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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

More #FoundPhotos featuring students of #Philadelphia's #UniversityoftheArts #UArts from 1969 and 1970. UArts closed in 2024, but decades of supplies and projects were salvaged. #photography #FoundPhotography #Ektachrome

A female artist works up close on a geometric painting. She has long straight brown hair, tied back with a scarf, and is wearing a gray t-shirt with an emblem from Elizabethtown on it. She is seated, working close to the painting which is laid flat, horizontal.

A man with curly/wavy brown hair, long sideburns and a mustache kneels on the floor as he tacks a pencil sketch to a vertical board.

A young man with longish, wavy lighter-colored hair and a mustache looks toward another student whose face is away from us; he is wearing a light shirt with embroidery down the front. Behind him, various artworks are tacked to a wall display.

A young woman with straight, dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark sweater, sits or kneels low to the floor, looking away from painted works posted on a wall.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

When #Philadelphia's #UniversityoftheArts #UArts closed in 2024, decades of supplies and projects were salvaged. I've scanned some #FoundPhotos featuring students from 1969 and 1970. #photography #FoundPhotography #Ektachrome

A young Black woman bends over, various paint jars near her feet, working on a large painting laid on the floor. A shiny galvanized garbage can sits between the artwork and the wall.

A woman wearing a head scarf works on a painting on an easel; the painting is of irregular geometric shapes in various colors, part of which is still unpainted pencil outlines.

Two students work on separate paintings, both on easels, consisting of irregular geometric shapes being filled in blocks of color.

A number of modernist (for 1970) paintings hang on a wall panel. Most are geometric shapes, though the center of focus is paintings that features fantasist or surreal images.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Further searches have not determined whether Mrs. Edna Van Benschoten was ever reunited with her lost book. #OldNewspapers #AlbanyNY #Newspaper

From the Albany, NY Knickerbocker News Action Line, 1970:
Q — Hope my plea will net stump you or lead to
some blind alley. Can you help me trace a book entitled, “Under the Desert Stars” by Frank Koester?
My late husband, Lloyd C. Van Benschoten, illustrated the book and Mr. Koester autographed it and
gave it to him. Somewhere between 1927-31 Lloyd
had a studio on Chapel Street, and a fellow borrowed
the book. He in turn loaned it to someone else and
we lost track of the book. Would appreciate your
help or that of your readers. — Mrs. Edna Van Benschoten, Schenectady. . ’
A — Action Line readers — Can we help Mrs.
Van Benschoten locate her lost book?

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

This little souvenir booklet shows how incredibly charming Storytown U.S.A. was in its original incarnation. It was a very simple amusement park near Lake George, NY, and when last I was there, perhaps 15 years ago, many of these structures were still there […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A sculpture of a whale emerges from a small pool of water – the whale's mouth is just big enough that small children can step inside. I believe there was a fish tank within.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

This 1857 Sprague/Dripps map is just a thing of beauty. Just a little tiny detail here. What are future generations going to use for history when everything has been recorded digitally, and there are no physical sources? #OldMaps #Maps #AlbanyNY #LocalHistory #ErieCanal

Detail from a beautifully drawn 1857 map of Albany, New York by Sprague and Dripps, showing the intersection of the very beginning of the Erie Canal and the surrounding streets in Albany's Lumber District. The waterways and buildings are beautifully shaded in straight pen lines; bridges are simply and clearly indicated, and the lettering is gorgeous.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Sept. 25, 1970: A time when someone would write to the local #newspaper Action Line to figure out where Disney World was, or rather where it was going to be, and a local snowbird had the answer. #OldNewspapers #newspapers #Albany #Schenectady

ACTION LINE RE-ACTION — A few days ago Action Line advised Mrs. G.H.M. of Albany, who was seeking information on the new Disneyland in Florida. to contact the Qrlando Chamber of Commerce. Now.comes more explicit information from Fred L. Flansburgh, owner of Frederick’s Home Service at Ballston Lake, He wrote: “The proper name is Dis- ney World, and it is being built about 15 miles south- west of Orlando. I vacation in the South four months each year, and last spring only one building was up. It has a small movie theater that gives visitors a preview of what Disney World is going to be. The completion date is supposed to be October, 1971.” Mr. Flansburgh enclosed a map that shows Disney World is being set up at the junction of Interstate Route 4 and a road that leads from State Road 535. Action Line is thankful to Mr. Flansburgh for his help.

