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- 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!
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- I wonder
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- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
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- C&NW at Nelson
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Lake of the Woods: 1952
My grandfather took this with his Speed Graphic 4x5. This was his and my dad's fishing guide eating his lunch on the shores of Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada, circa 1952. View full size.
This man's wife
must go through a LOT of bread.
Onigaming
Most First Nations folks in the Lake of the Woods Area belong to one of several Anishinaabe (Saulteaux-Ojibwe) nations, the largest being the Onigaming.
Native Canadian
Mississauga (Ojibwe) native guide.
Incredible Photo
This is the type of photo that large format and fine-grain black and white film is made for. The detail and clarity is fantastic. It is almost as if being there looking live at the scene would not have seemed more lifelike.
And I didn't know Abraham Lincoln lived into the 1950's.
Teach a man to fish
He looks like a guide who knew more than where to find fish. Wonderful keepsake this is of a time and place, and a kind of independence that is pretty rare.
Lunch
That stack of bread appears more to be three sandwiches. Notice that there is just enough space between some of them to indicate a filling AND the sandwiches are cut diagonally.
His mom must love him.
Packable Wonder Bread
I knew an old outfitter in the Quetico wilderness preserve in western Ontario who always loved to pack Wonder Bread for his clients. He would mash it into flat little slabs about two inches thick and then told the intrepid canoeists to give it some time to expand again before eating. Delicious, light weight, and nutrition free!
Cut-Rite
For me, waxed paper usually meant egg salad sandwiches. When is the last time you had a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper?
No Frills
Lunch is six slices of bread and a cup of coffee, and as for dinner, you have to catch it.
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