Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey

workplace safety in the 1950s

Dec 5

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My dad was an engineer at Phillips Petroleum and evidently took his camera to work with him.

Check out the workplace safety provisions that were in use in the 1950s!

Phillips Petroleum
Borger, Texas
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leg show

Dec 4

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There are several things here – a Folger’s can with a plant, a concrete porch, a washtub tipped up with water and something in it. And my mom, crouched there on the grass, doing…something.

My dad wrote “leg show” on the back of the photo, so while that’s amusing, it isn’t at all explanatory…

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a very pale ada ruth

Dec 3

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There was a point in his life that my dad did quite a bit of photography. He was a civil engineer so very few of his images were anything other than just-the-facts sort of photos.
But this one. This one makes me laugh because I imagine that he set this shot up to see what it was like to be “artistic.” That’s my mom, being (possibly) blinded by that refrigerator-based beacon (I don’t think late 1940s refrigerators came with that level of light inside so it feels like there was some level of planning and implementation to this.) There’s no negatives, no other similar photos that I can find. So this was the best one of the bunch? Or the only one?
No one knows and it doesn’t even matter.
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calm horseman

Dec 2

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I don’t know – I just like the way this gentleman seemed so calm and yet in command when he was on that horse. And I love that he had a pen in his shirt pocket. And don’t even get me started on how his dusty black hat is obviously a work hat.

The horse, by the way, sold for $28,000.

Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.23.2024

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horse/tail

Dec 1

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Y’all! Y’ALL!!

Can you believe that just before a blond-tailed horse came into the auction ring, a woman with very long, very straight blonde hair sat down right in front of me?

Oh, those photography gods were having a good time!

Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.23.2024

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