An attractive young lady standing next to a statue of, I assume, Casimir Pulaski. Pulaski was a Polish patriot who came to the colonies, joined the revolution and is regarded as the father of the American Calvary. He was born in 1745 and died, in battle, in 1779. I looked for photos of memorials to Pulaski, but couldn't find a match.
Platoon 35. On July 6, 1948, Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, integrating the United States Armed Forces. This photo is dated July 1, 1950, so it's one of the first integrated Marine Corps training classes from Parris Island, in South Carolina. Unless I missed someone, I counted five black troops in the class. Anyway, a fair amount of info on the front of the photo. M.C.R.D. stands for Marine Corps Recruiting Depot. Just for the hell of it, I did a search for the three sergeants named, H.A. Eravi, H.E. Moore, and P.H. Myers. Nothing came up. There is an Ashley Moog, professional photographer located in Beaufort, South Carolina. A daughter or a granddaughter of the Moog credited as the photographer on the front of the print. Possible, perhaps even probable, but not guaranteed.
I've been making occasional trips to an antique mall in L.A., and every time I go there, I find another picture or two of shipboard life. Anyway, it's become clear that they are all from the same source, and since I have no idea how many more, I'll find, I've gone back to the other two posts I've put up and added "life aboard ship collection" in labels so those who are interested can see everything already posted. Anyway, I'm still thinking ocean liner. The Matson Line sailed from the California coast to Hawaii, and, of course, there were ships sailing to the far east as well as the far shorter trip to Catalina Island, just off the coast of Southern California.
The other side of the previous post. The top photo is a postcard. As usual, when posting an album page, I show the whole page to show position, then the other photos individually. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see the rest of the album. and fair warning, it will be a while before everything gets put up.
It's been a long time since I've posted anything from this photo album. The fact is, it's a real pain in the behind to disassemble the pages, scan, and then replace the page in the album. Call it laziness if you want. Anyway, this album is another example of true found photography. I was walking down the street, there were a bunch of garbage bags on the sidewalk, and this album was sticking out the top of one of the bags, and since it wasn't covered in some sort of nasty crap I wouldn't want to touch, it came home with me.
Chitzen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Mayans. It's located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Chitzen Itza is translated as at the mouth of the well of Itza. The Itza were an ethnic-lineage group that once was politically dominate in the Yucatan.
Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see what else is up. Fair warning, it will be while before the entire album gets posted.
I'm not sure how wise this crowd of what looks to be teenagers were, but at least it's a crowd.
A fascinating face, indeed. There's something a bit masculine in her visage. The chin and brow line seem more male to me than female. I know I'm probably wrong, but I think there is a slight chance that this woman is actually a man. I spent decades working in photo labs and one of the things that I learned is that if people can think, they'll do it and take pictures, and a lot of men think about wearing women's clothes. But what about when this picture was taken. I started my lab career after the invention of the Polaroid camera and worked into the digital age granting a certain amount of anonymity to those men wanted to wear a dress. Did professional studio photographers of the nineteenth century have special times to take photos of special customers? Probably.
