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1911 Courtship: May 7 Dear Noah

2/5/2013

 
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Henry Nelson (1835-1900) and Eliza Croutch (1840-1919), ca 1890-1900?
The photo above is my husband Nelson's Great-Great-Grandfather - referred to as his 2nd Great Grandfather, and his 2nd Great Grandmother. We received this picture and others via email from a wonderful new relative in Iowa which is where Henry and Eliza Croutch emigrated to from Canada, although half the family stayed in Ontario.  I'll be posting a letter that Eliza Croutch sent to her son, James Henry Nelson (Ethel's Pa) in July 1911 - according to the 1911 Courtship calendar.

Meanwhile, by that same calendar, we're still in May, so here we go...

Author of Letter: Ethel Isabell Nelson, age 21
Dated:  May 7, 1911
Addressed to: Mr. N. C. Draper... My Dear Noah
Mailed  from:  Belhaven, Ontario
Relationship:  Courting
Profession:  Farmer's Daughter  
Writing  instrument: Fine point  pen, black ink
Written on: Light bluey/gray, slightly thick, textured, linen-like paper, 9 inches x 6 inches, folded in half. The paper is folded in half with the first page on the front and last on the back, but inside, she's written straight across the whole width so technically, there are only 3 pages.

People/places mentioned in this letter:
- *Sadie Nelson - Ethel's 16 yr old sister 
- Ma - *Ida Amelia Glover- Pa - *James Henry Nelson
- Uncle *Will Glover - Ida Amelia's older brother born 1872
- Uncle *Leslie Glover - Ida Amelia's younger brother born 1886 
- *Della - Della Mahoney
- Mary Smith and Della Heartley - school friends
- Little Ethel - *Ethel Marie Rogers - 3 mo old daughter of Ida Amelia's sister, Victoria Maud
- Mrs. Manfred Terry - Noah's cousin on the Draper side, *Manford Terry 
- Mr. Davidson - Robert Davidson - a Belhaven neighbour (building his barn)
- **Mr. John A.B. Cole's only daughter - Melvina Cole

- 24th of May - *Victoria Day 
- buckwheat - a grain which gives honey a dark colour, strong flavour &  heavy odour
- **ploughing down the fall wheat - image and information under genealogy notes

Legend: 
* Look under the Categories/Labels in the right side column for more posts on this 
  person/place/thing.
** see Genealogy Notes below

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Belhaven. May 7. 1911.
Mr N C Draper,
          Grand Coulee,
                    Sask.

My Dear Noah;--
                          Rec'd your letter
last night all O.K. I am thinking
perhaps you got two, one which
should have gone to you the
week before. Sadie took it to post
and forgot to post it. so she
says. I guess we will have to
get her something to improve
her memory.
              Well Ma & I have just got
home. Sadie went with us but we
brought her around to Uncle's and
she staid there.
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 Sadie and I were up to Uncle Will Glovers and Ma was to Uncles
Leslie's. We certainly have spent a great day of it. Although I enjoyed
the ride most of all. 
  Pa finished seeding about the middle of last week. except
sowing some buckwheat. Several of the farmers are ploughing
there fall wheat up.
 Della has came home from the city. I guess she likes
to get back to see an old Keswick friend. Mary Smith has
been visiting in Orillia with Della Heartley I think.
 Sadie was successful in her examinations she coming
fifth in a class of about thirty
 There is going to be quite a time in Newmarket on the
24th of May. I don't know yet whether we will be going
down or not.
 Say! when you get that bugy finished painting
just drive in some evening and we will go for a
drive. How nice it would be.
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 Well I can guess at the rest of
those five words. And it wouldn't
take long for me to say them
sometimes,
 Little Ethel was here last week
and say she is just as nice as
her name sake. (ha ha.) Suppose you
pity her if she is no better, eh! I do.
I saw Mrs Manfred Terry at Mr
Davidson's raising, I understood
her to say they were going to keep
a boarding house this summer,
a cousin of mine Mr John A.B.
Cole's daughter is to be married in
June, to Ambrose Traviss of Brown-
hill. Mr. Robt Davidson thinks there
is no girl on the fifth like his. Well
I guess I must say Good Bye for
this time with all love from your
Ethel Nelson.                Sweetheart.
                                         xxxxxxxxxx

Say don't laugh at my letter  ? on the envelope.