Action Line solves problems, cuts red tape, Stands up for your rights. Write Action Line. The Knickerbocker News. 645 Albany-Shaker Road, Albany, N.Y. 12201, or The Union-Star, 211 Clinton Street, Schenectady, NY. 12301.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Still getting out on the bike, still learning how to make somewhat interesting videos. Here's an evening roll through the train station at Washington's Headquarters in Valley Forge: www.youtube.com/shorts/3ZAbJhg3xps #cycling #roadcycling #roadbike #valleyforge #insta360

black and white still from a linked video showing the train station at Valley Forge. What is visible here is a stone structure with crisp-looking multi-paned windows, and a portico supported by wooden columns, half fluted and half not, set on rectangular pedestals.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

I just find the weirdest things on maps, both new and old. But at least now I know where to get my hedgehog repaired. #maps

A screen capture from Google Maps showing a location for "Festung Hedgehog Repair."

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

#Ghostsigns of an enormous auto and truck garage from #AlbanyNY – shots I took back in 2010 but current StreetView shows it's pretty much the same today. #sign #signs #signage #ghostsign #UpstateNewYork #upstateNY

The end of a massive brick building with buttressed walls in deteriorating condition. At the top is a faded sign saying "Auto Truck Garage"

A side door to the building , next to a massive garage door. Over the human sized door (which is behind a dumpster full of rubbish) is a sign that once said "Storage." Curiously, half the background of the sign, which was white, has completely disappeared, leaving only the black letters on the brick, but the other half is still quite visible.

The end of a massive brick building with buttressed walls in deteriorating condition. Over a large garage door is a faded sign saying "Auto Truck Garage" There is more but it is illegible.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Having a great early #cycling season, with 11 rides in April and more than 800 km on the season already. Of course, now the rains will come and make it more challenging to get out. New #bike, new computer, #Insta360 camera all giving me new incentive to get out there into the gorgeous early […]

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

As of April 9, I have 488 km of riding on the season (my whole last season was 2000 km) – and a lovely new bike, a Cervélo Caledonia. I went over to the electronic shifting/disc brakes / wide tires cult, and I am not regretting it. I come back from rides so […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

Photograph of a warning sign that says "caution" with a stick figure picture of a rider going over the handlebars of a bicycle, posted on the approach to a small bridge, with bare trees and green ground cover in the background. At the bottom of the picture are statistics from a bike ride, which was a distance of 46.62 km and took 2 hours, with a small elevation gain, 161 m.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

On this day in 1984, I woke up hung over for the last time. I made a pledge I'd made before, but somehow this time it stuck. 42 years sober, 15,342 days without drinking or drugs. If you're struggling, this is to tell you it can be done. Here's what I wrote about it a couple of years ago […]

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

in 1921, this Nosferatu-adjacent creature was meant to entice you to buy sardines. Presumably. #OldNewspapers #Advertising #OldAdvertisements #OldAdvertising

Newspaper advertisement for Underwood's Sardines, featuring a drawing of a long-taloned, pointy-eared and pointy-tailed horned devil standing in front of a tin of sardines, with the slogan "Taste the Taste" over one of his outstretched arms. Beneath, the headline is "Underwood's / The Greatest Sardines in the world / for 10 to 15 cents." There's more copy from the makers of Underwood Deviled Ham, William Underwood Co. of Boston.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

"Let us show you a knife" really didn't take off as a marketing catchphrase. Let's bring it back. #OldNewspapers #OldAdvertising #OldAdvertisements #Schenectady

Old 1913 newspaper advertisement that reads: If you cannot think of anything else let us show you a knife. For boys, girls, ladies and men. Prices 25c to $5.00. Clark Witbeck Co. Community Silver Headquarters

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

My latest #localHistory post looks at my hometown's biggest park, Collins Park, long a center of community along the #MohawkRiver. As some old pictures show, it was sometimes hard to tell apart from the river during floods. I also found a surprise […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A photograph from 1913, showing two buildings – a carriage barn to the left, with a carriage parked outside, and an ice house in the center background, painted with local advertising signs – submerged in flood waters of the Mohawk River.

