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Gleaning at the City Dump #71

7/30/2012

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I've found a beautiful old photo/memory/scrapbook at the dump that dates back to the early 1900's.  It's a hand-written diary with photos written by a young bride documenting her marriage and honeymoon in 1911.  
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This book seems to have some interesting historical importance as the couple lived here in Portland, Oregon at the time, but traveled to the coast for their honeymoon.  The author describes (in beautiful penmanship)  their mode of travel (at one point having to ride on the back of a farmer's lumber wagon), as well as their eating and shopping adventures, and hunting and fishing on the Oregon coast.   The book is well preserved...I truly don't understand why this treasure was tossed away.  I'm grateful that I was able to actually find it in those mountains of trash.  
 
At the beginning of the book, this young bride's first words:

"Diary of Our Wedding Trip
Beginning Sept. 6 - 1911 to Sept. 20 - 1911"



"O, the toils of life!
How small they seem, when love's resistless tide
Sweeps brightly o'er them!  Like the scattered stones
Within a mountain streamlet, they but serve
To strike the hidden music of its flow
And make its sparkle visible."




A few scanned samples of some of the pages:
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Melody
7/30/2012 03:09:47 pm

Right now, I'm thinking you are the luckiest peron in the world for finding that wonderful piece of history. And somewhere there is the biggest nut in the world for throwing the memory book away. I don'teven know the family, but woulf love to read it. The fact that these people had such beautiful penmanship and an outstanding vocabularycompared to people of today,who have all the opportunities to get more and better education but would not be able to write as well as these . Thank you so much for sharing!

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Kathie Vezzani link
7/30/2012 04:02:46 pm

It's so sad that no one held on to this precious family heirloom.

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babeapple link
10/22/2013 09:28:34 am

Great post, thank you.

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