Genealogy Notes

There are 2 topics discussed here:

Topic #1:

Mr. John A.B. Cole's daughter - Melvina Cole: 

Ethel says, 
a cousin of mine Mr John A.B.
Cole's daughter is to be married in
June, to Ambrose Traviss of Brown-
hill. 
This was new to me, since our tree doesn't have anyone named Cole yet. So, I did a start-from-scratch search looking for any event for John A Cole of Gwillimbury. One of the first records that came up on the ancestry.ca site was a marriage record for John Abram Cole and Eliza Ann Croutch. I knew we have plenty of relatives named Croutch (or some spelled it Crouch) on Ethel's father's side, so this was exciting. I checked our tree and found an Eliza Ann Croutch who was a cousin of Ethel's father, James Henry Nelson. Further checking revealed that John A Cole only had 2 children, a  boy named Alonze, and a girl, Melvina. Next, I searched for Melvina and confirmed that she does indeed marry Ambrose Traviss of Brownhill in June, 1911. 

Ethel's notation is a big help to us. Because of the spelling of Croutch/Crouch, and the large families of the time, it's very confusing to decipher who belongs to whom. On top of that, part of the Croutch family left Ontario and moved down to Iowa sometime during the last quarter of the 19th century. So we're dealing with census records from 2 countries as well. 

However, we're blessed that one of the Croutch descendants who emigrated to the U.S. has found us on ancestry and we've established a rapport to the extent that records and photos have been exchanged. Because of this person, I now have a photo of Ethel's grandparents and others of  Ethel's family. (See photo at top of post)



Topic #2

Ploughing down the fall wheat crop - in the spring. 
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'Sulky plough on the C.P.R'., MB, 1889, William McFarlane Notman © McCord Museum.
What Ethel calls 'fall wheat' is commonly referred to as winter wheat today. Winter wheat is different from other types of grain because it's planted in the fall. It starts to grow, then winter comes and it freezes and lays dormant - usually beneath a layer of snow - all winter. Come spring, it starts growing again. If all goes well, the winter wheat is ready to harvest in July. It's the first crop harvested after the hay is taken off. 

I don't know what crop the farmer above is ploughing. It may even be stubble after the harvest, although it doesn't look spiky or devastated enough. But that's about the height - maybe a bit more - that a farmer will plough down his fall/winter wheat if it's not growing good. Ploughing it down is like feeding the soil since the nutrients in the green grass-like shoots are full of vitamins and minerals that the soil requires. That's why most crops that are used for this purpose are the leafy ones like clover. 

If the farmers in the Belhaven area are ploughing down their fall wheat, the spring is not a good one - not enough heat or moisture, etc.


1911 Courtship: Mar 6, Dear Ethel

9/17/2012

 
If you've missed some of the courtship letters, use the drop-down menu under Blogs and then slide to the right of Author Memories, or click here.

Our last 1911 Courtship letter was Mar 5, Dear Noah. This week's letter is dated the day after that as Ethel and Noah's letters cross in the mail somewhere between Belhaven, Ontario and Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan.

Author of Letter: Noah Clement Draper
Dated: 3. 6-11
Addressed to: Miss E. Nelson, Bellhaven, Ontario
Mailed from:  Grand Coulee, Sask
Relationship: Courting
Profession: Farmer
Writing instrument: Fine point pen, Black ink
Writing Paper: Thick, textured, linen-like paper, 9 inches x 6.5 inches. Paper is folded in half and usually written starting on the front as page 1, then inside for 2 and 3, and
ending with page 4 on the back. Noah has changed the way he fills the inner pages again by turning the paper in a vertical position and writing across, and all the way down over both pages.

Mentioned in this letter:
- Joe & Eva - Joseph and Eva Amelia - one of Noah's sisters and her husband
- Maud (Victoria Maud)  sister of Ethel's mother, Ida Amelia Glover
- Percy - Noah's older brother
- Arley - no idea who he is yet
- Mother - Sarah Sophia Deverell
- Ethel (Ethel Maud) another of Noah's sisters
- Louie - see the Genealogy notes for a new development!
- Veda - 16 yr old daughter of Joe & Eva
- Fanny - Joe's niece
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Grand Coulee, Sask. 3. 6-11.
Miss. E. Nelson,
     Belhaven, Ont.
Dear Ethel; -
     Well Ethel another week
has slipped away and a nother
day of rest is here but not much
rest. Ha. Ha. Was down to church
this morning & over to Joes for dinner
& tea then back to church &
now home. clock just struck
nine.
     Well Ethel I missed your letter
this week but guess I know the reason.
How do you like it at Maud's?
     Have been at office 3 times
& Percy has been down twice
but all th                        was a
          
