Another Piece of History

 

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. 

John Smith

 

Written on the back, "At foot of John Smith Statue, Lind Porter Photographer, 4/11-1909."  

Were to start.  There's enough of the statue visible that it was easy to match to the John Smith Memorial in Jamestown, Virginia.  But who are the people?  Well, I can't say definitively, but I do have some guesses.  The sculptor was American artist William Couper, born in 1853, died 1942.  The only photographs I could find of him was from earlier in life.  He had a mustache and the same chin shape as the man in the center, although the face is more rounded.  Age perhaps, and certainly many 56 year old men have white hair.  It's the young man next to him that points toward Couper.  His son was a graduate of VMI, the Virginia Military Institute, class of 1904, and he went on to a military career.  As I could only find photos of a young William Couper, his son, also William, all I could find on him was a painting from much latter in life.  But, the man in this picture is wearing a military uniform, so it's a possibility.  Too, the memorial was officially unveiled on May 13, 1910, and it makes sense that it was actually placed in position earlier than that, and that the artist and his family would pose for a picture.  

Now, the statue was the gift of Joseph Bryan and his wife Isobel Lamont Stewart Bryan.  Joseph died in 1904, and Isobel died in 1910.  Clearly Joseph isn't in the picture but the couple had a number of children and the third man might be one of them.  In any case, the statue was officially unveiled by grandson Joseph Bryan III.  According to what I found, he was born in 1904.  As far as the two women go, not a clue, though a family member of some kind is a good guess.  Too, Isobel was the founder of The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.   

Art Appreciation

 

Even if it looks like that art may be from Forrest Lawn.  Dated "OCT 1950"  

Posing By the Statue

 

The statue is more animated than she is. 

The Post War European Trip Collection-Souvenir Snapshots 2

I've got four collections that I've started that I've yet to fully post, so I think it's about time to go back to The Post War European Trip Collection.-And, of course click on that in labels to see more images, and read about Gloria Lee Bigewet, a teenage tourist from St. Louis, Missouri, and her group's trip to Europe after World War 2.  That's were you'll find, among other things, Souvenir Snapshots part 1.

The Post War European Trip Collection-Berne 6

So, where does  the water come from?  L'historie was easy, but I had to look up Les fontaines.  I assumed it was fountains and was right, but everyone I know makes the mistake of assuming that words from languages other than English, that sound similar to words in English mean the same.  Sometimes they do, but more often than not, they don't.

Click on The Post War European Trip Collection, and all that.

The Post War European Trip Collection-Moses

Written on the back, "This is supposed to be the finest work of sculptur ever conceived by man.  It's a statue of Moses holding the Ten Commandments and was done by Michael Angelo.  It now sits inside St. Peter's church and is part of a memorial to a Pope who died centuries ago."  The card was never mailed.

Our traveler visited a number of places,  I have no idea as to her route, and feel no obligation to group locations,  As usual, click on The Post War European Trip Collection in labels to see more.

The Statue of Ramses

Yet another unused card, credited to "Lehnert & Landrock, Cairo"  I've actually been able to find some info on this pair.  Rudolf Franz Lehnart and Ernst Heinrich Landrock were a pair of Austrian born photographers who met each other in Switzerland in 1904.  The two formed a partnership in Tunis, where Landrock had taken a series of photographs, which lasted until 1914, when they were interred by the French as enemy aliens, at the beginning of World War 1.   Their large collection of glass plate negatives were also seized.

They didn't meet up again  until 1920.  With the dissolution of Austria-Hungary,  Landrock found himself a citizen of the new nation of Czechoslovakia, an ally of France, which allowed him to get the partner's negatives returned to him.  Lehnert had returned to Tunis where he photographed nudes for Jouret Studio.  They formed a new partnership, in Cairo,in 1924, where they published postcards from their photographs.  Lehnert sold out his half of the business to Landrock in 1930.  In 1939, fearing another internment, Landrock left for Germany.  He left the business under the management of his Swiss born nephew, Kurk Lambelit.  It's believed that the majority of the negatives from the partnership was destroyed by allied bombing, in Germany, during World War 2.

  Lehnert & Landrock is still in business, in Cairo, as a publisher of guide books.

The Statue

Anyone out there recognize the statue?  How about the location?  My guess is that it's still there, and people are still sitting on the base.