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.

Dana Hall School For Girls 8

Three rows, the final two photos in the column are smaller than the others and the final row.

Looks like the student body and, perhaps, a parent in those final two photos.  I'm surprised at how mature the students of Dana Hall appear.

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Dana Hall School For Girls 7

Three Rows, two photos each.

The frustrating thing about this collection is that I have only a small handful of loose album pages.  I have no idea what order they were in or the time span.  Presumably, the owner of this album was at Dana Hall School for more than one year, but was there an album per year, or was it one album covering her entire Dana Hall experience? 

So, in my first post of this lot, Helen Zollinger was in her room with an Oberlin banner, almost certainly her home town.  In the final picture from this page there is a car with an Ohio license plate.  Were her parents visiting from Ohio, or was she visiting them? 

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Dana Hall School For Girls 6

Three rows of photos, three photos on the top row, two each on the other two, all of which read from left to right.

Which photo doesn't fit?  Clearly being a student at Dana Hall isn't all monastic studying, but an electromagnet at a scrap yard?  I suspect that the compiler of this album came from money and the source of that money was scrap.

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Dana Hall School For Girls 5

Dana Hall School was founded in 1881 by Henry Durant in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts.  It was originally meant as the preparatory school for Wellesley College, a women's college founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant.  When Wellesley and Dana Hall were founded it was fairly rare for women of a certain economic class and above, and like now, neither school was for the poor or true middle classes, to work or have careers.  I'm sure, that when wealthy parents sent their daughters off to Dana Hall and Wellesley, they were thinking about molding the perfect companion for the wealthy young men at nearby Harvard. 

Click on Dana Hall School in labels to see more from this collection.

Dana Hall School For Girls 4

The first two pictures in the column are one line, the next three the second, and the final two the bottom line.  All read left to right.  The fourth photo is labeled "Helen at Dana Hall."  Click on Dana Hall School to see more.