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[masraum]

Edited. Are you out of your mind? No more.

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by masraum

I love that room, and the entire country surrounding it.

[GH85Carrera]

Edit. Glen, be careful: F or T, really? How about I go up your companies website and post: Loved the F or Treat meme, you rock! Then I post the meme. That work for you?

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by jcwade

I love that room, and the entire country surrounding it.

Some day I need to get around to reading all those books in there.
View of the outside.

[GH85Carrera]

Ponca men who attended the funeral for George L. Miller, of the Miller Brothers’ 101 Ranch in Ponca City, Oklahoma - 1929
*L-R: Charlie Roy, White Deer, Horse Chief Eagle, Edward Smith, and John DeLodge.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

You've gotta wonder if that made the noise like in the cartoons.

Sproinginginginging.

[GH85Carrera]

Gladys Smith, thirteen-year-old girl, who cooks and cares for a family of six. Great Depression, New Deal, Rural Rehabilitation. Coffee County, Alabama in 1939








In the mid-1600's the Ojibwa east of Lake Superior began to move westward, and by the late 1770's, Ojibwa settlements circled Lake Superior. One of these settlements was located on the Kaministikwia River. Eye-witness accounts of Fort William in the early 1800's usually mention a Native encampment east of the palisade. A painting dated 1805 shows clusters of dome-shaped wigwams huddled at the south-east corner of the Fort; illustrations from the Hudson's Bay Company period (after 1821) depict conical tepees and wigwams.
These habitations reflect the culture of a people continually adapting to their environment as they had for thousands of years. Ojibwa family groups moved through these woodlands around Lake Superior in a seasonal round that included fishing, hunting, and gathering, and trade gatherings with other Native groups. With the coming of the Europeans, many Ojibwa incorporated the demands of the fur trade: trapping fur-bearing animals, and more prolonged contact with trading posts to supply pelts and other services.
The Ojibwa inhabiting the western Lake Superior region were also known as the Saulteaux, or Chippewa, while to the north were the Cree. Probably both tribes were represented at Fort William during the Rendezvous when Natives from surrounding areas came to trade their furs and exchange their labour and produce for commodities available at the Indian Shop. While most Natives departed for their hunting grounds as summer ended, some stayed behind to participate in winter activities of the fort.
During the NWC period, there were probably about 150 Ojibwa living in the Kaministikwia district. A number of Ojibwa names appear quite regularly in the Fort William transaction records, probably the members of the Ojibwa community adjacent to the fort. It is probable that they based their operations at Fort William, but continued to undertake seasonal journeys and encampments for the purpose of harvesting maple sugar, wild rice, snaring rabbits, fishing, and hunting game. One of these expeditions might last weeks or even months, so the Ojibwa population at Fort William was constantly in flux.
In addition to their own activities, the Ojibwa at Fort William supported the operation of the post. Women worked in the kitchen and canoe sheds, as well as the farm, and received payment in the form of trade goods. Men might be engaged in hunting or fishing for the NWC, and any other service in labour or expertise that the company might require.
As producers, the Ojibwa were integral to the needs of the NWC at Fort William. The transaction records show the quantity of provisions and materials supplied to the post and its personnel: bark, wattap and spruce for canoe-building, snowshoes, moccasins, skins, maple sugar, berries, wild rice, and fresh game.


So much easier than metric!

[GH85Carrera]

In 1887, 21-year-old George W. Nellis, Jr., made his transcontinental journey in 72 days from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco, on his 52-inch high Columbia Expert “ordinary” bicycle. The newspaperman beat the previous record by several weeks.






In the grocery store. Winton, Minnesota in 1937.

[KNS]

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[Rusty Heap]

[masraum]

[GH85Carrera]

161 years ago, Thursday, October 24, 1861 during the early months of the War Between the States, the first transcontinental electric-telegraph line was completed by the Western Union Telegraph Company when the Eastern & Western sections were connected together at the telegraph office in Salt Lake City in Utah Territory, after which California Chief Justice, Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899), wired a congratulatory message from San Francisco, California to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) in Washington, D.C.

It is noteworthy that the Pony Express (1860-1861), which boasted that it could deliver a letter from Sacramento to St. Joseph, Missouri in the unheard-of time of 10 days, was instantly made obsolete & went out of business on October 26, 1861 -- two days after the transcontinental electric telegraph system went live.

The circa-1862 photograph depicts the site where the Eastern & Western sections of the transcontinental telegraph were joined at the telegraph office on the East side of Main Street in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.








This photograph of an Ozark mountain family featuring a mother and her children in the doorway of their cabin home was taken in October 1935

[craigster59]

[JackDidley]

[GH85Carrera]

That does not look like how it is supposed to work.


Aerial view of the new Los Angeles City Hall in 1928. Source: USC Digital Library.




Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." (Oklahoma, 1916. Photo and caption by Lewis W. Hine).


Mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper. Transylvania, Louisiana. Jan. 1939. Photo taken by: Russel Lee.
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[Robert Coats]

[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

[craigster59]

Boy, If you want to feel old here is a pic of the "TV Boyz" at Tony Dow's memorial.

Front row: Paul Petersen (Donna Reed Show) and Billy Mumy (Lost In Space)

Back row: Barry Livingston (My 3 Sons), Billy Gray (Father Knows Best), Jon Provost (Lassie) and Stanley Livingston (My 3 Sons)