"Three children operating rocker at a gold mine on Dominion Creek, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898."
Good or bad situation, at least they had parental guidance.
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"Three children operating rocker at a gold mine on Dominion Creek, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898."
Good or bad situation, at least they had parental guidance.
All 3 of them have the expression on their face as if to say take the picture already we have work to do. Especially the boy operating the crank on the windless
Is that a big dog to left of them? It looks like the pulley is to pull up buckets from a well.
That is probably not a well, it is a mine. The kids parents, or maybe brothers or sisters are most likely down there filling the bucket with what they hope is gold bearing rock. The boy on the left has a "prospectors hammer" on his shoulder.
Brings to mind the saying:
"Hard times make strong men(people),
Strong men make good times,
Good times make weak men,
Weak men make hard times!"
Repeat
They’re saying that the girl on the left is Greta Thunberg. Just goes to show what idiots some folks truly are.
Yet even the family labor is home made.
Who knows it could be Greta's great grandmother. Family resemblance runs deep.
Aircraft engine repair crew. Fort Sill, Oklahoma. 1918.
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Looks like a Wright-Hisso...
USS B-3 Tarantula and crew near the New York Navy Yard. 1909.
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More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_B-3
Submarine Photo Index
Looking at the picture on a normal screen I suspect they maybe correct, up to a point, and it maybe a clever 'photoshop' insert job, the focus and clarity on the girls face doesn't match most of the rest of the photo, but without the original negative who can say?Quote:
Originally Posted by Drew1966
Greta Thunberg circa 1898? If 121 years transpired since then, you'd hope she'd have polished a more distinct resume and skills bundle than what is apparent.
Then again, her buzz circles Twitter and Facebook more than anywhere else; a lot of folks grasp at such things.
Sans the www., a safe bet that majority would be asking "Greta who?"
Regarding faces, there may be only so many to go around. Haven't we all have seen examples of certainly unrelated persons who look uncannily alike?
If I ever find my doppelganger I'm going to hire him if I can or go to work for him which ever the case may turn out if he is at all anything like me it would be safe top state that either of us could use the help.:beer:Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Quincy, Massachusetts fire brigade. Circa 1900.
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Not to mention most every man wore a hat in those days, but but they also had mustache's to fill out the time period, not to say the Millennials will be left in the dust with their beards and black framed glasses today!
No Dalmatian?
And only one guy has a Fireman's hat...
Mate...Tahoe...I was first at the lake at 2...(I've got a picture...) and every summer with family and grandparents at Mullhollands(sp) trailer park at Incline Beach, now the back of a resort. Skied extensively north and south in 70s...lived and worked South Lake in early 80s, emigrated to AUS 87...visited with mum, in her last year, in '01. The lake is part of my DNA...keep it well, mate...cheers
Jim,
now in Sunny South Coast NSW, AUS
We got over a foot of snow overnight and more on the way...
I thought they were the distaff version of the Harmonicats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
is that Greta Thunberg peeking out the 2nd story window? Oh wait that's not her. That's Kilroy
London dustcart. 1910.
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I like that curved ladder...
I see no horses. I wonder if the other three men are on the traces and employed as cart pullers. There must have been huge amounts of "dust" when these carts got their name.
I'am having a hard time comprehending "Dust Cart".
Dust=dung...
Dust = RubbishIts a British term, also carried over to (some of) the colonies. We used to put out our Dustbins weekly for collection. Now its our Wheelies.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
Cheers Phil
Engine room of the HMHS Brittanic under construction.
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Every time the subject of the Britannic surfaces, I'm reminded of the story of Violet Jessop...
Violet Constance Jessop (2 October 1887 – 5 May 1971) was an Irish Argentine ocean liner stewardess and nurse who is known for surviving the disastrous sinkings of both RMS Titanic and her sister ship, HMHS Britannic, in 1912 and 1916, respectively. In addition, she had been on board RMS Olympic, the eldest of the three sister ships, when it collided with a British warship Called HMS Hawke, in 1911.
Full story here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
Oh boy, that is one engine room I'd love to see in action, today they are mainly big diesels or steam turbine's, BORING! But all those reciprocating rods and the sounds of life you can actually see everything, it all comes to life.
Norfolk & Western maintenance shop.
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I love those compound locomotives, this one looks to be a Challenger, with twelve drivers, it was smaller than the Union Pacific's Bigboy, but the Challenger had more traction effort than Bigboy's 16 drivers, due to less weight per driver!
All of those BIG old machines fascinate me. I was fortunate enough to visit the Forney Musuem of Transportation in Denver, Colorado last summer.
( https://www.forneymuseum.org/ )
Sitting outside the humble building, waiting for it to open, I was thinking, "this is going to be a wasted day." I was sure surprised when I got inside. The contents of the building is amazing, I did not want to leave, but others were hungry, and we had a schedule to keep.
It is humbling to stand beside the "BigBoy" locomotive and try to imagine the iron men that designed and built the behemoth of a machine.
Thanks for that mention; the Forney museum sounds fascinating; my brother-in law and his wife live near-ish there, be fun to take it in next time we go visit them.
I am a sucker for bridge cranes...
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The photo is of Norfolk and Western #2180 . It's a Y-6 class 2-8-8-2 articulated. The N&W Ys were among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever operated (the UP's 4-8-8-4 Big Boys were larger and faster, but with less tractive effort, and the Virginian's 2-10-10-2s had higher tractive effort but at a much lower speed). They were used for heavy freight and coal trains in the mountains, moving to mine runs as diesels finally started displacing steam in the late 50s. There exists one remaining example of the type, nonoperational, in a museum.Quote:
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Dairy factory workers posing beside butter churns. New Zealand.
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Preparing the supply for an episode of Paula Deen's cooking show....
Or Perhaps preparing the butter for the sculptures at The Ohio State Fair. Looks like that might be just about enough to do the job. I guess shipping might be a problem from New Zealand to Ohio, USA.
A snip from this site https://ohiostatefair.com/butter-cow/
"In the early 1900s, The Ohio State University and the Dairy Processors of Ohio sponsored butter sculpting contests at the Ohio State Fair. The subjects of these contests were not restricted to specific things. In 1903, the first butter cow and calf were featured at the Fair, sculpted by A. T. Shelton & Company, distributors of Sunbury Co-Operative Creamery butter."
A snip from this site https://ohiostatefair.com/butter-cow/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo
The bullwheel is as big as the churn barrels...
