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Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
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Sycamore (IL) School 1892
This wonderful photo is in poor condition. I posted this several years ago, but I think these photos are better.
A note on the back (written recently) says Sycamore Illinois about 1892.
A name at the top left is _nna Tepson, maybe Anna. The name at the top right is Prof. A. J. Blanchard.
Some of the student names are readable on the left. Those at the bottom, not so legible. But I can see my grandfather’s name, Amos Claycomb. He would have been six years old in 1892.
Rolltop Desk
What would you do if you found a vintage, broken rolltop desk on the side of the road?
My father, Frank Claycomb, and his good friend, Otto Eickhoff, did find one that had obviously fallen off a vehicle. They, of course, picked up all the pieces and brought them home. It took a while, but they put it all back together and here they are posing with the rebuilt rolltop desk. 1989.
Guaymas and Rocky Point Mexico 1940
In the 1940s My father, Frank Claycomb, went with customers to Mexico on fishing trips. These are a few of the surviving photos.
2nd from left Lou Stillwell PA Tucson Gas and Electric Co.
5th from left – in big hat Chas Whitehead.
A Move Not Made
I found an unused pack of business cards for Dad. Anaconda, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dad never transferred to the Cincinnati office.
He worked for Anaconda in St. Louis, transferred to Detroit, and again to Los Angeles. The family lived on Stanley Hills Drive in Hollywood in 1939 and during the Second World War. Not an easy time, but they liked the Southern California winters more than those in the Midwest.
Dad left Anaconda when they wanted to transfer him to Cincinnati. He took a job in San Diego with Pacific Wholesale Electric Company in 1945. I was born in San Diego rather than Ohio.
And that made all the difference? Who knows?
Dad’s Back
My sister, Jeanie, waiting for Dad (on right) to return from a sales trip. Taken about 1946 at the train station in San Diego, California.
Today would have been Frank Claycomb’s 107th birthday.
Jennie Townsend and Charles Webster
Jennie Townsend Webster and Charles Albert Townsend Webster enlarged from a small Kodak picture taken in California 1921.
Helen Harrigfeld
A 1921 letter of application for a teaching job in Wayne, Nebraska. Helen Harrigfeld from Emerson, Nebraska wrote on March 21, 1921.
Lillie Scott
Another applicant for a teaching position in the Wayne, Nebraska, school district. Lillie Scott wrote on May 21, 1923. She even enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope, which sadly was not returned to her.
Frances Surber
Miss Frances Surber applied for a teaching position at the Wayne, Nebraska, school district where my grandfather, Amos Claycomb, was on the board. This is her letter of June 8, 1923.
This I Leave 