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View from a Starrett City Elevator Lobby

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

View from my mother’s elevator lobby at Starrett City of the courtyard and water treatment plant in the background. The trees desperately clinging leaves catching the oblique sun before they plunge into late fall’s torpor – Earth’s curvature frowning at the coming cold.

Flatbush Paperwhites (Narcissus tazetta)

Paperwhites - © Frank H. Jump

Paperwhites - © Frank H. Jump

Paperwhites - © Frank H. Jump

Paperwhites - © Frank H. Jump

P.S. 119 Amersfort School's Fifth Grade Photoclub Visits the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery

Fifth Grader Photo

Fifth Grader Photo

Check out my students’ work and leave them some comments! I co-facilitate an afterschool photography program with my colleague Jenny Hobson, who secured a Jordan’s Fundamentals grant two years in a row now.

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins – 90 Count – 10¢ – Made in USA – for Lidian

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - CT

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - Waterbury, CT - front

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - CT

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - Waterbury, CT - back

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - CT

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - Waterbury, CT- open front

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - CT

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - Waterbury, CT- open inside

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - CT

Clinton Rustproof Brass Silk Pins - Scovill Manufacturing Co - Division of Oakville Co - Waterbury, CT- close-up on trademark

My mom is cleaning out a closet and giving me suitcases filled with photographs of our family and other cherished gems & ephemera. Who know what were will find – and then scan and post?

Scovill Manufacturing History @ The Lampworks

NY Frame & Picture Co – … & Son Mens Clothes – Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Third Avenue & 60th Street - © Frank H. Jump

Third Avenue & 60th Street - © Frank H. Jump

NY Frame & Picture Co. © Frank H. Jump

NY Frame & Picture Co. 116 Fulton Street NYC © Frank H. Jump

Another one of Vincenzo’s finds!

South Brooklyn Sisal – 14th Street & Hamilton Place

© Frank H. Jump

"Manila, Nylon, Sisal, Wire, Rope, Chain © Frank H. Jump

Lettering Grows in Brooklyn – Paul Shaw – AIGA dot org – January 23, 2008

Paul Shaw - AIGA dot org

Paul Shaw - AIGA dot org

Check out Paul Shaw’s January 2008 article!

Paul Shaw’s slide presentation of Brooklyn signage PDF (6.4 MB)

Hobo Days – Britt, Iowa – Bob Kisken

These are pictures of the Hobo Days in Britt Iowa. It is held there every year in August. Among other things they do is elect the Hobo king and queen for the next year. Go to eee.hobo.com for more info. These are 2 picture I took there. Will start to do more people in black and white cheers bob

"These are pictures of the Hobo Days in Britt Iowa. It is held there every year in August. Among other things they do is elect the Hobo king and queen for the next year. These are 2 picture I took there. Will start to do more people in black & white. cheers bob" © Bob Kisken

Go to National Hobo Museum for more info.

ACT-UP Memorial Sloan-Kettering Demonstration – July 24, 1987

© Jon Nalley

Frank H. Jump with his Nikon © Jon Nalley - Facebook

Check out Phil Zwickler’s archive at NYPL

Philip Hall Preston Reed – February 21, 1949 – November 6, 2008

A Celebration of the Life of Philip H. Reed - The Riverside Church - Thursday, December 4, 2008