1920 Snow Storm Shots

Since it's winter now, I thought these might be appropriate. Here are 2 postcard shots of a Feb. 1920 snow storm in Bloomsbury. The photos are of lower Church Street, taken from the vicinity of the end of the iron bridge by an unknown photographer.

Early fire company members. I'm not sure of the year.

Bloomsbury Hose Company #1 Station 43

To give fair time to the fire company here is there link:http://www.bloomsburyhosecompany.org/history.html

Bloomsbury Rescue Squad

Linda Merwarth McFadden has contacted me about joining our group. Apparently she has not done that yet. She wanted to discuss the beginnings of the Rescue Squad. I did find a webpage on the history and hope she will add what she knows to this information back here after everyone reads the page posted by the squad at:http://www.bloomsburyrescue.com/History.html

Pencil Manufacturing

I presume that most of the Bloomsbury kids got to tour the pencil factory at some time or another. In case you have forgotten what you saw, this may refresh your memories. I have an educational sample box from the Joseph Dixon Company in Jersey City, NJ and I photo'd the samples to show how pencils are made. The first shot shows the cedar slat stages and the 2nd shot shows the stages of the individual pencils after they are cut apart from the slats. There is also a scanned document that I included here that is related to handwriting and pencil and hand sizes, which is interesting.
I know this isn't Koh-I-Noor, but it's the best I can do. ;-)

Timberlines: L&C Hardmuth - Koh-I-Noor: A Diamond in the Rough

Timberlines: L&C Hardmuth - Koh-I-Noor: A Diamond in the Rough

Thanks for that wonderful story, Linda! Spaying and neutering were practically unknown to us back then. How kind your family was to care for them that way. It warms my heart.

My niece in California had taken stray cats off the street and gotten them "fixed" at a local vet clinic that offered a $15 or $20 special for strays. ...I suspect a few were not strays, though:\