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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 200623, member: 33"]This is being posted because I know there are several people here who like old photographs as much as I do... I'm not asking a question here, but feel free to post comments as you wish, including any research.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my gifts from my Secret Santa (desperate_fun) was this cabinet card of a young man named C. M. Thompson, who apparently had copies of these printed up. He wrote a lengthy description of himself on the back. See images below. When I scanned this I realized that this is not actually a photographic print. It has the little dots or squares that indicate some sort of offset printing process. I think he probably had an old photo printed up for his "resume." The writing on the back appears to be original, but I have not scrutinized it enough yet to be sure. It does not have the offset printing dots and appears to be written on the card.</p><p><br /></p><p>This photo came to me with a story that was included in the auction (all grammatical errors are in the auction) : "First appearance is just another family studio shot however, the man pictured on the front describes himself on the reverse in some sort of Resume. ... The gentleman is a Mr. C. M. Thompson of Corning, Iowa. He taught at the Corning Schools and soon became School Superintendent of Corning, Iowa.<b> Later, in 1917, he was sent a serve a year at hard labor in the Leavenworth, Kansas Prison. The charge was fraud in the Arizona "Wild Horse" case that eventually landed indictments on 43 individuals."</b></p><p><br /></p><p>And I've found a lot more about him. His full name was Charles Madison Thompson, born in 1869 in Ohio and died 1948 in Nebraska. He went to college at Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls, Iowa. I believe that this photo was probably taken on the occasion of his graduation. Although he started out as an educator in Iowa, after several years he went into the finance and banking industries in Nebraska.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a reply to this post I will include a chronology of his life as I have it. There is more research to do, but apparently after his short time in prison he stayed out of trouble with the Federal government.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]57360[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the back:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]57361[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 200623, member: 33"]This is being posted because I know there are several people here who like old photographs as much as I do... I'm not asking a question here, but feel free to post comments as you wish, including any research. One of my gifts from my Secret Santa (desperate_fun) was this cabinet card of a young man named C. M. Thompson, who apparently had copies of these printed up. He wrote a lengthy description of himself on the back. See images below. When I scanned this I realized that this is not actually a photographic print. It has the little dots or squares that indicate some sort of offset printing process. I think he probably had an old photo printed up for his "resume." The writing on the back appears to be original, but I have not scrutinized it enough yet to be sure. It does not have the offset printing dots and appears to be written on the card. This photo came to me with a story that was included in the auction (all grammatical errors are in the auction) : "First appearance is just another family studio shot however, the man pictured on the front describes himself on the reverse in some sort of Resume. ... The gentleman is a Mr. C. M. Thompson of Corning, Iowa. He taught at the Corning Schools and soon became School Superintendent of Corning, Iowa.[B] Later, in 1917, he was sent a serve a year at hard labor in the Leavenworth, Kansas Prison. The charge was fraud in the Arizona "Wild Horse" case that eventually landed indictments on 43 individuals."[/B] And I've found a lot more about him. His full name was Charles Madison Thompson, born in 1869 in Ohio and died 1948 in Nebraska. He went to college at Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls, Iowa. I believe that this photo was probably taken on the occasion of his graduation. Although he started out as an educator in Iowa, after several years he went into the finance and banking industries in Nebraska. In a reply to this post I will include a chronology of his life as I have it. There is more research to do, but apparently after his short time in prison he stayed out of trouble with the Federal government. [ATTACH=full]57360[/ATTACH] Here is the back: [ATTACH=full]57361[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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