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 > >