-----Original Message----- From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gina Heffernan Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:00 PM To: TXGenWeb List Subject: [TXGEN] Old Photo Does anyone know what's going on in this photo? or maybe the time period?   http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original   Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Interesting photo. went to the Handbook of Texas on line to see if there might be a clue .... BULLARD, TEXAS. Bullard, also known as Etna and Hewsville, is on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway at the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm roads 2493, 2137, and 344, twelve miles south of Tyler in extreme southern Smith County. Possible?? *** A movie theater had opened, and a band also provided entertainment. **** And an interesting note: A traveling jail, seven feet in diameter and made of a barred round tank on wheels, held prisoners until the county sheriff could escort them to Tyler. Trevia Wooster Beverly Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fitzgerald" <scottfitzgerald@tyler.net> To: "ETGS Mailing List" <TX-ETGS-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "Smith County List" <TXSMITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:32 AM Subject: [TXSMITH] FW: [TXGEN] Old Photo -----Original Message----- From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gina Heffernan Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:00 PM To: TXGenWeb List Subject: [TXGEN] Old Photo Does anyone know what's going on in this photo? or maybe the time period? http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXSMITH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Trevia Here is the response that I sent to TXGEN list: Hi Gina, To me it looks like a bunch of hand crank water pumps. I am not sure what the pan thing next to the pump is - maybe a filter or chemical treatment. Unless I am mistaken it says Bullard Texas which south of Tyler. I also see the bows and fiddles that Jane mentioned[in another e-mail]. Could it be something like a barn raising? I am going to forward the message to the Smith County list and see if anyone there has any ideas. Scott > > Interesting photo. went to the Handbook of Texas on line to see if there > might be a clue .... > > BULLARD, TEXAS. Bullard, also known as Etna and Hewsville, is on the St. > Louis Southwestern Railway at the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm > roads 2493, 2137, and 344, twelve miles south of Tyler in extreme southern > Smith County. > > Possible?? *** A movie theater had opened, and a band also provided > entertainment. **** > > And an interesting note: A traveling jail, seven feet in diameter and > made > of a barred round tank on wheels, held prisoners until the county sheriff > could escort them to Tyler. > > Trevia Wooster Beverly > Houston, Texas

This IS a great photo. Too bad so many of us never write anything on the back of our photos about what is in the image. I finally got all of my photos organized by years, but I still have lots of identification to do. Wow, I don't see bows and fiddles at all. Is the items held by some of the workers that someone though were fiddle bows? What parts looked like fiddles? I see - machines sitting on pallets (like they may have been moved from a building to this area just for the photo - maybe new machines they are proud of?) - several people holding cane or reeds - pile of reeds / canes behind the 8th lady from the left - the lady 6th from the left seems to be running multiple reeds through the machine and has a pile of reeds at her feet as do several others - the machines 7th and 8th from the left seem to have a heavy thread, string, or wire threaded through (maybe used to join or split the reeds?) - the machine 9th from the left is different - no thread and no round disc, the mechanism closest to the lady seems heavier than the one to the left (or something behind the lady makes it appear so) Maybe the disc protects the string or worker, although most early industrial machines I see photos of don't seem so safety-conscious. It might be worthwhile to show the photo to someone over at the Texas Basket Factory in Jacksonville (on US79 just east of downtown). A Google image search with lots of combinations of machine, hat, millinery, sewing, factory, early, 1900s, cane, rattan, reed, basket, and more didn't provide me with a good answer for what is in this photo. But if someone had time to peruse the late 1800s to early 1900s /Scientific American/ and other magazines on the Gutenberg Project <gutenburg.org> or the machinery history on the University of Arizona (UA) site <www.cs.arizona.edu> they might find a similar photo. A search of the U.S. Patent site <http://www.uspto.gov/main/profiles/acadres.htm> might turn up a photo but you would need to know what search terms to use. To narrow things down to just the UA site one of the searches I used on Google images was site:cs.arizona.edu machine early But none of the photos matched closely. Trying to think of other items people would have used in the 1890-1910 time frame that would be made from reeds, cane, or rattan might give more search terms to try. -- Regards, Debbie Debbie Parker Wayne Wayne Research -- http://debbiewayne.com/ APG Member -- http://apgen.org/ DNA Director -- http://spanishgrants.com/ Scott Fitzgerald wrote on 8/19/2008 8:24 AM: .... > To me it looks like a bunch of hand crank water pumps. I am not sure what > the pan thing next to the pump is - maybe a filter or chemical treatment. > Unless I am mistaken it says Bullard Texas which south of Tyler. I also see > the bows and fiddles that Jane mentioned[in another e-mail]. Could it be > something like a barn raising? Scott Fitzgerald wrote on 8/19/2008 7:32 AM: > > -----Original Message----- > From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Gina Heffernan > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:00 PM > To: TXGenWeb List > Subject: [TXGEN] Old Photo > > Does anyone know what's going on in this photo? or maybe the time period? > > http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original > > > Gina Heffernan > Rusk Co, Texas

Looks like there might be a big tent in the background......taken is probably late 1880's or 1890's ,possibly the equipment could be tamborines? they are playing by using a foot pedal? Just a guess.............to play music. -------Original Message------- From: Scott Fitzgerald Date: 08/19/08 07:33:09 To: ETGS Mailing List Cc: Smith County List Subject: [TX-ETGS] FW: [TXGEN] Old Photo -----Original Message----- From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gina Heffernan Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:00 PM To: TXGenWeb List Subject: [TXGEN] Old Photo Does anyone know what's going on in this photo? or maybe the time period? http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TX-ETGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think these are tomato crate making machines back in the heyday of Bullard being one of the areas where tomatoes were grown extensively and shipped everywhere. The folks in the picture are not dressed for work and I suspect they were attending some sort of tomato festival. If only I could see under that shed I would know for certain. Rex Kirby -----Original Message----- From: tx-etgs-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tx-etgs-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Scott Fitzgerald Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:33 AM To: ETGS Mailing List Cc: Smith County List Subject: [TX-ETGS] FW: [TXGEN] Old Photo -----Original Message----- From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gina Heffernan Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:00 PM To: TXGenWeb List Subject: [TXGEN] Old Photo Does anyone know what's going on in this photo? or maybe the time period?   http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original   Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TX-ETGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Looks kind of like the one in the photo. : ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fitzgerald" <scottfitzgerald@tyler.net> To: "ETGS Mailing List" <TX-ETGS-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "Smith County List" <TXSMITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:32 AM Subject: [TX-ETGS] FW: [TXGEN] Old Photo -----Original Message----- From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gina Heffernan Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:00 PM To: TXGenWeb List Subject: [TXGEN] Old Photo Does anyone know what's going on in this photo? or maybe the time period? http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TX-ETGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message