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Congratulations on making Explore - this captivating shot of the Smithbilt Hats workshop is a perfect winner. You've beautifully captured the quiet industry and craftsmanship of 1940 Calgary: the rows of hat blocks, the focused hands shaping brim and crown, and the warm shafts of skylight that give the scene both authenticity and atmosphere. Your composition tells a story of skill, rhythm, and community; it's the kind of photograph that invites viewers to step into a moment of everyday artistry. Well deserved - stunning work and a truly evocative historic portrait.

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The third fella in the top left is William Tomlinson, who was married to my husband's aunt Norma.
Husband-Jerry Knight. Submitted via Facebook by Kendra L Knight

The fourth boy from the left in the front row is Gerald Oliver. Submitted by Lloyd Scott on Facebook.

Bev Scott says on Facebook:
My sister Deanna Dunbar, at the left end of the middle row, fourth from the end, is Bertha Parks

Audrey Black replied on Facebook:
Back row, left side: second person is Glen York, third person is Bill
Thomlinson, middle to first person is Deanna Dunbar, fourth person is Bertha Parks, fifth is Pat Salmond, last in middle row is June Kirkham, front row, last person on right is Jerry Hughes.

Rob Fisher commented from Facebook:
Glenn York is second from the left in the back row.

The twain in Spain stays mainly in the Hotel Cristina Reina.

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At Algeciras -- A Meditation upon Death
William Butler Yeats

“The heron-billed pale cattle-birds
That feed on some foul parasite
Of the Moroccan flocks and herds
Cross the narrow Straits to light
In the rich midnight of the garden trees
Till the dawn break upon those mingled seas.

Often at evening when a boy
Would I carry to a friend -
Hoping more substantial joy
Did an older mind commend -
Not such as are in Newton's metaphor,
But actual shells of Rosses' level shore.

Greater glory in the Sun,
An evening chill upon the air,
Bid imagination run
Much on the Great Questioner;
What He can question, what if questioned I
Can with a fitting confidence reply”

Algeciras, 1929

In November 1927, an aging W.B. Yeats travelled to Algeciras, Spain, alongside his wife George Yeats and their friend Jean Hall. At this point in his life, Yeats was 62 years old and severely ill, suffering from a breakdown in health that brought him remarkably close to dying. [1] (catalogue.nli.ie), [2] (thestoneandthestar.blogspot.com)Seeking a warmer climate to convalesce, he stayed at the famous Hotel Reina Cristina. From the hotel’s lush Spanish gardens, Yeats could look out across the narrow Straits of Gibraltar toward the coast of Morocco. This stark geographic boundary—where only a narrow slip of water separates two entirely different continents—became a powerful spatial metaphor for the fragile boundary between life and death

Noel Treacy you can see a clock face on Westmoreland St - 3:20 maybe?

Joe F. Mikulec, Champion Long Distance Walker

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Thanks Seuss., I'm glad to finally have this man identified.

OK I could not resist. This guy!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F._Mikulec

Nick Poe Work in literature? The family apple didn't fall far from the tree! :)

I'm not very familiar with this area, I'm afraid, but you should talk to locals when you get there, and to people in the Slieve Russell. They'll be delighted to help you!

swanq, this looks to be him. We'll fix his name in the catalog record.

Thanks, swanq, we'll add her name to the catalog record.

Thanks swanq, we'll add her name to the catalog record.

These are some of the Chinese delegates to the International Silk Exposition held in New York's Grand Central Palace Feb 7-12, 1921.

Front row, from left: Li Dengkui (李登魁 representative of the Shandong "Yellow-Grey" silk trade), Ding Rulin (丁汝霖 director of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Silk and Cocoon General Guild), Bi Kanghou 毕康候 (junior proprietor of the Bi Wanmao Silk Firm in Zhenze, Wujiang); middle row, from left: Mei Zhongsheng 梅仲泩 (junior proprietor of the Mei Hengyu Silk Firm in Nanxun), Zhang Heqing 张鹤卿 (board member of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Silk and Cocoon General Guild), Wang Mingxuan (王明轩); back row, from left: Wu Shenbo 吴申伯 (manager of the Ruilun Silk Factory, Shanghai), Gu Xinzhi 顾心之 (silk merchant of the Shandong "Grey Warp" trade group), Xu Jinrong 徐锦荣 (manager of the Yongtai Silk Factory in Shanghai and the Jinji Silk Factories in Shanghai and Wuxi).

