The Flickr 1905 Image Generatr

XIR178902 Portrait of Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) 1905 (oil on canvas) by Morot, Aime Nicolas (1850-1913)
oil on canvas
140x98
Chateau de Versailles, France
Lauros / Giraudon
French, out of copyright

The Postcard

A Valentine's Series postcard that was printed in Great Britain. The card was posted in Nayland, Suffolk using a ½d. stamp on Tuesday the 19th. September 1905. The card was sent to:

Mrs. A. Wise,
High Street,
Potterspury,
Nr. Stony Stratford,
Bucks.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Dear A,
Am sending parcel
today. Will you please
send Lil another shilling
if you can spare it when
you send the rest, as I
owe her one for altering
the seams on my beige
jacket.
If you can't spare it, let
me know when you
write.
I am glad to say I am
very well.
Love to you all,
Dolly."

The message dramatically illustrates the effects of inflation on the pound sterling - there were 20 shillings to the pre-decimalised pound, so these days you would need 70 shillings just to buy a cup of coffee.

The First Ascent of the Barbarine

So what else happened on the day that Dolly posted the card?

Well, on the 19th. September 1905, the first-ever ascent of the
Barbarine took place.

The Barbarine is the best-known free-standing rock formation in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. It is a rock pinnacle, 42.7 metres (140 ft) high, and is the symbol of Saxon Switzerland.

An ascent by the climber Felix Wendschuh, on the 9th. September 1905 was the first documented attempt to climb the Barbarine. He climbed up to a point underneath the summit block.

On the 19th. September 1905 the Dresden climber Rudolf Fehrmann and the American, Oliver Perry-Smith, succeeded in becoming the first to conquer the Barbarine. They had climbed to just under the summit before midday, but were too tired to scale the last overhang on the summit head until later.

-- Preservation of the Barbarine

Lightning strikes on the summit and progressive erosion rendered the upper part of the pinnacle increasingly unstable, so that in 1946 mountaineers poured concrete into the hollow. Due to the continued erosion, in 1964 further work was carried out; the summit block being underpinned and supported with steel cables.

The broken summit block was protected from further erosion by a surrounding steel cable. However it was not until 1975 that a general ban on climbing the pinnacle was imposed.

In 1979/80, the summit blocks were reinforced with sandstone. The upper block was given a cap of artificial sandstone, and was treated with water-repellent chemicals. The geological natural monument is only climbed occasionally today – mainly by geologists and scientists who hope to avert further damage.

-- The Legend of the Barbarine

According to legend, the Barbarine is a petrified virgin:

"The perpetual memorial of a punishment,
according to which it so happened that a
mother had told her daughter to go to church
on Sunday, but during the service the daughter
went up the Pfaffenstein into the bilberries, and
when her mother found her there, she cursed
her daughter in anger, pronouncing that she
must be turned to stone on the spot; whereupon
it happened in a moment, and therefore, this
virgin turned to stone for ever warns all
disobedient children with her stony appearance."

The name Barbarine was taken from the girl's Christian name. In a variation of this legend, the mother is an evil witch and the girl meets her beloved, a hunter, at the Pfaffenstein.

Judith Auer

The day also marked the birth in Zurich of the Swiss-born German World War II resistance fighter Judith Auer.

Auer was arrested at her workplace on the 7th. July 1944 and was later tortured. She was sentenced to death at the Volksgerichtshof, and hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on the 27th. October 1944. Judith was 39 years of age when she died.

Thomas John Barnardo

The 19th. September 1905 was not a good day for Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, because he died in London at the young age of 60 on that day.

Thomas was an Irish-born English philanthropist who founded the Barnardo's charity for vulnerable children.

IMAGE INFO
- Un-named photographer's viewpoint is looking west [standing where Scylla Bay Oval now exists]
- Similar P.O.V. from 2020:
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SOURCE INFO
- Downloaded a digital copy of the original faded & emulsion damaged B&W scan held courtesy of Sutherland Shire Libraries:
localhistory.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/845
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COPYRIGHT INFO
- Out of copyright [published pre-1955].
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PROCESS INFO
- Image partially cropped & enhanced using Topaz Gigapixel AI, Skylum Luminar Neo AI & Adobe Photoshop CS2.

