Sepia Saturday - 106 - Special .....31 December 2011

HAPPY  NEW  YEAR'S  EVE  DAY!    ...AND  WELCOME  AGAIN
TO  ANOTHER  SEPIA  SATURDAY  POST

New Year Celebration 1940 "Please do join our party and put on your hat and pass the champagne...."
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Irish Toast - in the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.

Mummers on Broad St., New Year's Day, Philadelphia, PA.
Courtesy of Library of Congress,  Washington, D.C. part of the Bain Collection
A Mummer is a performer, one who goes merrymaking in disguise during festivals.

Philadelphia you really know how to put on a New Year's Day Parade!
this clip starts with quick photos from 1892 to current and then the real live parade! Quite entertaining, really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEGhL0K6C0o

                                                 Celebration at New York's "Cafe" Happy New Year's Eve...let the funny hats fill the room, as well as laughter and good cheer to bring in the New Year...this year being about 1910. - Courtesy Library of Congress, Bain Collection - parts from George Grantham Bain.


Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you.  But your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others.

                  Drinking to the New Year, New York, inside the "Cafe" about 1910.
- Courtesy of Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. - Bain Collection


Below is a video for the best ever 1950's New Year's Eve Party....complete with those silly hats....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybI34v-67MY


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...and remember as we say good-bye to 2011 we are welcoming a merry tomorrow...I wish you all the happiest of times in our new year ahead....  H a p p y   N e w   Y e a r ..... to you all!

Six Word Saturday 10 December 2011

THIS IS ANOTHER
    SIX WORD SATURDAY

                    Sponsored by Cate, at Show My Face, (and of course Me) where we share a bit of ourselves or something really outstanding.....but, in just six words!



LAUGHING SO HARD I CAN'T STOP

AT WHAT YOU ASK?
 
    Laughing at My Christmas Card List



Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, HA!

So if you see me laughing spontaneously don't be alarmed... it feels so good to have mailed the last bunch late (okay quite) late last night.......

This year I swore

I’d wrap myself in old traditions
Just to stay sane
It keeps sorrows
Of missing loved ones
Away
and sprinkles sunshine
Upon little faces


Sharing pleasures
and putting out shoes
For old St. Nicholas
And don’t be ridiculous
Of course no coal
And Sunday we shall light
Another Advent candle…


And myself, not in my stocking cap
Nevertheless,
My last Christmas cards sealed and off……
So don’t be ridiculous
It is a jolly good December little ones…..

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Sepia Saturday 103 : 3 December 2011

THIS IS A SEPIA SATURDAY POST

                Welcome, this week Alan offers a stylish and most picture perfect nurse (from Richmond Virginia) on her way to administer, well something...... I will stay slightly afloat with his theme, by bringing as near perfect human nature (as his nurse displays)  with honest to goodness children of several ages (even college) most without hats, but all the same
       perfect in their own special way!



   These two charming young classmates, (she appears like she's waiting for her shot from a nurse) but together they are examining, bees!

Anybody else think her hair style is very much like Shirley Temple?  Photo is from 1940, at Calhoun School learning first hand how to make honey.  This glass Bee case came to them on loan from the University of Minnesota for them to put in a window for study.   This allowed the bees access to the hive from the outside and students to observe safely from their classroom.  -  Courtesy of Minneapolis Public Library

      These precious little girls aren't wearing hats, and are clearly not of school age, but from the human aspect they are just what I had in mind......These two little girls are from the true everyday life of growing up on the farm in Northome, (a town now of about 200) and even back then not so much going on.....
      They were living life so carefree.......and yes, Mommy is watching from the doorway......

Courtesy of a Minnesota Historical Society book, and the Library of Congress.

I wonder how many children today would be seen wearing any one of these charming hats?
This group of children grouped around their teacher were from Washington D. C. in about 1899.

A classroom school field trip in those days consisted of walking about their own school.  Photo courtesy of The Library of Congress Washington, D.C.

Meet a few of the fifteen young men that in the summer of 1877 formed the Lurline Rowing Club.  This photo was taken on the shores of Lake Calhoun.  their club became very prestigious and each member paid ten dollars annual membership fee supplemented by one dollar monthly usage fee.

Photo - Courtesy of Minneapolis Public Library.

People of all ages came to enjoy the lake.  As a matter of fact, they still do.

Were these young girls (in the distance) already seeking the attention of these boys who clearly had their minds on fishing?
Photo courtesy of Minneapolis Public Library

Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, Minnesota, around the turn of the century.  Much of the area was still undeveloped land and these young University of Minnesota law students spent their summer of 1901 at this campsite.  As you can see they still believed in luxury even while camping.

Funny they almost seem to appear rather snobbish! (oh, right law students!)

                     If you go to the link I've provided you can check out other Sepia Saturday posts and I'm sure you'll enjoy your visits.....

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Sepia Saturday 100 : 12 November 2011

THIS IS A SPECIAL EDITION OF
                    SEPIA SATURDAY 100 POST

                      Our theme for Sepia Saturday for this 100th posting is quite broad, and since it's all about celebrating a the Sepia Saturday blog for the one hundredth time - let's walk through what blogging, and communicating with others was, by reaching back one hundred years ago.

                
What would a blogger look like one-hundred years ago......

Much like this man....... 1911- Senator Obadiah Gardner from Maine (he was born in Port Huron, Michigan) at his desk.....if this were today he'd probably be joining in on today's posting for Sepia Saturday, don't you think?
- Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints, Washington, D.C.

These days in many offices the gathering of employees discussing the latest news is around the water cooler or the lunch room.  But like this photo in about 1911, the old General Store, and hovering around the heater was the place to be for catching up on the latest news. - courtesy of Lyon County Historical Society.




But besides writing at your own desk, or gathering in small groups....there was another major communicator.....

The Newspaper, 1911- It was a big thing to be a Newsie if you were a young lad.....you had the privilege of getting paid to deliver the news, a fast spreading means of communication.

- courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Washington, D.C.

But not all newsies were quite this old...

Like this 10 year old newsie not wearing a badge or indication of regulation in New Bedford, on August 22, 1911 in Massachusetts. 

- courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Photographs, Washington, D.C.

ALSO

100 years ago communication came in various ways.....like this group below in an outdoor class ....

Outdoor recitation - at Camp Algonquin 1911

courtesy of Library of Congress prints Washington, D.C.

Wouldn't these classmates be amazed at the techie world of today!

But, quite possibly there were advantages to life one-hundred years ago....like for instance....

In today's world we are gifted with so many forms of communication, from cell phones and twitter, to personal home computers where all of us here unite and share in the joys of this wonderful Bloggersville.....but in 1911, communication came mostly by the written hand on letters, postcards, newspapers and the like....so on this day in 1911, it was Easter and these happy and content folks were bustling along on 5th Avenue without a care in the world....except that they were together and sharing whatever celebrations they could.....minus reaching out to the cyber world while hurrying along the avenue!

Yes, these people, mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, they chatted along the avenue together....

courtesy of Library of Congress Prints, Washington D.C.

and of course most of our communicating happened right around the house.....

17 May 1911 Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, The puck Building, of  The American Family, Gordon Grant artist.  - Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Photographs, Washington, D.C.

Even the family cat got in on the action.....

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