This real photo postcard of a 1913 flood along Scotia’s Dyke shows the levels the Mohawk River used to reach on a regular basis before the modern Barge Canal brought significantly more control of the river. The building on the postcard with the painted advertisement for Barney’s was the Collins Lake Ice warehouse. Dated April 6, 1913, the writer tells Mrs. E. Howard of Dolgeville: “This picture was taken just this end of the dyke near Sanders this is the way the dyke looked, where the water was so high it was a sight this is four times i have seen it like this the river and the lake was one body of water.”

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

I haven't ridden with a #bikecomputer in years – my last one failed, didn't feel like shelling out hundreds for the feature-laden modern ones. But I finally gave in this week and got a relatively inexpensive Bryton 650 (no subscription, OpenStreeMaps, works with the Bryton tail light radar I got […]

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

I've been a still photographer for decades, but have never had any affinity for video. 1000s of pictures of our kids, almost no videos. But we just bought an Insta360 camera to capture #cycling rides, #kayaking, #hiking, etc., and I'm really enjoying it. Still working out how to edit to make it […]

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Country Joe McDonald was not only key to my musical discovery in my late teens, but his music has become even more important to me as I have become a musician myself in my later years. I cover quite a few of his songs, including the beautiful "Janis." Between his death and John Hammond Jr.'s […]

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

July 1870: Just a couple of months before wildly miscalculating what turned into the Franco-Prussian war. Presented for no particular reason. #OldNewspapers #History #HistoryRepeatingItself

An article from the Troy NY Daily Whig, July 1870:
"That's a very probable story which the London Telegraph prints that Napoleon confessed to its correspondent he should be obliged to lead France to war to save the reins of power from slipping out of his hands. The Emperor doubtless feels all this, but he isn't such a fool as to say so."

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Apparently, in the 1892 New York State census, "tally man" was a job. #genealogy #census #upstateNY

Entries from the handwritten 1892 New York State census. Shown are the listings for John E. Gillett, male, 28, whose occupation is listed as "tally man." Below is his wife, Lillie V. Gillett, female, 24. She is not a tally man.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

February was a rough month for #cycling around these parts, so yesterday was the first day I was able to get out. Here are some nice highlights from the #SchuylkillRiverTrail near #valleyforge #RoadBike #RoadBikes #WinterCycling youtu.be/GryPVrUeuqk

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

This is an old #rppc #postcard that I bought at a shop in #Schenectady a couple of years back. Fascinated with it but never sure just what to do with it. It's a real photo postcard showing "Dick on Mohawk River at Schenectady in 1917 while working in G.E." […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A photograph of a man wearing a large cap, what appears to be a mid-weight, mid-length jacket and trousers, standing on a vast field of broken ice on a frozen river. The low shoreline is in the far distance.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

When I took this – or even ten years ago, for that matter – I could not have imagined that city newsstands would almost completely disappear someday. This is from November 1979, in downtown #SyracuseNY. His name was Pete Mussi, and he was a fixture there for […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Okay, but can Waze tell you where the henhouses are? Don't think so. #OldMaps #Maps #SanbornMaps

A very small detail from a 1905 map, showing an alley drawn through the middle of the picture, and on the corner of a lot against the alley, a yellow rectangular box marked "HENS."

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Hey, turns out employment ad scams are nothing new. Here's a beauty from 1927 that I'm absolutely certain was a totally legitimate opportunity and probably neither murder nor multi-level marketing: #OldNewspapers #ClassifiedAds #HistoricalScams #HelpWanted

A 1927 classified ad reading:

MAN
. R—U—THE MAN?

SAY. FELLOWS, YOU CLAIM TO BE LOOKING A GENUINE POSITION AND HAVE SAID WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF YOU COULD GET IN TOUCH WITH ONE. NOW. THEN, HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY. I SAY IT AND YOU QUESTION MY VERACITY, SO THE WAY TO SETTLE. THINGS IS | FOR YOU TO COME IN AND I WILL PROVE OUR CASE. THIS 1S AN ABSOLUTELY BONA FIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO BECOME IDENTIFIED WITH A CLEAN, PROGRESSIVE. LEGITIMATE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT. FOR INTERVIEW, . BOX 26-F, KNICKERBOCKER PRESS.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Here's another #OldPhoto I took in 1977, one of the earliest photographs I ever took. Love the tone, the composition, the feel of a relaxing moment just reading the newspaper in a public place, waiting for the day to begin. This is in #SyracuseUniversity's I […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A young woman sits on a set of interior stairs, next to a railing, reading an open newspaper. She is seen from above, and is wearing a plaid shirt and light colored pants with sneakers. She has a newspaper spread open across her lap, a section of it lying on the stairway landing behind her. A camera in its case lies at her side. There are no other people in the picture.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Took this picture in 1977, and it fascinates me to this day. It just has that certain something, entirely by accident. #OldPhotos #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto #FilmPhotography #Syracuse #SyracuseUniversity