IMAGE INFO
- Un-named photographer's viewpoint is looking NNW [standing approximately where Verona Range now exists]
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SOURCE INFO
- Downloaded a digital copy of the original faded & emulsion damaged B&W scan held courtesy of Sutherland Shire Libraries:
localhistory.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/848?ke...
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COPYRIGHT INFO
- Out of copyright [published pre-1955].
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PROCESS INFO
- Image partially cropped & enhanced using Topaz Gigapixel AI, Skylum Luminar Neo AI & Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Looking north from 52nd Street,
photographer unknown

Follow up letter to H.A. LaGrandeur from Signal Mail Box Company, dated June 15, 1905

Letter to H.A. LaGrandeur from Signal Mail Box Company, dated May 22, 1905

The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Leicester using a ½d. stamp on Saturday the 30th. September 1905. It was sent to:

Miss Pallett,
72, High Street,
Plaistow,
London.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Dear Auntie,
We arrived home soon
after 10 o'clock.
It poured with rain all
the way to Castlethorpe,
but it was beautiful and
fine when we got to
Leicester.
Trusting you have enjoyed
your holiday,
With love,
Beatie."

Cliveden Woods

Cliveden Woods (not Clivedon) are situated within the Cliveden estate. The majestic trees of Cliveden Woods near Taplow, Buckinghamshire make up the lion’s share of the 375 acre grounds that belong to Cliveden House (made famous by the Profumo affair back in the 1960’s).

Cliveden House is a 350 year old Grade 1 listed stately home that is now an up-market hotel. The building and the grounds are beautiful. There is plenty to see: the woodland is peppered with majestic trees, peaceful glades and far-reaching views across the Berkshire countryside, as the woodlands sit high up above the River Thames. There are also some unusual features such as a flint grotto and a section of giant sequoia trees.

It is possible to follow paths created by the National Trust right down to the banks of the Thames where it is possible to catch a glimpse of the house.

Nevill Francis Mott

So what else happened on the day that Beatie posted the card?

Well, the 30th. September 1905 marked the birth in Leeds of the English physicist Nevill Francis Mott.

Nevill was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of amorphous semiconductors. Nevill died in 1996.

Michael Powell

Also born on that day, in Bekesbourne, Kent, was the English filmmaker and director Michael Powell. Michael died in 1990.

Juliusz Kunitzer

The 30th. September 1905 also marked the death of the Polish industrialist and Russian collaborator Juliusz Kunitzer.

Juliusz was shot to death at Łódź by activists of the Polish Socialist Party following the end of the five-day insurrection that ended on the 25th. June.

In downtown Rhinelander, Wisconsin, on May 20th, 2024, was a datestone at the former Zion Lutheran Church, presently a residence according to City of Rhinelander property records at apraz.com, on the west side of North Stevens Street, south of West Frederick Street.

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1904 funfact: It was the year of the Great Baltimore Fire and the Second Great Fire of Toronto.

Per MY INTERNET RESEARCH, there has apparently never been an event widely remembered as the "Great Fire of Chattanooga," only non-great fires. For instance, a tank farm blew up in 1972.

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In downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, on January 2nd, 2025, was a datestone at the Old Library Building (completed in 1905, originally a Carnegie Library; surfaced in marble; designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt; 73001776 on the National Register of Historic Places; presently a privately-owned office building) at the southeast corner of East 8th Street and Georgia Avenue.

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We need to be formally thanking the long-dead builders of the buildings in our town!

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In downtown Menominee, Michigan, on May 24th, 2024, was a datestone at the Spies Public Library (built 1903-1905, a "contributing property" in the First Street Historic District, 74000997 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the east side of 1st Street, between 9th Avenue and 10th Avenue.

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Personally I like C.E. better than A.D., but the shapes of the letters and numbers are winsome.

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In downtown Port Huron, Michigan, on October 26th, 2024, was a datestone at a commercial building at 607-609 Huron Ave (the "Citadel," completed in 1905, originally the local branch of the Salvation Army; a "contributing property" in the Military Road Historic District, 98001059 on the National Register of Historic Places), at the northwest corner of Huron Avenue (Interstate 69 Business Loop) and Bard Street.

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The Postcard

A postcard that was published by Francis Frith & Co. Ltd. of Reigate. It was posted in Bridgwater using a ½d. stamp on Tuesday the 6th. June 1905. The card was sent to:

Miss Myra Evans,
'Telegraphs',
GPO,
Cardiff.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Best love. Hope your
finger is better.
I am enjoying my hols
immensely.
Elsie."