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Post Card from Arley. Havent saw that
yet Percy has it. but he could not keep
your letter if there had been one.
     Was in Regina last Tuesday with
Mother & Ethel ordered mother a fur
coat made it is to be finished next
Saturday.
     Well I have found plenty to do
since I came home & will not run
out of a job for some time i guess
dont you feel sorry for me. Eh?
     Saw Louie at church today & was
to go home with her this morning but
got over as far as Joe's and Joe & Eva.
went so I stayed there to run the
house & I had a hard time of it I
can tell you. between Veda & Fanny,
Joes. Niece they keep things lively.
     Say Ethel when I got home them
post cards I was telling you about
of the engineer & I were at Percy's
so I am sending ne. Hope it
won't scare you to death. You
know me as I am not as it shows
me. Ha. Ha.
     Say Ethel mother gave. Ethel her
organ & Ethel sold hers so I will
have to whistle for music all next
summer. but never mind I like a
pianno. dont you.

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     Well every body is getting back
from there trips now & I can
tell you they are coming back
to bad roads but nice weather
as a rule. it has only stormed one
day since I got back. guess
I must have some influence
with the weather man.
     Welll I am preety nearly
run out for this time. but
I will look for a long newsy
letter next week & if you dont
send expect a storm. Well I
guess this is all for this time
write soon to your. (What
shall I say) little Boy Brown.
x x x x x           N. C. Draper.
Anybody out there know what 'little Boy Brown' refers to? I can only find a book by Isobel Harris, but it was published in 1949.

Genealogy Notes

I found Fred & Louie - I think! It's amazing how the genealogical facts fall into place once that first piece of the puzzle is found. And now the Fred & Louie puzzle is complete. Here's what we knew as of the Feb 27th Courtship Letter where Fred was first mentioned:
- Louie is the nickname for Sarah Louisa - Noah's sister
- Noah had written, "Was at Joe's last night for tea and also Fred and Louie we
had a big time Louie took mother with her so I had to take the girls. O. Joy."
- 
as explained in the genealogy notes beneath that letter, I hadn't been able to find out who Fred was because I didn't have his last name.

Earlier this week while waiting for the school bus with the boys, I sorted through a bag of assorted sized photos from Ethel's treasure box and put them in a small album* I'd found. I was disheartened that none of the photos showed Fred and Louie and yet Fred's name was so familiar. 

I had found a Fred Coventry in JD's small address book, but discounted it not only because the man lived in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan - a 45 min drive at today's highway speeds, but because most of the names in JD's address book were for men and their loved ones in WW2. If JD's Fred had been the husband of Louie, you'd think - as JD's Aunt - he would have put 'Aunt Louisa', or 'Fred and Louie", etc.

Louie's last census appearance was in 1901, age 22, in Ontario. The family's move out west happened about 1904 and since Louie was of marriageable age, I thought she may have stayed out east. During my search, however, I stumbled upon a 1916 census listing:
- Louie Stewart, female, est age 35, married to Fred Stewart, living in Red Deer, Alberta
Our Louie would have been:
- Louie ----------, female, age 37, presumably married to Fred ------------

A further search yielded this Register of Deaths:
- Louisa Stewart, female, est birth 1881, died in York, Ontario, 29 Dec 1919
Our Louisa would have been:
- Louisa -------, female, birth 1879, place of death unknown, (born in York), died 1920

So Louie Stewart in the 1916 census was close, and so was the Louisa Stewart in the death register. And although dates can be off by a couple years, it just didn't feel right. Something kept niggling at me.

I went back to Ethel's treasure box and began searching the dozens of postcards knowing that many were actually photos. An earlier post Early Kodak Advertising showed how simple it was to take photos, label them, and turn them into postcards. Another post Early 1900 Camera Talk showed photos of a camera hubby had received from his father years ago, knowing it had been passed down from his father, Noah Draper. So, many of the photo postcards in Ethel's treasure box were taken from that very camera of Noah's.

So there I was, looking through Noah's postcards of WW1 ships, sailors, English castles, and people he'd come across on his travels... and I came across a ripped photo of a man and his horse and buggy. And a quiver went through me.
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Who is this man with his horse and buggy in Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan?
Slowly, I turned the photo over, disappointed to see that it had been ripped out of an album. But wait... something was written on the black paper which I've lightened for visibility...


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Fred Coventry, horse & buggy, Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan.
YES! It said, 'Fred Coventry, horse & buggy, Grand Coulee'. It does say when the photo was taken, but it looks like it was kept in a photo album for a long time. That got me to thinking where else I'd seen the name.