A young white woman with light, straight hair to her shoulders, wearing a shirt with inch-wide horizontal stripes, is eating a light-colored ice cream cone while looking to her left side. There is a beadboard wainscoating wall behind her, laid horizontally, and in the direction she is looking that is a hand pressed against the wall, just in frame, giving the composition a weirdly ominous tone.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2025

The first college radio broadcast, in 1920, was under the personal call letters of Wendell W. King, a Black Union College student, the chief engineer and an avid amateur radio hobbyist from the age of 12. WRUC did an excellent job telling his story […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

Old sepia photograph of a handsome, tightly coiffed black man, Wendell W. King, from sometime in the 1920s. He is in a three-quarter pose, facing to the left of the viewer, a slight smile or at least a pleasant expression on his face. He has large, expressive eyes, strong cheekbones and a strong chin cleft. He is wearing a white shirt and tie and a suit jacket.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

On my #Localhistory blog, I explore some of the history of the 1730 building that houses the cutest little library in the world (in my estimation), and one of the places that fundamentally shaped me. Here's the story of Scotia, NY's Abraham Glen house […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

This view of the old house that now contains the Scotia Public Library is from the gable end, showing the wrap-around porch, the shuttered windows on the upper stories, a sunroom extension to the right on the park side, and another porch behind that sunroom, which has since disappeared. The house is low but has three stories, with a pitched roof angled over the upper two stories.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

My great great aunt's house in West Glenville, NY, where I spent many summer days in the 1960s and '70s. While it had electricity, it did not have indoor plumbing. We had to draw water from the pump in this picture – drawn through shale, it was quite tasty […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A color photograph of a very old clapboard-covered house. The clapboard is weathered and unpainted. Small windows are seen on either side of a crooked screen door; in the upper story, just below the roofline, are even smaller windows. A clothesline runs from one of the lower windows, with various dishcloths and other rags hanging on it from wooden clothespins. Some small potted flowers sit on a bench beneath the clothesline. In the foreground there is an iron hand-pump on a wooden deck over a well. The pump spout is covered with a rag meant to strain out rust. A galvanized watering can and two plastic buckets, one yellow and one green, sit on the well deck.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Downtown #Schenectady NY, probably autumn 1977. A dreary day in what was then a dreary place, even though I loved it. The Proctor's Theatre on the left has survived and expanded, the old local department store hung on into the early '90s, everything else has […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A woman in a pantsuit crosses a downtown street under an umbrella. In the background, another group of pedestrians crosses in front of stopped cars in a parallel crosswalk. The background is a typical run-down 1970s downtown, with a Proctor's theater marquee on the left (showing "The Other Side of Midnight" and "Race for Your Life Charlie Brown"), a large local department store (The Carl Company), and various other small businesses in a smattering of non-unified buildings. it is raining lightly and everything looks wet and gray.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

I've looked at these #OldPhotos on and off for decades now, and their meaning comes and goes. I have long since forgotten the event itself, and would never have remembered it (me? at a pep rally? preposterous!) without the picture. It occurred to me today […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A very busy scene from a high school pep rally in a gymnasium in the 1970s. Students are moving around on a set of bleachers and on the gym floor. There is confetti and balloons everywhere, and most of the students are blurry, Front and center is one student, a young woman with long straight brown hair, a dark sweater and light blue jeans, holding a leash; at the other end of the leash is a small dog in a sweater on the gym floor.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

