Brown University Class Day 1911 program -- Friday Fotos (September 25, 2015)

The scanned images shown above are of the program for the Brown University Class Day 1911.  It was recently discovered among some family records and artifacts. The original program is a small (5 in. x 6 in.), leather-bound brochure that is held together by a laced and tied leather thong. This made scanning a delicate and difficult process in order to avoid damaging the original family artifact. The page images shown below are not as clear or as straight as I would have liked, but further handling of the document or attempting to unlace the brochure to scan each page individually was not an option.

 The last two pages of the brochure contain a roll of the class members of the Brown University Class of 1911. Among the listed members is my maternal grandfather, Everett Shearman Carpenter, and Ira Winsor Knight, the future husband of my grandfather's sister, Ruth Ann Carpenter.

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Images scanned from the original artifact in the possession of the author.

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Copyright 2015, John D. Tew

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Saturday Serendipity (September 12, 2015)

The following are a few recommendations for inclusion on your reading list this weekend. 

1. The book "Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace" by Nikil Saval has been billed as "an entertaining look at the history of the modern worker, that the modern worker can actually learn from" (Rosecrans Baldwin in reviewing the book), but it also has instructive information for genealogists and family historians seeking to understand more about the jobs and worklife of ancestors and relatives in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Listen to a rebroadcast about Cubed on NPR's Kojo Nnamdi Show here and see an excerpt from the book.

2.  Can you name the "Seven Dastardly Deeds of Genealogy?" Author Joy Neighbours has listed them concisely and with pithy descriptions. Read the list here.    

3.   UpFront With NGS posted a very useful piece about the availability of U.S. Marine Corps "casualty cards." The cards are in a database for World War II, War Dogs, Interwar Period 1946-50, Korea, Interwar Period 1955-1965, and Vietnam.  Casualty cards were issued when a Marine was wounded, missing, killed or deemed a prisoner of war. Read more and get links here.

4.  And in case you have not heard or seen on the news, there has been an exciting discovery at Jamestown, Virginia. Read about the four bodies that were unearthed and the "mystery in a small box" here.    

5.  After a summer hiatus, Barbara Poole of Life From The Roots blog is back with her "photo essay" posts for Labor Day and remembrances of Massachusetts victims of 9-11.            

6.  James Tanner of Genealogy's Star blog posted just this morning a thoughtful and helpful pro and con rumination on the advisability of keeping your own genealogy database on your personal computer and not just one on-line. Read about his views on the pros and cons here.    

7.  Always a thoughtful and informative writer, Diane MacLean Boumenot of One Rhode Island Family blog has added to her oeuvre with a useful piece titled "Searching Smarter."  You can read Diane's piece here.
     
8. And finally, what is a "cabinet?" If you are from Rhode Island, it is something completely different than a cupboard with drawers or shelves for displaying or storing things. New Englanders and non-New Englanders alike will enjoy the summary of New England slang terms and other New England news posted on Peter Muise's blog New England Folklore this week.  Find out what a cabinet is in Rhode Island and more by going here.   
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Friday Fotos (September 11, 2015) -- Everett Shearman Carpenter and Two Tew Grandchildren

Everett Shearman Carpenter was born on Washington's birthday (February 22nd) in 1891. He died at age 70 on January 6, 1962.

The above photograph is the only photo that I have ever seen of my maternal grandfather, Everett Carpenter, with just my sister and me.  It was discovered just a day ago amongst a box of old family photographs. The photo is not specifically dated, but is believed to have been taken around 1957 in Cumberland, Rhode Island at the home of my maternal grandparents, Everett and Ruth Carpenter.  I think that the photo is taken of the the three of us sitting on the back tailgate of my parents' Studebaker Scotsman wagon.

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Image scanned from the original snapshot in the collection of the author.

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Copyright 2015, John D. Tew

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