HERE WE GO!!!!
I'm all for Digital Photography. My Nikon is digital and I love it but there is a serious drawback. How many of you digital photo people print all of your photos.
Historians in the future will find a serious lack of what the world looked like in the 2000's. So many normal photos will be lost. The ones showing common things, buildings, streets, the fashion's that Joe Public is wearing. And when photos are printed they are on your own color printers and most will only hold their color for a few years.
This comes to mind with the following postcard.
On this day in 1904 a fire started in the State Capitol of Wisconsin. It was a magnificent structure for it's time. As meaningful and spectacular as the one that replaced it. Yet there are very very few photos of the inside, the chambers, the governors office and so forth.
On the bright side of digital photograph is the internet. If you upload a photo to the internet it is there forever. Of course that is one of the bad sides also. Facebook has warned you. A photo uploaded is ALWAYS available, you can never ever erase it. Oh, you can make it invisible to certain people but it never truly goes away. Which for historians is a good thing I guess.
Back to the Cap. (I took this last summer - just sort of brightens up this blog today - sort of a gray day out there).
The Capitol had a state-of-the- art fire fighting system except, I guess, for this one day. A generator was turned off and the only lights visible were two gas jets when a night watchman entered the building and noticed that a recently varnished ceiling was on fire. Being trained in the detection of threats he quickly surmised that ceilings were not suppose to have flames. A second watchman (not THE Watchman from the movie as disaster could have been averted with a couple of super hero's) arrived to help but it seemed the state-of-the- art fire fighting system had no pressure.
Governor Robert Follette telegraphed (I laugh at the thought of someone telegraphing frantically) fire departments in Janesville and Milwaukee for assistance. When finished he ran into the building to get important papers. The fire was extinguished by 10:00 tomorrow 1904. Damage was $1,000,000 which in today's money is $22,800,569.
Speaking of lost photos. Can you guess what this is??
OK - it's WWII solders. But they are Germain solders and they are prisoners AND they are at the POW camp in Columbus WI.
Willard talked about German prisoners at the Kurth once and a little thing in my tiny brain said "remember this and look into it" and then I forgot. Damn beer! D'OH
Can anybody tell me where this POW camp was ?????
And a few more oddities you might or might not know.
Poynette. Ever wonder how Poynette got it's name. I haven't until now and if I would have thought about it I figure I would have thought it was an Indian name for "land of virgin woman" or "land of black flies" or something. But no.
It seems hand writing is the cause and the name SHOULD have been Pauquette.
Then there is Rio which was suppose to be Ohio but the "O" and the "h" ran together and it looked like an "R" so . . . Rio.
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So I'll be making some laminated bookmarks. I have the logistics down and will be sending them to a printer soon. Both sides are 2x7.5 as it would be hard to make one side larger then the other.
Back (with one minor fix)
The first of the group. It's actually tough to find good photos for a 2x7.5 layout.
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I'm finding that writing for the Columbus Pioneer is sort of . . . shall I say . . . non-rewarding. It's not that I don't like writing for them (at an extremely discounted price), it's just that I can't tell if anybody actually READS my words.
When writing here I get comments and people calling me an idiot and that's great. But in a newspaper there is zero feedback. I can't even get people to call me a bozo. sigh! What am I to do. I'll have to drink a home brew tonight and think about this more.
Be careful out there today
Rod
Historians in the future will find a serious lack of what the world looked like in the 2000's. So many normal photos will be lost. The ones showing common things, buildings, streets, the fashion's that Joe Public is wearing. And when photos are printed they are on your own color printers and most will only hold their color for a few years.
This comes to mind with the following postcard.
On this day in 1904 a fire started in the State Capitol of Wisconsin. It was a magnificent structure for it's time. As meaningful and spectacular as the one that replaced it. Yet there are very very few photos of the inside, the chambers, the governors office and so forth.On the bright side of digital photograph is the internet. If you upload a photo to the internet it is there forever. Of course that is one of the bad sides also. Facebook has warned you. A photo uploaded is ALWAYS available, you can never ever erase it. Oh, you can make it invisible to certain people but it never truly goes away. Which for historians is a good thing I guess.Back to the Cap. (I took this last summer - just sort of brightens up this blog today - sort of a gray day out there).
The Capitol had a state-of-the- art fire fighting system except, I guess, for this one day. A generator was turned off and the only lights visible were two gas jets when a night watchman entered the building and noticed that a recently varnished ceiling was on fire. Being trained in the detection of threats he quickly surmised that ceilings were not suppose to have flames. A second watchman (not THE Watchman from the movie as disaster could have been averted with a couple of super hero's) arrived to help but it seemed the state-of-the- art fire fighting system had no pressure.
Governor Robert Follette telegraphed (I laugh at the thought of someone telegraphing frantically) fire departments in Janesville and Milwaukee for assistance. When finished he ran into the building to get important papers. The fire was extinguished by 10:00 tomorrow 1904. Damage was $1,000,000 which in today's money is $22,800,569.
Speaking of lost photos. Can you guess what this is??
