Saturday, August 2, 2025

Photo for sale: Man & Cactus

 


I'm doing it - I am getting organized enough to start selling my photographs. This one I have chosen to sell and the proceeds will go to a young family that needs repairs on a home they own. They are hard workers and have often taken second jobs to pay bills. BUT they have a young family and they need to be able to spend more time with them. So I thought of this. Please email me if you have questions: auvil.catherine@aol.com

I don't know who the photographer is but maybe we can crowdsource? It is in its protective sleeve, so not a great photo of the photo but I am pressed for time.

I LOVE the elements of this photo: the shadow of his hat brim, the chiaroscuro of his face, the stance, THE CACTUS!

I found this out about the printer:Yes, there was a photo studio called Fox Co. (also referred to as Fox Photo or Foxco) in San Antonio, Texas. It was originally founded by Arthur C. Fox in 1906 as a small photo studio. In 1909, Carl Newton purchased the studio for $700 and expanded it into a major photofinishing business. By the 1920s, it was the largest mail-order photofinishing operation in the world. The company, later known as Fox Photo, grew to include retail stores and large commercial photofinishing plants, serving major retailers like Wal-Mart and Walgreens. It also operated under names like Fox-Stanley Photo Products Inc. after a 1961 merger and was sold to Kodak in 1986. The Fox Photo name eventually faded after further sales and rebranding, notably to Wolf Camera in 2001.

Friday, May 9, 2025

1 Research Challenge: Elinipsico - Allanawissica

 I'm trying to find the first instance where Elinipsico (son of Cornstalk) is referred to as Allanawissica.

Right now, May 2025 I have this 

REVOLUTION ON THE UPPER OHIO, 1775-1777

published in 1908

Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
EDITED BY
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES, LL. D.

You can read it online

https://archive.org/details/revolutiononuppe01thwa

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The first Instance that I have found of Elinipsico (spelled with two Ls) in a published work is:

Chronicles of border warfare

by Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865

published in 1831

read online

https://archive.org/details/Ayer_154_V7_W8_1831/page/n132/mode/1up?q=ellinipsico

Do you know of anything earlier?




Sunday, December 22, 2024

* "Citing" Wikipedia

 You can cite Wikipedia. Here is an example:

Chicago Style (Notes and Bibliography)Format:

 "Title of Article." Wikipedia. Last modified Month Day, Year. URL.Example:

"Sumner County, Tennessee." Wikipedia. Last modified July 27, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee.

Notes: For Chicago Author-Date style, adapt to:

Wikipedia. 2025. "Sumner County, Tennessee." Last modified July 27, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee.


But of course Wikipedia is not a source. What you need to do is read the Wikipedia article and find out where the editor found that fact and then go get a copy of that book and find that fact in the book and cite that as your source!



Wednesday, December 18, 2024

13. Thomas Bailey Christian - Important Christian surname families of the frontier

 

Important Christian surname families of the frontier

Gilbert: had previously arrived in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1726 and, after living in Lancaster for a time, he and his family were among the first to settle in the Valley of Virginia in 1732.
Israel: Early Kentucky pioneer and landowner; founded Fincastle, Kentucky and Christiansburg, Virginia.
William: In Dunmore's war; led an expedition against the Overhill Cherokees, which saw little action but compelled some of the chiefs to agree to peace. He served in the commission which negotiated the "Treaty of Long Island of the Holston" with the Cherokees, signed on July 20, 1777. 

All roads led to Texas : family histories of the allied families: Pettipool, P'Pool, Pool, Poole, McCain, McCown, Greenwade, Wingard, Mayes; v. 02

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 : records of the State enumerations: 1782-1785, Virginia


 this is online but I am having trouble finding a good place to search

Ancestry.com has a search but it is only for certain states:

Search for "Sceggs"

Search for "Skaggs"









What it says at FamilySearch (so is this the same as Ancestry?) I'll have to run some comparisons.


Search for "Sceggs"

Search for "Skaggs"