Category: photography

Cabinet Card

~ Tim Jeffers

A Cabinet card by Edouart & Cobb, San Francisco. David Cobb was born circa 1851 on Prince Edward’s Island. He married an Irish girl named Margaret  and they came to the United States on 4 March 1869 on board the “Australasian”. He immediately set up his photography studio in San Francisco . He later joined with Alexander Edouart, also from England, to form Edouart and Cobb.

Engine Order Telegraph

~ Tim Jeffers

An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., also referred to as a Chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed.

This one is located on the S.S. American Victory located in Tampa, Florida.

Headless Dinosaur

~ Tim Jeffers ~ 2 Comments

 Just outside of Brooksville Florida sits an unfinished dinosaur. It was started by August Herwede, who fell from scaffolding while working on this  Headless Dinosaur in 1967 and later died. He was inspired by 1964’s NY World’s Fair Dinoland to make his own.