The Trips Album 9

 

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. 

The Trips Album 8

 

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.  

Art Appreciation

 

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

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-Berne 3

I'm burning through Bern.  This section presented a bit of a problem as far as scanning goes.  I'd much rather have done each panel individually, but the publisher's choice to put a fold through the middle of the photos took that option off the table.  I don't know about anyone else, but I'd love to see the statue of the baby eating ogre.  I wonder what that says about the Swiss mindset.

As usual click on The Post War European Trip Collection in labels, etc.

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.

The Epworth League Album 10, Life on the River

I wrote in an earlier Epworth League post that the pictures in the first part of the album had a mid-western feel to them. Well, here's a bit more of that feel. A river this wide, in the United States, is probably the Mississippi, the lower Missouri or the lower Ohio. There might be some other candidates out there, but those three are the most likely. I spent some time, on line, searching for images of old bridges along those rivers and couldn't find a match. But someone out there must be able to recognize these locations. As always, click on Epworth League in the labels section to bring up the lot.