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

The Playground, Mayo Park, Rochester, Minnesota, ca. 1910

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 22:21:04 +0000

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of at the playground.

Five girls pose on playground equipment in Mayo Park, Rochester, Minnesota, circa 1910.

Caption on the front of this real photo postcard: "The Playground. Mayo Park. 143."

Printed on the other side: "Bert Crowell, Rochester, Minn."

Postmarked in Rochester, Minn., May 14, 1910, and addressed to "Miss Hilda Swanson, #85 Cambridge Ave., St. Paul, Minn. Macalaster Park, c/o James Beddie."

Handwritten message: "Rochester, Minn. Dear Aunt Hilda, I have not heard from you for a long time, but I had a card from Myrtle today and she said you had gone to St. Paul to live. Mama has been sick all the time lately. She seems to have a cold all the time. She has been lying down all morning. I hope she gets better. How are poor little James and William. Mama says that she wishes you would write soon and tell her. With love and kisses, Beth."

Horses, Cows, and Plows (Detail 3)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:50:18 +0000

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Horses, Cows, and Plows (Detail 2)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:50:20 +0000

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Horses, Cows, and Plows in Front of a Barn, Quarryville, Pa. (Detail on Left)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:50:22 +0000

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Horses, Cows, and Plows

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:50:24 +0000

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An on the farm photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

A photo showing a remarkable assortment of people, animals, and equipment on display in front of a large Pennsylvania barn. The dealer's tag on this cardboard-mounted photo identified the location as a farm near Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mouse over the image above to see close-ups of the men, women, horses, cows, carriages, and plows visible in the foreground.

Steamrolling over the Waves

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:27:04 +0000

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A men on machines photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly free-for-all topic (submit as many vintage photos on any topic as you'd like).

This is a snapshot of three sailors goofing around on top of an old steamroller.

A handwritten note on the other side of the photo identifies the "ship" and its crew: "Good old ship 'Rollupnutherone.' Hanson, pilot. Robinson, observer. Umholtz, helmsman."

For another photo of men on a machine, see Standing on a Steamer.

Standing on a Steamer

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:27:02 +0000

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A waiting photo (sort of) for the Vintage Photos Theme Park with three men posing and waiting for the photographer to snap the picture. It's also a men on machines photo for the VPTP monthly free-for-all topic (submit as many vintage photos on any topic as you'd like).

The photo shows a couple of guys posing on top of a steam engine while a fellow down below—with his sleeves rolled up and a shovel in his hands—does the dirty work.

It looks the steam engine is in working order—there's a belt around the flywheel on the other side—but the boiler obviously isn't hot enough to prevent the guys from positioning themselves above it.

For another photo of men on a machine, see Steamrolling over the Waves.

Singing and Strumming—and Shooting?

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 03:50:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of sing, sing, sing!—folks making music vocally.

An unidentified country musician poses in front of a microphone bearing the call letters for radio station WVLN in Olney, Illinois. Although the microphone and guitar suggest that he sang and played for a show on the station, I haven't been able to determine who he is. I was surprised to see that he was wearing a holster with a revolver. I hope he stuck to the singing and strumming and avoided any shooting.

This is an unused real photo postcard with no date or any other additional information on the other side.

Orange Lawn-Boy, April 1971

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:54:02 +0000

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A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly topic of 1970s (submit a photo on this topic each week in addition to—or instead of—a photo for the weekly topic).

An orange Lawn-Boy mower in a snapshot dated April 1971.

Union Steam Fire Engine and Hose Co., No. 1, Lebanon, Pa., 1912

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 05:41:02 +0000

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"Union Steam Fire Engine & Hose Co., No. 1, Lebanon, Pa. 123-125 S. 9th St. (near Walnut)."

Printed on the back of this postcard: "24224 - Pub. by Harpel's Art Store, Lebanon, Pa. Officers. President - Geo. T. Spang. Vice-Pres. - Wm. S. Rise. Secretary - Wm. A. Spangler. Treasurer - Chas. H. Killinger. Chief Eng. - Levi Hartz. Equipment - 2nd. size Amoskeag Engine, Hose Wagon. Organized Feb. 22, 1780. Chartered as Steam Fire Engine Co., March 19, 1866."

According to an article that appeared in the Lebanon Daily News on April 22, 1970, p. 19, this was one of a series of fire company postcards published by Harpel's Art Store for the thirty-third annual convention of the Pennsylvania State Firemen's Association, which was held in Lebanon on September 10 to 14, 1912.

For another Lebanon fire company postcard, see Liberty Steam Fire Engine and Hose Company, No. 3, Lebanon, Pa., 1912.

C. B. Winchell, Harrisburg, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:25:10 +0000

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"Presented by C. B. Winchell, Harrisburg, Pa."

This inscription, handwritten in elaborate Spencerian script, appears on the reverse of a business card for "E. R. Parker, manufacturer and dealer in new hardware specialties, 227½ Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pa."

E. R. Parker, Hardware Specialties Manufacturer and Dealer, Scranton, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:25:12 +0000

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"E. R. Parker, manufacturer and dealer in new hardware specialties, 227½ Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pa. Parker's Patent Combined Clamp and Filing Guide."

