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4 May 1925 was a Monday ...

Mr Poole went inside the shop too (same day) -
catalogue.nli.ie

And someone on Faecesbook colourized it - www.facebook.com

Ha! We've been inside previously! ...

Twice! This one has lots of comments ...

beachcomber australia Comments included an 'if only we had the 1925 census' (paraphrased).

John Spooner And I have a nagging feeling that we have encountered one of these workers (a woman) in connection with another photo we posted this year. Perhaps a partner of someone in another Poole photo? It's very annoying, that niggle.

No Haddens in Dungarvan, 1926.

Around 6 weeks after this photo was taken, this snippet appeared in Pithy Provincial News, Leinster...

Ald. G. Hadden, who died at Springfield, Wexford, aged 70, was the principal of the well-known drapery firm of Hadden's, Wexford, and the branch establishments in Dungarvan and Carlow. He had been a member of Wexford Corporation for almost 10 years. He was President of the Association of Municipal Authorities, and father of Dr. G. Hadden and Dr. R. Hadden, who are medical missionaries in China. (Irish Independent, 19 June 1925)

George Hadden, 19 Hill St., Wexford

nationalarchives.ie

Edit: Not no. 19, no window match on entire street, house may not have survived

Widow, Hannah, in the 1926
nationalarchives.ie

The 1926 census has more employment info on the form, so it would say who in Dungarvan worked at Haddens.

But it is not transcribed or searchable, so you'd need to eyeball the returns for everyone in Dungarvan to find them.

This page in Spanish may help
- venezuelaenretrospectiva.wordpress.com

"Nació el Dr. Cárdenas en 1868."

"En 1891, visitó Europa y regresó a Venezuela, a dedicarse a la actividad política. Desempeñó los cargos de Secretario del Consejo Municipal; Oficial de número y Director en el Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Fiscal Público.En septiembre de 1899, figura junto a Manuel Corao, Rafael Revenga y Cecilio Castro, en el grupo de “los bastoneros”, los valencianos que desde el triunfo de La Restauradora rodearon a Castro y se convirtieron en su entorno íntimo. El Doctor Corao presentó al Dr. Torres Cárdenas, ante el denominado «Pacificador» , General Cipriano Castro, presentándole como » uno de los representativos más notables del Partido Liberal en Carabobo y su admirador más entusiasta”.

Secretario de la presidencia (octubre 1899), es elegido diputado principal por el estado Carabobo (enero 1901) y senador por los estados Cojedes (febrero 1902) y Zulia (febrero 1905). Es uno de los principales promotores de La Aclamación (abril-junio 1906), siendo nombrado ministro de Relaciones Interiores (julio 1906-agosto 1907); participó en la Conjura contra Gómez en 1907.Destaca también como figura social durante el castrismo, participando conspicuamente con su esposa en todas las cuadrillas de baile de las fiestas de la Restauración.

Fue apoderado en Venezuela de la marca «General Electric», compañía americana que acaba de comprar a Edison sus patentes de invención en cincuenta millones de dólares.César Zumeta, bajo el seudónimo de José María Peinado en 1911, lo acusa de tener varios millones de bolívares malhabidos desde el gobierno, cuando a mediados de 1889 andaba «peseteando» en Valencia. Exiliado (1908), Torres Cárdenas viaja a España donde fija su residencia. Regresa a Venezuela a la muerte de Juan Vicente Gómez, en 1936. Fue notable orador y cultivó las letras, aunque no llegó a dejar obra publicada. Murió en la ciudad Caracas en 1940."

Caption misquotes the actual handwritten title. Should read “Geo”.

See his mother, the opera singer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink at


George Washington Schumann-Heink was born in the U. S.
His father was Paul Schumann, Ernestine's second husband. According to her Wikipedia page, the dates for this son were 1898-1979.

For information about the photographic studio, see comments with

www.jeserie.org
includes:
"B.S. Osbon was no ordinary Civil War figure. He wore three hats concurrently during the Civil War: sailor, newspaper correspondent, and illustrator. Serving either as a naval signal officer or as a clerk, Osbon had access to naval operations from a perspective unavailable to other land-based correspondents or illustrators. His articles and illustrations were widely published in Union periodicals and newspapers. Osbon's first assignment was to cover the relief of Fort Sumter in April 1861. Balancing between his reporter and Navy roles was not always easy. Wounded in battle and acquainted with Union leaders from President Lincoln to Admiral Farragut, Osbon's story is unique in the history of Civil War journalism, which Brian Graff will share in this partnership lecture series between the JES and the Erie Civil War Roundtable. "

