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- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Duluth Federal Building: 1902
Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1902. "Post office and custom house, First Street and Fourth Avenue." Completed in 1894; demolished in 1935. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Admiring the masonry
I'm a great-great-grandnephew of a master stone mason who emigrated from England to Long Island in the 1830s, later settling in Iowa. I'm always impressed by the monumental buildings built in places in the Midwest in the later nineteenth century. As someone who has problems hammering a nail, I'm glad people had the gumption and skills to build such temples of civic pride.
It's a great looking building
But I suspect this woman wished it had a proper handrail.
What's on the roof?
Is that weather station equipment on top of the building?
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