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er if nancy reagan can do it then i can do it as the dinner ended both tables of guests moved toward the living room i found myself walking beside the first lady and i exclaimed to her he s such a marvelous story teller i quickly forgot my comment but nancy remembered it because she noticed and remembered every detail and everything that anyone said a few months later early in 1986 nick and i received an invitation to a state dinner at the white house to be given by the reagans on march 18 on the occasion of the visit of the prime minister of canada brian mulroney and mrs mulroney i began an arduous search for a dress and with nick s help i settled on one with a long black skirt and a pleated white bodice folded like a fan we discovered it at a store called sumiko in framingham ma it cost 700 00 more than my wedding dress but nick loved it and insisted i buy it on march 18 1986 in washington we inched forward to the white house door in a rented limousine and finally were welcomed by military aides who checked our passports we were led down a long hall and into a room where the roped off press waited and our names were announced the aide with the microphone whispered to me i like your dress i was in heaven at the top of a staircase aides handed us our table assignments nick was at table nine i was at 11 little did i know what a significant number it was the u s marine orchestra serenaded us to the east room decorated with white tulips and flowering cherry trees strung with tiny white lights we began to recognize celebrities including ballerina cynthia gregory fiat chairman gianni agnelli columnist william f buckley and prince karim aga khan with princess salimah aga khan who was wearing a double row of diamonds interspersed with emeralds as big as marbles the orchestra broke into ruffles and flourishes as a voice announced the reagans and the mulroneys the first lady was wearing a floor length galanos gown in wide horizontal stripes of sparkling gold and silver they formed a receiving line which we were directed through husbands first unattended ladies like kate nelligan that night were provided with a military escort then we headed toward the state dining room with tables decked with gold candlesticks gold flatware and gold bowls of red and white tulips and of course nancy s famous reagan china service that cost 200 000 but from private not taxpayers funds i was led to a table in front of the fireplace and when i saw mila mulroney led to a seat across from me i began to realize yes there he was i was at the president s table an incredible favor to a non famous person like myself in retrospect i think it was the remark i made to nancy about the president s storytelling that won me that place because i later learned that the first lady herself handled every detail of the seating for every event the others at the president s table were walter payton the famous running back for the chicago bears allen murray the chairman of mobil donna marella agnelli burl osborne president and editor of the dallas morning news and pat buckley who sat next to the president smoking throughout the meal subscribe to the morning email wake up to the day s most important news once again president reagan kept us entertained with non stop stories i was so rapt that when a waiter stood behind me holding a bowl the president had to gesture to me saying you d better take some salad he was telling a series of stories about ghosts his family had encountered in the white house stories that i like to repost every halloween on my blog i remember every detail of that evening both the embarrassing ones and the glorious ones embarrassing after dinner ended and everyone headed to the next room for demitasse and after dinner liqueurs i sidled around our table to see if i could snitch the president s hand lettered place card as i closed in the majordomo a genial white hair gentleman handed me the place card somebody always comes to get it for a souvenir he said smiling glorious moment after a concert in the east room the reagans danced to tunes from broadway musicals played by the marine dance band before the clock struck midnight they started to head off toward their private quarters and as they passed the first lady suddenly stopped and seized my hand and nick s saying we must have a photograph with the gages before we go i lost the ability to speak nancy pulled kate nelligan and walter payton into the picture flashbulbs popped and then the reagans were gone i wouldn t have been surprised if at the stroke of midnight i turned into a pumpkin here s what i know about nancy reagan who is now reunited with the love of her life she noticed every detail she was the power behind the throne and my mother was right she was a great lady posted by by joan gage at 2 36 pm 1 comment labels eleni lbd little black dress lucky roosevelt nancy reagan nicholas gage pretty powerful ronald reagan white house dinner worcester historical museum saturday november 9 2019 part 2 hunting for cowboys and indians on weds oct 30 i published my first post about investigating three western themed vintage real photo postcards hunting for cowboys and indians part 1 in the post i told how i tried but never quite succeeded to confirm that the white haired gentleman above was a valuable image of geronimo or was it sitting bull now i ve turned my attention to the postcard of a man in a cowboy hat and leather chaps holding two very large snakes it s labelled rattlesnake joe souvenir of the fair i m no expert on snakes but i knew those snakes he had wrapped around himself were not rattlesnakes more likely boa constrictors thanks to this identification i thought it would be easy to track down the career and importance of rattlesnake joe and to find out if he like geronimo was on exhibit at the famous 1904 world s fair in st louis it wasn t that easy after all to connect rattlesnake joe to the st louis world s fair but i did find through google this great photo it s a 5 by 7 glass negative in the collection of the library of congress with no known restrictions on publication as you can see someone has written on the glass negative westchester co fair midway 7 89 15 i can t figure out if those numbers are meant to be a date but online i found another view of this image with those same numbers and it s been labeled westchester county fair 1915 i love everything about this image beautiful mermaid captured alive reptile joe the king of the reptile world and most of all the overhead sign saying wild rose rattlesnake joe i was happy to see that joe had a lovely partner in his snake charming act the man with the big snake standing on the platform does seem to resemble my rattlesnake joe on the postcard but in less flashy clothes the man next to him with the megaphone is clearly advertising joe to the crowd but the man on the ground in the business suit who appears to be holding a small snake has drawn the attention of some of the gawking young boys is he holding an actual rattlesnake is he challenging joe with a little more detective work i discovered that a contemporary artist named mike savad has colorized this iconic image of a fair midway with all its excitement and drama above i think he did a brilliant job of adding color to the innate drama of the scene and he s selling prints of his colorized work on his website mikesavad com and fineartamerica com my enthusiasm about my rattlesnake joe postcard dwindled a bit