I love archive.org such an interesting place to wander about. It can be challenging to find things, but when you do...wow. I found this picture recently of a neighboring house on archive.org. You can see our house as a Victorian sticking on on the left. The people who own the house recently moved in from out of state. I stopped in last week introducing myself then giving a copy of the picture. I emailed the image to them over the weekend. Needless to say they were thrilled. Fun stuff.phil wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:10 pm I used to be able to do some fairly pointed searches and uncover a lot of data from the internet, but as times changed and large corporations took control of how the web and browsers work, I find myself frustrated because the results often point to ads or websites that need confirmations to sign in, accept cookies and other tracking methods, so what used to be casual surfing seemed to be complicated by always needing input.
I've been looking around a bit on the internet archives website and noting that they have a lot of free downloads, particularly stuff that is dated and so not within a copyright. I'm still sot of learning how to use it and how to search it. Some of it might be only readable and not to copy or may expire but I think there is a lot of info here.
in case you want a second cup of tea ; -)
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I found that picture by accident as I was researching a house owned by a friends great grandfather. I did find this home in this same book, the title was houses of famous men of NH or something like that anyway. I also found the house my friend lives in currently as well, as it is quite a beautiful 1813 house. I'm always a little hesitant to offer things as not everyone has the level of interest I do or probably of most of us on this site. It is always gratifying to boost someone's interest in an old building. I had that happen to me several times in the past and was thrilled to have old photographs, plus the stories that came with them. Once I had the technology, I scanned them for the local historical society and made sure the new owner had copies when we sold. I found another picture of a different neighbors house last year. Once again our house as a two story Victorian was in view to the left.phil wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:02 pm that a beautiful house and you were kind to go out of your way in their interest.
sometimes I pick up free thigns on craigslist. I once went to a house only to realize my mom and dad had owned and lifted it back in the 50's when they just got married.
I found the bill of sale , it went from about 5,000 to two million or so. I keep meaning to pass it on to them as at this point. maybe it should be their document and part of the history of the place.
The lady there was nice too. I certainly wouldn't mind speaking to her again. she had worked hard on it and didn't know it had been lifted. I retold her the story about mom digging out the basement a wheelbarrow at a time , while pregnant. dad hired house lifters and they called him at work ( he was a carpenter but on a different job) they asked him if he wanted to straighten the house so he said sure. he got home to find all the plaster cracked and had to do a lot of wall fixing, wished he'd just left it crooked.
