I couldn't resist... I collect old photo albums, daily life during the 1920s-40s is one of my specialities and these pictures are just such a gold mine.
I have quite the collection!
Let's have a quick look at the lot I received today.
Thread;
Tiny album with a few loose photos thrown in as extra, very nice!
The flower card;
My dear little mother!
Flowers that May gives us
should tell my mother
what love feels and thinks.
Today and every day.
First album shows a family that really liked to do a lot of hiking in the mountains.
Can't help wondering how those kids got through the war.
This photo of a shoe shop window is a possible clue about the identity of this family.
Generally people don't put such a photo in their family album unless there's a connection.
Next album is full of group photos of children on a day out.
And Edelweiss!
Another clue, someone worked at a company called 'Herkula'.
Oh dear, a darker clue.
Whoever decided to remove a few photos may have forgotten the one of the chap in a Nazi uniform.
Last photo in the album.
Here too one small detail that stands out and a clue.
The man is wearing a Nazi badge but the photo also appears to have been taken in Krefeld.
Last album starts with a big clue.
The owner appears to have worked in the brushes and mop business, is he perhaps Herr Karl Wolfram himself?
The business was at the Käthnerort 32 in Hamburg, did he also live there?
The office, it seems there were two!
Käthnerort 32 and Ritterstrasse 60.
The wedding photo and a date, this may help trace the people in the picture one day.
But I also spotted a tiny clue.
Karl, as I'll call him for now, is wearing the Iron Cross.
He's a veteran of WW1.
These are extra valuable to me, interior design magazines of the time rarely give a realistic view of how people lived and not many people took pictures of their homes because it was difficult, you needed light and so on.
Another big clue, they bought a house in 1932 (business was going well I guess) and they had their first Christmas there.
If we can find this house...
Er what?
Early hippies or are these the 'Wild men' the Medieval people mentioned in some of their books and art?
I fear something isn't right with Karl.
People recuperating, resting, semi-outdoor beds, reminds me a bit of a Sanatorium or something.
First Sunday back home.
Karl is now walking with a stick.
Is it perhaps related to the war?
1st of May, 1933.
Hitler had taken power in Germany a week earlier.
Dark clouds were gathering, in Schönberg the Nazis marched and the swastika flags were waving.
The album ends here.
As with all my albums I will one day take proper photos of each page and put them online, then I'll do a bunch of research and see if I can trace still living family members to see if they want the albums back.
As that's where they belong.
Although it is very rare for me to find people who are related to the folks in these albums or other historical documents I own, I have been able to reunite some of them with the original owners or their descendants.
There was a lot of crying.
I'll write about it some day.
Oh and while I have your attention...
grab all the old photos you can find in your home and write names and dates on the back!
Also name & date your digital photos!
One day your entire life may end up in a box at a flea market somewhere. #makefuturehistorianshappy
Mr. Dommershuijzen found a clue!
Fußbodenbohnern... wat a word!
Mr. Dommershuijzen probably found Karl at the
Ohlsdorf cemetary in Hamburg.
Our assumption about his health may have been correct, he died shortly after the photos were made at the age of 41.
He was married to Ingeburg Armhold who died in 1973.
They had 2 daughters, Sigrid and Mechthild.
When daddy died Sigrid was 7 and Mechthild 3.
Sigrid died in 1983.
Mechthild left for London in 1957 and died in 2016.
The whole family shares one gravestone it seems.
Mr. Dommershuijzen has found the house!
The Farmsener Straße changed name in 1951, it's now Wolliner Straße.
If someone lives nearby, put a polite note in their mailbox with a link to this thread :)
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Nice to see an online paper that reaches so many people talk about this subject.
But seeing healthy people during the Black Death would have been very normal.
Not everyone looked sick right away or at the same time.
A thread.
I think this person describes these kind of ai videos very accurately, brilliant, what a wonderful insight, who is this wonderful lady, oh wait, hang on.
Sigh, the "It's not a documentary" excuse is so tiresome.
It's just a slightly less silly sounding way of saying "I couldn't bother to do research", "I don't really care about history" or "Ai do bleep bloop beep boop and its cool and I make money so yay".
They've done it again.
The internet is flooded with history themed Ai nonsense and people are loving it.
The History revived page has 600k followers and they're all about posting ai generated history themed rubbish.
Some of it is fun & interesting, but most of it is... well...
Lesson one every child learns: to go potty, you have to partially undress.
Romans didn't know that.
Also the sponge on a stick story is possibly nonsense.
The ghosts of Pompeii roll in their graves.
Check out the nice street lanterns and oh no, the volcano is exploding, let's all run towards the clouds of ash...
The other painting of Jean-Paul Marat's murder is more famous but this one is interesting.
It was painted by Johann Jakob Hauer (1751–1829).
Let's look at a couple of details.
Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about history with Joe Rogan.
Mr. Tyson claims that tallest thing humans built after the pyramids is the Eiffel tower... but is it?
Let's watch & check:
Let's pretend this show did what it should and had someone correcting things being said.
Even a quick google could have stopped millions of people hearing & believing this claim.
Anyway:
Tallest pyramid:
Khufu at Giza c.2570 BC: (originally) 146.7m
Eiffel tower 1889AD: 312m.
So we're supposed to believe that it took homo sapiens over 4000 years to be able to built something taller than the pyramids.
For this to be true, no building built between 2570 BC and 1889AD could have been taller than 146.7m.
Isometric sketch of a sauna stove made by master builder Heinrich Schickhardt in connection with the construction of a sauna in Stuttgart in 1616. Above the arches (A) there is space for the stone packing, on which water can be poured from the bathroom onto the stones through the openings (B). However, this stove is without the characteristic half-walls along the side walls, which are found in southern German saunas and in Næstved. After Tuchen 2003, p. 311 academia.edu/9791712/Badstu…
Yes I'm doing some random research and this is now a thread of what I find.
Nordic bathhouse, 1555.
Oven in middle, vat with water next to it, pipe bring the water to a basin, chap rinsing twigs for a thrashing, chap drinking from horn while enjoying cupping therapy.
Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt, 1533, you know when nobody bathed...
Lovely image of a bathhouse.
Just so you know, if you see this guy in a video, the odds are high that you're about to be told something iffy.
Dr. Roy Casagranda is all over social media but his research abilities leave a little to be desired.
In short: street sewers were mostly for rain & other liquids, generally not serious icky waste.
They generally didn't throw their human waste out of the windows.
They made sure to keep their wells and water sources as free from pollution as they could.
Cholera wasn't a huge problem in Europe till the 19th century.
They drank lots of water, drank beer because it's more nutritious, tastier & more fun.
The alcohol level was very very low, so they weren't drunk all the time.
Medieval people washed, bathed, used soap, did laundry and tried to smell nice because they were terrified of bad smells.
They wore linen under their woollen clothing so they weren't always itching, also some wool was quite fine and smooth. fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/med…