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Olivia de Havilland - 1942

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Ralls, Texas 1939
Photo by Russell Lee

I had an old water bag like that once that was tied to the spare tire in the trunk of an old 1957 Chevrolet I bought. It even had Chevrolet stenciled on it in turquoise or aqua blue. Amazing that a burlap bag could soak up & sweat but not drip water.

 

[Bamaboots]

Hop farmers 1920's.

 

[Rmccamey]

El Paso, TX. 1900
Possibly a wedding photo.

 

[buler]

Johnson County Dairy Show, 1946. Fort Worth

 

[buler]

Retired railroad men. 1945

 

[buler]

No info.

 

[buler]

Amon Carter shaking hands with Louis Swift (meat packing Swifts). Carter not in an Open Road! Love that crease. Reminds me of the backwards pinch Knappfelt Saratoga. 1928

 

[RBH]

J. P. Osborne Hereford Cattle Sale attendees Jack Frost, owner of the White Hat Ranch (left) Bob Mousel of the firm of Mousel Brothers, of Cambridge, Nebraska (center) and F. W. Fischer of Tyler, Texas.
1940

Texas Hereford Association Tour. Left to right, L. L. Mackey, and W. R. Owings Junior, both of Longview
1940

Bob Cannon, oil driller for the Burk Royalty Company, Howsley and McCord ranch
1941

Standing left to right, Lewis Roberson, Pecos, Texas ranchman, and S. M. Kyle, Loving County, Texas. At the annual meeting of the Pecos Valley Livestock Protective Association
1940

Clyde "Buck" Buchalew ,chuck wagon cook. He worked with the Renderbrook Division of the Spade Ranch, near Colorado City, Texas
1941

University of Texas Arlington Libraries

 

[BobHufford]

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, circa 1910.

 

[Rmccamey]

This one came across my FB feed today. Madrid, NM. Picture taken a few years before Wild Hogs!

 

[carouselvic]

No info…write your own story

 

[Woodtroll]

Sure looks like an O. Winston Link photo. He was famous for his steam-era train photos, especially on the Norfolk & Western and other Eastern lines. He did a lot of brightly-lit night shots that gave stark but beautiful contrasts.

Here's one of my favorites - a lot going on in this photo!:

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Sure looks like an O. Winston Link photo. He was famous for his steam-era train photos, and did a lot of brightly-lit night shots that gave stark but beautiful contrasts.

NY state license plate.

 

[Woodtroll]

NY state license plate.

Interesting catch! That particular shot was taken in West Virginia, I believe, near the Virginia line. You never can tell where those Yankees will show up.

Edit: Sorry, you meant the first photo with the fuel pump, my mistake!

 

[BobHufford]

The fuel pump photo is an O. Winston Link entitled "Sometimes the Electricity Fails" and was taken in Vesuvius, Virginia in 1956.

 

[Woodtroll]

Hopefully not to drag this discussion too far off track, but here's another of my OWL favorites, "Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper", taken in 1956. To me this photo does a great job of capturing a bit of rural life in the mid-1900s. How long has it been since it was "normal" for kids to drag polewood home on a sledge with a mule?

Green Cove is near Mount Rogers, the highest peak in Virginia. The Virginia Creeper line lives on as a bicycle trail.

 

[Frunobulax]

The fuel pump photo is an O. Winston Link entitled "Sometimes the Electricity Fails" and was taken in Vesuvius, Virginia in 1956.

Prescient.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Unnamed Osage Indian Chief wearing a Peace Medal. Taken in Sedan, KS.

 

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Will Viel chooses a cigar in Margraff & Freiburger's Dry Goods Store,1895
New London,WI