tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:34:37 +0000http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/azraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)Blogger291125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-3663854581148419427Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:25:00 +00002009-11-03T08:25:00.484-06:00mapsantarctica1890sexploration<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Isometric_Map_of_Antarctic_Exploration%2C_1890s.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/Isometric_Map_of_Antarctic_Exploration,_1890s-cropped.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />It is <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1215644.htm">usually left off of world maps</a>, but <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Isometric_Map_of_Antarctic_Exploration%2C_1890s.jpg">in this one</a> Antarctica is the guest of honor. Most flat map projections, even if they do include Antarctica portray it as a wide band of white, with little visualization of how it actually appears. Above is a map viewing the spherical Earth from a southerly position, providing the least distortion to Antarctica, but giving a very different view of where South America, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia lie in relation. The map's purpose is to show various expeditions to locate the South Pole; the map was reduced such that the labels are almost unreadable even in the original. From the multivolume <i>The Book of History</i>, 1890s.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-3663854581148419427?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/11/antarctica-1890s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-5714769223910496327Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:42:00 +00002009-11-02T09:42:01.060-06:00schoolarchitecture1930srural<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Rural-Brick-School-Built-In-1920s-or-1930s.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/rural-brick-school-1930s.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />A rural brick school, done in the style of numerous schools that were built during the 1920s and 1930s. Few rural school-buildings are still operating as schools today; if they are, the original building has been added on to numerous times over the past seventy years to accommodate growth or consolidation. Others have been torn down, sit in disrepair, or — the lucky ones — have been taken over by the historical society, an antique shop, or some other business and restored to usefulness.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-5714769223910496327?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/11/rural-school-1930s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-7486367178629468615Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:40:00 +00002009-10-30T13:40:00.422-05:001940s20th century fox<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Flowchart-departmental-motion-picture-production-and-control.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/20th-century-fox-studio-flowchart-IDEA.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />When <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Flowchart-departmental-motion-picture-production-and-control.jpg">producing a movie</a>, everything stems back to this box: IDEA. In the 1940s, these were the sources of ideas: "Play," "Short Story or Novel," "Newspaper Story or Current Event," "Original Story," "Magazine Article," or "Historical Incident." Way off on the left, however, there's one additional source that's not shown above: "Vice President in Charge of Production." If you want something unoriginal done that isn't in print or in the history books, go talk to the VP, he'll get it done. On another note: this particular flowchart is one of the few places the words "Restaurants," "Mimeograph," "Arsenal," "Publicity," and "Bits & Extras" fit together so well. From the <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/1940s_Studio_Organization%2C_20th_Century_Fox">20th Century Fox flowcharts collection</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-7486367178629468615?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/10/idea-1940s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-820195076523812598Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:38:00 +00002009-10-29T21:41:17.992-05:00early 20th century farm photos1930s<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Sitting_by_the_stove.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/warming-by-the-fire.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />Warming by the stove, 1930s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Small_Album" target="_blank">From this series</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-820195076523812598?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/10/warm-stove-1930s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-1848148882404090629Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:19:00 +00002009-10-28T18:19:00.409-05:00photography1960s<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Zeiss-Ikon_Utopica_Dual_Movie-Still_Camera" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/zeiss-ikon-utopica.