Source: zhuanlan.zhihu.com

Thanks Seuss.! we'll update the catalog record.

Perhaps the missionary in Barbados mentioned in
The Chat [Brooklyn, NY] Nov 28 1914, P. 20
Chat of the Churches: First Free Baptist Church. Keap street and Marcy avenue, Brooklyn, NY

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"The Ladies' Aid Society held a meeting in the vestry room on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Julla Willlams, the president, presided. Plans were made for collecting old linen for the Brooklyn Surgical Dressing Committee, which meet dally at Hotel St. George.
The society is also working for the missionary in Barbados, West Indies, who is Rev. S. A. Esterbrook. Arrangements were made for a surprise soclal to be held in the near future at the home of Mrs. F. W. Yates."

AND
Asbury Park Press, Aug 16 1913, P. 2, Col. 1, in Local Happenings
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"At the evangelical tent in Springwood avenue the Rev. S. A. Esterbrook, will conduct the meetings every night."

See also:
The Sun [New York], 19 January 1908, Image 20, P. 6, Second Section, Col. 7
www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org
"The Rev. Antoinette Esterbrook has just returned to her work on the Island of Barbados, British West Indies, after a short visit to her old home in the United States. Miss Esterbrook is a native of New York, a graduate of a mission training school and an ordained minister in the Free Baptist Church. She was at one time inspector of prisons at Manchester, N. H., and for several years carried on evangelical work in various parts of New England.
Sixteen years ago, without funds or influence, she went to Barbados and began holding open air meetings. Now her mission holdings include four churches, two day schools, one mission home, a children's home and a naval home, all housed in substantial buildings. She superintends the Tropical Training School of Bridgetown. which she founded, and conducts twenty meetings each week and four Sunday schools, besides directing a corps of native assistants in school and church work.
On the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of the mission she received a purse of $100 from the merchants of Berkeley as a token of their esteem, and the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. S. W. Knagg. paid a warm tribute to her character and work. Last July the British Government invested her with the power to perform civil marriages."

Although this may indicate who she was, and why she might have been in the news in 1908, it does not clarify the date or location of the photo, which looks like a graduation picture.

Another reference to S. Antoinette Esterbrook in Barbadoes[sic] is in
- www.onemag.org
See page 58.

An obituary is at
Barbados Advocate [British West Indies], July 12 1951, P. 3, Col. 6
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"The Late Rev. Esterbrook
A Tribute

AFTER a lingering illness, the Rev. S. A. Esterbrook was called to rest from her earthly labours on Thursday, June 21st.
The deceased, who was an American, served as a Sunday School teacher and Evangelist in the Methodist Church, and at the age of 19, she was a captain in the Salvation Army.
On November 27th, 1904, Miss Esterbrook was ordained as Minister at the Hillsdale Baptist College, Mich. America, and graduated as a B.D. and D.E.
During her ministerial career in Barbados Miss Esterbrook served in the Free Baptist Church with much ardour and devotion, Through her instrumentality trained workers have gone from Barbados to be missionaries in Africa, and one laid down her life there.
With the assistance of others, several churches and missions were built, and the wide circle of friends which she made contributed generously to the Mission work, hereby enabling her to bring sunshine into the hearts of hundreds of the underprivileged of this Colony. It is true to state that both the merchants and planters gave unstintedly to the cause, as well as friends and well wishers in the U.S.A.
It is worthy of note to mention (hat during her active ministry the Rev. Esterbrook filled appointments in Canada and America, The results obtained therefrom were used in stimulating the work in Barbados.
After sixty years of missionary endeavour, Sarah Antoinette Esterbrook has passed on,
The mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of Rev. Ford-Moore, who is Superintendent of Court Free Baptist Church, Whitepark Road.
In honour of her memory a Memorial Service will be held at Court Free Baptist Church tonight at 7 o'clock and a cordial invitation is extended to all friends."

It seems possible that the picture was taken in 1904 when she graduated from Hillsdale Baptist College in Michigan