04 May 2013
by smkelly8
in Sepia Saturday
Tags: advertisement, China, Cigarette, cigarettes, past, smoking, Tobacco, Turkey
Today’s prompt is smoking. I do not advocate smoking, but in days gone by it’s harmful effects weren’t known. So I offer this Biblical advertisement for Turkish cigarettes called Ruth, that I found in Flicker Commons from Yeshiva University.
Chinese cigarette ads from the 1930s often featured graceful women posing. They didn’t smoke themselves in the posters. Last May I saw an art exhibit of these ads in Nanjing. I wrote about them here.
Here are some old Japanese ads for cigarettes.
What’s with the Prussian uniforms?
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15 Mar 2013
by smkelly8
in Blogging Challenge, Sepia Saturday
This stumped me at first, but the prompt offered some help: bald, round table, meeting. The prompt also said you could find Churchill, Truman and Stalin in the photo. Can you?
That search led me to an easier response. I offer the mural below. I found the photo in Flickr Commons from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.
I asked online where the mural was and if it’s still there.
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13 Jan 2013
by smkelly8
in photos, Sepia Saturday
Down under the equator, it's summer and the living is easy. So Sepia Saturday headed to the beach for this week's prompt.
13 Oct 2012
by smkelly8
in Blogging Challenge, History, Sepia Saturday
Tags: American history, Civil War, miliatry, Sepia Saturday, USA, war between the states
The dapper soldiers in the prompt led me to hunt for some other military photos. Here’s what I found:
Source: Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library
Above is a Confederate soldier and below a Union one.
Source: Library of Congress, Flickr Collection
- Sepia Saturday (smkelly8.com)
- The Origin Of Taps (villageundertaker.wordpress.com)
- Sepia Saturday (Bees’ Knees Daily)
- Genealogists solve Civil War mystery (seattletimes.com)
- Sepia Saturday (Who Were They?)
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30 Sep 2012
by smkelly8
in Sepia Saturday
Tags: photo, sports, Women
Let me think . . . boots, sports shoes . . . I’ve got it. She really has athletic footwear, doesn’t she?
You can find more Sepia Saturday interpretations linked here.
Mea culpa: I downloaded this photo yesterday and didn’t have a chance to upload it. I found it on Flickr, but I can’t remember the archives that offered it. I have a feeling she’s from New Zealand, but it could be Ireland or Australia.
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22 Sep 2012
by smkelly8
in Blogging Challenge, History, news, Sepia Saturday
Tags: Al Capone, Bonnie & Clyde, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Frank Calabrese Sr., Operation Family Secrets
Convicts? Really?
I’m from Chicago. It’ll be more of a database than a post. Well, let’s see who we can find.
Al Capone, mob king pin during the depression. Impossible to catch till Elliott Ness got assigned to the case.
Frank Calabrese, Sr.
Implicated in 18 murders, sports gambling, racketeering
Calabreze, from the Family Secrets Trial, which I attended often in the summer of 2008. Here’s a good article by The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass, who’s written extensively on the trial. Riveting days in court as his son and brother Nick testified against him. Calabrese forced his son at age 14 go around with his uncle intimidating people who hadn’t paid up. They’d set fire to a garage, blow up part of a building, that sort of thing. Calabreze would rake in $400,000 a year from football betting. He was a loan shark and murderer. He’s currently living in a Federal prison.
Bonnie & Clyde – not from Chicago, but I liked the movie so I’m including them.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
Butch Cassidy & The Hole in the Wall Gang
Remember the start of the movie?
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17 Aug 2012
by smkelly8
in Blogging Challenge, meme, Sepia Saturday
Tags: 19th Century, 20th century, dinosaurs, Field Museum, Field Museum of Natural History, museum, museums, paleontology, United States
This week’s prompt is Bones. I immediately knew the Field Museum’s Flickr collection would have something of interest.
Titanotheres Family bone collection, Field Museum, Flickr, 1910
I’m not wild about dinosaurs, but the shapes are interesting.
Mastadons and elephants.
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