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“On Rather Hard Terms” Postview: The Tragic End of Temple and Workman Bank Managing Cashier Henry S. Ledyard, November 1890

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Posted on July 18, 2021

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“On Rather Hard Terms” Postview: The Tragic End of Temple and Workman Bank Managing Cashier Henry S. Ledyard, November 1890

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Are you ready for the Olympic games? Among the artifacts in the Homestead's collection related to sport are two British-issued tobacco cards (similar to modern baseball cards) showing athletes in the 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam competing in the 100 meter dash. See our bio for the link to learn more from our blog.

Looking for some good fiction books to transport you to a different time and place this summer? Join our fiction book club. Later this week, they'll be meeting on Zoom to talk about Girl Waits with Gun, a novel based on the true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs.

The 1870s was a remarkable decade of boom and bust! Hear about how the Workman and Temple Families navigated the highs and lows with Museum Director Paul Spitzzeri this Sunday, July 18, at 2 p.m. This is our first in-person talk since the pandemic started, but we'll also be streaming online via Zoom.

🚨 Donation update! 🚨 Some of you might recall reading about a recent exciting donation of photos, documents, objects, and furniture belonging to silent film actor Josephine Workman, who was best known as Princess Mona Darkfeather, granddaughter of Homestead founders William and Nicolasa Workman. Among the items were 4 film canisters with contents we figured were lost to time. In the era that Josephine was making movies, film stock was made from cellulose nitrate, a material so flammable that it was a suitable substitute for gunpowder! Because of its volatility, we reached out to Melissa Levesque, Nitrate Curator for the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Film Archive who offered to safely inspect them for us. (We didn't dare open them! 😬) Turns out that 2 of the 4 reels are remarkably free of decomposition! 🎉 They are a matching screen test picture print and sound track positive made for RKO in 1929 featuring Helen Kaiser and Joel McCrea. Sadly we don't know what was in the other 2 canisters, but we're beyond pleased that the contents of at least 2 canisters were in such good condition with only some minor warping. Stay tuned for more updates! 🙌

The beautiful peacocks snacking on a watermelon created by Mexican artist Pedro Sánchez for La Casa Nueva's Breakfast Room set the perfect tone for summer, don't you think? The Museum is open for guided tours of the historic houses this weekend at 12, 1, 2, and 3 p.m. We'd love to see you.

The Workman and Temple families, like so many of ours, have had their highs and lows, and this was definitely the case in the 1870s. During the decade, dramatic disaster hit some of them, while others had better times on the horizon. Learn more about their experiences on Sunday, July 18, at 2 p.m., as Museum Director Paul Spitzzeri presents On Rather Hard Terms: The Workman and Temple Families in the 1870s.

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