#thorpe 1910s

[jenplayssims]

1910s: The Thorpe Legacy

Part 47

The decision was made after Christmas - Edgar, Leland, and Oscar would enlist. The ladies of the family said goodbye.

Matilda was too young to really understand the implications of war. It seemed exciting and adventurous to her.

Tabitha has just celebrated her 13th birthday and she too was a bit young to grasp the gravity of the situation. War felt romantic to her and her brothers looked so dashing in their uniforms.

Winnie was old enough to know better, and worried a lot for her little brothers and father. 

Lydia said goodbye to both her sons and prayed she would see them again.

Winnie watched as her parents said goodbye to each other, and hoped that she would one day find love as strong as theirs. 

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Frances Eliza Wills (married name: Frances Thorpe; 12 July 1910 – 18 January 1998) was an American naval officer and one of the first two African American female officers commissioned by the United States Navy. After her years with the WAVES, she worked as secretary to Langston Hughes.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Bibliography for FAQ

Works about Anarchism

Alexander, Robert, The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (2 vols.), Janus Publishing Company, London, 1999.

Anderson, Carlotta R., All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1998.

Apter, D. and Joll, J (Eds.), Anarchism Today, Macmillan, London, 1971.

Archer, Julian P. W., The First International in France, 1864–1872: Its Origins, Theories, and Impact, University Press of America, Inc., Lanham/Oxford, 1997.

Cahm, C., Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism 1872–1886,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989.

Carr, Edward Hallett, Michael Bakunin, Macmillan, London, 1937.

Coleman, Stephen and O’Sullivan, Paddy (eds.), William Morris and News from Nowhere: A Vision for Our Time,Green Books, Bideford, 1990.

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Crowder, George, Classical Anarchism: The Political Thought of Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991.

Delamotte, Eugenia C., Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind — With Selections from Her Writing, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2004.

Dirlik, Arif, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution, University of CaliforniaPress, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991.

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Esenwein, George Richard, Anarchist Ideology and the Working Class Movement in Spain, 1868–1898, University of California Press,Berkeley, 1989.

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Guthke, Karl S., B. Traven: The life behind the legends, Lawrence Hill Books, New York, 1991.

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Holton, Bob, British Syndicalism: 1900–1914: Myths and Realities, Pluto Press, London, 1976.

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Jennings, Jeremy, Syndicalism in France: a study of ideas, Macmillan, London, 1990

Kline, Wm. Gary, The Individualist Anarchists: A Critique of Liberalism, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1987.

Linden, Marcel van der and Thorpe, Wayne (eds.), Revolutionary Syndicalism: An International Perspective, Scolar Press, Aldershort, 1990.

Merithew, Caroline Waldron, “Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the making of a revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois Coal towns”, pp. 217–246, Donna R. Gabaccoia and Franca Iacovetta (eds.), Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002.

Miller, Martin A., Kropotkin, The University of Chicago Press, London, 1976.

Milner, Susan, The Dilemmas of Internationalism: French Syndicalism and the International Labour Movement 1900–1914, Berg, New York, 1990.

Mintz, Jerome R., The Anarchists of Casas Viejas, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1994.

Moya, Jose, “Italians in Buenos Aires’s Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women’s Participation, 1890–1910,” pp. 189–216, Donna R. Gabaccoia and Franca Iacovetta (eds.), Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002.

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Pyziur, Eugene, The Doctrine of Anarchism of Michael A. Bakunin, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 1955.

Ravindranathan, T. R., Bakunin and the Italians, McGill-Queen’s Univsersity Press, Kingston and Montreal, 1988.

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Ritter, Alan, The Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, PrincetonUniversity Press, Princeton, 1969.

Salerno, Salvatore, Red November, Black November: Culture and Community inthe Industrial Workers of the World, State UniversityPress of New York, Albany, 1989.

Saltman, Richard B., The Social and Political Thought of Michael Bakunin, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, 1983.

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[better-dead-than-smeg]

Women’s history month. I have a story about a young woman in the Second World War, called Frances Wills. Frances worked in the US Navy during the war, and was one of the first African American women officers commissioned by the navy. She was also a part of the branch called the WAVES ( women accepted for volunteer emergency services ).

She was born in Philadelphia in 1910 and attended hunter college in New York City and subsequently earned a masters degree in social work from the university of Pittsburgh. She was approached to enlist for the WAVES in New York whilst working as social worker for the YMCA.

After the war, she was discharged from the navy and wrote a book about her experience under her married name, Frances Wills Thorpe.

