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- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
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Major Mite: 1922
December 7, 1922. Washington, D.C. "Two in one. The smallest midget and smallest 'camel' shriner in existence. Maj. Mite had to skirt the camera left carelessly by a photographer when leaving the White House." Clarence Chesterfield Howerton (1913-1975), a.k.a. "Major Mite," was 9 years old when this photo was taken. According to his obituary he was in the "Our Gang" movies and played a Munchkin in "The Wizard of Oz." National Photo Co. View full size.
Camera
I could be mistaken, but probably not. I actually own a nealry identical camera, which I still use. Mines a 5x7 with no rotating back. I'll post a photo of it.
Wizard of Oz
He played one of the baby Munchkins. He pops up out of an egg wearing pink and rubbing his eyes while they are singing Ding Dong the Witch is dead. He looks cute in this pic, but in Wizard and Our Gang, he is quite homely!
"Free Eats"
The Our Gang series short that starred Major Mite (as a very creepy looking "baby", with a very deep voice dubbed over his) also had the distinction of being the debut of young George "Spanky" McFarland, the only child of the dozens hired by Hal Roach to be billed separately.
Although Free Eats is the only film listed on Imdb as having starred Major Mite, I saw him on another short, quite a few years ago. As in Free Eats, he made odd pauses in speaking that I thought were kind of interesting.
Nice camera
Love that RB (Rotating Back) Graflex even if I can't tell whether it is 4X5 or 5X7.
If You See Something, Say Something
If anyone left something the size of that camera on the White House steps these days, the country would be put on Orange Alert.
Little Rascals
The Our Gang episode has the gang as charity guests at the home of some wealthy patron. He played one of the two dwarfs pretending to be babies so they could get picked up by the wealthy attendees and grab jewelry. He stayed in a carriage. They are caught when Stymie catches him smoking a cigar and says, "They're not babies. They're fidgets!"
[Free Eats (1932). -tterrace]
Aww yes my little Chickadee!
W.C. Fields as a boy.
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