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for more info</div></a></center><br /><br />In the late 1960s, Zeiss-Ikon designer Fritz Costabel was trying to wrap his brain around the Camera Of The Future. In an early 1968 <a href="http://www.ephotozine.com/topic/t-40939">issue of Photoguide Magazine</a>, he described a machine capable of sending photos home wirelessly, radar auto-focusing, and push-button automation. A few months later, the camera above showed up in Mechanix Illustrated: <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Zeiss-Ikon_Utopica_Dual_Movie-Still_Camera" target="_blank">the Zeiss-Ikon "Utopica"</a>. Looking a phaser sidearm off the Star Trek set, the camera was a multifunction machine: it could both instantly print photos like a Polaroid, but also make movies on 16mm film. The un-ergonomic shape and the focus on analog film were a bit short-sighted, but he was just about right on. Cameras today are automatic, double-duty as movie cameras, and can instantly produce a photo and allow it to be sent all over the world - and it certainly would have blown his mind to know that all of that photographic futurism is today considered <i>an add-on to a portable telephone</i>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-1848148882404090629?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/10/camera-for-year-2000-1968.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-3375842081532468474Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:30:00 +00002009-10-18T01:50:16.785-05:00WWII1940sPOWGermany<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:German_POWs_Working_In_Clay_County_MN%2C_1944-1945.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/German_POWs_Working_In_Clay_County_MN,_1944-1945.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />As World War II progressed, captured German soldiers were increasing in numbers, and the U.S. needed to do something with them. Numerous POWs were scattered throughout the country and used as labor. <a href="http://www.pwcamp.algona.org/Camp%20Summary%20for%20brochure.pdf">Algona, Iowa was the main POW camp</a> in the United States, and several Germans were sent to <a href="http://www.info.co.clay.mn.us/History/pow.htm">Algona Branch Camp Number 1</a> — located in Clay County, Minnesota, just across the river from Fargo. Farm labor was scarce due to the number of men recruited for the military, so POWs helped in the cultivation and harvesting of the crops. This was not a forced labor program; the German soldiers were paid for their work. The above photo was taken at on the Paul Horn farm; Horn was chosen to take POWs because of his position on Clay County's Farm Labor Advisory Board, and the fact he spoke German fluently. From an article in the <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:1978-August-Howard-Binfords-Guide.jpg">8/78 <span style="font-style: italic;">Binford's Guide</span></a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-3375842081532468474?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/10/german-pows-in-minnesota-1940s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-6124590781124080210Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:52:00 +00002009-09-14T10:52:00.247-05:00north dakota history1850s<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Dakotah_City%2C_ND%2C_August_1860_Harpers_Magazine.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/dakotah-city-north-dakota-1859.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />In the 1850s, as what would become the Dakota Territory grew in population and industry, townsites were claimed in hopes of profiting on the westward expansion. Dakota City was one: at the confluence of the Sheyenne and Red Rivers, opposite Lafayette, Minnesota, it hoped to grow and flourish. Today, it no longer exists. The location of Lafayette (which also no longer exists) is well documented, but the original <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Dakota_City%2C_North_Dakota">location of Dakota City is still inconclusive</a>. Image above from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=uisZAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=%22dakotah%20city%22%20harper%27s%201860&amp;lr=&amp;pg=PA309#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false">an 1860 edition of <span style="font-style: italic;">Harper's</span> magazine</a>, documenting a pre-Territory trip along the eastern border of Minnesota, a freshly-minted state at the time.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-6124590781124080210?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/09/dakota-city-1859.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-7507486245272327024Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:02:00 +00002009-09-02T19:09:29.477-05:00aouwndsu downtownpioneer mutual building<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:Richard_H_Barry_Hall_Dedication_Invitation.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/barry-hall-invitation.jpg" /><br /><div style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />The day is nearly here: the reopening of what used to be the <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Pioneer_Mutual_Building%2C_Fargo%2C_ND" target="_blank">Pioneer Mutual Building</a>, redesigned as <a href="http://www.ndsu.edu/barryhall/">Richard H Barry Hall</a>, a part of NDSU's ambitious downtown expansion. In case you didn't know, I worked in that building from 1998 until 2004, and in that time I became more interested in the building's history and the history of the <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Ancient_Order_Of_United_Workmen">A.O.U.W.