She passed away in 1998 at the age of 87. Rest easy Frances, your memory and legacy lives on. Happy Women’s history month.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.28

Beer Birthdays

John the Fearless, who may have been the inspiration for King Gambrinus (1371)

Charles Green (1811)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ian Fleming; Scottish writer (1908)

John Fogerty; rock singer, songwriter (1945)

Carl Larsson; artist (1853)

Jim Thorpe; Olympic athlete (1888)

Billy Vera; rock singer (1944)

Famous Birthdays

Patch Adams; physician, social activist (1945)

Louis Agassiz; Swiss naturalist (1807)

Carroll Baker; actor (1931)

P.G.T. Beauregard; Confederate general (1818)

Maeve Binchy; Irish writer (1940)

Prince Buster; reggae musician (1938)

Colbie Caillat; pop singer (1985)

Papa John Creech; rock musician (1917)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; opera singer (1925)

George I; king of England (1660)

Roland Gift; pop singer (1962)

Rudolph Giuliani; opportunist politician (1944)

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin; French physician (1738)

Lynn Johnston; cartoonist (1947)

Justin Kirk; actor (1969)

Gladys Knight; singer (1944)

Kylie Minogue; actor (1968)

Thomas Moore; Irish writer (1779)

Carey Mulligan; actor (1985)

William Pitt; English politician (1759)

Solomon; king of Israel (B.C.E.)

Sojourner Truth; abolitionist, women's rights activist (1797)

T-Bone Walker; blues guitarist (1910)

Jerry West; Los Angeles Lakers G (1938)

Wendy O. Williams; pop singer (1949)

Kari Wuhrer; actor, V.J. (1967)

[princebp1]

Jay Thorpe Spring Evening Gowns, ca. 1913.

Super excited to have found this original design sketch for an evening gown in my collection.

This gown, model no. 534, comes from the Spring 1913 Evening Gown line by Jay Thorpe in New York City. In the sketch, it is described as a satin dress with black and cream laces, a light blue satin ribbon sash, and pink roses. All evident on the gown I have.

The beautiful frock was nicknamed “Marie Antoinette.” A few other designs from this same line even had their original prices on them. One dress was $155.00 while another was $275.00! In today’s money that would be about $4,100.00 and $7,300.00!! They definitely weren’t cheap!

Jay Thorpe was an exclusive department store and sold high end French fashion design labels. The 1913 and 1914 fashion line featured designs from Paquin, Drecoll, Callot Soeurs, and Lucile!

I never would’ve thought I’d be able to see an original design sketch for any dress in my collection. I’m so glad it was this one!

[hagleyvault]

As a little celebration of the new year, here’s engine #2021, built in 1917 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad’s Sayre Yards, named after the company’s chief engineer and first Superintendent, Robert H. Sayre. The yards in were located in Waverly, New York and the adjoining company town of Sayre, Pennsylvania.

This glass negative image of the steam locomotive is undated, but would have been captured between its construction and April, 1948, when it was scrapped. It part of Hagley Library’s collection of Locomotives and views of Mauch Chunk contact photographs and negatives (Accession 1969.092). To view more material from this collection online now, click here to visit its page in our Digital Archive.

[yesterdaysprint]

Margaret Thorpe (née Burt-Marshall), 1918

[usnatarchives]

Athlete Jim Thorpe in 1910, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, NARA ID 595347.

#OTD 1912: Jim Thorpe begins the Olympic triathlon By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

Jim Thorpe wearing Carlisle Indian School Football uniform, 1909. NARA ID 519348.

Jim Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma, competed in track and field events at Carlisle Indian Industrial School and later played football, baseball, and basketball professionally. He won gold medals for the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. Olympic officials later stripped him of his medals because a brief stint playing minor league baseball violated the rules of amateurism. To avoid penalties, some Olympic athletes played professionally under assumed names. Thorpe, who was unaware of the rule, was severely punished for the infraction.

Thorpe faced extensive racism on and off the field. Reporters depicted his competitions as battles between Indigenous and White Americans. But his excellence in so many different sports—he went on to play professional football, baseball, and basketball—led many to believe he was the greatest athlete of all time.

Many urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to restore Thorpe’s medals. The IOC relented in 1982, 30 years after his death, gave Thorpe’s family replica gold medals, and said he would be "added to the list of athletes who were crowned Olympic champions at the 1912 Games.” However, the IOC refused to alter the official record.

Learn more about Thorpe and see these replica gold medals* in our upcoming exhibit, All American, the Power of Sports.

*on loan courtesy of Jim Thorpe’s descendants and the Oklahoma History Center.

