One of John Leech's Original Illustrations for A Christmas Carol |
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Baldwin-Reynolds Reflects Shared Dickens Era Past
Location:
Crawford County, PA, USA
Friday, November 3, 2017
Settler Disputes with Land Companies and the Burr Conspiracy
Crawford County does not have much of a history of domestic strife. The county was largely unsettled during the time of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 never touched the county, and political conflict never erupted into violence as Bleeding Kansas did. There is, however, one instance of a domestic dispute that divided the region for nearly thirty years toward the end of the 1800s.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
John Mathers -Photographer of the Early Oil Region
Cherry Run, Taken in 1864 |
A Passion for a New Art
Much of the world’s first oil boom was captured in the photography of one John A. Mather, an English immigrant whose love for his art allowed such a vivid picture of Crawford County’s history to be preserved. Though Mather did not travel to the US to pursue photography initially, he was enthralled by the prospects of the budding practice when he met a traveling daguerreotypist. This early photography was a dangerous art, with corrosive and hazardous chemicals needed to develop even a single photograph. But such is the burden of the artist, and Mr. Mathers bore the potential dangers of his trade well.
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