OK - it's WWII solders. But they are Germain solders and they are prisoners AND they are at the POW camp in Columbus WI.
Willard talked about German prisoners at the Kurth once and a little thing in my tiny brain said "remember this and look into it" and then I forgot. Damn beer! D'OH
Can anybody tell me where this POW camp was ?????
And a few more oddities you might or might not know.
Poynette. Ever wonder how Poynette got it's name. I haven't until now and if I would have thought about it I figure I would have thought it was an Indian name for "land of virgin woman" or "land of black flies" or something. But no.
It seems hand writing is the cause and the name SHOULD have been Pauquette.
Then there is Rio which was suppose to be Ohio but the "O" and the "h" ran together and it looked like an "R" so . . . Rio.
========================
So I'll be making some laminated bookmarks. I have the logistics down and will be sending them to a printer soon. Both sides are 2x7.5 as it would be hard to make one side larger then the other.
Front
Back (with one minor fix) 
The first of the group. It's actually tough to find good photos for a 2x7.5 layout.======================
I'm finding that writing for the Columbus Pioneer is sort of . . . shall I say . . . non-rewarding. It's not that I don't like writing for them (at an extremely discounted price), it's just that I can't tell if anybody actually READS my words.
When writing here I get comments and people calling me an idiot and that's great. But in a newspaper there is zero feedback. I can't even get people to call me a bozo. sigh! What am I to do. I'll have to drink a home brew tonight and think about this more.
Be careful out there today
Rod
Were the solders captured in St. Germain? I bet they were running their snow racing machines too fast up there and needed to be locked up.
ReplyDeleteMy students take a field trip to the capitol every year and they always tell of the 1904 fire. To go along with the frantic telegraphs, when assistance did arrive, the water was frozen and couldn't be used to extinguish the fire. Supposedly the fire also occurred just five weeks after the State Legislature voted to cancel the capitol's fire insurance policy...
ReplyDeleteGreat picture of the current capitol and flowers.
Wow, I didn't know there was a Governor Robert Follette... :)
ReplyDeleteActually Robert The Follette
ReplyDeleteAnd don't give me crap - you missed some things on the poster hanging in the Train Station.
ReplyDeletethank you very much! :-)
Talk to Kim Bates about the WWII soldiers. She has a book or two. She knows all. :)
ReplyDeleteI love historical mysteries! Upon awaiting word from Ms. Bates, or someone currently sitting at the Apple Tree, I'm looking at 1)the solitary farmhouse, which may or may not be extant, but indicates some distance from town; 2) the foreground (camp area) is tilled, low but not swampy; 3)gradual slope to the left; 4) is that downtown in the background?
ReplyDeleteK,60, 89?
Can't wait to find out!
That was suppose to be commanders house and was sitting next to the City Hall. It was moved 4 miles across wet fields to that location.
ReplyDeleteIt was suppose to be right next to the camp but funds ran out three hundreds yards short.
It was abandoned never to be used.
I thought this prison camp was back someplace near the old Badger car factory which would be on the edge of town going east on Highway 16/60. I could be wrong but just seems that way. Get in touch if you want another great historic Columbus blog. The Badger Car story is very cool.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to provide a "dose" of feedback. I have no complaints. LOL I read your blog all the time and thoroughly enjoy it. It kinda makes me wish I could live in Columbus.
ReplyDeleteIt has been posted on IMDB that the PE trailer will be released on Apple.com on March 4 and will be attached in the US to the film The Watchmen. Any truth Rod?
ReplyDeleteGot the word an hour ago but was trying to figure out how much trouble I would get in by posting it.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Wed. the 4th? or is the trailer released on the 5th then Rod?
ReplyDeleteEither way this is awesome news! Thanks for keeping us up to speed with this! :)
WOOHOO Being able to see The Watchmen and the PE trailer all at once........like a present I can't wait to open!!! :)))))))))))))))
ReplyDeletethanks for the heads up
Rod, maybe you aren't offending enough people with your newspaper articles???? to get a response....what about
their website, no responses there either?? you always get plenty here, maybe its the difference in audience
nice bookmarks.. I wouldn't mind one when you get them out.. I'm sooo excited for the trailor! And on a side note anybody catch Amazing Race on sunday?! It's getting good already!
ReplyDeleteAnon....
Hooray for the trailer!!! And Hooray For Watchmen! I really want to see that!!
ReplyDeleteGreat Blog!!!
ReplyDeleteI think I just got a Hot Flash reading that we are getting a PE Trailer!!!
OH MY!!! LOL!
Love the History!! Thank's!:)
I hope you start to get feed back for your spot in the CP!!!
You deserve it!
Great Job!!
Well guess we only get the rain...
I don't like rain anymore.
Makes me nervous~
Hope you all are great and excited about the PE News!
I don't know if I can sleep between now & the trailer!
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've been told by my history teacher/husband, the camp was indeed on the south side of Columbus on Hwy 60. I think there are some quonset huts there now. I don't know if they were part of the camp or what.
Public Enemies trailer will be released with Watchman next Thursday!!!
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