The Tacoma times (Tacoma, Wash.), June 15, 1940, p. 22, Cols. 1-2
www.loc.gov
"SOUNDINGS. By Casey Davison
One of the most colorful maritime characters of the last century was B. S. Osbon. He was a newspaperman and marine reporter. His career makes your scribe-—well, feel almighty tame, even in our brashest moments. Osbon was quite a guy all the way around, come to think of it.
He was born in 1827 and shipped off to sea in a square-rigged windbag 13 years later. (Osbon, that is, not this ancient mariner who at times feels even older.)
While still a youngster he often visited China in the famed tea clippers, and also took a whirl at whaling in the Arctic. Before many years had passed he was entitled to be called "captain" by other successful merchant masters.
Then he needed more worlds to conquer, so he joined the contemporary international coast guard of the China coast. He was jealously disliked by other officers of the same service because he made them all look like pikers when it came to catching pirates, killing infractious Chinese, sinking junks and sampans and similar chores called "duty."
When he'd single-handedly (darn near) purified the China coast, things seemed dull so he went back to whaling: that was fun for a while. Then he took a turn at Arctic exploring, just for the heck of it. After that a fat job in the merchant marine, again.
But even despite such varied and profitable and often exciting jobs, Osbon's world seemed to be slowing down. He demanded some action.
So his next job was as commander of a warship in the revolutionary navy down Argentina way.
(Incidentally, the big shot of that navy was another American, Commodore Coe.)
Well, he made enough kumshaw from that deal to retire from active seafaring while still in the prime of life. It was then he began news-papering.
As a newspaperman, Osbon attained a new high in the fine art of making enemies.
He disliked politicians and weaklings and general incompetency. He said so, oboy.
Osbon's squabbles with Gustavus Fox, assistant secretary of the navy during the Civil War, are classics both in newspaper and naval circles. Osbon won.
But he also numbered among his friends most of the best statesmen, naval officers, businessmen, seafarers, etc., in the country. To so-called great people, Osbon was great.
And because he knew his stuff, he was the only newspaperman allowed to accompany the Northern fleet at New Orleans.
After the Civil War, Osbon did a number of things.
First he went to Mexico and became an admiral in the Mexican navy.
Next he was quarantine officer at New Orleans.
He founded the Nautical Gazette. a publication still healthy and enjoying a solid following on the Atlantic seaboard.
He organized an anti-Spanish espionage system in South America about that time.
He established the first news-gathering agency in the United States, similar to a latter-day United Press.
Thus he newspapered and sailorized and had a whopping good time until after he was 80 years old.
And there are two yarns about Osbon which we particularly enjoy:
Osbon, strangely enough after all the nefarious, seafarious things he did, was quite religious and claimed he could 'recite the Bible from truck to keel, from stem to stern.' And so it was when he was with Farragut aboard the Hartford. The ship ran aground under the cannonading from Fort St. Philip, and an enemy ship approached with a fire-raft.
Farragut saw Osbon run to the scuppers and kneel with a coat over his head. 'This is no time for prayer!' thundered the admiral.
"Aw, stick around," yelled Osbon, "And you'll see a prayer answered the fastest ever!" For what he actually did was take three bombs, and with the coat protecting his face from the flames, touch them off in the scupper and then heave them overboard to blow up the fire-raft. That saved the ship and the day."

Note: The rest of the article has been omitted from this transcription.

Finally, I have found his name and a date of death.
civilwarnavy.com

"Bradley Sillick Osbon (1827-1912) was the son of a poor
Methodist minister, born August 16, 1827 at Rye, West Chester County, New York (his birth year was so noted in his memoirs, but varies into the 1830s, depending on source, and he himself reported several different birth years on various documents throughout his lifetime). His great-grandfather, whose surname was Osborne, manufactured corn brooms—the burning-brand used to mark the brooms was misinterpreted by the maker of brands in Boston to be “Osbon,” and so the family surname was changed to fit the burning-brand to avoid the costs and time of correction. Osbon is most commonly known as ‘Captain Bradley S. Osbon,’ referring to his attainment of commander of various vessels during the merchant marine years of his career and not to an actual rank achieved in the U.S. Navy. During his
appointments in the U.S. Navy, Osbon served as clerk and/or
signal officer."

See his mother, the opera singer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink at


His mother's Wikipedia page gives him the name and dates of Henry (1886–1951).

