Television Sets have come a long way since this small round Zenith TV c. 1950! The Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection archive envelope this photo was found in has Standard Auto written on it? Do you know where that store was in Talbot County? The first show I remember watching was Howdy Doody which ran from Dec. 27, 1947 until Sept. 24, 1960! Does anyone else remember Bob Smith and Clarabell the Clown and “It’s Howdy Doody Time!”? Also a favorite was The Mickey Mouse Club which ran from 1955 to 1959! Experiments on televisions were first started in the 1920’s and the first electronic transmissions were in the late 1920’s and 1930’s. P. S. The gentleman in the picture has just been identified by his family as Richmond “Dick” Hill. Facts: “History of Television” Wikipedia.

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The Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection has three c. 1949 pictures of the Purity Gospel Pentecostal Mission Church of Ivytown, Maryland in Talbot County.

The society was recently contacted by Bob Croswell who is researching churches in the Trappe area and has pictures that he took of the dilapidated remains of this church on Schwaninger Road just east of Manadier Road in the area called Ivytown ,about 1/2 mile north of the New Queen Esther AME church. The mystery we would all like solved is what happened to this congregation that was so active in the late 1940’s and 1950’s? Do you recognize any of these people or have any information about the church? Did they move to a different location?

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Local photographer H. Robins Hollyday took several aerial photographs of this unidentified complex of waterfront buildings! Do you have any knowledge about what and where this is? Maybe a camp, or conference center? Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection.

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A special thanks to Tyler Horner for sharing your father Bob Horner’s picture of the staff of the T. Earl Ewing Hardware Store of Harrison Street! Tyler added that “the picture was taken between 1963 and 1966. The John Deere lawn tractor in the background was first offered in 1963 and my Dad worked for Ewing as a mechanic in the shop from 1960 until the blizzard of 1966. Pictured on the far right is T. Earl’s nephew and childhood friend, David Watson, along with Mr. Ewing standing next to him. I do not know the names of the other folks in the picture. Since my Dad took the picture with his Yashica camera, he was not in it.” Maybe you can help identify the rest of the staff?

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This Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday Collection photo is not dated and the men holding the beautiful striped bass are also not identified? Can you help identify them? The striped bass minimum is 19 “ and the maximum 24” in Maryland at this time. At least 3 of the Rockfish appear to be way over that length proving the picture was taken at a time when the Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass were thriving better than at the present time.

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This is the mower that was used in the 1930s to maintain the Federal Street Ball Park in Easton, Maryland ! It’s also a great picture of the bleachers and dugout of Federal Park which was located between Bay and Federal Streets where St.Mark’s Ministries is located today.

Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection. Contact: Cathy Hill, [email protected], to share your old photos and purchase our collection of photos. Comment, Ike our page and join the Talbot Historical Society!

This amazing Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday Collection aerial photo of Tighman Island’s Avalon Island was taken in 1931! The entire island was formed from oyster shells discarded overboard by a seafood packing company pier. The Tilghman Packing Company sign is visible on the roof of one of the packing houses.

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This picture of the Tri County Allstate Pony League Team at Easton, Maryland’s Federal Park c. 1955. It was donated to the Talbot Historical Society by Larry M. Wood in 2010. Many of the players were identified at that time. On the first row left to right: Ronnie Moore, Bob Ritter, Ed Morris, Ormand Birmingham, Bill Chance, John Trax, Bill Ozman, Jimmy Price, and Bill Norris. Second row left to right: Lester Gibson , Manager, Larry Wood, Eddie Prager, Wayne Lewis, John Hurt, Larry Hoffman, Irvin Gadow, Coach Mr. Charlie Caulk and an unidentified Coach.

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This 1930 photo was donated to the Talbot Historical Society by David Kirby Metz. Two of the three aviators are identified at the top of the picture as Kirby Metz and Buddy Taylor. The biplane was either at Easton’s first airport at the Ratcliffe Manor field or at Webb Field off of Dover Road at Black Dog Alley. Easton area’s second-largest airport, Webb Airport, was built in 1930 on Mr. Dorsey Webb’s farm. Dorsey Webb owned a crop duster and flew at various air shows. Facts: “ Airfields That Once Were” March 1, 2024 “ Shore Home & Garden Magazine”.

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