Luccombe

Luccombe is a village in the Exmoor National Park in the English county of Somerset. It at the foot of the moor's highest hill, the 1,750 feet (533 m) Dunkery Beacon, and is about one mile south of the A39 road between Porlock and Minehead.

-- History of Luccombe

The name Luccombe is believed to mean either Lufa's valley or valley where the counting was done. There is evidence of Iron Age field systems on the top of Great Hill, and the Sweetworthy Iron Age hill fort.

At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 East Luccombe was held by Ralph de Limesy, passing by the 13th. century to the Luccombe family, and later to the Arundell family. Along with West Luccombe these passed to the Acland family.

In 1944 Sir Richard Acland gave the Holnicote Estate, which includes Luccombe, to the National Trust.

In 1944 Luccombe was the subject of a study by Mass-Observation: the only entirely rural project the government-funded social research organisation ever conducted. The results were later published in W. J. Turner's 1947 book, Exmoor Village.

The village at the time was reported to comprise 24 cottages, with 51 adults and 23 children living in them.

A Royal Wedding

So what else happened on the day that Elsie posted the card?

Well on the 6th. June 1905, Germany's last royal wedding took place.

Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and heir to the throne, was married to Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Berlin.

Philip E. Vernon

The day also marked the birth of the psychologist Philip E. Vernon.

Philip Ewart Vernon was a British-born Canadian psychologist and author. He studied intellectual ability with a focus on race and intelligence.

-- Philip E. Vernon - The Early Years

Philip Vernon was born in Oxford, England on the 6th. June 1905. His father was H. M. Vernon who was a lecturer in physiology at the University of Oxford, and was Great Britain's foremost figure in industrial psychology.

Philip's mother Dorothea Ewart was the author of several works on Italian history.

Philip worked with his wife, Dorothy, in the study of gifted children. They had one son, Philip Anthony Vernon, who also researched intellectual abilities.

When Vernon joined the University of Calgary, he became a Canadian citizen. While in Canada, Vernon participated in winter sports, and was a board member of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.

After Philip's passing in 1987, the University of Calgary started giving an award for higher education students in his name for social sciences, educational psychology, humanities, or fine arts: music and genetics.

-- Philip E. Vernon's Education

Vernon studied classics and natural sciences at Cambridge University before he studied psychology with F. C. Bartlett. In 1927, he graduated with a B.A. with first class honours in physics, physiology, psychology and chemistry.

He received his M.A. in 1930 from St. John's College, and his PhD in 1931 from Cambridge University. His dissertation focused on the psychology of musical appreciation and auditory perception.

Philip had multiple different careers during the 1930's and 1940's, as well as completing multiple postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Harvard before going to the University of London to finish his DSc in 1952.

-- Philip E. Vernon's Role as an Educator

Vernon worked as a professor at different universities once he finished his DSc. After London, Vernon went to the University of Calgary and was made an honorary doctor of laws in 1978.

Vernon studied and lectured in at least twenty-eight countries; and held a number of posts throughout his career.

Rockefeller fellowship allowed him to travel to the United States to gain knowledge on the measurement of personality. Philip acted as psychological research advisor to the Admiralty and War Office creating training methods and selection tests during World War II.

Philip was child psychologist at the Maudsley Hospital Child Guidance Clinic in London in 1933, and head of the psychology department at the University of Glasgow between 1938 and 1947.

Philip was professor of psychology at the University of London in 1964–1968, and professor of educational psychology at the University of Calgary between 1968 and 1978.

Vernon worked with Gordon Allport in order to investigate expressive movement, and to develop the Allport-Vernon Study of Values. Throughout his career, Vernon addressed the topics of heredity and environment and racial differences in intelligence.

Vernon assessed hypotheses about cultural and genetic influences on educational, professional, and economic achievements of Japanese and Chinese immigrants to North America.

In studying the relationship between heredity and environment, Vernon recognized the role of environmental factors, but his research led him to determine that approximately sixty per cent of the variance in human intellectual ability is attributable to genetic factors, and that there is some evidence implicating genes in racial group differences in average levels of mental ability.

Philip received a grant from the Pioneer Fund in 1982, which he used to document the substantial social class differences in IQ scores found in both the US and the UK. According to the Pioneer Fund website, analysis of Great War American military conscripts showed that the average IQ of children born in the professional class was 123, whereas those born to unskilled workers averaged 96.

Vernon concluded that these social class differences have some genetic basis. He based this assessment on his review of the evidence that the intelligence of adopted children related more to the social class of their biological parents than to that of their adopting parents.