</a>, including acquiring some films, documentation, receipts and policy paperwork. Don't tell anyone, but I even grabbed a brick from the demolition of Pioneer East. The original building — a large office building for its time — is now a tiny, tiny part of a huge structure, and I'm becoming more impressed as time goes on to see its stature continue to grow and dominate the western edge of downtown Fargo. I plan on going to the dedication next month, and I intend to take pictures.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-7507486245272327024?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/09/barry-hall-dedication.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-405138721536834658Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:03:00 +00002009-08-28T09:03:00.600-05:0019491940scentennialnative americancostumesminnesota history<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/a/ab/Minnesota_Centennial_American_Indian_Costumes%2C_8-28-1949.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/indian-costumes-minnesota-centennial-1949.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Two men, who don't look particularly Native American, and with very European names, dressed up as Indian Chiefs for the Minnesota Centennial in 1949. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Grand_Forks_Press_Photo_Sampler%2C_1940s-1950s">From this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-405138721536834658?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/08/indian-chiefs-1949.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-9205663251558484228Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:27:00 +00002009-07-09T00:40:03.060-05:00outdoorsdogcars1930s<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/1/10/Two-women-dog-1930s-ford-sedan.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/women-by-ford-with-dog-1930s.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Two women chatting by a car parked in the weeds, with a trusty dog at their feet, 1930s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Photos_of_West-Central_Minnesota_Farm_Life%2C_Early_20th_Century">From this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-9205663251558484228?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/07/women-car-dog-1930s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-2083253262411365747Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:24:00 +00002009-07-09T00:40:02.572-05:00wagonchildrenfarmyard1920s<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/b/bb/Two-children-playing-with-wagon-in-farmyard.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/children-playing-with-wagon-1920s.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Two children, playing with a wagon in the farmyard, 1920s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Photos_of_West-Central_Minnesota_Farm_Life%2C_Early_20th_Century">From this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-2083253262411365747?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/07/farmyard-wagon-1920s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-8651100508184038310Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:11:00 +00002009-06-11T14:11:00.336-05:002000stiger lily2007flowers<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/4/4a/Tigerlily.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/tiger-lily-2007.jpg" border=0><br/><span style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</span></a></center><br />Tiger Lily growing through a fence, 2007.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-8651100508184038310?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/06/tiger-lily-2007.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-7689316964002901778Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:14:00 +00002009-06-09T10:14:00.910-05:00dogriverswimming1930s<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/e/e4/Woman-And-Her-Dog-Swimming-Beneath-Bridge-Pylons.jpg"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/swimming-under-bridge-with-dog.jpg" border="0" /><br><span style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for entire image</span></a></center><br /><br />I'm not sure why: I've seen lots of pictures of people swimming, hanging out beneath a bridge. I figure it is to stay out of the sun, but it could also have to do with the ground being built up and cleared for the bridge, which makes a functional beach. This lady and her dog are cooling off in the river. 1930s.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-7689316964002901778?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/06/swimming-under-bridge-1930s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-3048678119569308246Tue, 26 May 2009 20:32:00 +00002009-05-26T15:32:00.203-05:001940scrawlerinternational harvestercaterpillar<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/1/1e/Antique-Shop-Negatives-2_-Man-and-Boy-Riding-International-Catepillar.jpg"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/man-and-boy-riding-International-TD-6.jpg" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br />A man and his boy riding a diesel International Harvester TD-6 caterpillar tractor. Appears 1940s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Antique_Shop_Negatives%2C_1930s-1950s">From this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-3048678119569308246?