Handwritten in elaborate Spencerian script on the other side of this business card: "Presented by C. B. Winchell, Harrisburg, Pa."

The illustration of "Parker's Patent Combined Clamp and Filing Guide" refers to a patent for an "Improvement in Saw-Clamp and Filing-Guide" (see below) that was issued to Edwin R. Parker in 1879.

Improvement in Saw-Clamp and Filing-Guide. U.S. Patent No. 219,650, dated September 16, 1879.
"Be it known that I, Edwin R. Parker, of Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and Improved Saw-Clamp and Filing-Guide . . . . The object in making this invention is to produce a convenient instrument or machine for clamping and holding the saw-teeth and guiding the file in filing all sizes of circular and mill saws of any gage, size, and shape of teeth, and whether the saw be on the arbor or removed therefrom; and the improvements consist, respectively, in the several devices, and in the combinations and sub-combinations, as hereinafter described and claimed."

William C. Myers, Practical Artesian Well Contractor, Salunga, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:27:10 +0000

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"Wm. C. Myers, practical artesian well contractor. Test holes for prospectors. Estimates on application. Work done on short notice. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bell 'phone. Salunga, Lancaster Co., Pa. Traction."

For a similar business card, see U. W. Myers, Artesian Well Driller, Myerstown, Pa.

G. C. Liesenberg, Photographic QSL Card, South Africa, 1939

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:14:24 +0000

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"G. C. Liesenberg, B.O. Box 48, Empangeni, Zululand, S. Africa. Photo by H. Duncan Abraham, P.O. Box 1699, Durban."

A photographic QSL card from 1939 that provided G. C. Liesenberg's old radio call sign--exZT5F--as well as his new one--ZS5AW. The writing on what was intended to look like an oversized QSL card that Liesenberg's holding is an acknowledgement that he made contact with another radio operator on January 14, 1939. I like how his kid is pretending to turn one of the dials on the radio.

Ontario Drill Company, East Rochester, New York

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:38:27 +0000

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"Ontario Drill Company, East Rochester, N.Y. Eventually you will sell 'Ontario,' why not start now. Hoe or disc. H. Gamse & Bro., Lith., Balto., Md."

An advertising ink blotter for the Ontario Drill Company, which manufactured grain drills and other agricultural equipment.

Bartholdi Hose Company, Butler, New Jersey, 2013 (Google Maps)

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

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This is a screen capture from Google Maps showing the Bartholdi Hose Company in 2013. For more information, see the postcard view of the Bartholdi Hose Company, Butler, New Jersey, ca. 1920 (below).

Bartholdi Hose Company, Butler, New Jersey, ca. 1920

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:21:34 +0000

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Postcard published by Rudolph Bros., New York City, and postmarked Aug. 26, 1922.

According to the Butler Volunteer Fire Department's Web page, the Bartholdi Hose Company No. 2 was established in Butler, New Jersey, in 1908, and the postcard view of its fire engine and firehouse (above) dates to 1922 or earlier. When I checked Google Maps, I was amazed to find that the Bartholdi Hose Company, as recorded by Google in 2013 (see screen capture below), looks much the same as it did 90 years earlier!

The Fire Chief's Studebaker-Flanders Roadster, Harrisburg, Pa., ca. 1914

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:40:58 +0000

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That's John C. Kindler, who was the fire department chief in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the driver's seat of his 1913 Studebaker-Flanders automobile. His passenger is Edward Halbert, assistant chief. Note the fire gong and the two fire extinguishers mounted on the side of the vehicle.

The setting shows Front Street in Harrisburg, with the benches and trees of Riverfront Park across the street and the faint blue of the Susquehanna River barely visible in the background.

Mr. Fortune Is Wishing You Happiness!

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:38:56 +0000

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"Wishing you a fortune in happiness! Mr. Fortune. WCBM."

Homer Todd, shown here holding a telephone handset and sitting in front of a microphone in this postcard-sized promotional photo, originated the Dialing for Dollars program on Baltimore, Maryland, radio station WCBM in 1939. As "Mr. Fortune," he would randomly call phone numbers and award cash prizes to listeners who answered the phone and could tell him the amount of money he was offering as a prize (the amount increased each time the phone went unanswered or the wrong amount was given as an answer).

Dialing for Dollars turned out to be wildly successful and was carried on many different stations as a franchised program first on radio and then on television into the 1970s. Todd--his full name was Homer Ulric Todd, Jr.--apparently continued his career as Mr. Fortune at WCBM until at least 1950. He passed away in 1967 at the age of 56.

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Fireman's Card

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:41:30 +0000

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"25 Firemans Cards, 20 cts."

A card pasted in an "Agent's Sample Book" that was issued by an unidentified calling card company. For an example of another card that was in the "Agent's Sample Book," see Comic Imp Card: I Am ________, Who the Devil Are You?

For other firemen's calling cards, see below for C. H. Moscrip, H. G. Phelps Hose Company No. 1, Sidney, N.Y., Eugene O. Chase, Second Leading Hoseman, Danielsonville, Conn., and Fireman Calling Card.