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Photographs Of Frontier Life In The West
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/frontier_pictures.html ^
Posted on 04/23/2014 7:08:08 PM PDT by navysealdad
Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life & hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers relationships with Native Americans.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: frontier
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To: navysealdad
a lot of astonishing images of a very very different world.
My grandfather was allegedly born under a wagon somewhere in Kansas..but I have no other details sad to say.
Thank you.
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04/23/2014 7:13:52 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: navysealdad
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04/23/2014 7:16:27 PM PDT
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PLMerite
To: navysealdad
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posted on
04/23/2014 7:18:21 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: navysealdad; SunkenCiv
Excellent photos.
Residents of Sturgis in 1890 could not imagine their main street would one day host thousands of motorcycles way in the future.
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04/23/2014 7:26:24 PM PDT
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: navysealdad
I used to think I would have been happy living in those days. In fact, I longed for them.
Today, not so much. Those folks were tough.
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04/23/2014 7:29:44 PM PDT
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berdie
To: navysealdad
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04/23/2014 7:31:27 PM PDT
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expat1000
To: navysealdad
The Deadwood Coach riders do have a bureaucratic look about them.
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04/23/2014 7:32:34 PM PDT
by
MurrietaMadman
(Reading... it's FUNdamental.)
To: MeshugeMikey
ROUND UP:
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04/23/2014 7:32:51 PM PDT
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cornelis
To: navysealdad
nice, thanks for the link
To: cornelis
aha One of Harry Reids Ancestors!???
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04/23/2014 7:41:28 PM PDT
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MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: navysealdad
Photographer Paul Horsted took historical photos from the Black Hills and exactly duplicated the view in present time publishing them in a book,
The Black Hills Yesterday and Today.
Link to photos
To: navysealdad
I have seen a few of those photos published in various publications over the years. Thanks for posting.
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04/23/2014 7:55:25 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: navysealdad
love pictures like these. Was on Google Earth looking at what I could find in present day. Many of Deadwood building still there.
To: navysealdad
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04/23/2014 8:21:05 PM PDT
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logitech
(It is time.)
To: School of Rational Thought
Couldn’t find the 1889 City Hall, perhaps demolished.
To: MeshugeMikey
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04/23/2014 8:47:41 PM PDT
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cornelis
To: MeshugeMikey
The ancestors must have ‘tumbled’ in the ‘weeds’
To: navysealdad
thx.....very interesting....
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04/23/2014 10:38:30 PM PDT
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cherry
To: berdie
If they had indoor plumbing, I’d go for living back then...
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