We've seen him before in the Bain collection, but at later age.



and a house he lived in in Washington DC.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hays_Hammond
"John Hays Hammond (March 31, 1855 – June 8, 1936) was an American mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. He amassed a sizable fortune before the age of 40. An early advocate of deep mining, Hammond was given complete charge of Cecil Rhodes' mines in South Africa and made each undertaking a financial success. He was a main force planning and executing the Jameson Raid in 1895. It was a fiasco and Hammond, along with the other leaders of the Johannesburg Reform Committee, was arrested and sentenced to death. The Reform Committee leaders were released after paying large fines, but like many of the leaders, Hammond escaped Africa for good. He returned to the United States, became a close friend of President William Howard Taft, and was appointed a special ambassador. At the same time, he continued to develop mines in Mexico and California and, in 1923, he made another fortune while drilling for oil with the Burnham Exploration Company."
"About 1900, the now-famous Hammond moved to the U.S. and reported on mining properties in the U.S. and Mexico. He reported on the value of the Camp Bird Mine in Colorado, pursuant to its sale in 1902. His report on Winfield Scott Stratton's Independence mine, also in Colorado, and then being floated on the London market, revealed that the ore reserves had been greatly overvalued, and burst the stock bubble. He became a professor of mining engineering at Yale University 1902–1909, and from 1903 to 1907, he was employed by Daniel Guggenheim as a highly paid general manager and consulting engineer for the Guggenheim Exploration Company (Guggenex)."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons
"Lucy E. Parsons (c. 1851 – March 7, 1942) was an American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist, well known throughout her long life for her fiery speeches and writings. She was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World. There are different versions of Parsons' early life: she herself said she was of mixed Mexican and Native American ancestry; historians believe she was born to an African-American slave, possibly in Virginia, then perhaps married a black freedman in Texas. She met the activist Albert Parsons in Waco, Texas, and claimed to have married him although no records have been found. They moved to Chicago together in late 1873 and her ideology was shaped by the harsh repression of workers in the Chicago railroad strike of 1877. She argued for labor organization and class struggle, writing polemical texts and speaking at events. She joined the Workingmen's Party of the United States and later the Knights of Labor, and she set up the Chicago Working Women's Union with her friend Lizzie Swank and other women.

Parsons had two children and worked in Chicago as a seamstress, later opening her own shop. After her husband was executed in 1887 following his conviction for being a ringleader in the Haymarket affair, she became internationally famous as an anarchist speaker, touring frequently across the United States and visiting England. She wrote articles and edited radical newspapers. She was helped financially by the Pioneer Aid and Support Association and wrote the biography The Life of Albert R. Parsons with her young lover Martin Lacher. In the decades following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Parsons moved towards communism. The Chicago police regarded her as a dangerous political figure and attempted many times to stop her from speaking publicly. She continued her activism as she grew older, clashing with the anarchist Emma Goldman over their differing attitudes to free love and supporting challenges to miscarriages of justice in the cases of Angelo Herndon, Tom Mooney, and the Scottsboro Boys. She died in a house fire on March 7, 1942. Her partner George Markstall returned to find the building on fire and was unable to rescue her; he died the following day. She was buried in the German Waldheim Cemetery, where the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument stands. After her death, Parsons was primarily referenced as the wife of Albert Parsons, until recent scholarship and two book-length biographies have commemorated her own achievements. The Chicago Park District named a park on Belmont Avenue after her in 2004."

See also
www.loc.gov

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Post
"Emily Post (née Price; c. October 27, 1872 – September 25, 1960) was an American author, novelist, and socialite who wrote about etiquette."
"Price met her future husband, Edwin Main Post, a prominent banker, at a ball in a Fifth Avenue mansion. Following their wedding in 1892 and a honeymoon tour of Europe, they lived in New York's Washington Square. They also had a country cottage, named 'Emily Post Cottage', in Tuxedo Park, which was one of four Bruce Price Cottages she inherited from her father. The couple moved to Staten Island and had two sons, Edwin Main Post Jr. (1893) and Bruce Price Post (1895)."

Emily and Edwin divorced in 1905 because of his affairs with chorus girls and fledgling actresses, which made him the target of blackmail."

See his stepmother, the opera singer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink at


After the divorce from her first husband, Ernestine Schumann-Heink married Paul Schumann, an actor and director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 1892. She acquired a stepson, Walter, and had three more children with Paul.

