Graduating In Peace

I'm not quite sure what this picture represents.  Maybe a prom photo or homecoming.  It's a bit out of focus, but once I blew it up, it looks like the sign above the stage reads Classes with some dates.  I'm not 100% sure, but I'd say 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1941.  Perhaps it means that those four classes raised money to pay for the auditorium.  In any case, there is a photographer's stamp on the back, "ARTHUR W. F. LOWENSTEIN, MORO, ILL. OCT 22 1945"  If I'm reading it correctly, the class of 1941, the last one listed on the sign would have been the last graduating class before World War 2, and the Class of 1946 would be the first to graduate after VJ-Day. 

I couldn't find anything about the photographer, but Moro is near St. Louis, Missouri. 

Preppie Couple

I'm guessing form somewhere in the mid 50's. 

The Black Watch

In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.  The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this week, and no, I don't think it will be going to Donald Trump.  Then again, I once said that only a fool could think that Bob Dylan would win the Literature prize, so what do I know.

Water Carts

This isn't the first version of The New Found Photography.  The earlier blog only had so much free bandwidth, after which I would have to buy more.  Because of that, I got in the habit of typing out what was on the back of photos.  Anyway, I'll still try and figure out the hand written stuff and then hunt and peck my way through a translation.  But, I'm done with transcribing stuff like this, so click on the text and read about captured water carts for yourself. 

So, another stereo card from T.W. Ingersoll, this one from the Russo-Japanese War.  1904-1905, the first time an Asian power defeated one from Europe, that is if Russia could actually be called a real power.  Not even the Russian alliance with Montenegro could save them.

And He Rolls In

As the caption reads, "2 A. M. And He Rolls In Quite Early."

When I was in college, I had a history professor who liked to speak of CK,  common knowledge, thinks that everyone thought of as true, but were in fact not true.  A perfect example of CK is the widely held belief that the prohibition movement began with conservative Christians who wanted to impose their own sense of morality on everyone else.  Other than the fact that prohibition had broad support, if it had any single point of origin, it was in the early women's movement for a very simple reason, women who had drunk husbands had a tendency to get beaten and killed.  Women who had sober husbands didn't. 

Anyway, I found a bit of information about T.W. Ingersoll.  Truman Ward Ingersoll (1862-1922) was an American photographer and publisher of stereo cards.  I was unable to determine if he was the only photographer or if his company had  a staff of cameramen.  He was noted for his views of Yosemite.

Up On the Roof

With all due respect to The Drifters.

Dana Hall School For Girls 9

Alright, two rows of photos, sort of.  The two verticals and then the two horizontals stacked to complete the row.

The thing that really fascinates me is that the photos from Dana Hall School all look like they were taken out in the middle of the country, but even in 1914, Wellesley, Massachusetts would have been part of the Boston metro area.

Click on Dana Hall School in labels to see more.  I figure there's 19 posts from this collection.  I've hit nine, so I'll be leaving it for a few weeks and when I return, I'll do the last ten in a row.