1977: High school pep rally attendance was mandatory. A pep rally was also the place you'd be least likely to find me – school spirit has never been my thing – but I did take some pictures, apparently, in rare color. This is our senior class president for […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A young woman, a high schooler, with short somewhat wavy brown hair is wearing a clown outfit, white with red dots all over it, and her head is surrounded by colorful latex balloons attached to her collar; more balloons are pinned to her costume. She is smiling and looking sideways, standing patiently as unseen hands attach balloons to her costume.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

Visiting #TroyNY, went into a fave instrument store because they were offering a "Fuck ICE" fuzz pedal. Not that I need a pedal. But they sold out super quickly . . . so of course I ended up with a new (old) bass instead. Well, at least I'm safe from any […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A cream-colored bass guitar, in a classic guitar shape with a single F-hole spanning the instrument, one scroll above and one below the four bass strings. Three knobs and an output jack on the lower corner, and a standard looking neck and cream headstock. It is posed standing upright against several black and gray screen-covered amplifiers.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Photographically, this is terrible, but it's an absolute moment in time, and that moment was 1982/83. It's me (in the center) with my roommate (left) and my other roommate and eventual wife (right). We were kinda adorable, even in the midst of an amount of […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

Three white college students in 1982 or 1983. On the left, a young man with dark wavy hair, sunglasses, and a jacket and tie, with some kind of pinback button on his lapel. He is leaning his head on the young main in the center, who is wearing a red shirt with an upright collar and pink tinted glasses; his hair is dark and straight, covering his forehead in bangs. Next to them is a young women with curly dark hair, bright eyes, and a smile, wearing a shirt with a kind of zebra stripe pattern.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Still in 1977 – I found some pictures of someone who's been a friend since high school and she was delighted to see them. It eventually occured to me that I may never before have shared many of these pictures that I've looked at thousands of times over the […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A young woman sitting on a chair next to a table in a school room. She has pivoted away from the table, sitting sideways on the chair and now facing the camera. Her right hand is on her hip, and her left arm is extended dramatically, as she cocks her head a bit and makes a big smile, moving her head so that her shoulder-length dark hair is whipping a bit. She has glasses on top of her head, and is wearing a button-down shirt and what looks like a white denim skirt. On the table, and at another table behind her, are several purses and piles of books. On the wall is a cardboard sign on which is written in marker, "Kisses" with 3¢, 4¢ and 5¢ crossed out and "open to offers" written in below.

A young woman in a schoolroom, her elbow up on a chemistry class lab counter, she is turned mostly toward the camera but she is looking further off to the left. Her hair is dark, shoulder length, cut in a '70s style and flipped back – not a Farrah, but in the vicinity. She is wearing a light colored sweater with a snowflake pattern around the neck. She has on large '70s dark framed glasses. Beyond her is another person, not very visible, and a large chalkboard.

A young woman with dark, shoulder-length, flipped-back hair wears a comical nose and glasses with giant eyebrows – Groucho style. She is wearing a colorful top of various colored stripes. Behind her is a bookshelf and another student, not in focus.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

From my #highschool cafeteria in 1977: a friend of mine successfully stacks 10 waxed milk cartons on top of each other – a challenge, as the sides were never perfectly flat. This was one of many ways we killed time at lunch. #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto #filmPhotography #OldPhotos

Black and white photograph of a high school cafeteria. In the foreground are two boys at a round table, one seated, in glasses and a button-down shirt, looking at another boy, standing in a t-shirt with striped collar and sleeves, his hands spread wide as he has just let go of a tower of balanced little milk cartons. 10 of them are stacked, one on top of the other, which was challenging because they were never perfectly flat, always a little bit of curvature to the sides that made them hard to simply stack up. Other cartons are lying on the table, along with books and a purse. A table of other students paying no attention to this is in the background.

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Carl Johnson @cjonthehudson.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Of all the things from my past, the technology that I just cannot believe has completely disappeared is #ColdType pre-press technology – phototypesetting, pasteup, working on light tables to produce mechanicals for anything that had to be printed. These […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A young woman works at pasteup (newspaper mechanical production) in 1977. She is leaning toward us over a light table, so that all we se is her short blondeish hair, parted in the middle, a cream colored sweater, and her hands. She is looking down at her hands, resting on the table, where she is trying to start a piece of graphic tape. Beneath the tape is a sheet of layout paper, onto which are pasted some galleys of type. There are scissors and other implements scattered about the light table.

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