Print Ads, 1943: From the Brooklyn Dodgers Official Program and Score Card

TASTE the difference tonight -- FEEL the difference tomorrow

White Rock Sparkling Mineral Water 

The QUALITY Mixer for Highballs, Collins' and All Tall Drinks. 

Ask for Chesterfield. They Satisfy

Buy and Hold War Bonds 

Print Ads, 1943: From the Philadelphia Phillies Official Score Card, Third Number

Times Change, but . . . Schmidt's remains the same. Keep Buying U.S. War Bonds and Stamps. 

Now showing at these air-conditioned Stanley-Warner Theatres: 

Boyd -- 19th & Chestnut

Fox -- 16th & Market

Aldine -- 19th & Chestnut

Mastbaum -- 20th & Market

Shangri-La: The Show-Place of America: Dinners $1.25. 1526 Market Street.

Advertisements from 1947

Garcia y Vega bonded Pure Havana Cigar (1947).

Ever Hear a High Ball?

Experience is the best teacher!

These are from a New York Yankees 1947 official program and scorecard, part of a scrapbook my Dad kept with a lot of Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies and other sports-related paper artifacts.

Del France: Hardtack from 1917 (The Great War)

This is some serious hardtack -- a hard cracker made for soldiers nearly 100 years ago!

Hardtack (soldier's) thrown from troop train (Big 4 Railroad), Livingston, Illinois, on November 10, 1917, found by Del France (1908-1966), my paternal grandfather, when he was nine years old. My Dad had it for nearly fifty years. Now I have it.

Army of the Cussewago: List of Campaigns, 1960s-1990s

This was an ongoing list compiled by D. Armour Hillstrom (March 2, 1916-February 13, 2012).  The literal title is "LIST OF C[ivil] W[ar] TROMPS BY YEAR" of the Army of the Cussewago, led by Jay Luvaas (January 15, 1927-January 9, 2009).

From the files of my father, Donald Delbert France (February 1, 1934-November 2, 2013). 

Nineteenth Century Photography: The Case of the Double Portraits

These artifacts were in my father's library. I do not know their provenance, but do know he was friends with a man he referred to as Manny Kean in Philadelphia, proprietor of "The Kean Archives." He may have acquired this set from Mr. Kean in the 1970s.  This portrait (a tintype or ambrotype, I suppose, third choice being a daguerreotype) of a clean-shaven man sporting a medal of some kind was wedged over a second, probably older portrait of a man sporting a neat beard. 

Because this is a low-intensity scan, the bearded man seems a little out of focus. I'll have to photograph it for a sharper reproduction.  If anyone recognizes these gentlemen or can add anything to the technical aspects of these artifacts, by all means do leave a comment, or email me at efrance23@gmail.com  Much obliged!

  Outside case, front.

Inside of case, front. 

More West Virginia, 1975

These are digitized scans of photographic slides taken by my father, Donald Delbert France (1934-2013), while on an American Civil War tromp in West Virginia with the Army of the Cussewago, led by Jay Luvaas, in 1975. The latter is to the right, wearing a red jacket, with white hair. 

This one is included because I can identify exactly where it was taken: Lewiston, West Virginia. The Fort Savannah Inn was "abandoned" at some point, but the grounds are being converted into a park and market, at least as of the summer of 2013. There's an article about it here. There's a lot of history in Lewiston, population currently about 4,000.

From a vantage point in the area of Hawks Nest State Park, West Virginia.

An impressive pig, somewhere on or near Cheat Mountain.

West Virginia, 1975

These are digitized scans of photographic slides taken by my father, Donald Delbert France (1934-2013), while on an American Civil War tromp in West Virginia with the Army of the Cussewago, led by Jay Luvaas, in 1975. This first one is from a vantage point in the area of Hawks Nest State Park, overlooking a bridge over the New River. This is near Gauley Bridge and the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster of the 1930s. There is a documentary about the latter -- link here. 

Donald Delbert France: Business Cards, 1980s-1990s

Qualex, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
3000 Croasdaile Drive
Durham, NC  27705

Donald D. France
Senior Vice President
Sales & Marketing, Retail Trade

The Fuller Brush Company 

DONALD D FRANCE
NATIONAL ACCOUNT SALES

PHOTO MARKET MAKERS
Donald D. France, President

Durham, North Carolina  27705
group 23

PHOTO MARKET MAKERS
(In Japanese). 

Donald Delbert France Business Cards: 1970s-1980s

DONALD D. FRANCE

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

[COLORCRAFT CORPORATION: A FUQUA COMPANY]

3000 CROASDAILE DRIVE

DURHAM, N.C. 27705

TELEPHONE 919/383-8535

Territorial Vice President

DON FRANCE

Colorcraft Corporation . . .

PHOTO MARKETING ASSOCIATION
PMA

International Headquarters

603 Lansing Avenue

Jackson, Michigan  49202

(517) 783-2807

Donald Delbert France: Business Cards, 1950s-1960s

D. France
ASS'T DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING SERVICES

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT

National Metal Trades Association

Jenkintown, Penna.  19046

DONALD D. FRANCE
TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE

HEICO, INC.

QUALITY THROUGH RESEARCH

STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA