I’m traveling for work this week and everything is always a bit jumbled when you travel, isn’t it? At any rate, it’s resulted in a jumbled post!
Every now and then I upload images to this website’s library intending to post them later, and then I forget about them. I like the posts to have a theme but, in this case, the only thing these pictures have in common is that they’ve all been forgotten in the Old Spirituals library for quite some time!
Jackson Police Dept. Jackson, Mississippi, 1914. Almost everyone is in uniform, but the ones who aren’t blend in pretty well—except the three sitting in front. Who do you suppose they were?
Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History
No information on who this fascinating fellow is. I could make up a story about him and where he’s going or coming from. He’s got some game. Washington state, circa 1915
Washington Digital Archives
The subject of this photograph is Gertrude Boswell. Photographed by Arthur Glines, Boston, in 1905.
LOC
Unattributed. A busy corner at New Year’s (San Francisco).
Camera Craft (1900) by Photographers’ Association of California
Edward “Monk” Eastman, the New York Gangster.
Monk Eastman, circa 1900
A black tenement on Central Street. Feb 1, 1935.
National Archives
Portrait of Mrs. C. Photographed by J. Craig Annan.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Sheik’s daughter, 1923.
The Sheik’s daughter (LOC)
Nadezhda Plevitskaya, Russian folk singer and spy, photographed in 1909.
Nadezhda Plevitskaya
old spirituals 
Photographs from eons ago inspire me to wonder about the individual(s) in the photo. Having spent time in Jackson, Mississippi, I decided to delve a bit and discovered that the “first detective” was “assigned” to the Jackson, Mississippi police department in 1878. Chances are the three non-uniformed men in the photograph are city or police officials. In the top two rows are two men that are not dressed in patrolman type uniforms, who may be detective. The City of Jackson, Mississippi, today has a population of approximately 175,000 people and 225 sworn officers as of 2023. That number is down from over 335 in 2019.
From the looks of his nose, one can conclude that Edward “Monk” Eastman liked “fist-fighting.”
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It’s interesting that Jackson cut back on police officers with such a deadly problem with crime as the city has.
I think you’re probably correct about Monk 😂
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The guy walking past the tailor is fascinating. So was the woman with the rebellions eyes. Gertrude. I love the music with these pictures!
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Those little children in San Francisco on Chinese New Year are so cute! This reminded me of the Asian neighbors we had in our condo building in Torrance, CA, the night of each Chinese New Year. They had to have their clothes washed before midnight or they would have bad luck all year. It was a rush on the laundry room!
I loved hearing Ricky Nelson, too! I had such a crush on him! (along with most teenage girls!)
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I love that tradition! I’ve never heard it! My mom always insisted no one should eat chicken on New Year’s Day or we would scratch (for cash) all year!
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Chicken on New Year is a new one for me. My family didn’t have any traditions or superstitions pertaining to New Year. We usually ushered in the New Year with Guy Lombardo and his orchestra and plenty of fun food. My husband’s family always had blackeye peas on New Year’s Day for good luck. I enjoy learning all these old superstitions and folk lore.
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So do I, Judy!
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Having lived in different regions of our Country I experienced different culinary traditions practiced on New Year’s Day.
Growing up in a Northeastern Italian family that owned a supermarket, our Holiday menu consisted of antipasto salad; a stuffed oven roasted turkey; two large trays of lasagna with Mom’s miniature meatballs and Dad’s homemade sausage between the layers of lasagna noodles, doused with Dad’s marinara sauce; a long crusty Italian bread; and, plenty of home made Italian desserts. (My favorite was and still is anise flavored Pizzelles, a Southern Italian thin waffle cookie, with my coffee. I also enjoy a shot of Black Romana Sambuca paired with coffee as a digestif.)
Along with my wife and two children, I relocated to Ohio and then Indiana (the Heart of the Rust Belt) so the menu shifted to pork loin and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day. Another paradigm shift occurred when I transferred to the Southeast where the traditional New Year’s Day meal is black eyed peas, collards, ham and cornbread. (No matter what else you have on the menu, black eyed peas on New Year’s Day is a MUST HAVE food item.)
I’ve decide one tradition is not better than another, they are just different; and, they are meaningful to the people who practice them.
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I’m really hungry now. And the cereal I was planning to eat for dinner no longer cuts it. 😉
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I have a recommendation: buy an air fryer. It cooks fast with easy clean up. I am now up to a large 8 qt. air fryer. I’ve used it to cook whole chickens; boneless chicken breasts; pork chops; burgers, fish; sausage; and, great buffalo wings. It makes a fast, perfect grilled cheese sandwich, using mayo instead of butter on the bread. Vegetables come out great, too. I haven’t fired up the outside gas grill in years.
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Maybe I could just become really good friends with someone who likes to use an air fryer? 😉 It’s actually a great idea! I need to learn to cook more. I will check it out!
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