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/ih-td-6-crawler-1940s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-1446085310969884658Mon, 25 May 2009 13:08:00 +00002009-05-25T08:08:00.550-05:00convertiblecarssoldiersarmy uniform1930s<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/8/8e/Miscellaneous_Wisconsin_1_-_Soldier_Sitting_In_Convertible.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/soldier-in-dress-uniform-1930s.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Soldier, messing with a camera or other mechanism, 1930s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Miscellaneous_Wisconsin_Photos%2C_Purchased_2-2009">From this set.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-1446085310969884658?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/soldier-convertible-suitcase-1930s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-6398424053799591935Thu, 21 May 2009 13:13:00 +00002009-05-21T08:13:00.749-05:00outdoorsyardcouple19611960s<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/6/6c/Vacation-Slides-1-man-and-woman-wearing-aprons-in-back-yard-1961.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/summer-cooking-in-the-back-yard-1960s.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Couple posing outdoors in backyard, 1961. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Minnesota_Vacation_Slides%2C_1960s_-_1">From this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-6398424053799591935?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/outdoor-cooking-1961.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-2259394278687893095Tue, 19 May 2009 14:39:00 +00002009-05-19T09:39:00.854-05:001927mapseurope1920sfarming<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/7/76/Map_of_the_North_Sea%2C_American_Farm_Bureau_Federation_European_tour%2C_1927.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/north-sea-map-1927.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />In the 1920s, the American Farm Bureau Federation toured northern Europe; this was the map of their travels. From <span style="font-style:italic;">The Bureau Farmer</span>, September, 1927.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-2259394278687893095?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/trip-around-north-sea-1927.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-3960955582053362203Mon, 18 May 2009 17:30:00 +00002009-05-18T12:30:00.858-05:00family photosearly 20th century farm photoschildren1930s<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/a/ab/Family-walking-through-barnyard.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/walk-in-the-yard-1930s.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Family out for a walk, consisting of a boy, a mother and child, and two older ladies, on a windy day. 1930s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Photos_of_West-Central_Minnesota_Farm_Life%2C_Early_20th_Century">From this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-3960955582053362203?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/family-walk-1930s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-559317579126693319Wed, 13 May 2009 18:51:00 +00002009-05-13T13:51:00.220-05:001910spostcardbemidji1916minnesota history<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/d/d7/Bemidji%2C_MN_Postcard_1910s%2C_Third_Street_At_Night.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/third-street-at-night-bemidji-mn.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />Bemidji, Minnesota: home of <a href="http://www.visitbemidji.com/bemidji/paulbabe.html">Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox</a>, but the giant pair were still twenty years away when this postcard was mailed in 1916. In the 1910s, it was still a community on the grow, trying to develop roads and railroad access. A new depot was built a few years earlier than when this postcard was mailed and railway passengers were probably one of the main customers of such mementos of midwest travels. Cameras of the time were not particularly efficient at night, so this photo was probably a daytime photo that was underexposed and colored to make it look like 'night'. In the 1910s, Either Third street has changed significantly, or the view is from a different spot: <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bemidji,+mn&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.688845,73.125&ie=UTF8&ll=47.470473,-94.879646&spn=0.010226,0.017853&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=47.470542,-94.879641&panoid=BmQRpR1hIIEbdpt5NKyNLg&cbp=12,274.87,,0,1.54" target="_blank">Google Maps doesn't help</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-559317579126693319?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/bemidji-at-night-1916.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-3171427177631410728Tue, 12 May 2009 18:02:00 +00002009-05-12T13:02:00.932-05:00outdoorsdogchildren1930s<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/d/d6/Miscellaneous_Wisconsin_1_-_Toddler_Girl_And_Bischon_Puppy.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/baby-and-puppy-1930s.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Baby and curly-haired white pupply, probably a <span style="font-style:italic;">bischon frise</span>. Appears 1930s, <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Miscellaneous_Wisconsin_Photos%2C_Purchased_2-2009">from this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-3171427177631410728?