Here is the picture... Barbara from TX http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hazel" <hmwh@vol.com> To: <tx-etgs@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [TX-ETGS] Old Photo > Got all of us curious about the picture. How about putting it on line so > we > all can see it? > Hazel from N.C. > ____________________________ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debbie Parker Wayne" <debbie@debbiewayne.com> > To: <tx-etgs@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:00 AM > Subject: Re: [TX-ETGS] Old Photo > > >> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.5/1619 - Release Date: 8/18/2008 >> 5:39 PM >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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
They are at work on some kind of a production line. Sometime even a little child worked back then. That would account for a young boy being in the picture. Hazel _______________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Pike" <bnb549@embarqmail.com> To: <tx-etgs@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [TX-ETGS] Old Photo > Here is the picture... > Barbara from TX > > http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/image/view/1796/_original > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hazel" <hmwh@vol.com> > To: <tx-etgs@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:12 AM > Subject: Re: [TX-ETGS] Old Photo > > >> Got all of us curious about the picture. How about putting it on line so >> we >> all can see it? >> Hazel from N.C. >> ____________________________ >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Debbie Parker Wayne" <debbie@debbiewayne.com> >> To: <tx-etgs@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:00 AM >> Subject: Re: [TX-ETGS] Old Photo >> >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG. >>> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.5/1619 - Release Date: >>> 8/18/2008 >>> 5:39 PM >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.5/1619 - Release Date: 8/18/2008 > 5:39 PM > >