Author: Lark

On this day in 1930 – Fishing without a license, Prairie Club

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black-woman-girl-thinking-white-cartoon-writingEntry from Journal #1: July 4, 1930

A. Schaffer, Wm Rumping, Miss May Iverson, went up to the Shokipee mine, and myself.  I caught my first fish to-day and sure put it in my pocket as I had no license.  A party of people of the Prairie Club are spending the summer in Marysville staying at the Drum Lummond Hotel.

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This is a photo of Mary taken several years after this journal entry – but it seemed like the perfect time to share it.

Happy 4th Everyone!!

Georgie’s Autograph Album

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Georgie’s Autograph Album (front cover)

 This is the front cover of Georgie’s Autograph Album.  It was a birthday present from her mother, Mary, on the occasion of her 14th birthday.  It contains mostly poems and personal sentiments of Georgie‘s schoolmates, which I’ll be posting in the coming weeks.

Georgie’s Autograph Album (inside cover)

“What is Home Without a Mother”

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This drawing is yet another item from Mary’s vast collection.  The artist is unknown, although the handwriting at the bottom of the page leads me to believe it may have been Mary’s brother, William.  What is home without a mother_drawing

I did a little research and came across the song sheet below from the Library of Congress.  The song was written in 1854 by Alice Hawthorne, which it turns out is the pseudonym used by the songwriter Septimus Winner, better known for the song “Listen to the Mockingbird”.  Also below is a YouTube video of the song performed by Caroline Moseley, recorded at Taplin Auditorium at Princeton University.song sheet_what is home without a mother

1903 – Steam shovel at Drumlummon Mine

~ Lark

Front and back of “steam shovel” photo –

1903 railyard photo

 

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Back of photo reads:

1903 – Steam shovel at Drum Lummond syanite [sic] [1] below Marysville

1 – Mike Dobler in white shirt 35 yrs ago

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3 – Wm W. Rumping

4 – Angus McKillican

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Notes:

 [1] Syenite is an uncommon “coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz”.  It occurs in only a few places in North America, including Montana.  Click here for more information.

Also, I noticed the words “Montana Mining” on the side of the steam shovel and assumed it was probably “Montana Mining Co.”  I did a little research and learned that Montana Mining Company Ltd., a British corporation, operated the Drumlummon Mine from 1882 to 1911 (per the Montana Historical Society).