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photography. He took pictures up and down the Hudson River valley and in the
Catskills around Kingston. This was in the first years when they started to have
film on celluloid rather than glass, although he even had some pictures that
were on glass. It was a hobby that he had in those early years and then he just
stopped it, apparently, when he moved back to Baltimore because I don't have
any pictures that he took after they came back to Baltimore, probably in about
1910, or possibly when my grandfather died in 1911.
And-I tend to be a little bit emotional in all this. I mean, you know,
Q ..
Sure.
A: But anyway-I'm probably telling you more than you want to hear, but you can
cut it out later.
The laundry he ran was in Washington, but he was living in Baltimore-this
would have been before World War I. I think World War I is what killed the
high white collars. Now, Herbert Hoover, you remember, still wore them
when he was President. You may not remember, but I remember the pictures
of him with those high collars, and they were so tight that the necktie wouldn't
even get up in them sometimes.
Shortly after the beginning of the First World War, about 1914, my father
started to work for the British government in procurement of war materiel, and
he worked for them all through the war and eventually got a citation from King
V. Somehow this British service seems to run in the family. I just
realized that my great great grandfather served King George III as a Hessian
mercenary in the revolution, three generations earlier. Somewhere we have this
citation that my father got for having helped the British war effort. You
remember, the United States didn't get in the war until much later.
Having served in the Spanish-American War, my father was free from World
War I service. In the meantime, my brother had been born in 1908 and my
sister in
I was born August 25, 19 18. We were living at 601 North
Calhoun Street, Baltimore, Maryland, at the time. After the war, my father
went into various businesses, largely involved in buying and selling materials
of all kinds.
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