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Still Life with Candlestick

nobody@ipernity.com (Keith Burton) — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:15:36 +0000

Another charity shop find. It was really dusty and dirty, but I decided leave it as it was for this photo. I added one of my textured paper backgrounds and used a grunge preset in post processing.

Mainz - Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:25:32 +0000

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Mainz was founded around 20 BC by the Romans under the name “Mogontiacum” as a military camp. Today's capital of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate forms a metropolitan area with Wiesbaden, the neighboring capital of Hesse, with a combined population of around 500,000.

The "Republic of Mainz", a product of the French Revolution, was the first democratic state on German territory. The state was represented in Paris by the naturalist Georg Forster, who had been in the Pacific with Captain Cook as a boy. The Mainz Republic ended after only five months in July 1793 following the conquest of the city by Prussian and Austrian troops. Georg Forster died in Paris in 1794.

Founded in 1925, the Cathedral Museum houses in its historic rooms – the Staufer vaulted halls, the two-story late Gothic cloister and the former chapter houses – works of art from two millennia that once belonged to the furnishings of Mainz Cathedral or the churches of the diocese.

Candlestick

Limoges, ca 1200

Telephones and Stoves

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:05:34 +0000

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

This is a real photo postcard used as an advertisement by the Keely Stove Company of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The card dates to 1920, and it shows a woman with a candlestick telephone. She's getting married and wants a Keely Columbian Stove just like her mother has, so she's telephoning Herr & Co. in Lancaster, Pa., to order one. In other versions of the ad that I spotted online, the same woman is phoning J. A. Best & Co. in Allentown, Pa., and Bennett & Billington in Canajoharie, N.Y.

I have another copy of this postcard that was addressed to Miss Fannie Groff, Kirkwood, Lanc. Co., Pa., R.R.#1, and mailed in New Providence, Pa., on Nov. 3, 1920. The handwritten message on that copy doesn't refer to the advertisement itself but the writer does mention "phoning" and "call[ing] . . . on the phone":

"Tue. eve. [Nov. 2]. Dear Fannie, I received your letter this morning. I guess you think I am a great one for not phoning to you, but I was so busy today. And Jacob came up to vote [Warren G. Harding won the U.S. presidential election held that day], and because it rained he is staying up so I was not at Margie's to stay all night. Fannie, I won't be down this week, but I will come next Fri. eve. as far as I know now, if it suits you. We are invited to a kitchen shower on Sat. eve. Write to let me know if it will suit. And I will write later or call you up on the phone. R.E.M."

History of this Genuine Photo

The mother of this young lady has a Columbian Stove manufactured by The Keely Stove Co., Columbia, Pa. She is about to get married and telephones to Herr & Co., 7 E. King St., Lancaster, Pa., for she wants one just like Mother's.

515. Schaefer Ross Co., Inc., Rochester, N.Y.

Candlestick Tower and the White Rim

nobody@ipernity.com (RHH) — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:18:08 +0000

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Taken from Murphy Point in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park, the formation in the distance is Candlestick Tower and the white-rimmed canyon that through which the Green River Runs.

The Candlestick

nobody@ipernity.com (RHH) — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:26:20 +0000

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Last spring, on our way to Texas and Big Bend National Park, my wife and I spent a few days in Canyonlands National Park in Utah. We plan to be pack there in early May with our oldest daughter to do some hiking and backpacking there. This photo was taken in the northern part of the park, the Island in the Sky district, and is of a formation known as the Candlestick.

Off to Europe in 1911—Are You Coming with Us?

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 04:07:02 +0000

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An advertising postcard addressed on the other side to Mr. Wm. P. Breen, Fort Wayne, Ind., and postmarked New Haven, Conn., June 8, 1911.

Off to Europe

Visiting Ireland, England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany Switzerland.

Are you coming with us? We must know soon.

Party sails from New York, July 8. 'Phone, wire, or write for reservations. A few choice berths left.

Columbus Travel Society, New York office, 2075 Metropolitan Building. Gramercy 3438.

Prof. J. C. Monaghan, pres. Mrs. B. Ellen Burke, sec'y. D. P. Toomey, treas.

Hello, Is This Santa? Merry Christmas!

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 04:22:34 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

"Hello - Merry Christmas."

An early twentieth-century postcard featuring cutting-edge candlestick telephone communications technology.

See also Hello, Merry Christmas! Operator, Can You Help Me, Help Me If You Please.

whn - view to st bees

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:00:55 +0000

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Several points of interest in this view of Whitehaven's West Beach, taken in evening light, from the West Pier..
See notes for details.

whn - night 'stick

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:13:28 +0000

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Floodlighting showing off the shapes in "The Candlestick"

111[Cu] / whn - wheel

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 22:20:03 +0000

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Pit winding wheel, on the area (I think) that was part of Wellington Pit. The chimney on the skyline was to help ventilation. It is a local landmark and is known as "The Candlestick" .

gbw - candlestick

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:12:46 +0000

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The chimney on the cliff is known locally as the candlestick. The tall structure in the marina is the crows nest.

