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.