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In the time before television, radio and even movies, entertainment could be as simple as a few lines from a friend scribbled on a postcard in your mailbox. Many were like this one: A black and white photographic print that subsequently was colorized by a multi-step process in which the card was sent through a series of printers. Each pass applied one of the several colors that together resulted in the finished composite seen below. Because the persons creating and applying these colors had a poor - or even no knowledge of the original scenes at all - the colors represented aren't always reliable. Note for example the crudely drawn red candy-striping on the near awnings that are missing from those in the distance.
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Added: 29th October 2007
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Produced by the Homestake Mining Company, "South Dakota Saga" is an overview of the gold mining industry in South Dakota. It begins by looking back 56 years to the early "gold-panning days" of 1874. Keep in mind that what youre watching was done over 66 years ago from now!
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dakota
mining
homestake
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coal
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Added: 15th December 2007
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Produced by the Homestake Mining Company, "South Dakota Saga" is an overview of the gold mining industry in South Dakota. It begins by looking back 56 years to the early "gold-panning days" of 1874. Keep in mind that what youre watching was done over 66 years ago from now!
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south
dakota
mining
homestake
gold
coal
shrinkage
stope
Added: 15th December 2007
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Produced by Key Systems, this 20-minute film starts slowly; but includes some wonderful details of the 1906 earthquake and fire, and of the interurban trolley line under the Golden Gate Bridge.
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1945
Added: 25th December 2007
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This ten-minute film covers the subject with images shot in both color and black & white. Alaska would become a state in 1959, and in 1964 a 9.2 earthquake would devastate many of the places seen here.
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gold
salmon
1948
Added: 14th February 2008
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New York State 1848-1998
EMMA WILLARD
2/23/1787 - 4/15/1870
Educator, Author, & Founder
In 1814 of First School For
Girls with a Curriculum
Like that Available to Boys.
George E. Pataki, Governor
Emma C. (Hart) Willard
The Emma Willard School
Troy, New York
Emma Willard
1787 - 1870. Born the 16th of 17 children near Hartford, Connecticut. In 1807 she began teaching and propounding her strong belief that females beyond the 8th grade were as capable as males in learning math and science. It was widely held that if young women did not study sewing, etc, but tried a rigorous academic course of study, they might take ill or die. In 1814, she had opened the Middlebury Female Seminary in her Vermont home. She wrote and spoke both nationally and internationally on the subject of female education. Governor Dewitt Clinton invited her to open a school for young females in New York State, which she opened in Waterford in 1819. Waterford did not support the school, but leading citizens of Troy raised money to bring the school to Troy in 1821, where it was called the Troy Female Seminary. The high school was originally where Russell Sage College is now, in downtown Troy. The school’s name was eventually changed, in 1895, to "Emma Willard" to honor its founder. The roster of graduates of Ema Willard, particularly in the 1800’s, includes many national leaders, including many in the women’s right-to-vote movement. Her sister, Almira, came to teach with Emma, and was principal for about 8 years. She wrote many science textbooks which were used nationally. Almira became, in 1859, only the second woman ever elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Olivia Slocum Sage, an 1847 Troy Female Seminary graduate, became the wealthiest woman in America upon the death of her husband, former congressman, financier and railroad tycoon, Russell Sage, in 1906. At her urging, he had donated at small amount to her idea of founding a college for women. At his death, she helped establish Russell Sage College on the former Emma Willard site downtown, and was the most generous benefactor in helping to build the current Emma Willard School campus atop Mount Ida on Pawling Avenue in Troy, New York in 1909 - 1910. The three original buildings constructed with that money were Sage Hall, Slocum Hall, and a gymnasium (now the Alumnae Chapel), which were built in collegiate Tudor Gothic splendor.
Today the Emma Willard School's Pawling Avenue campus is the present-day home of the nation's oldest secondary school for girls.
Portions of the moives, Scent of a Woman, and The Emperor's Club were filmed on the Emma Willard campus in order to take advantage of the campus architecture.
1998 marked the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement, launched at the world's first Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 to July 20, 1848.
To honor that anniversary the New York State Governor's Commission Honoring the Achievements of Women has expanded the New York State historical marker program, started in 1926, to more accurately reflect women's contributions to history. Each county was asked to participate by nominating three historic local women who contributed to the community and deserved recognition. From these nominations, the Commission sponsored the creation and installation of a historical marker for every participating county.
The markers are cast iron painted with the colors of the suffrage movement, purple and gold. The markers were dedicated and installed throughout the state during the fall of 1998. The Emma Willard marker is one of approximatley 50 markers added that year.
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Added: 10th March 2008
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A ten-minute animated film produced by Western Electric that is an early attempt to mate sound with moving pictures. Forty years after this film was produced, men would be walking on the moon.
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goldman
fleischer
western
electric
finding
his
voice
Added: 13th April 2008
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