The niggle came back and I remembered the little address book in Ethel's treasure box. A quick flip through the pages and I found this:
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A note in the back of the notebook says that JD gave Ethel (his mom) the book in 1940, before he went to war. As I said earlier, most of the pages contained names and addresses of soldiers and loved ones. I surmised that Fred Coventry was someone close to JD and his family.

With the knowledge that Fred Coventry was a very real possibilty of being Louie's husband, I went back to Ancestry.com and searched for Sarah Louisa (Louie) Coventry.
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And I found her. Or, I should say them... in the 1911 Canada Census. Fred and Louisa Coventry were living on a farm in the Regina area. I continued my search and found a Graveyard notice that Sarah Louisa Coventry was buried in the Kelowna Municipal Cemetery, Pioneer Section.  I clicked on the link and found this:

                 IN MEMORY OF LOUISA DRAPER
                               BELOVED WIFE OF
                                 G. F. COVENTRY
                           BORN MARCH 17, 1879
                                DIED FEB. 1, 1920
                                      "AT REST"
                       COVENTRY


Here's what I now know out about Fred and Louie:
1906 - Both lived in the Regina area but not married
1911 - They were married and living in the Regina area
1916 - Unable to locate in the special Western supp census
- no further Canadian census released
- no further record of them until Louie's death in 1920
But most surprising of all, according to the 1911 census, Fred and Louie had no children and although Fred was almost 10 yrs older than Louie, he had never married. So the big question is... Who are the girls Noah is talking about in his letter? 

*I'll be adding notes on photo storage and other research stuff gained while searching, to a new page, Archive Storage, which will be available sometime in October.

Early Kodak Advertising

5/29/2012

 
This post is a continuation of last week's post on early Kodak cameras. Suzie Johnson left a comment that she thought the Kodak girl with stripes looked like a Gibson Girl. I'm not familiar with Gibson Girls, but Martha Cooper has an explanation about the stripes on her Kodak Girl site.
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1921 cover of the Kodak Supplies Catalog (www.kodakgirl.com)
This photo of a red-striped Kodak Girl was used in the 1909 issue of Scribner's magazine.
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1909 ad in Scribner's Magazine courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections.
It was also used in this Australian box of Kodak's glass Orthochrome plates.
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From the www.kodakgirl collection
What I found ingenious with the Kodak cameras was the way you could process the film at home without a darkroom.
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1902 ad in Country Life in America courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
One of the main selling points of the Kodak camera was that you could develop the film at your own convenience, wherever and whenever you wanted. This 1912 ad in Munsey's shows a woman processing her photographs outside, possibly in her garden or even a public park.
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1912 ad in Munsey's, courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
In 1908, Youth's Companion ran this ad with children not only taking the photographs, but developing the film as well. However, even with instructions and proper measuring tools, the thought of children using chemicals like these is scarier than the creature they're photographing.
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1908 Youth's Companion ad, courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
The ads showed women in all walks of life taking photos of anything that caught their interest. Some of the ads would encourage women to take photographs with a mind toward selling them like this 1911 ad in Uncle Remus' Home Magazine.
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1911 ad in Uncle Remus' Home Magazine, courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
Ads of home life depicted women talking photos of their children with their pets, and then putting them in Kodak supplied albums for display as well as safekeeping. In this ad from Youth's Companion, the mother gets down to baby's level instead of putting baby on a table and standing back, out of arms' reach, like so many other ads show.
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1908 ad in Youth's Companion, courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
As printing advanced where they could publish photographs instead of black and white drawings, magazines switched to real photograhs. Much of the subject matter was the same however, with women on the move like this ad in a 1912 Ladies' Home Journal, a favourite theme.
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1912 Ladies' Home Journal courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
Although the majority of the ads show young women with their cameras, this next ad from Collier's Weekly displays a group of interested people of mixed ages and genders surrounding a woman with her Kodak. 
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1909 Collier's Weekly, courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
 Men were also shown driving motorcars or at military and sporting events like this one from an unknown magazine where he's writing on the negative of his Autographic camera about the photo he's just taken.
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1910 Man using a Kodak Autographic camera, courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
And if you don't know what an Autographic camera is, read this next 1915 ad in Woman's Home Companion and it will tell you everything except who thought up this ingenious camera. I always wondered how some of the amateur postcards and photographs had information written in white.
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1915 Autographic ad in Woman's Home Companion, courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
George Eastman was a salesman foremost. He ran one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history. I believe it's because he knew what made people tick and how to touch their hearts. That's shown by the use of women and children in the ads. And when the war began, he reminded people - rightfully so - that soldiers needed to know someone back home was thinking and praying for them.
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1917 ad courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
I could have chosen several photos of soldiers sitting around campfires, enjoying mail call, etc, but I think this poignant one here says it all. Memories fade with time, but a photograph was a tangible reminder of why he was so far from home fighting people he never met.
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1917 McClure's courtesy of Duke University Digital Collections
I'll end this post with one of my favourite early Kodak ads from the back cover of a 1925 National Geographic. I probably like this photo so much because I'm filled with anticipation of my own train ride this summer where I'll travel in a roomette similar to this one, with my good friend, Suzie Johnson. We climb aboard at Seattle and take the Coast Starlight  down to the 2012 Romance Writers of America conference in Anaheim, CA.  I'm very excited about the 20 hr train ride. And yes, I will be bringing my camera with me except it's not a Kodak - it's a Nikon. Shhhhhhhhh...
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Back cover of a 1925 National Geographic, courtesy of http://mcnygenealogy.com
Well, any thoughts - either about the Kodak marketing campaign or the cameras themselves? Did you learn anything interesting from this post?
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Early 1900 Camera Talk & Giveaway

