John M. Feeney
Member
No, I'm not referring to his reaction upon hearing that Major Butt had possibly been lost in the Titanic sinking.
Swinging from the sublime to the ridiculous, I was recently doing some deep digging at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection when I stumbled upon this unique and priceless photo:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40899
Possibly representing the antithesis of "Gilded Age" ostentation -- although, I'll admit, she *is* cute -- President Taft indeed owned a pet cow named Pauline Wayne, who appears to have done her patriotic bit by keeping various official lawns in Washington, DC, neatly cropped.
A curiosity, I'll admit, and only loosely on topic. But it does contribute to our knowledge of the social mil[k]ieu. ;^)
Cheers,
John
Swinging from the sublime to the ridiculous, I was recently doing some deep digging at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection when I stumbled upon this unique and priceless photo:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40899
Possibly representing the antithesis of "Gilded Age" ostentation -- although, I'll admit, she *is* cute -- President Taft indeed owned a pet cow named Pauline Wayne, who appears to have done her patriotic bit by keeping various official lawns in Washington, DC, neatly cropped.
A curiosity, I'll admit, and only loosely on topic. But it does contribute to our knowledge of the social mil[k]ieu. ;^)
Cheers,
John
