Posts Tagged ‘1920s’

Little Columbus, 1920

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

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What might appear to be a Bugsy Malone version of 1492: Conquest of Paradise is actually from the encyclopedic series Public School Methods, a 1920 handbook for teaching gradeschool.  The vignette is called “Columbus at the Court of Spain”,  which shows Columbus demonstrating a globe to Ferdinand and Isabella, while Isabella, in return,  is offering her jewels to finance the trip.  The book recommends that young children learn through pantomime, as using words may prove too difficult.  Alas, dressing children up as historical figures has given way to rote learning today.

Oh, and the sword?  Somebody in the Little Columbus’ family must be a Knight of Pythias.

Farmyard Wagon, 1920s.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

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Two children, playing with a wagon in the farmyard, 1920s. From this set.

Trip Around The North Sea, 1927.

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

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In the 1920s, the American Farm Bureau Federation toured northern Europe; this was the map of their travels. From The Bureau Farmer, September, 1927.

Blonde Outdoors, 1920s.

Monday, May 4th, 2009

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Blonde baby, enjoying the outdoors, near what appears to be a Model T. 1920s. From this set.

Puppy and bucket, 1920s.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009


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Apartment building, 1920s.

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009


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Car parked in front of a large lodge. Appears 1920s.

Family Photo, 1930s.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

A family posing for a photo in front of a house. Appears 1930s (See comments). More of this group here.

Boy And Pine, 1920s.

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Boy standing next to a small pine tree, 1920s.

Plains Farmstead In Winter, 1920s.

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

A plains farmstead in the middle of winter, Model T parked outside. 1920s.

Revere, Minnesota, 1920

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Welcome to Revere, Minnesota. Walnut Grove, where some of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books were set, is the largest town to the west, and Lamberton is the larger town to the east. All these towns are connected by US Highway 14, but the railroad was once the main way to get from here to there. Only a couple miles separate these towns, with Walnut Grove and Lamberton being larger, and Revere becoming a stopping point between the two.

During the early 1920s, however, the family of one of the residents took a bunch of photos. The photos come from the large lot of negatives I purchased last year. The people are in their twenties and thirties in the negatives I’ve scanned before, and in these photos they seem to be in their teens. I can’t quite tell if they were visiting Revere, or if they had lived in Revere during their youth. Anyhow, the photographer in the family took lots of pictures, capturing quite a bit of Revere’s downtown area.