august1913

I want that dollhouse!

I want that dollhouse too. Hard to believe that was in a playground for public use. Wow!

I'm salivating!! I want that house for MY dolls! LOL Some girls were just so lucky back then!

I think the point is that this dollhouse did not belong to any one girl. 1) You could put something like this out in public without "protection" and it would still be there months later. 2) I'm guessing that if any child broke a piece, the parents would see that it was replaced - probably making the replacement by hand. 3) Kids knew how to SHARE, meaning that kids did not personally own more than a handful of toys at any given time...probably not much more than they could physically carry around with them.

No way was this left outside without protection. The dollhouse was part of a supervised playground activity, and the supervisor (an adult, of at least high school age, who may have been a volunteer, but probably was paid) would have locked it and its contents inside the shed at day's end.

According to genealoical notes at www.s560.com/dokuwiki/book:willard_franklin "Notes for THOMAS D. EDWARDS: Served as U.S. Consul General to Mexico 1910-1917 - lived C. Juarez. Mexico In 1877 went to Lead, South Dakota due to Black Hills gold rush. Appointed postmaster of Lead by President Arthur. Bought the Tribune when Cleveland became president. In 1905 was appointed by President Roosevelt to be consul to Mexico. Was proprietor and editor of Lead City Daily Tribune for over 15 years when he married Lucy Seymour in 1899. "

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Edwards

Thanks swanq. We'll fill in the name and add the date, "Aug. 18, 1913" which was decoded by Wystan, next time we update this record.

In August 1913, three men were killed and 62 others trapped in a tunnel in Harlem, part of the Catskill Aqueduct, when a fire started in a blacksmith's shop at the head of the shaft. It was especially dangerous because 900 pounds of dynamite were stored in the tunnel. There was no light, no fresh air, and a lot of smoke, but eventually the trapped men were rescued.

pennylrichards: Thanks for the additional information. We'll include the event and date next time we update the record.