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- Tobacco cam
- Basic fact I learned only later in life
- Put a Lid on it!
- Pinstripes in the Tower
- Sound enhancement
- 3438 in '38
- Second Career
- Their days are numbered
- Only the Sensor
- Train control mechanism
- Rarest of the Rare?? & Classy 3400 Class
- Control Mechanism
- Those standpipes
- Wrenches
- International D-40 I believe
- Job prospects
- You had me at Train
- Land of the free
- Broad-Exchange Bldg
- Parking innovation
- The old block
- "Peck turned a sweet propeller"
- National Bank Building
- Notch shot
- Straight ahead (right, left, left, right)
- Ship lifespans
- New service
- You Say Station, I Say Potato ...
- Iron Age
- Thank you, Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Vacation Snaps: 1904
Old Orchard, Maine, circa 1904. "Photographer at Old Orchard House." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Smile for the camera
Something tells me he didn't specialize in child photography.
The future is now
This is amazing! Is that the new Leica prototype? It is so small and portable for the time. I wonder if he felt as if he were traveling with a pocket (big pocket) camera!
Keep them coming!
Untold story
I would love to know more about this man! I know that Maine had a small African American population & this image makes me curious. Who was he? What was his role in the community? Was he an itinerant photographer or did he maintain a studio of some sort? What was his connection to Old Orchard House? Perhaps the answers lie in the archives of a local historical society.
This is a fine example
of why I love this blog. My imagination raises questions that can never be answered -- Who? Why? What happened next?
Those Hands
That is a huge set of mitts. They look like a bunch of bananas.
Big hands
I bet he would hate my little digital camera.
Holy Cow!
They finally found him -- the model for the modern baseball glove. Look at the mitts on that guy!
The Shadow
Who's the creepy figure in the doorway? I sense a Stephen King plot coming on.
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