Ethel Rosenberg

This newspaper clipping about Ethel Rosenberg doesn't have a date on it, but it's safe to assume it's pretty close to her execution date. The article is talking about Ethel losing her appeal. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history. She stayed in Sing-Sing, I had no idea. Sing-Sing reminds me of Breakfast at Tiffany's! But back to our article. It kind of amazes me that the person who placed this article in a book was saving the big news of the day and I look at it as this amazing bit of history. Do we keep news articles anymore? I think the time is quickly coming when there will not be articles to keep at all. Or books to keep them in for that matter.

Niels Bohr Vs. Albert Einstein

A newspaper clipping from 1949. Around Einsteins 70th birthday, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein did a radio show together and this clipping was giving the reader a kind of play by play of what was said. Einstein and Bohr had a long history of good-natured arguments over parts of physics that I cannot even begin to understand. Something about Einstein preferring the determinism of classical physics over the probabilistic new quantum physics. Like I said, no idea. It was very interesting to look up Niels Bohr, I am sorry to say I knew very little about him. Who knew blogging could be so educational.

Visiting the Countryside

Ok. Maybe it's not the countryside, but it looks like it to me. Look at those white washed walls, and the framing around the windows. This does not look like a city home. And ms. fur collar in the back there has had enough and is quite ready to go back to civilization, thank you very much. The youngest boy seems to be having a great time. I cannot say that about the oldest young man. He looks positively uncomfortable. The clothes? Being squished on the bench next to his younger siblings perhaps? I'm going to place this somewhere in the 20's based on the clothing and ms. fur collar's hair style. I poke fun at their expressions, but I love that this picture has captured true emotion. It feels like an actual moment in time, not a staged event. Nice.

A Letter

It has no date, but the paper looks fairly old and feels soft and almost cloth like to touch. I can make out only a few words well enough to even try to translate them. But isn't it beautiful.

London Times September 20, 1944

One of my favorite things to find. Also one of the most difficult things to post. This newspaper is likely a reproduction as it is only about 9 inches tall by 5 inches wide. It is 20 pages long, so choosing which pages to post was very difficult. I decided on pages with the most pictures. The whole "a picture is worth a thousand words" theory. Some of the ads are a lot of fun to look at, but I will admit my favorite parts of this are the news stories about the war.

Here Comes The Bride

A very lovely picture of our bride. And added bonus, our bride has a name. Lilian! What she didn't come with was a year. The hairstyle doesn't scream 60's yet but it doesn't quite say 40's either. So I am going to take an uneducated guess and place her somewhere in the 50's. I could be totally off. Love the dress, no matter the decade it sprang from. I am assuming the book she is holding are scriptures of some sort although I can honestly say I have never seen a bridal picture with the bride holding a book before. A tradition that has gone out of style?

Did I Win?

Danish State Lottery of 1959. Here we have a lottery ticket from the 50's that has the big payout in 1973. That's quite a wait to see if you win. There goes the instant gratification. But, it is for 100 million Kroner. Not too shabby. I haven't been able to find out too much about the lottery system in Denmark so if anyone has any information to share, I'm all ears. And if this just happens to be a lost winning lottery ticket, let me know! I am a very generous person!