Sani-Phone Hygienic Telephone Discs Ad, World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1912 (Internet Archive)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:21:10 +0000

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This Sani-Phone Hygienic Telephone Discs advertisement is a screen capture from the World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1912, p. xiv, which is available via the Internet Archive.

For an example of a disc imprinted with a hotel's name, see Hygienic Telephone Disc, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., 1906:

Hygienic Telephone Disc, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., 1906

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:21:12 +0000

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The Bellevue Stratford, Phila., Pa. Talk through this disc. Hygiene Telephone Disc. A new one for each guest occupying this room.

Talk through the Hygienic Telephone Disc and protect yourself from all germ disease. Replace when soiled. U.S. Patent, June 12, 1906.

To put on, bend up small corner on line and slide on mouthpiece. Mfg. by Hygienic Telephone Disc Co., Phila., Pa.

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Worrying about germs and the spread of diseases is nothing new, as this early twentieth-century "Hygienic Telephone Disc" demonstrates. Guests at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia could place one of these "Sani-Phone" discs--as they were also called--over the mouthpieces of the telephones in their rooms so they wouldn't contract tuberculosis or any other nasty bug. The discs used a wax paper-like film that was sandwiched between two layers of cardboard to keep germs away while letting sound through.

For a 1912 advertisement that shows how the disc was placed on the candlestick telephones of the time, see Sani-Phone Hygienic Telephone Discs Ad, World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1912 (Internet Archive):

Man at Desk, Lewis Walker Company Office, 1925

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:33:06 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

In this detail from a 1925 photo of the Lewis Walker Company Office, a young man is working diligently at his desk as he ignores the photographer who's taking his picture.

The man is surrounded by the tools of his job. A clock and a holder with several rubber stamps are among the items I could identify on the desk. There's a pencil sharpener mounted on the windowsill, and a candlestick telephone is visible on another desk that's situated behind the man.

See also the full version of this photo and a close-up of the equipment in the center of the room.

Hello, Merry Christmas! Operator, Can You Help Me, Help Me If You Please

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:27:02 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

Lewis Walker Company Office, 1925

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:33:08 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of furniture (one piece or a roomful; extra credit if your photo includes something instead of—or in addition to—a chair or a table, which we featured in previous themes).

Penciled notation on this photo: "Lewis Walker Co., 2/25."

I haven't been able to locate any definitive information about the Lewis Walker Company, but I believe that it was located somewhere in Pennsylvania, possibly in Pittsburgh.

The photo shows an office full of furniture and equipment. A solitary man sits at a desk, and additional desks, tables, chairs, and bookcases fill up the rest of the room.

Interesting items in the middle of the room include a Dalton Adding Machine on its own stand, a Comptometer case on a desk, and a calendar hanging on the wall.

See also close-ups of the man seated at the desk and the equipment in the center of the photo.

S. Kronenberg's Sons Calendar, Carlisle, Pa., 1913

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:04:20 +0000

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"Compliments of S. Kronenberg's Sons, clothing, 6-8 S. Hanover St., Carlisle, Pa. A bit of gossip. Copyright, 1911, R. Hill. January 1913."

The Boys Keep Me Busy at the Phone

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:03:17 +0000

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"The boys keep me busy at the phone in Jersey Shore, Pa., so excuse me for not writing sooner."

Dalton Adding Machine, Comptometer Box, and Wall Calendar, Lewis Walker Company Office, 1925

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:33:04 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

A number of interesting details are visible in this detail from the center section of this 1925 photo of the Lewis Walker Company Office.

First, a Dalton Adding Machine is positioned on its own stand in the foreground. The machine was capable of printing calculations onto the paper from the roll that's positioned on top.

Secondly, a case for a Comptometer—"the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator"—is lying on the desk located behind and to the left of the Dalton machine. The label on the outside of the Comptometer box says, "Comptometer (Pronounced like thermometer). Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co., Chicago, U.S.A. Adds. Divides. Multiplies. Subtracts."

Finally, an advertising calendar hanging on the wall at the back of the room confirms that the photo was taken in February 1925 and suggests that the location may be Pittsburgh or somewhere else in western Pennsylvania. The advertisement on the calendar says, "Brown & Zortman Machinery Company, machinists supply company, machine shop equipment and supplies, Pittsburgh, Pa. February 1925."

See also the full version of this photo and a close-up of the man seated at the desk.

Hello! Who Is This? You're the One We're After

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:05:26 +0000

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"Hello! Who is this? You're the one we're after. Missed you last Sunday. Come to Sunday school next Sunday sure! A. B. C. No. 56. Copyright, 1917, the Standard Publishing Co., Cincinnati, O."

For other don't-forget-to-attend-Sunday-school postcards, see One Out of Our Sunday-School Class Last Sunday and Sorry You Were Sick Last Sunday.