"Have fun. Try to do as much as you can for yourself. Remember all the good things in life." Ruthie Tompson liked to tell people that she and Mickey Mouse "grew up together." And that wasn't an exaggeration: The legendary animator spent nearly 40 years with the Walt Disney Company, working on virtually every film from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Rescuers until her retirement in 1975. She even earned the title "Disney Legend" at the turn of the millennium, as the employee with the longest history with Walt and Roy O. Disney. Tompson died Oct 10 (2021) at the age of 111.
It's time to share some more sepia photos gleaned from social media for the last month or so.
Store in Allison Gap Virginia 1920
Madison Square, New York City 1900
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1940s photo in Waxahachie TX.
1975 walkout of 90% of the women in Iceland from their jobs and households to obtain equal rights; in 5 years there was a female president.
The wreckage after the 1900 hurricane in Galveston "weatherman had said in 1891 that such a storm would never hit Galveston."
The Thomas Lincoln cabin in Coles County Illinois...father of Abraham Lincoln. No date.
The Wycoff House, oldest house in New York, built in 1662.
Harlem NY, 1940 grocery store owner.
Early photo of Black Mountain NC, showing the 2 story George Washington Stepp house, built in 1904. It is now the home of a great restaurant "Louisa's Kitchen."
Early photo of Black Mountain NC, showing the 2 story George Washington Stepp house, built in 1904. It is now the home of a great restaurant "Louisa's Kitchen."
I enjoy collecting these photos of the past...which tell of the joys and hardships people were going through. I feel more connected to my ancestors by doing this. Sharing with Sepia Saturday on the 9th, though their posted meme is a couple of days off below.
...in some cases we have come a long ways and in others we haven't!
ReplyDeleteMy interest in the past is to appreciate how far we have come. In no way do I desire to go back to the past, even the 50s or 60s. No thanks.
DeleteYou do find some good ones — the London Fog, the one with the Coke sign, and the spinning wheel in particular.
ReplyDeleteThanks AC...it is a bit of a blur going from one time to another in these photos.
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ReplyDeleteWonderful post and sepia photos. They are all wonderful. Take care, have a happy weekend.
Thanks Eileen...I looked at your post of Saturday critters, but there were already 50 comments...so I figured I'd have to pass, so you can have time to go out and take more photos rather than reading another comment!
DeleteI love these pictures. Armchair time travel.
ReplyDeleteI took time to label them, but didn't sort them into any order...so it can be a bit confusing if you go through them fast!
DeleteI loved going slowly through these old photos, remembering in some cases and others being glad that they were captured for us to admire today. Totally wonderful, Barbara! :-)
ReplyDeleteYes, going slowly lets you imagine that time and place. Glad you liked it.
DeleteWhat a marvellous time travelling trip. Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteYou found a great selection this week. I enlarged them and some of them really tell a story - the one from San Antonio is especially compelling. I have ancestors who were neighbors of the Lincoln family before they moved to Illinois. They were all involved in a lawsuit over property they bought, but did not legally hold, if I remember correctly.
ReplyDeleteI think I heard of that Lincoln property problem someplace in my readings. That's too bad. I'm glad you enjoyed looking more closely at these sepia glimpses into the past.
DeleteWonderful set of photos.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteGreat collection!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. To be picky, the Forth Bridge (near Edinburgh, on the Firth (estuary) of (the River) Forth) is always just called the Forth Bridge (no "Firth"). Hello from Edinburgh! Pam
ReplyDeleteA fascinating collection of vintage photographs, reflecting you theme of “joys and hardships”.
ReplyDeleteWhat struck me: the poverty of the San Antonio Family; the tiny nipped in waists of the New York fashionable ladies; the atmospheric image of the London fog and the images of log cabin life. The photograph relating to the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth at Queensferry is a familiar one to me - I used to live a few miles away. Until the 1960s the only other way there across the Forth was by car ferry and my father often had to join the slow moving queue to travel north. Now there are two road bridges.