The adventures and various works of a photographer, road tripper, local historian, former patron of the local arts, aspiring app developer, and late night coffee drinker and conversationalist.
News and Updates
Thirteen new comparisons have been uploaded to the
Album Comparisons collection. Also, be sure to check out the "Ghosts of DFW music history" blog series, an ongoing series of posts about our area's historical music venues and record labels.
The
Then & Now photo series illustrates how places and things change over the years.
A couple of weeks ago, whilst making my usual rounds at some area antique stores, I came upon a collection of interesting historical oddities. These were a decent-sized stack of old nineteenth-century letters, carefully unfolded and presented with their original envelopes inside sealed plastic Ziplock bags. Most were from senders inside the state of Texas, and a few were even addressed to recipients located right here in Dallas...
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A couple of weeks ago, whilst making my usual rounds at some area antique stores, I came upon a collection of interesting historical oddities. These were a decent-sized stack of old nineteenth-century letters, carefully unfolded and presented with their original envelopes inside sealed plastic Ziplock bags. Most were from senders inside the state of Texas, and a few were even addressed to recipients located right here in Dallas. Within the correspondence I saw references to what seemed to be the State Fair of Texas, and I was intrigued...
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I like to collect vintage photos. Most of these date from the era of affordable personal photography and include mostly slides, real photo postcards, and everyday prints with the occasional vintage film negative thrown in. But a handful of items in my collection date to a period even earlier than that. Here are examples of some of these...
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I like to collect vintage photos, particularly vintage photos of my hometown of Dallas and photos of places I've visited. Most of these date from the era of affordable personal photography and include mostly slides, real photo postcards, and everyday prints with the occasional vintage film negative thrown in. But a handful of items in my collection date to a period even earlier than that. These are not photo reproductions or reprints, period postcards, or facsimiles, but are actual period specimens that hail from the nineteenth or extreme early twentieth centuries. Here are examples of some of these...
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