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"Mother at her Desk"

Submitted by esn36 on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 6:09am.
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I picked up this photo with a number of other old family photos at a thrift store in Albany, California in the 1980s. Handwritten on the back it says: "Mother at her Desk, U.S. Civil Service Commission - Wash. D.C. (1930s?)" A postcard from the same thrift store shows Bellefonte Spring, Bellefonte, Arkansas. On the back, in the same handwriting as "Mother at her Desk," it says: "Mother lived here for a while as a kid. Bellefonte, Ark. - near Harrison." In different handwriting on the front it says: "Where I watered Topsy at noons near Blacksmiths." Two other photos, likely from the same family, show a baby identified on the back of one as "Kay Knouse, 10 months old, Nevada County, Arkansas, 1925." There are a number of other photos which are also likely from this same family. I would be happy to return them to any living relative who wants them. I know Shorpy doesn't exist for this purpose but I thought the "Mother at her Desk" photo was interesting enough by Shorpy standards (despite not being up to Shorpy quality standards) to give it a try. Thanks for a great blog site. View full size.

I picked up this photo with a number of other old family photos at a thrift store in Albany, California in the 1980s. Handwritten on the back it says: "Mother at her Desk, U.S. Civil Service Commission - Wash. D.C. (1930s?)"

A postcard from the same thrift store shows Bellefonte Spring, Bellefonte, Arkansas. On the back, in the same handwriting as "Mother at her Desk," it says: "Mother lived here for a while as a kid. Bellefonte, Ark. - near Harrison." In different handwriting on the front it says: "Where I watered Topsy at noons near Blacksmiths."

Two other photos, likely from the same family, show a baby identified on the back of one as "Kay Knouse, 10 months old, Nevada County, Arkansas, 1925." There are a number of other photos which are also likely from this same family. I would be happy to return them to any living relative who wants them. I know Shorpy doesn't exist for this purpose but I thought the "Mother at her Desk" photo was interesting enough by Shorpy standards (despite not being up to Shorpy quality standards) to give it a try.

Thanks for a great blog site. View full size.

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1934 Telephone

Submitted by Alex on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:48am.

When I saw this picture and the caption, I thought 1930s??? I remember that telephone from the fifties.
But some googling made clear that this model indeed was first designed in the 1930s. First designed by Ericsson in 1932, this became the GPO standard (332) phone largely produced in the 1940s and 1950s.
A great design!

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