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Reider Family Picking Blackberries, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1913

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:12:02 +0000

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of fruit.

Caption (vertically along the left-hand side): "Reider Family Picking Black-Berries, Lanc. Co."

A real photo postcard of Edward H. Reider (1875-1942) and his family. It's addressed on the other side to Mr. David Spangler, Lebanon, Leb. Co., Penn., Rout. 2, and postmarked in Elizabethtown, Pa., on September 10, 1913.

Message: "Elizabethtown, Pa., Sept. 1, 1913. Friend, We are all well as you see on the face of this card. Hoping youence [i.e., you-uns or youns] are all the same. Truly yours, E. H. Reider."

lfp - buckets

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Tue, 21 May 2024 11:18:41 +0000

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Shannon class lifeboats are propelled with water jets.
View of the "buckets" - for want of a better term - on the stern of Pwllheli's boat.
This system makes for a very manoeuvrable lifeboat, and one with excellent brakes.

IMG 0588-001-DIY No Parking Cones

nobody@ipernity.com (MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)) — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:17:06 +0000

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Market Street, Northampton, Massachusetts

IoM[1] - power

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:12:46 +0000

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Not quite at full chat ... but close !
The wake from these water jet outlets was considerable.

IoM[1] - buckets

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:12:37 +0000

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Looking over the stern of Manannan at her berth in the ferry terminal at Douglas. The red objects are "buckets" for controlling the directional outputs of the water jet propulsion system.

Halloween Mischief—What the Boys Did to the Cow

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:03:04 +0000

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"What the boys did to the cow."

A comic Halloween postcard published by Julius Bien & Co. in 1908.

This postcard was addressed on the other side to Miss Lille Collins, 122 Dickerson Street, Newark, N.J., and postmarked in Smyrna, Delaware, on October 30, 1911. Message: "Love to all, E.R.C."

For a another card from the same publisher, see What the Pig Thought of the Ghost on Halloween.

Buckets & bouys

nobody@ipernity.com (1banaan) — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:13:37 +0000

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Halloween Games at Midnight

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:40:06 +0000

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Postcard addressed on the back to Earl Elliot, Douglassville, Pa., and postmarked at Douglassville, Pa., Oct. 31, 1906. The handwritten message on the front is "Greetings for the day," and the initials "L.U."--presumably those of the sender--appear in a number of places on the front, including on the wall next to the fireplace.

The clock strikes midnight on Halloween as a woman gazes into a fire and children bob for apples in a wash tub and on a string. Jack-o'-lanterns form a border around the scene, and ghostly figures hover in the message box at the bottom.

The woman in front of the fireplace may actually be playing a fortune-telling game involving three nuts, which she has named after three of her suitors. After placing the three nuts in the fire (I think the nuts are visible here on the top of the grate at the front of the fireplace), she watches to see how they burn. The following poem, which appeared in 1900 in The Jolly Hallowe'en Book, by Dorothy M. Shipman, p. 68, describes the practice.

The Test of the Nuts

I've named three nuts and placed them
Side by side on the grate,
The one which cracks is unfaithful,
The lover I know I should hate.
The one which blazes with brilliant fire,
Tells of high regard, 'tis said,
But the one which burns with a steady flame
Names the man whom I shall wed.

Apples for Bobbing

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:40:08 +0000

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Message on the back of this postcard: "Wish you a Merry Halloween from Isabelle."

Addressed to: Howard Knicley, Brookville, Pa., R.F.D. No. 2.

Postmarked: Punxsutawney, Pa., Oct. 27, 1909.

Printed on the back: "Raphael Tuck & Sons' 'Hallowe'en' Post Cards, Series No. 160."

In the scene on the front of this Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, anthropomorphic apples jump into a wooden wash tub filled with water to initiate bobbing for apples on Halloween.

Here are some other colorful Tuck Halloween postcards:

Self-dumping and Self-righting

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 06:37:58 +0000

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Page from the 1908 catalogue of S. Flory Manufacturing Co of Bangor, Pennsylvania which is new to me as a ropeway manufacturer. The company manufactured a wide range of hoisting machinery and specialised in suspension cablways. It also offered an "Improved Elevated Wire Rope Tramway with Patent Carriage and Grip", for which these buckets would have been ideal.

A Happy New Year

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 01:15:54 +0000

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"A Happy New Year. Haddocks. Come to your milk now."

A Victorian-era New Year calling or greeting card with a hand-drawn sketch.

"Come to your milk" seems to have had a specific meaning in the nineteenth century beyond pulling on a calf's tail to try to get it to drink out of a milk bucket. Besides a few hits on the phrase in Google Books, however, I haven't uncovered any source that reveals what that meaning might have been.

Working on the Railroad All the Live-Long Day

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:05:07 +0000

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A tools photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

A real photo postcard showing a group of men working on railroad track maintenance (workers like these were sometimes called "gandy dancers").

The man on the left is using a track jack to adjust the height of a rail. The man next to him is posing with another tool, probably a sledge hammer. The boy in the middle is carrying a bucket. The fellow on the right is sitting on some sort of long bar—maybe a claw bar for pulling spikes—that appears to be wedged under one of the cross ties.

Dwight's Cow Brand Soda

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:07:12 +0000

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An early label for Dwight's Cow Brand Soda.

Holding a Bucket Under Niagara Falls

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:36:10 +0000

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A painted backdrops photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Two women hold on to a bucket in a fruitless yet humorous attempt to fill it with the water flowing over a painted version of Niagara Falls.

Oh! You Lobster

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:46:35 +0000

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"Oh! You Lobster. / It's all very fine to wine and dine / A pretty dear sweet little miss / It looks very swell, but will you tell / How it's done on a salary llike this ($10 per)."

This vinegar valentine has been personalized with the initials "F.F." for the man, "J.V." for the woman, and "The Biltmore" hotel as the setting for the wining and dining. The early twentieth-century meaning of "lobster" was similar to today's "sugar daddy."

For a similar valentine, see Ye Gilded Boob.

De Laval Cream Separators

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:29:59 +0000

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This advertisement consists of two die-cut pieces--shaped like a cow and a milkmaid--that have been glued together. For the back of this two-part advertising trade card, see De Laval Separators Have Revolutionized Dairying.

"De Laval Cream Separators. Save $10 per cow every year."

De Laval Separators Have Revolutionized Dairying

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:29:57 +0000

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This advertisement consists of two die-cut pieces--shaped like a cow and a milkmaid--that have been glued together. For the front of this two-part advertising trade card, see De Laval Cream Separators.

"De Laval Separators have revolutionized dairying. All styles and sizes, $50 to $800, farm and factory."

"Nearly 500,000 farmers, all over the world, have found a De Laval Cream Separator the best investment they ever made. Send for catalogue and name of local agent if not stamped above."

Suzy's Halloween Costume, 1953

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:28:29 +0000

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Handwritten on the back of the photo: "Suzy on Halloween '53 (her hat slipped a little)."

st.peter and st. paul's church, shoreham

nobody@ipernity.com (Stiffleaf) — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:20:18 +0000

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the leather fire buckets of c.1760 are a reminder of the days when the vestry was responsible for much of village life, looking after the fire engine if there was one, or the fire buckets if not. there were once 24 of these here.