I just love the idea of this photo being an early fraternity party photo, although it looks rather tame compared to some of the fraternity parties *I* attended in the 90s! Initially I thought it might be a Yale photo on account of the large Y pennant. Looking closer though, I think it is located …
The back of this real photo postcard indicates this is possibly Jack Dicaslito, or it could have been sent to Jack. The exact text is: Jack Dicaslito For B. F. Rudd Green Forest, Ark The city there could also possibly be Drum Forest or Rain Forest, but I’m leaning toward Green Forest. The postcard itself …
This series of photos was in with the Rudd photos and postcards and at first I didn’t know what I would do with them. I couldn’t quite figure out what was happening in them. With this week’s Sepia Saturday prompt showing an old advertisement for Oshkosh I looked at this series again and realized this …
Fading with time, before we lose the image altogether, here’s a photograph of William Mann Rudd Jr in the 1890s. The edges of the card have that deckled cutwork that was popular at the time. This makes him about 13 or 14 years of age in this image. For other images of the Rudd family, …
This is a print of a press photo of the Minneapolis Millers, 1896. The team had just won the Western League baseball championship. The Minneapolis Millers existed in some iteration for 76 years, beginning in 1884. They originally played in the Northwestern League, but when that failed they were absorbed into the Western League. The …
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