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‘Go Board Tadanobu’. Yamazaki Toshinobu (1857-1886)

#ukiyo e #woodblock print #japanese masters

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Faust (1926) F.W. Murnau Cinematographer: Carl Hoffman

Herman Schultheis: Herman and Ethel Schultheis at home in Los Feliz. 1944

#Herman Schultheis #Ethel Schultheis #vintage Holywood #b&w photography #couples #vintage Christmas

Der Stand der Dinge/ The State of Things (1982) Wim Winders

#German.directors #Wim.Wenders #Los Angeles #Films.about.Films #Best.films.of.The80s

Saul Leiter: Painted photographic prints (1950-1990)

#photography #Saul Leiter #painting #handcolored photography #American photographers

The Sweeping Healer

#magnetic.helaing #quackery #alternative.medicine #early.20thcentury..advertising #bamboozlers #Oklahoma #Ponca.City

Mauresque de Distinction: cartes de visite

#North.Africa #Morocco #vintage photography

Dorothea Lange: Migrant family, Texas 1936

Louis Faurer: Ritz Bar, New York 1947-48

#Dorothea.Lange #Louis.Faurer #2othCentury.American.photography #capitalist.dreams&sorrows

Time In The Pines

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The Big Flash: Crime Photography L.A. Style

Weekend distractions. No particular relevance to what I’m working on in Gone West, other than general period background on two minor characters. I usually steer clear of James Ellroy’s precincts but the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner crime and courtroom photography archives from the 20s, 30s and 40s got me on a binge. Banal yet lurid, resonating from hardboiled to noir. Question: Who was influencing…

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A Short Story from Texas… Click on the deer below to read . . .

California Coordinates 41.7354° N, 122.6345° W: Mule Deer

On Gold Street (1) July 2017

On Gold Street (2) July 2017

On Gold Street (3) Jly 2017

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#iPhone photography #Mule Deer Townies #street wildlife #Yreka streets

Another Country A Satellite Map of California in 1851

#1851 #satellite.maps

California Coordinates: 41.7354° N, 122.6345° W : Lynchery in Yreka

San Francsico Call August 1895: The Courthouse at Yreka.The hanging took place between the two large trees in the right foreground. This picture is reproduced from a recent photograph. San Francisco Call 27 August 1895

QUADRUPLE LYNCH WAS DONE AT YREKA. Four Murderers Hanged in the Courthouse Square. SHORT SHRIFT FOR EACH. Taken From the Jail One at a Time by a Silent Mob. BRUTAL CRIMES…

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#hangings #innocent victoms #lynching #mistaken idenitity #mobs #necktie party #San Francsico Call #Siskiyou County #vigilantes #yreka

California Coordinates: 41.7354° N, 122.6345° W : Mules' Gold

California Coordinates: 41.7354° N, 122.6345° W : Mules’ Gold

Romanzo E. Wood. Mining Donkey. ca 1875. Yreka, California The Gold Dusted Lips of Mules

In 1851 near what is now the cosmically monickered intersection of Yama and Discovery streets of Yreka, a prospector down from Oregon, Abe Thompson, woke up one March morning as he and some two dozen fellow gold-seekers camped on the flats near Yreka Creek and noticed gold flakes glimmering on the noses…

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California Coordinates: 41.7354° N, 122.6345° W : Yreka Views

In the summer of 2017 Rye the Hound and I found ourselves on the flanks of the Siskiyou Range some 20 miles south of Oregon/California border in Yreka, a somewhat neglected Gold Rush-spawned town hardby the incessant Interstate 5 . With the gold long since gone and the timber industry shrunken, Yreka had pinned its commercial future on its quaint historic downtown as a driveby tourist stop.…

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#19thcentury.brewers #laundromats #parks #smalltowns #storefronts #streets #summer #yreka #Deer

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