Showing posts with label water fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water fall. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2022

Barney Seamon's


 

 I did a bit of research and found some information about Barney Seamon's Modern Clothing Store.  In February 1917, Barney was liquidating his store.  He had to retire due to ill health.  There is something written on the back, "Out on the State road near Coffin Crops-the same day we stopped at Coffin's & returned to the gorge behind Aunt Min's."  Well, I'm not sure about Coffin Crop's.  It could be Coffee Drop's, or perhaps Coffin Drops.  It's bad when someone has worse handwriting than me.  There are over 150 waterfalls in the Ithica area, all with their very own gorge.  I have no idea which one is behind Aunt Min's. 

Friday, August 30, 2019

Mountain Home



This was almost certainly made for someone's personal use, nevertheless, there is a commercial photographer's credit line on the back.  "Milton Helm's Studio, Mountain Home, Idaho."  I couldn't find much about Helm, but a bit.  I know that in 1907 he was a partner in a photo studio in Twin Falls, with Leah Amos, Idaho's preeminent woman photographer, or at leas that's how she was described in  an article about photographer's in Idaho.  The next year Helm moved to Mountain Home and opened his own studio.  I know he was active in 1917.  I found a mention of him in a newspaper that had an ad for Civilization, a silent movie directed Thomas H. Ince, and released that year.  And I found another mention of him from Abel's Photographic Weekly from 1922.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of his photographs.  Type in Milton Helm Mountain home and all the pictures that come up are from Levon Helm's  recording studio.  Oh well.