{"id":25853,"date":"2023-05-08T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=25853"},"modified":"2023-05-07T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T04:07:35","slug":"what-the-heck-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/what-the-heck-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":"what the heck is THAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25854\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Pope-1902.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25854\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Pope-1902-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a 1902 Pope automobile driven by Dr Farmer arrives in Ancaster Township.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Today, we take automobiles (a.k.a cars) for granted. But at the beginning of the last century cars were a novelty seldom seen outside cities. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/preview.hpl.ca:8080\/Sites\/latelogin.jspx?recordsWithCatalogName=IMDB:25&amp;r=1683310808318#1683431088586_4\">Around 1902<\/a>, an automobile visited Ancaster Township in Ontario (Hamilton area). \u00a0It was the first automobile to ever visit the township.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Manufacturing_Company\">Pope<\/a>, made by a firm based in Hartford Connecticut and driven by it&#8217;s owner, Dr . George Farmer.\u00a0Look carefully at the photograph. Just imagine the number of words it would take to describe the children, the driver, the automobile details, and the locale.<\/p>\n<p>Once again we can easily see the value photographers brought to history, augmenting the text with <em>visual<\/em> presentations. This particular photograph is courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpl.ca\/\">Hamilton Public Library<\/a> archives.<\/p>\n<p>And a big &#8216;thank you&#8217; to our good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar for offering the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/preview.hpl.ca:8080\/Sites\/latelogin.jspx?recordsWithCatalogName=IMDB:25&amp;r=1683310808318#1683432338661_1\">HPL archives<\/a>. Remember, collectors of photographs and photo historians, don&#8217;t overlook your local archives and their potential wealth of information and photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Today, we take automobiles (a.k.a cars) for granted. But at the beginning of the last century cars were a novelty seldom seen outside cities. \u00a0Around 1902, an automobile visited Ancaster Township in Ontario (Hamilton area). \u00a0It was the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/what-the-heck-is-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[60,1872,686,339,220],"class_list":["post-25853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-archives","tag-library","tag-photographers","tag-photographs","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25859,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions\/25859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}