Illustrations from Gilbert Parker’s Northern Lights (1909)
Month: February 2020
Posting
From a glass plate negative in the collection of the Skaneateles Historical Society, brought to light by Bill Hecht, possibly taken in Albany, N.Y.
More Lightning
Art by Howard Pyle, 1905
Rod Your House
A 1907 postcard from Dodd & Struthers, makers of lightning rods, describing the October 3, 1902, death of 13-year-old Evyline (Evelyn) Simpson in Merrill, Iowa.
Reassuring
Detail from an advertisement for Prestone Antifreeze