Vernon suggested that social mobility allows those with higher intelligence to rise in the social hierarchy, while those with lower intelligence tend to fall.

In 1968, at the age of 63, he abandoned a secure academic career in England in order to start a second career at the University of Calgary.

-- Philip E. Vernon's Major Contributions

Vernon preferred factor analysis for research, and applied this approach to intelligence. At the top of his hierarchical model was Spearman's g, and then there were two major group factors; verbal-educational ability (v:ed) and practical-spatial-mechanical abilities (k:m) which could always be decomposed into smaller factors.

The factors at the top were more general abilities that affected a wide range of intelligent behaviors, while those factors at the bottom involved specific skills for an act. Vernon extended intelligence theory by adding the importance of the test which he called Intelligence C.

Vernon's view of intelligence was a geographic metaphor meaning he viewed intelligence as a map of the mind. The basic unit of analysis in this metaphor is that there are factors that are the sources of individual differences in intelligence among people.

In looking at possible causes for higher IQ scores, Vernon found that people who had faster conduction velocity in the median nerve of the arm had higher IQs.

-- Philip E. Vernon's Publications

Philip was the author of 14 books and approximately 200 journal articles:

Study of Values: A Scale for Measuring the Dominant Interests in Personality (1931)
The Measurement of Abilities (1940)
The Structure of Human Abilities (1950)
Intelligence and Attainment Tests (1960)
Personality Assessment: A Critical Survey (1964)
Intelligence and Cultural Environment (1969)
Creativity: Selected Readings (1970) [editor]
The Psychology and Education of Gifted Children (1977)
Intelligence: Heredity and Environment (1979)
The Abilities and Achievements of Orientals in North America (1982)
Speed of Information Processing and Intelligence (1987)

-- The Death of Philip E. Vernon

Philip died of cancer on the 28th. July 1987 at the age of 82 in Calgary, Canada.

Ehem. Goseriedebad, errichtet 1905 / Architekt Carl Wolff; jetzt Kestnergesellschaft - Fotos von Hannover, Landeshauptstadt von Niedersachsen. © www.christoph-bellin.de Der an der Leine gelegene Ort wurde 1150 erstmals erwähnt und erhielt 1241 das Stadtrecht. Hannover war ab 1636 welfische Residenzstadt, ab 1692 Residenz des Kurfürstentums Braunschweig-Lüneburg und ab 1814 Hauptstadt des Königreichs Hannover. In der Hannover leben auf einer Fläche von 204,3 km² ca. 520 300 Menschen. Ab dem 14. Jahrhundert war Hannover Mitglied der Hans und schied um 1620 aus der Wirtschaftsvereinigung aus; die ehemalige Hansestadt im Städtebund "DIE HANSE".

Fassadenschmuck ehem. Goseriedebad, errichtet 1905 / Architekt Carl Wolff; jetzt Kestnergesellschaft - Fotos von Hannover, Landeshauptstadt von Niedersachsen. © www.christoph-bellin.de Der an der Leine gelegene Ort wurde 1150 erstmals erwähnt und erhielt 1241 das Stadtrecht. Hannover war ab 1636 welfische Residenzstadt, ab 1692 Residenz des Kurfürstentums Braunschweig-Lüneburg und ab 1814 Hauptstadt des Königreichs Hannover. In der Hannover leben auf einer Fläche von 204,3 km² ca. 520 300 Menschen. Ab dem 14. Jahrhundert war Hannover Mitglied der Hans und schied um 1620 aus der Wirtschaftsvereinigung aus; die ehemalige Hansestadt im Städtebund "DIE HANSE".

Ehem. Goseriedebad, errichtet 1905 / Architekt Carl Wolff; jetzt Kestnergesellschaft - Fotos von Hannover, Landeshauptstadt von Niedersachsen. © www.christoph-bellin.de Der an der Leine gelegene Ort wurde 1150 erstmals erwähnt und erhielt 1241 das Stadtrecht. Hannover war ab 1636 welfische Residenzstadt, ab 1692 Residenz des Kurfürstentums Braunschweig-Lüneburg und ab 1814 Hauptstadt des Königreichs Hannover. In der Hannover leben auf einer Fläche von 204,3 km² ca. 520 300 Menschen. Ab dem 14. Jahrhundert war Hannover Mitglied der Hans und schied um 1620 aus der Wirtschaftsvereinigung aus; die ehemalige Hansestadt im Städtebund "DIE HANSE".