National Archives Museum in DC, 9/16/2022 - 1/7/2024

See also:

The Greatest Athlete of the First Half of the Century, Pieces of History

Jim Thorpe records in the National Archives Online Catalog

Baseball and the National Archives - National Archives News special topics page

Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives, NARA eBook

BLUE XMAS for Native Americans, NARA Tumblr

[freshstartfromscratch]

Sup everyone!  So I've been drinking, and I got this idea to draw every AC mainline characters (male and female alike) in clothing from different decades of the 20th century. Like AC1 - 1910s, AC2- 1920s, AC3 - 1930s ect

So in my tipsy state, that's what I did.

Only one sketch so far, and it's a bit OOC.

So here we have 1910s Altaïr and Maria. Altaïr is holding a Middle Eastern instrument called oud (at least it’s supposed to be this).

Ngl, it has an AU potential, and I even got a bit of story here.

The year is 1911. Young con artist leaves Ottoman Syria for the capital of the biggest empire in the world. While in London, Altaïr learns that the life of an immigrant is hard, especially for a working-class guy from a completely different culture. While in London, he meets a suffragette, Maria, whose a passionate fighter for women’s rights. For her, the fight has an additional layer of personal meaning. She is a former lady Thorpe, daughter of Count of Leicestershire, who lost all her family’s inheritance to her ex-husband. She, as women has no rights to property. Altaïr falls hard and fast for the spirited lady, but his feeling evokes insecurity he never had before - he’s neither of social status nor the ethnicity of his beloved. For her, he’d like to be white, just like snow, with fair hair and blue eyes. What he doesn’t know (yet) is that Maria couldn’t care less about his ethnicity or background - he is the first guy who understands her struggle and supports her in her fighting for a better world. She loves him just the way he is and doesn’t care for social norms or standards.

[jenplayssims]

1910s: The Thorpe Legacy

Part 42

TW: death

Frederick wrote one last novel, kissed Sybil, and went out into the fresh air to take his final breaths. 

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Ilam Walk website: http://www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/ilamwalk.htm  THE WALKThe beautiful country park at Ilam is an ideal starting point for this walk that takes you through some of the Peak District’s finest countryside.After leaving the picturesque village of Ilam, the Izaak Walton Hotel is soon reached. Reminding us of the famous angler of the same name, who together with Charles Cotton wrote the best selling book The Compleat Angler, and loved Dovedale so much.Dovedale is one of the most treasured beauty spots not only in the Peak District but also in the country. Photographs of the stepping-stones across the Dove must have appeared on more calendars and gift boxes of all shapes and sizes than any other countryside scene in England.Lin Dale takes you round Thorpe Cloud, a cone shaped hill rising to nearly 1,000 feet, to the quiet limestone village of Thorpe. The church dates back to Norman times, or even earlier.After passing the church, the road soon turns into a rough track leading down to Coldwall Bridge. At one time it was a turnpike road to Cheadle. It was abandoned in 1910 as cars of that era found difficulty in negotiating the steep road.The final part of the walk takes you along the riverbank back to Ilam.

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

This week we return to Joseph Thorp’s printing manual Printing for Business: A Manual of Printing Practice in Non-Technical Idiom, published in London by John Hogg in 1919. Today we focus on Chapter V: Of Type-Setting and Type. Here Thorp appears to be at his most animated (and most doctrinaire). His “Note on Style” is to the point:

In regard of type and type-setting, the first desideratum is legibility. Decoration is purely subsidiary, and decoration that jeopardizes legibility is just bad workmanship. . . . There is, in fact, no “high art” nonsense about the suggestions here advanced; it merely amounts to this, that simplicity and dignity and a sense of style will suffice to get a message read more quickly, and attended to more pleasurably than fussy, crowded, over-ornamented work.

We couldn't agree more. After a lesson on the point system of type sizing, Thorp, a significant adviser to commercial and fine-press printers alike, turns his venom on “artistic” types, which he calls “A Chamber of Horrors!”

Any notable departure from the accustomed form means a loss of legibility. That is why “artistic” types, letters with bulges, nicks, twiddles and dashes and squirms, as they love to make them in the latter half of the Victorian era, may be condemned out of hand not merely as abominably ugly, and also as utterly inefficient for their job. It is worth noting that the Americans, obviously intense seekers after novelty, are very much more inclined than ourselves to choose sane types and to set them in sober and orderly fashion. The Germans, on the other hand, are behind us in this matter. Novelty and boldness of effect frequently carry them to the point of illegibility.

