably 1890-ish.
Old photos are so fun!
Does anyone know much about the Beardsley Studio in Charlotte, Michigan?
My great great aunt's house in West Glenville, NY, where I spent many summer days in the 1960s and '70s. While it had electricity, it did not have indoor plumbing. We had to draw water from the pump in this picture – drawn through shale, it was quite tasty (though the rag on the spout is to catch rust from the mechanism). After she died in 1985, the house was modernized and is not recognizable anymore.
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