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- Where oh where?
- Hollenden habitué
- Everything's happening
- Outnumbered
- From the home of Cabbage to the home of the Cavs
- Exposure time
- To Mars in an Airship
- Cod, sacred
- ReClock
- Clock
- Cheap R.R. Tickets
- What are they?
- By threes
- Twinning
- Clock is still there
- That fellow on the left,
- Beach bonfire in waiting
- A little traveling music professor, if you please
- More Evidence
- Still there
- If this was a drawing
- Forward to 1995
- A man from another era
- Fun & Frolic
- More still there than expected
- The Banner
- Populate and perish
- Dexter M. Ferry
- Electric Arc Light Towers
- Marching up Woodward
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Fox River Mills: 1899
Circa 1899. "Fox River at Aurora, Illinois. Scene on the Chicago & North Western Railway." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
Romantic From a Distance
Those are privies hanging over the Fox River and you know what dropped from them into the water. Note the algae bloom on the lower left where the river was most stagnant--it would have been bright green and smelled of methane. There is paper floating in it, too. From the hedge apples hanging from trees on the right shore I take it the time of year was September: hot enough for the brick warehouse on the left to open its windows despite the smell. Underneath the bridge you can see more waste pouring into the water. What an idyllic scene it is if you don't go into details.
Same View?
Could this be the same view? http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/95037021.jpg
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