The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Hurricane Jack]

CSA camp, Warrington Naval Yard, Pensacola, FL. Looks like some could be brothers.

 

[shopkin]

I've been meaning to ask.... what-the-heck is a "shorpy".

 

[Bamaboots]

I've been meaning to ask.... what-the-heck is a "shorpy".

https://www.shorpy.com/

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I've been meaning to ask.... what-the-heck is a "shorpy".

Suggest you google “Shorpy photographs”, then go to the OP of this thread.

 

[Bamaboots]

Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecroppers, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Walker Evans photographer.

 

[shopkin]

Suggest you google “Shorpy photographs”, then go to the OP of this thread.

Thank you Jack. Glad I asked.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Cowboys at chuckwagon near Granite, Texas (1885). Greer county Texas was later to become part of Oklahoma.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Courtroom, Drumright, Oklahoma. Circumstances unknown.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Paddle wheeler on the Missouri River at Mound City, MO 1910. Can’t read the name on the pilot house. There was a regular route running from Rulo, NE (and Omaha/Council Bluffs farther north) down to Saint Joseph, & on to Kansas City, & all river stops in between . The river wasn’t yet channelized so shallow water & snags were commonplace.

The slight colorization & the 8 MB size make for a great pic on my monitor.

 

[BobHufford]

In the past, factories often employed individuals known as “lectores” to read stories aloud, providing entertainment and a break from the monotony of work.

This practice first emerged in the 1860s within Cuban cigar factories. In the United States, the custom was common in the cigar factories of Ybor City in Tampa but was discontinued after the Ybor City cigar makers’ strike of 1931.

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[Hurricane Jack]

In the past, factories often employed individuals known as “lectores” to read stories aloud, providing entertainment and a break from the monotony of work.

Reminds me of the Tom Hanks movie, News Of The World. His character travelled from town to town in the post Civil War period reading from newspapers for The admission charge of $.10.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Eureka, CO (1900)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Reception & dining rooms of the Confederate Veterans Home of Missouri, Higginsville, MO 1904. Jim Cummins, boyhood friend of Jesse James, who rode as a Missouri Partisan Ranger under the command of George Todd during the War, & longest living member of the post war James - Younger Gang was a resident from 1902 until his death in 1929.

In 1907 David Edwards, another of Quantrill’s men who had moved into the Veterans Home the yr before, took a shot at Cummins head but missed. The two had been arguing about events during the wartime massacres at Centralia, MO & Lawrence, KS. Edwards was arrested & spent a couple nights in jail but charges were never filed.

In 1909 Cummins mortally wounded another resident at the Veterans Home with a fist to the head during an argument, which turned fatal the next day. No charges against Cummins were filed. PTSD was unheard of.

During his retirement yrs Jim Cummins wrote 2 dime booklets about his war life & after. He died of old age while living at the home in July, 1929. He is buried in the State Confederate Veterans Cemetery on the grounds where the Veterans Home once stood.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Boating & swimming, Electric Park, Vinita, OK. ca 1920.