08 december 2016

Automobile on country road, Russell County, Kansas

Image and text source: Kansas Memory
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: September 18, 1910

One side of a stereograph showing three people in a car traveling along a country road in Russell County, Kansas. Also visible in the background are a house, a windmill, farm buildings, open fields, groves of trees, and a long bridge that may cross the Smoky Hill River.

Piet Arends en zijn wonder-telescoop

PIET ARENDS EN ZIJN WONDER-TELESCOOP
Tekst en illustraties door Koen Hansley.

Arnhemsche Courant, 17-06-1940

Zie ook: Stripgeschiedenis 1940-45 - Krantenstrip en Koen Hansley (Lambiek Comiclopedia)

Mattie Gunterman on a stove

Image source: Royal BC Museum
Title proper - Mattie Gunterman on a stove, with Rose and Anne Williams, Nettie-L Mine, Beatoin, BC.
Date(s) - 1902 (Creation)

Walter Weems, 1917

Image & text source: University of Washington Libraries
Title - Collage photograph of two images of Walter Weems, one showing Weems wearing blackface makeup, March 30, 1917
Date - 1917
Notes - Walter Weems performed a blackface monologue in vaudeville and then became a screenwriter in Hollywood.
Contextual Notes - Charles "Tiny" Burnett was known for his popular orchestra leadership in the Orpheum Circuit vaudeville theaters here from 1915-1933. Over the years, Burnett amassed a large collection of souvenir photographs from the performers with whom he worked. Many of the photographs are studio portraits signed with fond notes by the performers, who range from novelty acts and circus attractions to opera singers and silent film actors.
Repository - University of Washington Libraries, Special Collection Division
Repository Collection - Charles "Tiny" Burnett photograph collection. PH Coll 569