I guess we can agree on that too, at least as it stood in the 1910s. But of course Thorp’s nationalist stance still favors the British: “The Caslon Old Face is, of course, also perhaps the most beautiful of book founts. . . . An encouraging sign of the times.” Thorp offers us a short lesson in the difference between Old Style and Modern typefaces, “the general characteristic of Old Face and Old Style types is the slanting serif of the lower case letter and a generally less mechanical exactness.”

After offering some “Comparison of Letter Forms,” Thorp states:

These examples may be studied with advantage. Taste will dictate their appropriate use. . . .the nearer a letter attains to standard form the better is that letter. What sort of sense or beauty is there in the lower case k of Morland and Post (or, for that matter, the exaggerated backward spin of the lower case o in Hugo)?

Here, here, my good man!!

View our post on Printing for Business from last week.

View our other Typography Tuesday posts.

[winsonsaw2003]

I'm looking for descendants from Edward Presgrave (1795-1830) Of Bourne / Singapore

  Edward Presgrave (1795-1830) was Resident Councillor of Malacca & Singapore in 1820′S. son of Edward Presgrave of Bourne & Ann Clerk.He married Anne Cooper.His issue:- i) Edwina Anne Presgrave (1821-1886) married Charles Harison Drury. Their issue:- ai) Charles Garling Drury(1845-1874) married Agnes Louisa Claridge. His issue:- bi)Charles Arthur Walpole Drury(1874-1958) married Jessie Ellen Lamb. His issue:- ci) Violet Miriam Drury(1899-1984) married Selwyn Guise Cutler. Their issue:- di) Alan Cutler. cii) Shelley Walpole Drury(1900-1995) married Doris Kathleen Kitching. His issue:- di) Derek Shelley Drury(1929-2014) married Jeannette O Unsted. His issue:- ei)Neil T Drury married Lynda S Jones. eii)Linda M Drury married John D Hill. dii) Roger L Drury. ciii) Henry Charles Dru Drury(1901-1999) married Olive Bird White. aii)Edward George Drury(1847-1868). aiii) Edwina Mary Drury(1849-1927). aiv) Bessie Sophia Drury(1851-1933) married James Burn Pennngton. Her issue:- bi) Beryl Pennington(1873-1959). bii) Drury Pennington(1874-1960) married Harriett Fremlin Key. His issue:- ci) Beryl Mary Dora Pennington married Richard T Lawrence. cii) Harold Drury Pennington(1907-?) married Hermione Blackburn. ciii) John Drury Pennington(1910-?). biii) Cyril Burn Pennington(1878-1955). biv) Harold Evelyn Pennington(1880-1915). bv) Guy Drury Pennington(1882-1909). bvi) Gladys Pennington(1886-1887). av) Francis McDowell(Macdonald) Drury (1852-?) married Ida Mariguitte ?. His issue:- bi) Amy Hyacinth Drury(1893-1973) married Nelson Winslow Pickering. Their issue:- ci) Nancy Pickering(1915-1994) married William Jamieson Neidlinger. Their issue:- di) Nancy Neidlinger married Paul Henry Eitapence. Their issue:- ei) Mark Eitapence. eii) Michelle Eitapence. dii) William Jamieson Neidlinger Jr.(1942-2012) married 1stly , Patricia H ? & 2ndly,Elisabeth ?. His issue:- ei) Elizabeth Neidlinger. eii) William Jamieson Neidlinger III. diii) Anthony Winslow Neidlinger married Patricia A Hewett Hussein. cii) Natalie Pickering(1924-2012) married Dayton Béguelin. Their issue:- di) Robert Dayton Béguelin married Susanna Adams Jones. dii) Winslow Drury Béguelin married Sarah Steinkamp Pierce. bii) Enid Drury(1895-1972). avi) Agnes Drury (1854-?). avii) Ernest Thorpe Drury (1856-1880) married aviii) Maud Anna Drury(1858-1928). aix) Nina Lizzie Drury(1861-1942). ii) Edward Presgrave (1823-?) married Margaret Crane.His issue:- ai) Edward Robert John Presgrave (1855-1919) iii) Mary Presgrave(1824-?). iv) Duncan Clerk Presgrave (1826-1883) married Jane Sarah Caunter.His issue:- ai) Isabella Presgrave (1851-?) married Arthur Edward Clarke.Their issue:- bi) Denys Harcourt Clarke (1879-1930) married Emily Dorothy Drake. aii) Edward William Presgrave (1855-1930). aiii) Duncan George Presgrave (1857-1928) married Frances Mary Clare Passmore.His issue:- bi) Sydney Frances Vivien Presgrave (1885-1989) married Sir Reginald George Watson. Their issue:- ci) Clare Watson married Ben Hawes-Watson. cii) Patricia A Watson married Kenneth P Pool. Their issue:- di) Anthony Presgrave Pool married Julia Weil Bendiner. His issue:- ei) Suzanne Harriet Pool. eii) Ralph Sabato Pool. dii) Timothy Kenneth Pool married Felicity Frankham. His issue:- ei) Graham Edward Pool married Fiona M Maycock. His issue:- fi) Mary Elizabeth Pool. fii) Beatrice Emma Pool. diii) Jacqueline Mary Pool married David Morris Fitzgerald Scott. ciii) Betty Watson married Herbert J Payne. Their issue:- i) ? Payne. ii) Nigel Conrad Presgrave Payne married Elizabeth M Morris. His issue:- ai) Conrad Francis Charles Presgrave Payne married Juliet N.C. Charlton aiv)William Garling Presgrave (1859-?). av) Percy Clerk Presgrave (1860-1862). avi) Jessie Harriet Presgrave (1870-?). Please contact me at:- winsonsaw20032000@yahoo.com