See
www.findagrave.com
BIRTH -- 7 Apr 1889, Dresden, Stadtkreis Dresden, Saxony, Germany
DEATH -- 28 Jan 1976 (aged 86), Orlando, Orange County, Florida, USA

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Still standing, but called the Old French Embassy - Google 3D -
maps.app.goo.gl

Heaps of interesting stuff here - ghostsofdc.org

Flickr is sometimes amazingly amazing! The Jusserands via The Library of Congress
"Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (18 February 1855 – 18 July 1932) was a French author and diplomat. He was the French Ambassador to the United States 1903-1925 and played a major diplomatic role during World War I."

beachcomber australia Crikey. Monsieur Jusserand was only the Ambassador!!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Madame Elise is hattorific! ...

beachcomber australia Not at all surprised!

It is a lovely message on the back ...

"The inhabitants of this house join in wishing you the happiest of new years and all prosperity to you and all the lands and people dear to you."

beachcomber australia "... with wife". I'd imagine Elise would have something to say about that!

Address: 2460 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Architect: Designed by George Oakley Totten, Jr.
Commissioned by: Mary Foote Henderson.
Style: Louis XIV / Beaux-Arts style limestone mansion.
Active Period as Embassy: Used by France from 1907 into the 1930s, notably home to Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand.

16:25 -ish

Boo Hoo! The 1879 gate-lodge to the Botanic Gardens was put on the compost heap in 1965 - www.archiseek.com

Streetview - maps.app.goo.gl

and that wonderful gate lodge building complete with clock tower was demolished by the council just to make way for road widening, vandalism of the highest order

beachcomber australia rola balthus That's desperate. Gorgeous little building!

Where the lady in white is walking. The current buisiness - Maggie May's is a nice place for food if you're ever around Botanics or Ulster Museum.

WR&S = William Ritchie & Sons photographers

Electrified from 1905

WR&S in the Eason collection means early in the date range.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I’m taking a punt on 1906 (electric tram) - 1910 (WR&S & Edwardian Era dress)
The whole converted electric system, including the major arterial route along University Road, was completed and opened by December 5, 1905

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland_Fountain,_Merrion_Square

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I believe this is a (rejected) model for the turret ornament for BB-2, the Battleship Massachusetts (launched 1896). A smaller (about 5 feet tall) bronze of winged victory was eventually placed between the two guns of the ships main turret - a gift of the city of Boston. In this pic there is a small plaque below the guns where you can just about imagine the letter "-HUSSETS" on the second line.

Seuss., thanks for taking a shot at this one. You piqued my interest so I spent longer than I intended searching newspapers and books. I finally was able to discover what it is. Apparently it was an early model of a monument for the USS Maine in Havana, Cuba. I found a photo of of published in the Birmingham Age-Herald at www.loc.gov, but the caption wasn't very helpful. I kept searching and in the December 10, 1912 Chicago Tribune there was a short article which said:

"President Gomez has approved the proposal submitted to him for a battleship Maine monument to cost $200,000. The monument will consist of a base and on that will be mounted the Maine's front turret with ten inch guns, above which will be an allegorical figure of the explosion which wrecked the battleship. From that figure will arise a representation of the new born Cuban republic."

Cool. Was it ever built?

Nevermind - I answered my own question:

They kept the guns, and changed everything else.

? Possibly ? 22 May 1901 because of a couple of letters in the NLI catalogue, which I cannot see at the moment ...

catalogue.nli.ie
catalogue.nli.ie (22/08/1914)

[Popcorn and a pinch of salt ...] - youtu.be

Ed - And a creepy Halloween Special - youtu.be

beachcomber australia The catalogue seems to be on a go slow this morning.

one of the country's most haunted houses
Where the family moved to after leaving Rathfarnham Castle

Between 1880 (rebuilt) and 1917 (convent)

Via Trove, an 1883 version of the story as told to Queen Victoria - trove.nla.gov.au

Where's page 778?
I'm used to reading about people coming out of closets, but not going into them.

Philip Mayer
Page 778 - trove.nla.gov.au

a notable lack of landscaping.

301 W. Main Street, Merced, CA

2025 Streetview

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Westwood_Village_Theater
"The Fox Westwood Village Theatre is a historic theater in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. It is located across the street from the Fox Bruin Theater near the University of California, Los Angeles. The theater has a seating capacity of about 1,400 and has hosted many Hollywood film premieres."

2024 Streetview

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1013 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
Jan 2025 Streetview

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She made a beautiful little hat out of her pet's fur...

Enciclopedia Bonàs Nah, that was her previous cat.

Richie Tyndall Oh, that's great to hear. Thank you.