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  • Woman With Gun and Hunting Dogs

     

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    Did you get your turkey yet?

     

     

    Unidentified 1880's Florida woman from the Library of Congress's flickr photostream.


  • Dogs of the Great Depression

     

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    Herbert Hoover and King Tut by Theodore Horydczak, 1928.

     

     

    80 years ago today the Stock Market crashed on what came to be known as Black Tuesday, the start of the Great Depression.  As we struggle to find our footing in what is now considered the Great Recession, take a moment to look back and listen to people on the front line:

    * PBS just ran an excellent biography on Herbert Hoover.  I never knew historians still widely consider him one of the most — perhaps THE most — competent man ever elected President of the United States.  In fact, his career was one of unbridled success and acclaim, until that fateful Tuesday.

    * The Roosevelt Institute's New Deal 2.0 is running an insightful series asking thinkers of today what lessons we should have learned from the Great Depression and where we are headed.

    * Errol Morris recently completed a fascinating seven-part series on the authenticity Farm Security Administration photographs.  Highly recommend.

    *Here is a bleak assessment of dogs in the Great Depression based on two characters in Of Mice and Men euthanizing their pets — considered the most human thing to do. 

    Needless to say, photos of dogs in the Great Depression are not exactly plentiful.

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    Herbert Hoover's dogs, King Tut, Whoopie &  Englehurst Gillette  .  March 28, 1929.  Via VerySerious.org

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    Sharecropper and sharecropper's dog, North Carolina, 1938 by John Vachon. Via the Library of Congress.

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    Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building.  Dog show by Mr. Omar Marcoux of League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, Concord, who makes more than sixty kinds of dogs,  1937.  Via the Library of Congress.

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    Gold miner with his dog, Mogollon, New Mexico by Russell Lee, 1940. Via the Library of Congress.

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         Children playing near dead dog, South Side of Chicago by Russell Lee, 1941.  Via the Library of Congress.    

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    Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Miller and dog, Spencer, Iowa by Russell Lee, 1936.  Via the Library of Congress.

  • C. M. Coolidge’s Boston Terrier

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    I'm a bad dog. What kind of dog are you?

    I found this hand-colored photogravure c. 1895 in the Library of Congress archives today. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was done by C.M. Coolidge of the famous dogs playing poker series. Definitive proof he was more than a kitschy ad man. This little guy is fantastic!

    Here is a great article on the life and art of C. M. Coolidge by Melanie Light.

  • Library of Congress Dogs

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    Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana by Russell Lee, 1942

    I’m featuring dog photography this week in honor of  the New York Photo Festival.  Did you know that the Library of Congress has started a Flickr photostream?  Here are a few dogs from their archives.

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    Beggar’s Dog, Hoboken, between 1910 and 1915

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    Polish Strikers at N.Y. Mills, Utica, between 1910 and 1915

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    A Store with Live Fish for Sale, near Natchitoches, LA by Marion Post Wolcott, 1940

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    Children in the Tenement District, Brockton, MA by Jack Delano, 1940

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    Tanis Guinness & Ta Wang, 1910

  • St. Patrick’s Day Vintage Dog Art T-Shirts & Greeting Cards

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    With a name like Moira McLaughlin it’s never too early to gear up for St. Patrick’s Day. Here are some new fun items I just made to help you celebrate this year. I found this vintage photograph of Irish worker Terry McKune, circa 1915-1920, and his little dog in the Library of Congress archives. Little is known about the man or the photo, but I simply love it!

    A package of 10 St. Patrick’s Day greeting cards (above). Inside reads, “Happy St. Patrick’s Day!” in an emerald green Celtic font.

    I think it came out cool on T-shirts too:

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    St. Patrick’s Day men’s ringer T-shirt. My mother always said, “A true Irishman doesn’t need to wear green.”

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    If you do need to wear your Irish on your sleeve, the military green St. Patrick’s Day T-shirt might be right for you.

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    I’m all Irish, so I’m going with this longsleeved black St. Patrick’s Day T-shirt and will sport a strapping Irish laborer on my chest — oops — that came out wrong — or maybe not ; )

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    The mint green short sleeved t-shirt is a great option too. Bars do get hot when you’re drinking all day.