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/girl-and-puppy-1930s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-7055656565665343527Sun, 10 May 2009 13:02:00 +00002009-05-10T08:02:00.970-05:00glasses1940sbroken1945<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/7/7e/Pair_of_Glasses%2C_Broken_May_10%2C_1945.jpg"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/glasses-broke-may-10-1945.jpg" border="0" /><br><span style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</span></a></center><br />These glasses were purchased at a flea market in July, 2008. The seller had no information about them, but the fact that they had been stored <span style="font-style: italic;">in situ</span> for sixty years — and the note to prove that fact even moreso — intrigued me enough to purchase them.<br /><br />These are a child's-sized pair of glasses with very little wear. I imagine that, due to their width, the child was under 5 years old. The right lens has a dramatic impact point just to the outside edge of center, which would indicate (to my uneducated eye) that the child had fallen forwards, and turned their head to the left to diffuse the impact, but not fast enough. The glasses hit the ground first, pushing in the right nosepad and exploding the glass into an orb-weaver's handicraft of cracks. As the head kept moving, the nosepad pressed in as far as it could, the lens flexed down the center line in the now-weakened glass and created a crescent-moon crack from top to bottom.<br /><br />The proud parents of this future baby-boomer weren't about to erase this momentous occasion from history: the glasses were marked with the date of the event, placed in their glasses-case, and kept for posterity. May 10th, 1945, will go down in infamy as the day Junior fell down and broke his new pair of glasses.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-7055656565665343527?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/broken-childrens-glasses-1945.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-7926155099367763777Fri, 08 May 2009 14:35:00 +00002009-05-08T09:35:00.687-05:001910sthe book of knowledgeanimals<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/1/16/A_Terrible_Meeting_With_A_Buffalo%2C_Book_of_Knowledge%2C_1910s.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/terrible-meeting-with-a-buffalo.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br /><br />"A Terrible Meeting With A Buffalo", from <span style="font-style:italic;">The Book of Knowledge</span>, 1910s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Image:A_Terrible_Meeting_With_A_Buffalo%2C_Book_of_Knowledge%2C_1910s.jpg">Caption text here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-7926155099367763777?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/meeting-with-buffalo-1910s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-665155429181599116Thu, 07 May 2009 15:58:00 +00002009-05-07T10:58:00.363-05:00fire truck1940snorth dakota history1948fire<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/5/53/Grand_Forks_Building_Fire%2C_19_August_1948.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/fire-grand-forks-area-1948.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div style="font-size: 6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Located in the Grand Forks area (based on other photos <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Grand_Forks_Press_Photo_Sampler%2C_1940s-1950s">in the set</a>), a brick building is consumed by fire, 1948.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-665155429181599116?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/downtown-fire-1948.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-2307662995890755803Tue, 05 May 2009 18:35:00 +00002009-05-05T13:35:00.856-05:00dog1950swomanyarddalmatian<center><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/0/0c/Antique-Shop-Negatives-2_-Woman-Sitting-On-Bench-With-Dalmatian.jpg"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/thumb/0/0c/Antique-Shop-Negatives-2_-Woman-Sitting-On-Bench-With-Dalmatian.jpg/428px-Antique-Shop-Negatives-2_-Woman-Sitting-On-Bench-With-Dalmatian.jpg" border="0"></a></center><br /><br />Woman sitting on a bench, in a yard, with a dog that looks somewhat like a dalmatian, or a setter of some sort; probably a mutt. Appears 1950s.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-2307662995890755803?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/dalmatian-and-woman-1950s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164514753160272371.post-7360183340940292182Mon, 04 May 2009 18:15:00 +00002009-05-04T13:15:00.822-05:00outdoorsbaby1920s<centeR><a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/images/1/1e/Blonde-baby.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/pics/blonde-baby-outdoors-1920s.jpg" border=0><br/><div style="font-size:6pt;">Click for full image</div></a></center><br />Blonde baby, enjoying the outdoors, near what appears to be a Model T. 1920s. <a href="http://www.infomercantile.com/-/Photos_of_West-Central_Minnesota_Farm_Life%2C_Early_20th_Century">From this set</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1164514753160272371-7360183340940292182?l=www.infomercantile.com%2Fblog' alt='' /></div>http://www.infomercantile.com/blog/2009/05/blonde-outdoors-1920s.htmlazraelbrown@infomercantile.com (Azrael Brown)0