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When have you ever seen a snowman with a sculpted thumb on either hand?It might be.
Shovel used to make a hole to insert the cardboard snowman on the ground. View attachment 156986
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I was looking at this up close & the sharpness of the focus is amazing for 1913.Boy giving his donation to flood prevention fund in Dayton, Ohio on May 24, 1913.
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There's a time traveler driving a 1961 Chevrolet Biscayne....summer heat in 50s Chicago.
Probably glass plate photography. I've seen some historical photos using that technology that look as good as HDTV, or better.I was looking at this up close & the sharpness of the focus is amazing for 1913.
I'm sure it was but with the slower lens/long exposure time everyone/everything would have to stay perfectly still. I have a small collection of glass slides for a Magic Lantern projector (pre moving picture films) & I don't think they are that sharp in focus.Probably glass plate photography. I've seen some historical photos using that technology that look as good as HDTV, or better.
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
When have you ever seen a snowman with a sculpted thumb on either hand?
"Remember the Promises You Made in the Attic" was the slogan used to promote collection for future flood prevention.
My wife has a childhood pic of her mom at Christmas time, on a stuffed reindeer, painted backdrop & a terrible Santa Claus (think "Bad Santa"). It was taken in some department store I'm sure. Hard to believe Christmas decorations were once so crude.When you work in the "Trim-A-Tree" dept
around Christmas and the boss knows you
do oil paintings....
And assigneds you to do the walls and cutouts of Santa, reindeers etc, standing around faked snow.
I like the beaded cuff shown. I have a pair of ceremonial beaded dance cuffs with longer fringe. I'll try & include them in a pic soon.Big Knife, Blackfoot.
I wonder if the Kolb brothers saw the Navajo place of emergence in the canyon; the Sipapu?
The adventurers and photographers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb on the Colorado river, circa 1911-12. ‘Ellsworth and Emery Kolb were the last of the Grand Canyon pioneers, and the most colorful,’ says Roger Naylor, who wrote a book about the brothers. ‘They dangled from ropes, clung to sheer cliff walls by their fingertips, climbed virtually inaccessible summits, ran seemingly impassable white-water rapids, braved the elements, and ventured into unknown wilderness – all for the sake of a photo’
Photograph: Courtesy of Grand Canyon National Park Museum Collection
Found this photo and text in the Guardian Newspaper today.
Michael
Don't know, HJ, but you might find the answer in this bookI wonder if the Kolb brothers saw the Navajo place of emergence in the canyon; the Sipapu?
The Sipapu & the Sipapuni is in the area of where the Little Colorado River empties into the Colorado River. That's very near where the Smithsonian removed Egyptian-like artifacts around the turn of the 20th century. That whole area has been restricted & off limits by the government since that time. Only the earliest of explorers could have possibly seen what was there.Don't know, HJ, but you might find the answer in this book
http://www.rogernaylor.com/books-1
Michael