Remembering History

Probably the most famous mausoleum in Spring Grove Cemetery, the Dexter Mausoleum was designed by James Keys Wilson and built in 1869. It memorializes Edmund Dexter, who entertained Charles Dickens in 1842 and whose portrait hangs in the Cincinnati Art Museum. The structure has lost a few pinnacles over the years; not to mention it used to have a towering ornate steeple in the middle of the roof.

Probably the most famous mausoleum in Spring Grove Cemetery, the Dexter Mausoleum was designed by James Keys Wilson and built in 1869. It memorializes Edmund Dexter, who entertained Charles Dickens in 1842 and whose portrait hangs in the Cincinnati Art Museum. The structure has lost a few pinnacles over the years; not to mention it used to have a towering ornate steeple in the middle of the roof.

Pre-Culloden Scottish baskethilt sword c.1690-1720Good chance this sword was used in the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The guard has the "S" design which stood for "Stewart" (noble family in Scotland) These swords were often stored in the thatched roofs to keep the British from finding their weapons.The handle is either horn or wood, and appears to be rehandled in the 18th c. untouched condition. Blade is 32 3/4 inches. 38 inches overall. Blade is still quite sharp.

Pre-Culloden Scottish baskethilt sword c.1690-1720Good chance this sword was used in the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The guard has the "S" design which stood for "Stewart" (noble family in Scotland) These swords were often stored in the thatched roofs to keep the British from finding their weapons.The handle is either horn or wood, and appears to be rehandled in the 18th c. untouched condition. Blade is 32 3/4 inches. 38 inches overall. Blade is still quite sharp.

Dunnottar Castle, Scotland, a phenomenal position in the North Sea

Linlithgow Palace - where Mary Queen of Scots was born I am a Lithgow from the Murray clan of Dumfries.

Custer Expedition, 1874: Bloody Knife (guide), General Custer, Private Noonen, and Colonel Ludlow, with grizzly killed by Custer; near Custer Peak (South Dakota); NYHS image #79125d.

Watching the 1912 World Series courtesy of the Washington Post on an electro-mechanical scoreboard that looks something like a big pinball game. In the years before the first radio broadcasts in the early 1920s, newspapers, linked to reporters by telephone, wire service or "wireless telegraph," provided live coverage of sporting events like prizefights and baseball games to crowds on the street, with announcers and scoreboards giving play-by-play results.

Watching the 1912 World Series courtesy of the Washington Post on an electro-mechanical scoreboard that looks something like a big pinball game. In the years before the first radio broadcasts in the early 1920s, newspapers, linked to reporters by telephone, wire service or "wireless telegraph," provided live coverage of sporting events like prizefights and baseball games to crowds on the street, with announcers and scoreboards giving play-by-play results.

Walter Cronkite interviews President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1963.

Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson and Robert Wagner

Horse Guards Parade London - This is a divided back postcard dated 1904 and shows three Coldstream Guardsmen on Horse Guards Parade with the Cadiz Memorial in the background. The Cadiz Memorial is a French mortar in the shape of a Chinese Dragon, it was given to the Prince Regent in 1812 by the Spanish Government to mark the lifting of the siege of Cadiz by the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular war.

Horse Guards Parade London - This is a divided back postcard dated 1904 and shows three Coldstream Guardsmen on Horse Guards Parade with the Cadiz Memorial in the background. The Cadiz Memorial is a French mortar in the shape of a Chinese Dragon, it was given to the Prince Regent in 1812 by the Spanish Government to mark the lifting of the siege of Cadiz by the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular war.

James Dean driving his new 1955 Porsche Spyder with his mechanic Rolf Wutherich on the day of his death.

1969. on the way to Woodstock.

Bobbi Gibb (C, in black tank top), after becoming the first woman to ... en.wikipedia.org/...

The singer and actor Paul Robeson (centre) with black American International Brigaders (the Abraham Lincon Brigade) in Madrid in 1938.

Recovered bodies from the RMS Titanic arriving at the Mayflower Curling Club, Agricola Street which was set up as a temporary morgue. Date: 1912 Reference no.: Fader Collection Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1972-21 no. 6

Recovered bodies from the RMS Titanic arriving at the Mayflower Curling Club, Agricola Street which was set up as a temporary morgue. Date: 1912 Reference no.: Fader Collection Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1972-21 no. 6

16 Sep 1920's wagon packed w/ explosives detonated on Wall Street, killing 40