when i tested my three vintage postcards to find out if they were real photos i knew that real photo post cards rppcs are far more valuable than postcards that are printed like magazine and newspaper images i had read that in 1902 kodak came out with a preprinted post card photo paper back that allowed postcards to be made directly from negatives but a negative would only allow a limited number of prints while standard printing methods can be produced in huge numbers according to old house journal this technology allowed photographers to travel from town to town and document life in the places they visited real photo postcards became expressions of pride in home and community and were sold as souvenirs in local drug stores and stationary shops i also learned that the best way to tell if you re holding a real photo postcard or a printed one is to look at the image through a magnifying glass if it s a real photo the image is solid but if it s not a real photo the magnified image immediately dissolves into thousands of tiny dots just like images in the newspaper or magazines sadly rattlesnake joe failed this test as soon as i got out my magnifying glass my other two western images my i think geronimo and the ancient squaw both passed with flying colors the shades of sepia the sioux matriarch and gray geronimo fading into each other without dissolving into dots i was disappointed that rattlesnake joe didn t pass the test and was starting to suspect that he wasn t any more western than i am but i did find a duplicate of my rattlesnake joe card for sale on ebay in worse condition than mine for sale from the postcard dude selling for 12 57 which is more than the dollar or so that i thought it was worth the ancient sioux squaw i love her beaded necklaces and the feathered stick she s holding and the geronimo rppc could be worth many times rattlesnake joe i learned that the back of a postcard can also hold information about the age and maker of a postcard even if it s blank check the printed box where the stamp is supposed to go and look up the words and design on line at playe s real photo stamp boxes the stamp box of the geronimo postcard below shows noko is the maker and if you look on playe s you see that particular design was used between 1907 and 1934 if there s no name on the back but just a design as in the rattlesnake joe card below you can go to playle s real photo postcard stamp backs on line which i did but this design was not there because as i learned it s not a real photo the back of the ancient sioux squaw post card below had the most information first i looked up on playle s the particular kruxo stamp box design and learned it was used by the manufacturer between 1908 and 1910 then i googled the name of the photographer on the side real photograph by holmboe white new salem n d i learned that frithjof holmboe was born in norway in 1879 and immigrated to minnesota just like my paternal grandmother he became a photographer and opened his first studio in new salem north dakota in 1907 two years later he moved it to bismarck n d and became the state s official photographer so that tells us that the ancient sioux squaw was photographed between 1907 and 1909 despite the fact that my three western photo postcards will not make me rich i enjoyed learning the stories behind these images and exploring a different branch of photography that took the newborn art of the camera out of the photographer s studio and into our expanding country s early history posted by by joan gage at 2 59 pm no comments labels 1904 world s fair ancient sioux squaw geronimo holmboe white kodak mike savad playle s real photo stamp boxes rattlesnake joe real photo postcards wednesday october 30 2019 hunting for cowboys and indians the story behind the photos about a year ago at an indoor yard sale on a college campus in worcester ma i bought these three photo postcards for very little money can t remember how much but it was less than 20 they were a sepia photo with the words ancient sioux squaw marked on the negative a man dressed as a cowboy holding two snakes over the words rattlesnake joe souvenir of the fair and a photograph of a white haired man wearing a white shirt vest and jacket with no identification at all but i guessed he was native american and probably of importance to be dressed in european style let me say up front that i understand the name indian is offensive to native americans because it s not accurate and even more offensive is the derogatory term squaw for female native americans but i often have to use such words when researching antique photos in my collection because they were used to identify 19 th century photos since the terms were in common use at that time i usually don t collect postcards for several reasons i m more interested in photos taken in the nineteenth century the earliest photographs and photos on postcards didn t appear until the beginning of the twentieth century 1903 also postcard collectors number in the millions it s the third largest collectible hobby in the u s and at ephemera auctions they buy boxes of hundreds of old postcards which are worth pennies each i have no expertise in postcards and little patience for sorting through them but i do know that authentic vintage photos concerning native americans and scenes of the old west are always of greater value than most by the way if you find yourself in possession of a daguerreotype or any antique photograph of gold miners in california or maybe an original image of jesse james dead body you can probably sell it to finance your retirement thus began my hunt to determine the identity and value of the three individuals in my western postcards as any collector will tell you this is the fun part trying to track down the story behind your latest acquisition hoping to find a nugget of gold amid all the pebbles and stones starting with the white haired gent i typed indian chief into google how did i live before the internet my life through high school college and graduate school was one long trek from one library to another as soon as i clicked on google images i said bingo this is geronimo i had heard of geronimo of course but never knew the fascinating story of his life will try to sketch the highpoints geronimo was born june 1829 became prominent leader and medicine man from apache tribe 1850 to 1886 joined fellows to carry out raids and resistance against u s and mexican military in mexico and new mexico his fellow apaches thought he had supernatural gifts including foreknowledge he had nine wives the first one named alope they had three children she and the children and geronimo s mother were all killed in a raid by mexican soldiers in 1858 in 1886 geronimo surrendered to lt charles b gatewood an apache speaking west point graduate who had earned his respect he was a prisoner of war in fort bowie arizona then exiled to florida in his old age geronimo became a celebrity and appeared at world s fairs including the 1904 world s fair in st louis where he sold souvenirs and photographs of himself and even buttons off his coat sewing on new buttons overnight he died at the fort sill hospital in 1909 at the age of 80 still a prisoner of war convinced that my guy was geronimo i set the photos and research aside and recently came back to them to write this blog post but in browsing i came upon a photo of sitting bull and said uh oh he looks a lot like my geronimo sitting bull a lakota leader born about 1831 led his people du...