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Epitaph – Dutch Reformed Church – Church Avenue, Brooklyn – September 2007

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Hier is begraaven het lighaam van Andreanthe Hubbard ? vrouw van de overleden Adriaen Voorhees overleden de 23de dag van July 1810. In het 80 jaar haar levens.

Here is buried the body of Andreanthe Hubbard- (beloved?) wife of the deceased Adriaen Voorhees, died on the 23rd day of July 1810. In the 80th year of her life.

Hoi Frank,

That is a very beautiful gravestone indeed. Were did you find that one?

here is the translation:

Hier is begraven het lichaam van Adriantie Hubbard
Huys Vrouw van de Overleden
Adriaen Voorhees
overleden of de 13e dag van July
1810
in het 80e jaar haar leven

Translated word by word:

Here is buried the body of Adriantie Hubbard
Housewife of the late
Adriaen Voorhees
passed away on the 13th day of July
1810
in the 80th year of her life

Wissel

Broadloom – Flatbush Avenue Stroll, Saturday September 29, 2007

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Blue Diamond – Cortelyou Road, Saturday September 29, 2007

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Michaels Bros. – Flatbush Avenue Stroll, Saturday September 29, 2007

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Kit Kaplan @ Atlantic Antic 2007


Kit Kaplan

Hey Kit- I cleared you out of Reckitt’s Blue!

Wissel Photos – Old biscuit factory in Villers-Cotterets, France – August 2007

Wissel Photos
Wissel Photos

Faded ad – verbleekte reclame

Picturesque or delapidated – pittoresk of vervallen ?

Red Hook Revisited – Le Comte & Co. Inc.

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Le Comte & Co., Inc. – Wolcott & Ferris

Tin Cans, Galvanized Iron & Terne Plate Drums for Export & Domestic Grade…”

Aiosa's Sweep of Metropolitan Avenue from Maspeth to Middle Village

© Vincenzo Aiosa
Dining, Dancing, Bowling Choice Wines & Liquors

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa

Kodak, Bohack, Budweiser, Bowling & Tombstones

Furs – Flatbush Avenue Stroll, Saturday September 29, 2007

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Salvation Army – Flatbush Avenue Stroll, Saturday September 29, 2007

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump Snyder Avenue.