Posted on 04/09/2018 12:53:13 PM PDT by NRx
It's possible, but he would have been in his sixties when the film was taken. The war had been over for forty six years in 1911.
When he is closest to the camera you get a good look at his face and the age seems about right. There were still plenty of them around 2 years later at the 50th Anniversary of Gettysburg.
I wonder how many of those men wound up fighting and dying in WWI?
So cool. As if folks weren’t familiar with camera....most didn’t even notice. Those who did notice barely smiled at it.
The Flatiron building, with carriages riding past, is great.
Thanks for posting.
I wonder who was in charge of cleaning up after the horses, on the ferry. Not the carriage driver :-)
One of my aunts was born in 1889 and witnessed most of the 20th century, dying in 1991. She graduated from college in 1910. I asked her in 1985 what she remembered about Haley's comet as she was alive to witness it twice, once in 1910 and again in 1985. She said that it was not a big deal to her at the time. However, she followed politics closely and was a staunch conservative. She knew a lot of politicians and some famous judges and attorneys, such as Thurgood Marshall. After she passed, I found an invitation to the Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge among her things.
If you didn't turn off YouTube at the end of the video, it autoplays a couple more items. The first is grainy short scenes from 1895 to 1900. The second is colorized photos of the era.
In one of those colorized photos, some urchins are sitting around an old man with a long beard... and a union Civil War cap with a "139" on it... probably his regiment.
Far more of these people would end up dying from the influenza in late 1918.
Quite possible. But bear in mind that amputations were much more common back then and people lost limbs as a result of all manner of accidents. Until the early 1900’s there was basically no work place safety laws. It was estimated that in 1890 one in every eleven workers in steel foundries ended up being killed or crippled on the job. The owners didn’t care. Labor was cheap (11 cents per hour on average) and there was no shortage of people waiting for work given the choice of starving.
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And they did it all while still eating bread and drinking booze. Take THAT, Keto homos.
I don’t think any one diet is right for everyone; I know a lot of people who swear by ‘keto’ and low carb diets.
And a lot of the old folks probably died of diet-caused diseases that we hadn’t yet identified or found solutions for.
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