Photos, videos and docs of Alan Mays, with the keywords: "1921"

Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Clover Watching Themselves, Whittier, California, March 31, 1921 (Full Version)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 03:45:56 +0000

The full photo as mounted on a cardboard backing. For more information, see the cropped version.

Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Clover Watching Themselves, Whittier, California, March 31, 1921

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 03:45:58 +0000

I chose photographic tricks and amusements for the free-for-all (post as many photos on as many different themes as you'd like) during the fifth week of Wild Card Month—Pick Your Own Theme! in the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

On the left-hand side of this photo, we see a woman taking a bite out of an apple offered to her by a man—shades of Adam and Eve! On the right, we see the same couple, and they've noticed the other version of themselves—the woman is pointing in their direction and the man is looking over at them.

According to the typed label attached to the back, this is a photo of "Mr. & Mrs. Emerson Clover, Central Park, Whittier, California, March 31, 1921."

I haven't uncovered any information regarding how Emerson J. Clover (1854-1926) and his wife, Alice K. Clover (1864-1947) created this trick photo, but the double exposure is well done. Central Park in Whittier, California, still exists. Part of a circular fountain or other structure in the park is visible beyond the tree.

See also the full version of the photo, which is mounted on cardboard.

Lewis Metzler and His Bicycle, Williamsport, Pa., June 1921 (Full Version)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:29:18 +0000

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For more information, see the cropped version of this real photo postcard.

Lewis Metzler and His Bicycle, Williamsport, Pa., June 1921

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:29:20 +0000

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The boy posing with his bike on this real photo postcard is identified on the other side as "Lewis Metzler" and the location is indicated as "Williamsport, Pa." A date of "June 1921" is written on the front of the card (see the full version).

Bride and Groom, Children's Mock Wedding, Perry County, Pa., 1920s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:02:24 +0000

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I sense that the bride and groom may have had some second thoughts as they posed for this photo. See also the full version of this photo. From the Dente Studio, Newport, Pa.

Children's Mock Wedding, Perry County, Pa., 1920s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:02:25 +0000

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Be sure to take a look at the cropped version of this photo to see the charming expressions of the bride, groom, and other cute members of the bridal party. From the Dente Studio, Newport, Pa.

Groundhog Day Menu, Hotel Weber, Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 2, 1921

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:43:40 +0000

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Menu from page 3 of the program for the "Fourteenth Annual Watch and Wait of the Slumbering Ground Hog Lodge of Quarryville, in Pennsylvania," February 2, 1921 (see below for a transcription of the text).

For additional information about the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge, see an
enlargement of the groundhog illustration on the front cover of the program for the lodge's 1963 celebration, the full front cover of the program, and the back cover of the program.

Ground Hog Day, Nineteen Twenty-One

Ground Hog Feast
Hotel Weber, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the Garden Spot of America.

To sleep or not to sleep? That is the question.
Whether 'tis weather-wise thus to suffer
The stings and arrows of a Borean Winter,
Or, by retreating to a cozy corner, burrow, and end them,
To sleep, to hibernate and by a six-week nap
To say we end the backache and the rheumatism
And the hundred ills woodchucks are heir to,
To hibernate! To sleep! Perchance to dream--
Aye, there's the rub! For in that death-like sleep
What dreams may come, eke make me suck my paws,
For who would prophesy and shake and shiver
In an advancing cold wave and storm
When he at once might rest and comfort take
By getting in out of the wet.

Menu

Celery, Olives, Oysters on the Half Shelf, Vegetable Soup

Stuffed Turkey, grown in Colerain Township

Turkey Giblet Sauce

Mashed Potatoes, raised in East Drumore

Candied Sweet Potatoes, product of Beggar Row

Cranberry Sauce, as sassy as can be made

Quarryville Peas

Salads, a la Eden Township

Ice Cream, frozen in Lancaster

Cakes

Coffee, direct from Brazil, grown especially for ground hogs

John W. Taylor, After a Hard Day's Work, Clarksburg, WV, 1921

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:17:08 +0000

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Handwritten on the back of this real photo postcard: "John W. Taylor after a hard day's work, July 27, 1921, Clarksburg, W.Va., 633 Dale Ave."