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- What a headache!
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- 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
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In the News: 1892
"Elizabeth Clapp (between January 1891 and January 1894)." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.
Twins?
Facial features look identical to me,especially the eyes, nose and cheeks.
[Um, it's the same girl in two photos. - Dave]
Burdock Blood Bitters
Looks like these kids were imitating a very prevalent ad for Burdock's Blood Bitters and other patent products in which a face explodes through a newspaper page.
Our dad used to tell us
"See you in the funny papers!"
$10,000 in small, unmarked bills or the lady gets it
The kidnappers sent the family a photograph of the victim posing with today's newspaper as proof she is as yet unharmed.
How Modern
Strange Instagram filter they used back in the day.
Rival Sirens
The shot of the newspaper on the right seems to denote that this may be a scandal rag.
Corset alert
Poor Elizabeth on the right, with her guts squished into that corset, positively medieval, with the satin looking strangely metallic. Her hips and legs appear normal but her waist is downright freakish.
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