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.28

Beer Birthdays

John the Fearless, who may have been the inspiration for King Gambrinus (1371)

Charles Green (1811)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ian Fleming; Scottish writer (1908)

John Fogerty; rock singer, songwriter (1945)

Carl Larsson; artist (1853)

Jim Thorpe; Olympic athlete (1888)

Billy Vera; rock singer (1944)

Famous Birthdays

Patch Adams; physician, social activist (1945)

Louis Agassiz; Swiss naturalist (1807)

Carroll Baker; actor (1931)

P.G.T. Beauregard; Confederate general (1818)

Maeve Binchy; Irish writer (1940)

Prince Buster; reggae musician (1938)

Colbie Caillat; pop singer (1985)

Papa John Creech; rock musician (1917)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; opera singer (1925)

George I; king of England (1660)

Roland Gift; pop singer (1962)

Rudolph Giuliani; opportunist politician (1944)

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin; French physician (1738)

Lynn Johnston; cartoonist (1947)

Justin Kirk; actor (1969)

Gladys Knight; singer (1944)

Kylie Minogue; actor (1968)

Thomas Moore; Irish writer (1779)

Carey Mulligan; actor (1985)

William Pitt; English politician (1759)

Solomon; king of Israel (B.C.E.)

Sojourner Truth; abolitionist, women's rights activist (1797)

T-Bone Walker; blues guitarist (1910)

Jerry West; Los Angeles Lakers G (1938)

Wendy O. Williams; pop singer (1949)

Kari Wuhrer; actor, V.J. (1967)

[inexpensiveprogress]

Thorpeness

Thorpeness is a curious place on the Suffolk coastline. Between Aldeburgh and Sizewell, it is a toytown. There are some old properties in the village but many of them are 20th century. 

In 1910, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, a Scottish barrister who had made his money building railways around the world, increased the family's local estates to cover the entire area from north of Aldeburgh to past Sizewell, up the coast and inland to Aldringham and Leiston.

Most of this land was used for farming, but Ogilvie developed Thorpeness into a private fantasy holiday village, to which he invited his friends' and colleagues' families during the summer months. A country club with tennis courts, a swimming pool, a golf course and clubhouse, and many holiday homes, were built in Jacobean and Tudor Revival styles. Thorpeness railway station, provided by the Great Eastern Railway to serve what was expected to be an expanding resort, was opened a few days before the outbreak of World War I. It was little used, except by golfers, and closed in 1966.

For three generations Thorpeness remained mostly in the private ownership of the Ogilvie family, with houses only being sold from the estate to friends as holiday homes. In 1972, Alexander Stuart Ogilvie, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's grandson, died on the Thorpeness Golf Course. Many of the houses and the golf course and country club had to be sold to pay death duties.

In many ways Thorpeness reminds me of Frinton-On-Sea, a protective elite of housing owners, but Frinton (though also hellish) has some fantastic art deco properties. Thorpeness is a poorly maintained theme park of some strange Tudor England. It reminded me of the home-made houses for tri-ang train sets and early dolls houses. 

 Tri-ang dollhouses #93

While walking around I kept thinking of the quote below by Linda Smith on golf courses vs the countryside. To me Thorpeness is fake architecture vs historical homes.

People say ‘it’s out in the countryside’, a golf course is not the countryside - it’s the countryside tidied up, it’s the countryside for people who wished the countryside had wipe clean surfaces, it’s the countryside for people whose gardens are full of conifer and heather.