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Remington Color-Key Touch Typing Chart, 1959
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A colorful touch typing chart on heavy cardboard with an attached easel on back that allows you to place it upright on your desk while you learn to type with your new 1959 Remington portable typewriter.
Remington Color-Key Touch Typing Chart
Here is exactly the same type of keyboard chart found in typing classes in leading schools and colleges throughout the country.
Use this chart with the Touch Typing Instruction Booklet packed with your Remington Portable. This approved typing course is the fastest, easiest-to-lean of any because it relies on simple visual methods. You will actually be typing sentences after just a few hours of practice.
No Delivery Monday Due to Deer Hunting, Shuman Dai…
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"Notice!!! No delivery Monday in order to give our drivers the day off to go deer hunting. Your Monday order will be delivered Sunday. Thanks you. The Shuman Dairy."
Pennsylvania's firearms deer hunting season traditionally begins on the first Monday after Thanksgiving (December 1 in 2014), and many schools and businesses are closed for the day.
This notice from the Shuman Dairy, which was located in McEwensville, Pa., was intended to let customers know that milkmen would make their deliveries on Sunday instead of Monday so they could go hunting on the first day of the season. The card likely dates to the 1950s or 1960s when home delivery of milk and other dairy products was still common.
Sewickley Bridge, Greetings of the Season, Christm…
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This tinted real photo postcard shows the original Sewickley Bridge , which spanned the Ohio River between Sewickley and Moon Township in western Pennsylvania. Located about twelve miles northwest of Pittsburgh, the bridge was completed in 1911, dismantled in 1980 after significant deterioration, and replaced by a new bridge that opened in 1981.
A Find A Grave search identified the final resting places of "Wesley Charlton" (probably Mark Wesley Charlton, Sr. , 1877-1921) and "Wm. Snowwhite" (probably William Snowwhite , 1886-1968). Charlton and Snowwhite likely lived in the area at the time the bridge was completed in 1911. I haven't been able to determine any other specific reason that they chose the bridge as the subject for the holiday postcard that they created that year.
Greetings of the Season, Christmas, 1911
This is an exceptional view of the Ohio river bridge and the only one of its kind in existence. It was obtained through an unique process by Wesley Charlton and the plate and product are the exclusive property of Wm. Snowwhite, the sender.
Holiday Greetings and a Toast to Good Cheer from Y…
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"Clover Leaf Dairy sends holiday greetings and a toast to good cheer. Your Milkman."
A die-cut paper wreath that a milkman could place over a milk bottle as a holiday greeting for his customers. Clover Leaf Dairy was located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from Your Dairyman
We Are Owl Wishing You a Merry Christmas Even If Y…
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"We Are Owl [All] Wishing You a Merry Christmas."
A leather postcard published circa 1905-1910 by W. S. Heal, whose "W.S.H" monogram appears in the lower left-hand corner of the card. There isn't any message, address, or other information on the back.
Groundhog Day, February 2, 1963
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"The Fifty-Fifth Annual Observance of Groundhog Day, Saturday, February 2, 1963, in the 187th year of the Independence of the United States of America, by the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville in Lancaster County, the Garden Spot of America, likewise in the State of Pennsylvania and the United States of America."
This is an enlargement of the groundhog illustration on the front cover of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge's program for its 1963 celebration. The lodge members call upon their own groundhog, Octoraro Orphie, to forecast the weather in Quarryille , Pennsylvania, each year on Groundhog Day , which occurs on February 2. (Farther west in Pennsylvania, another group, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, relies upon a different groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil , to predict the weather in Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania.)
The Colerain Township, Pa. Web site (viewed in 2015 but no longer available in 2017) describes the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge this way: "The Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville, Pennsylvania was founded on Groundhog Day, February 2, 1908, by George W. Hensel, Jr. The big boss is a fuzzy buck-toothed creature named 'Orphie' and he has the unique ability to forecast an early or late spring with the help of his shadow. Honorary members of the lodge include Sir Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and J. Edgar Hoover. The purpose of the club is for members to throw away worries, cares, and woes and have a good laugh at themselves."
For more information, see the full front cover of this 1963 program , the back cover , and the lodge's 1921 Groundhog Day menu .
Groundhog Day Program, February 2, 1963 (Front)
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The top section of the front cover of this Groundhog Day program from 1963 grandly announces, "The Fifty-Fifth Annual Observance of Groundhog Day, Saturday, February 2, 1963, in the 187th year of the Independence of the United States of America, by the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville in Lancaster County, the Garden Spot of America, likewise in the State of Pennsylvania and the United States of America."
The middle section of the cover contains a list of past members of the lodge, while the bottom part advises current members to await the pronouncement of Octoraro Orphie, their Weather Prophet: "Let us sit by the side of the Groundhog hole and wait for the Prophet who knows, who can tell when the winter is over and gone and done with its ice and its snows. Why should we hark to the siren call of those of a spurious clan! Let us sit by the side of a Groundhog hole and wait for the Prophet who can."
For additional information about the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge, see an
enlargement of the groundhog illustration on the front cover of this 1963 program , the back cover of the program , and the lodge's 1921 Groundhog Day menu .
Groundhog Day Program, February 2, 1963 (Back)
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The Colerain Township, Pa. Web site describes the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville, Pennsylvania, as a club whose members "throw away worries, cares, and woes and have a good laugh at themselves." This is obvious when you take a look at the back the lodge's 1963 program (above), where comical job titles--like Director of Groundhog Dietetics and Impresario of Groundhog Music--are listed for each member. See below for the entire list of "Lodge Titles and Assignments."
