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

A Teacher on Her Way to School in Her Own Private Automobile

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:22:02 +0000

A double-exposure trick photo of a woman pushing herself on a wheelbarrow. The double exposure did produce an amusing photo, but the photographer had to add white outlining at the bottom to make the wheelbarrow stand out from the dark streak that runs vertically through the center of the photo.

This is a real photo postcard postmarked in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on October 1, 1908, and addressed to Miss Flossie Minch, Waldo, Wisconsin. The sender of the postcard, who's the woman pushing and riding the wheelbarrow, was a schoolteacher. She identified herself only by her initials—N.B.—on the other side of the card. (It's possible, I suppose, that a schoolteacher might use N.B. as the abbreviation for the Latin phrase nota bene, but my guess is that these are the initials of her name.)

The message that N.B. wrote on the front of the card (to the left of the photo) has been erased, but enough of it remains that I was able to decipher it. Her written caption for the photo was: "On my way to school in my own private automobile. Ha. Ha."

Here's my transcription of N.B.'s message on the other side of the card:

Hello Floss, How are you spending these cold days? I enjoy teaching ever so much. Have 21 pupils.

Regards to Miss Thomas, Miss Patterson, Miss Stratton.

N.B. Sheb., Wis., c/o Mr. J. Kuemmet, R.#4.

Love to all the girls.

For some other double-exposure trick photos with wheelbarrows and wagons, see:

-- A Man Simultaneously Pushing and Riding a Wheelbarrow
-- A Man Pushing Himself on a Wheelbarrow
-- A Woman Pulling Herself on a Wagon
-- Girls Pulling Themselves on a Wagon

Onion Harvest

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:42:28 +0000

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"How we do things at Ephrata, Pa."

Wisconsin photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., reused these same onions in another tall-tale postcard that he entitled Onions (below).

Onions

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:42:26 +0000

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"How we do things at Jackson, Pa."

These same onions appear in another tall-tale postcard entitled Onion Harvest (below), which was also published by Wisconsin photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr.

A Rosy Crowd

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:58:12 +0000

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Handwritten on the back of the photo: "Lizzie from Paul Neiman. A Rosy Crowd."

A Man Simultaneously Pushing and Riding a Wheelbarrow

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:47:31 +0000

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Double-exposure trickery makes it appear that the same man is both pushing and riding the wheelbarrow in this real photo postcard.

For similar trick photos, see A Man Pushing Himself on a Wheelbarrow and A Woman Pulling Herself on a Wagon.

Three Women and a Wheelbarrow

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:53:00 +0000

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A real photo postcard for the Vintage People in Wheelbarrows group.

Two Women and a Wheelbarrow

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:32:33 +0000

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A real photo postcard.

Wheelbarrowing among the Rocks

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:17:38 +0000

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A Man Pushing Himself on a Wheelbarrow

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:11:04 +0000

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A rather faded trick photo that uses a double exposure to show a man simultaneously pushing and riding a wheelbarrow.

Not to be confused with A Woman Pulling Herself on a Wagon. 8-)

For another similar trick photo, see A Man Simultaneously Pushing and Riding a Wheelbarrow.