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August, 2013:

Karl Ehmer Pork Store – Ridgewood, Queens

© Vincenzo Aiosa

George Hummel – The Ridgewood Furniture & Carpet House – Bushwick, Brooklyn

1497-1603 – 1900’s telephone numbers © Vincenzo Aiosa

George Hummel, Sr.  (1851-1911) an acclaimed furniture & cabinet maker, was the son of stone mason David Hummel, a German immigrant who settled in Cincinnati, OH in 1841 according to Constance Lee Menefee, “with optimism and a trade.” There he started the Hummel Building Company. Menefee further states:

At that time Cincinnati was on the crest of a building and expansion boom….David Hummel died in 1894, leaving the business in the capable hands of his three sons: George,  Frank and William. Each had been trained as an apprentice to a stone mason, blacksmith or carpenter and each worked at the stone yard and had supervised construction.¹

According to Digging Cincinnati:

In 1893, George Hummel, Sr. was the first to build his home at 3423 Whitfield Avenue. This home remained in his family until his wife, Ella, passed away in 1947. This home, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.²

George Hummel House – Cincinnati, OH – Courtesy of Wikipedia

Kentile Floors Sign from the Gowanus Creek

From the Third Street Bridge – © Frank H. Jump

From a bus depot off Second Avenue © Frank H. Jump

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Claireware Pottery by Claire Weissberg – National Packing Box Factory – James H. Dykeman – Union Street, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Bushwick Paper Box Co. © Frank H. Jump

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543 Union Street – Just by the Union Street Bridge – Claireware Pottery – Handmade porcelain by Claire Weissberg

Buddy Eats His Ice Cream Treat @ Gresham’s in Lake Wallenpaupack, PA

© Frank H. Jump

Ski Rentals – Sales – Service – Custom Ski – Edge & Wax ‘While-U-Wait’ – Firewood – Propane – Rte 115 – Blakeslee, PA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Queens Correspondent – Marie Anne O’Donnell – YMCA – Delicatessen & Lunch – Queensborough Plaza

© Marie Anne O’Donnell

Repeat offender: had to go back, she is a pure stoater! – Marie Anne O’Donnell

We Aren’t Free Until We Are ALL Free – Marriage Equality in Every State in the United States – LGBT Rights All Over the World #boycottrussia

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On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Civil Rights © Frank H. Jump

Hooven Mercantile Co Building – Mauch Chunk – Jim Thorpe, PA

© Frank H. Jump

Rourke Real Estate Watercolor – Coney Island Avenue – 911 Cortelyou Road – Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump