Tag Archives: Halloween
See it here: Halloween!
It’s another Halloween! Pumpkins are fine, but ghosts, witches, skulls, and headless bodies are kind of scary….. Or are they? More fun than scary to me. A headless man! Harry Kellar was a magician born in Pennsylvania to German immigrant parents. After quite an interesting life he retired in 1908. Harry Houdini, who had followed Kellar’s career […]
A Devilish Discovery in Photography
What better way to begin this year’s Halloween post than with an engraving of the devil making a daguerreotype? I love seeing the tail on the devil, and that on his scribe and on his reclining sidekick. Here is the devil making a daguerreotype of Madrid, Spain, and not of Madrid, Georgia, but I’m sure […]
Hunting and Gathering 
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