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In 1858 #OnThisDate, Giles Wheeler Ford of Olympia, Washington Territory, posted this ad for the first time in the local Pioneer and Democrat newspaper. Just two years later, he drifted away from photography as a full-time occupation. Read more about him in chapter 2 of my book, Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900.

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#photohistory
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#daguerreotypes
#WashingtonTerritory
#WashingtonState
#OlympiaWashington

The worst ever English avalanche killed 8 people in Lewes, Sussex on this date in 1836. A pub was later built on the site. It is called The Snow Drop Inn.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 December:

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Topical Tens27 December10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 December: Johannes Kepler , German astronomer who discovered and confirmed  Copernicus ’...

#OnThisDate, April 9 1943, some cheeky people squeezed themselves behind the stacks of taxidermy cases in Tolson Museum's Bird Room like contortionists and carved their initials on the wall. PD and DH (it looks like a B due to a crack but that doesn't seem like an intentional choice given they'll have done this in the dark), you must've been pleased as punch!

To look at this in mild annoyance 80 years later really is quite something. 😂 I wonder who they were?