5/20/2012

 
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In recent weeks I've shown my Finnish heritage  in photos and memoirs, and although I haven't spoken of my husband's ancestry, I've shown items belonging to his namesake, Uncle Nelson.

This week I want to show a shared passion - photography. If you've followed any of my blogs, you know I'm never without a camera and take pictures of everything. What I didn't realize when I started posting my family history was that my grandfather, known as Pappa, was a professional photographer before he left Finland. Couple that with the knowledge that my mother started taking pictures as a teenager, and you see where my love for the hobby comes from.

Although I'd love to claim this early 1900's photo as one from my family history, I'm actually using it with permission from the collection of  www.kodakgirl.com.

See the camera the girl is holding? It's a Kodak 3A Pocket Camera. And that's the one that brings Nelson's family history in line with mine since he's the one with that particular model. His father, Wayne Draper, passed it on down from his father, Noah Draper. Nelson also received a box of letters written by his grandfather, Noah Draper, to Ethel Nelson, the woman he would later marry. The letters and photos start in 1911 and carry through WW1. I'll be featuring them in a future blogpost.  For today, I'll start with some photos of the camera.

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1911 Kodak 3A Pocket Camera
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1911 Kodak 3A Pocket Camera
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1911 Kodak 3A Pocket Camera
A bit of history on Kodak... In 1888, Kodak was the first company to mass produce a camera. Called, the Kodak Camera, it came loaded with enough film for 100 pictures and claimed that anyone could use it without instructions.
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To prove their point, Kodak began an ad compaign using women which would continue for decades. Called Kodak girls, the ads featured women in normal walks of life using cameras. What I dislike about the ad campaign is that it shows the women of that era as being so simple-minded even they can use the camera.
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1888, The 1st Kodak camera and Kitty Cramer, the 1st Kodak Girl
What I found fascinating about these ads is that it features active women doing things outside the home. They're always on the go, taking photos of all kinds of interesting people and things.

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A Kodak Girl on the go carrying a Folding Pocket Kodak camera.
In the above ad, the Kodak girl is carrying a folding pocket camera similar to the Model 3A that Nelson received. I think she looks great!

And here's a fun bit of research...

1890 Kodak Factory

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Kodak factory at Harrow, 1890s
Kodak’s Harrow factory was in use from 1891 for emulsion-making,
paper-coating and for the processing and printing of customers’ films. In this view, taken soon after its opening, female employees are seen printing negatives by sunlight in the upper gallery of Building 1. 

The egg-white needed to coat albumen paper for contact printing was supplied by a flock of a hundred chickens kept on the site.

Gelatin silver print (printed later)

Image and text supplied by the British Library Online Gallery 

Considering that Kodak has been in the news lately because of it's financial woes, I found it bittersweet to research their successful early stategies which benefited so many people. I wish they had been able to continue. And I thank George Eastman for making his vision a reality for the common person.

Do you have a camera? What was your first one and what kind do you have now?

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The pile contains an assortment of books including
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autobiographies, self-help, devotionals and children's books, all new.

And maybe even a Dean Koontz novel, What the Night Knows, if it's still available.

May 23 UPDATE
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