For additional information about the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge, see an
enlargement of the groundhog illustration on the front cover of the 1963 program , the full front cover of the program , and the lodge's 1921 Groundhog Day menu .
Lodge Titles and Assignments
Prefect of Progeny
Surgeon-General and Secretary of Internal Affairs
Ear and Radar Technician
Potentate Exalted
Consultant for Whistle Pigs and Whistle Stops
Sunsighter
Lecturing Patriarch
Defender of the Right of Eminent Domain
Prefect of Slumber
Watchman by Night
Able Sleuth and Locator of Holes
Pedagogical Prophet
Director of Groundhog Diatetics
Assistant Eye Rubber
Senior Official Greeter
Duke of the Ducats
Chief of Secret Service
Ambassador Plenipotentiary
Director-General of Communications
Topographical Engineer
Patriarch of Enlightenment
Impresario of Groundhog Music
Agricultural Representative with Rank of Prophet
Clipper de Pate-De Luxe
Chief Oiler and Lubricator
Specialist in Chronometer Synchronization
Doctor of Pow But Not Wow
Enlightener DeLuxe
Peer of Penumbra
Nabob of the Basket
Thrice Venerable Patriarch
Coordinator of Shadows
Maestro of Melodious Music
Inspector of Incisors and Bicuspids
Director of Groundhog Migration
Reguis Professor of Arctomancy
Grand Inquisitor
Director of Gastronomic and Nutritional Research
Patriarch of Degrees
Operator Operandi
Watchman by Day
Junior Official Greeter
Inspirational Patriarch
Patriarch DeLuxe
Ambassador without Stipulated Designation
Consultant for Hole Improvements
Chief Eye Rubber
Councilor for Insurance and Assurance
Bailiff of the Bailiwick
Lord Chief Justice of Groundhog Jurisdiction
Venerable Patriarch
Greeter of Distinguished and Extinguished Guests
Maestro Strummer of Strings
Guardian of the Clover
Ambassadorial Patriarch
Junior Patriarch
Welder of Fraternalism
Grand Shillalah and Shamrock
Commodore of Seafarers and Safaris
Grand Actuary of Action and Reaction
Chief Surveyor of Holes
Grand Scribe of Scribble and Script
Lord High Executioner
June Caprice - Movie Star Cigarette Card
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A cigarette card for June Caprice (1895-1936), who was a silent film actress active in the 1910s and 1920s.
For a different Caprice card, see Rescued by Rover's June Caprice - Cinema Stars Cigarette Card over on Flickr.
For other colorful examples from this series, see the cigarette cards for Mary Pickford and William S. Hart .
Mary Pickford - Movie Star Cigarette Card
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A cigarette card for Mary Pickford (1892-1979), a motion picture actress whose long career began with silent films in the 1900s.
For a different Pickford card, see Rescued by Rover's Mary Pickford - Cinema Stars Cigarette Card over on Flickr.
For other colorful examples from this series, see the cigarette cards for June Caprice and William S. Hart .
William S. Hart - Movie Star Cigarette Card
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A cigarette card for William S. Hart (1864-1946), a silent film actor who appeared in
numerous Westerns .
Hart was a Mountie rather than a cowboy, however, in O'Malley of the Mounted , a silent film released in 1921. To see Hart in his Mountie garb, take a look at Rescued by Rover's W. S. Hart - Cinema Stars Cigarette Card over on Flickr.
For other colorful examples from this series, see the cigarette cards for June Caprice and Mary Pickford .
Trying To
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An upside down photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.
"Trying to" stand on his head, and it looks like he succeeded!
Mogera and the Mysterians Transfer Picture Book
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"Transfer Picture Book. Made in Japan."
Cover of a small booklet containing a few pages of decals or stamps.
The creature on the cover is Mogera , a robot with laser beam eyes that first appeared in Earth Defense Force , a 1957 Japanese science fiction film that was released two years later in the United States as The Mysterians (yes, that's where the music group Question Mark and the Mysterians got its name).
The Mysterian Space Station, a ringed planet, a Sputnik -like satellite, and a couple of rockets are visible in the sky above Mogera (did his laser beams miss that rocket or are they going right through it?).
The New Mystery Atomic-Jet Flying Saucer
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Kids, It's Here! The New Mystery Atomic-Jet Flying Saucer.
Watch it sail way up in the air--you can make it fly higher than a tall building. It will do five airplane stunts, too. Get several of them--and have flying saucer contests! Even dads go crazy over it. Be the first in your neighborhood and amaze your friends. Atomic-Jet Flying Saucers and extra flying wheels on sale at ________.
Buster Brown and His Dog Tige
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The design from the backs of playing cards in a miniature deck illustrated by cartoonist Richard F. Outcault in 1907. Outcault created the Buster Brown comic strip in 1902. See below for the front of the Joker card from this set.
Buster Brown Joker
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The Joker from a miniature deck of playing cards illustrated by cartoonist Richard F. Outcault in 1907. Buster Brown and his dog Tige were characters in Outcault's Buster Brown comic strip, which first appeared in 1902. See below for the design from the back of the card .
Ethel's Oil Painting, 1967
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An artists or art photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.
This Kodachrome slide is dated February 1967. The woman, whose first name is Ethel, apparently painted this still life along with a number of other oil paintings that are pictured in additional slides I purchased together in one tray a couple of years ago.
For another example, see this clown painting from a Kodachrome slide dated December 1968.
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