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12 10 812 https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/b3e84b0f09685411523b79b0912f88b1.jpg 96631d5068e2c8a1a8ab4cf24dc058b4 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aug. 28, 1911 B Description An account of the resource Mr. Olney Dunham Nantucket, Mass. 5 West Chester St. Dear O how is ma and grandpa I have had a very bad foot thought it rheumatism first it was broken and I think Uncle Frank and I must go away a few days at last of the week. The apprentice (Blacksmith) accidentally shot himself last Sunday. He had only been at our place since last April. Buried tomorrow PS do not fool with fire arms Aunty Thanks for card Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emma (Cotton) Blake Emma (Cotton) Blake Franklin Nelson Blake Nelson Olney Dunham https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/6cee2f95e9101dddfe022c97d4b78d98.jpg 8f7413cb75637df6ecdc9ee556aaabb9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aug. 28, 1911 A Subject The topic of the resource East Avenue, Pawtucket, RI Description An account of the resource Notes: The yellow building to the immediate left carries a sign that reads : H.M. Rounds. Carriage Manufacturer. A beautiful card with, a great variety of colors… marred only by that lurid lime green carriage in the foreground. The reference to the death of the apprentice blacksmith would be easy to track down in the Pawtucket Times were it not for the fact that that paper (and most all other historical Rhode Island newspapers) have not been put up online. My guess is that this was an employee. Franklin Blake started out as a blacksmith. (This was his listed profession in the federal census of 1880. See “Cotton Genealogies, Notes on Slaneys.”) Perhaps he was still in the business even at this point in time. If so, that business would soon disappear with the advent of the automobile. See Providence Directory, 1889, p.797: http://books.google.com/books?id=8ssCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA797&lpg=PA797&dq=Blacksmith+Pawtucket&source=bl&ots=jD5_qzM5tz&sig=unFJN61xwUjFl8lsiNAxtz-H3q8&hl=en&ei=iEWSS4ikMs-WlAfq3PH6AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCIQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Blacksmith%20Pawtucket&f=false https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/fb27beb926a0e0910b0153231e547417.jpg 12dad3451f5ccf34153f2490cea9432e Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nov. 25, 1912 B Description An account of the resource Mr. Olney Dunham Nantucket Island, Mass. Dear O. When will you know about the L.S.S. job? Think you will get it. Thanks for card. Very pretty. Also the Hulus view. (?) Hastey Aunty Write soon. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emma (Cotton) Blake Emma (Cotton) Blake Nelson Olney Dunham https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/ab7fb539cb1db032f74d5ae1ecb2948e.jpg c389764824ce0a26a5182e9be1a82d97 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nov. 25, 1912 A Subject The topic of the resource Pawtucket, R.I. Looking down Blackstone River from Exchange Street Bridge Description An account of the resource Notes: At first glance it might appear to be the filmy strangeness on the surface of the river that accounts for the dark lure of this image. Is this mist? Or some kind of water-borne Spanish moss? It looks as if cobwebs have been spilled out of the factory and covered the surroundings. One half of the image is nostalgic; pictured from a distance; pastoral. Both banks of the river are tree-lined. At the focal point, a steeple, suggesting the pre-eminence of God. But at the left, the strikingly clean contrast of the bright red brick factory: “Lebanon Mill Co. Knit Goods.” It is only when the card 180 degrees did I realize that the incomplete hand-tinting left the reflected images as ghostly negatives of the ones above water. But the sky itself… above and below, was a perfectly mirrored blue. Intentional? Not certain, but it seems unlikely. We’ve seen other examples of the unwillingness to finish the exacting and tedious work of hand-coloring the black and white photographs. But this unintended effect of the photographic art has a real world counterpart in the dark currents of the machine age, the industrial waste that would pollute rivers like the Blackstone, and saturate the air with the particulates streaming from the smokestacks that vie with the steeples for the highest reach on the ladder to Heaven. It may seem as if this card, and the one previous, are out of chronological order. The earlier one is addressed to Olney at the Madaquet L.S.S. This one asks if he got the job. Maybe he got a temporary appointment to begin. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Hugh C. Leighton Co., Manufacturers, Portland, Me. U.S.A. https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/206f84dff7a6511748e752dbb4552a0a.jpg dc99929d50f881940367759b6e0bde7f Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dec. 17, 1912 B Description An account of the resource Mr. N.O. Dunham Nantucket Island Nantucket, Mass. Dear Olney I have sent a pkg by express Not the xmas- Be on the look out for it. Aunty Dec. 11th 1912 My first school to go too. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emma (Cotton) Blake Emma (Cotton) Blake Nelson Olney Dunham https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/fb2ee5d45696a9adc991ca06fde85d4d.jpg becf1400c581553ee6d304e46bc412ad Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dec. 17, 1912 A Subject The topic of the resource The Old Pawtucket High School Pawtucket R.I. Description An account of the resource Notes: Emma steps into the cards. You have to wonder to what extent these cards – those that highlight a crumbling past – prove to be the campaign posters for the historic districts of the future. Again, this piece of nostalgia didn’t carry much weight. I don’t think the building survived. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Made in Germany A.C. Bosselman & Co., New York https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/3e9bb881e599969cd32f0b465eff2f85.jpg 9c4e825ac5b6341b91a5c5e2cb260f9a Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource June 22, 1910 B Description An account of the resource Mr. Olney Dunham Nantucket Island Nantucket, Mass 5 West Chester St. Dear O thank you for the card I would like very much to be on that same beach. It is awful hot here. I have spoken many times of the good fish you got while I was with you. I shall send the ties as soon as I finish some work. I have commenced for you another. Lovingly Aunty Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emma (Cotton) Blake Emma (Cotton) Blake Nelson Olney Dunham https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/bd3d8e5acaf505920b1aceffa72064dd.jpg c82cf6ec1bd35315e48f9c7fbd459f5a Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource June 22, 1910 A Subject The topic of the resource Elmwood Avenue, Providence, R.I. Description An account of the resource Notes: The 1st card in the collection addressed to Olney (17). What formal language Emma uses here. There is a mark on the face of this card that seems to be deliberate. Emma occasionally wrote on the images to orient the viewer to intersecting streets or other features she wanted to point out. Why that particular house might have been marked is unknown. The house that’s marked is 179; the occupants – Stillman Doane, his wife, and two daughters – are not mentioned in any of the postcards. One hundred years later, the house at the immediate right is the only one that remains on this stretch of Elmwood Avenue. The street address is 157 Elmwood Ave. As would be true for any number of American towns and cities, this canopy of foliage was wiped out by the spread of Dutch elm disease in the 20th century. https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/0d922121ca8a0d145565b6c9c5c175ba.jpg eee045b19c9b3cfd4d31c7f23981b62d Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource July 11, 1910 B Description An account of the resource Mr. N.O. Dunham 5 West Chester St. Nantucket Island Nantucket, Mass. What do you think of Main Street here. It is all right on the water side. I would like to take a dip. Aunty Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emma (Cotton) Blake Emma (Cotton) Blake Nelson Olney Dunham https://www.cottonhistories.com/files/original/ec439c9451ae10938264db2e65edf334.jpg 3c401eed24bbcba5a7ef9d85652a25a3 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource July 11, 1910 A Subject The topic of the resource Main Street, (Looking South) Sakonnet, R.I. Description An account of the resource Notes: Sakonnet is located at the eastern side of the entrance to Narragansett Bay. This is a rare image (in this collection) of people at work. Much like the card depicting the Oswegatchie House (September 6, 1912) in Waterford, Connecticut, near New London, this card is an entirely local production (hence not colorized). Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Published for S.W. Petty, Sakonnet, R.I.