1945 FREE crochet HAT pattern

 1945

This is from a 1945 crochet book.

I hope if you enjoy this free pattern, I would be extremely grateful if you'd visit my book site and purchase the entire book with all the patterns!

Price: Cheap 

LINK TO BOOK:

1945 HATS & ACCESSORIES  

The time it takes to scan, format, and download the entire book is crazy.  I hope enough people will find it worthwhile to work on some awesome vintage projects!

If you don't want to be "cookie cutter"...making all the ordinary things that you see online...take a leap and create some of these 1940s patterns!

I would LOVE to see a completed project!

1950 Crochet Pattern ~ Free

 Free always seems to capture interest.

I am passionate about sharing history.  Needlework was such an important part of daily life in the past. The patience, time, and talent it took to create some of the beautiful works of art continue to astonish me. 

The time it takes to scan these books, newspapers, magazines, and other historic documents...so although I'm sharing one pattern here, I'm hopeful that you will consider purchasing the entire book.  

I work full time in a manufacturing facility, so I'm sure many of you can appreciate the love and sincere desire to not only preserve the history, but also encourage people to incorporate small pieces of history into their modern lives.

Here is a link to the ENTIRE book with many patterns!

And the price is right! Cheap.  Any purchase helps me continue scanning.  THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.

Click this link that will open a new window and will take you to the 15 page pattern book.

1950 Furniture Topper Crochet Patterns

1956 Mercy School of Nursing

 I love old yearbooks. I have tons of them from elementary to college.

This is one of my favorites.  

Nurses are special people, and I dedicate these pictures to all the nurses out there. Past, present, and future.

Mercilite, the Yearbook. Published by the Senior Class of Mercy School of Nursing

Golden Anniversary. 

A few of the senior class. Ethel Joan Walker, Mary Anne Parnell, Margaret Ann Earley, and Norma Ann Sawyer.

And junior class representatives include Betty Lou Scruggs, Stello Elizabeth Davis, Betty Lee Russell, and Sadie Irene McFadden

Each of the seniors was highlighted in this manner.

If you have a relative that was in this yearbook and you'd like to see their picture, please feel free to comment or send a message. I'll try to get it posted for you.

Letter from 1918, Somewhere in France, WWI

 Often I find myself rescuing history from the landfill.  Although it often has zero relevance or significance to the family, I find it fascinating to hold a piece of history in my hand. 

Recently, I was at an estate sale and found a mourning shawl and headpiece. I recognized it from the early 1900s.  As I continued to sort through all the little keepsakes from the box, I came across this letter.

"Somewhere in France" 

In the same box of treasures, I found this picture. Made me wonder if this is "Old George" when he was a younger man.

HOT STUFF. Little Devil.

 This used to be one of my favorite comics when I was young.

I was always a book worm. One of those kids with a flashlight under the covers to finish the last chapter.

I consumed comics way too fast and we didn't get them very often.

1958 United States Supreme Court Justices & their wives

Standing, left to right:  William J. Brennan, Jr., Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker.  Seated: William O. Douglas, Hugo L. Black, Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, and Harold Burton

The Justices' wives. Standing, left to right:  Mrs. Brennan, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Harlan, Mrs. Whittaker.  Seated:  Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Burton.  Empty chair is for Mrs. Frankfurter (shown below)

Mrs. Frankfurter was ill an unable to pose for the picture.

This was a "first" of its kind photo shoot arranged by Good Housekeeping magazine and they gave permission for a number of newspapers to publish as well. The ladies with "no fuss" and "graciousness" agreed to assemble in the Supreme Court for the photo session. Among themselves, they decided to wear formal gowns.

This was published in the April 1958 edition of Good Housekeeping magazine.

1959 Powered Railcar with Dome

Powered Railcar Has Dome for Sightseers

Self-powered, a new railcar built for the French National Railroad by Renault has a glass and plastic dome in the middle that gives its passengers an unobstructed view of the countryside.  The 58-ton car holds 88 passengers.  It has an 800-horsepower diesel engine that operates a generator, providing power for motors.

This appeared in the August 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine 

1959 Should you buy a foreign car?

Have you considered buying a foreign car?  If  you are typical of millions of Americans, you have probably thought about it. And you are probably trying to decide whether it would be a wise choice.

At present about 10 percent of all the new cars sold are imported. Not very long ago, it was generally believed that imported cars would never go over 5 percent of the total sales.

What has caused this spectacular jump in sales? Is it a fad? Are the people who own imported cars happy with them?  

The imported economy car attracts a larger percentage of professional and highly trained people than domestic cars, but this may be due more to an interest in unusual engineering design than to snobbishness or any status-making reason.

This is a portion of the article that appeared in the August 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine.

1959 Coin Operated Gas Pumps

Coin Operates Pump At Self-Service Gas Station

What next?  In Sweden, a new idea is a coin-operated fuel pump.  Such self-service pumps have been installed at many service stations and are made especially for motor scooters and other small vehicles.  The driver simply pulls his scooter alongside the pump, deposits one or more coins and helps himself to as large a quantity of petrol-and-oil mixture as he needs.

This was in the August 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine

1959 Flying Barrel

"Flying Barrel" Takes Off Vertically

French aircraft designers have come up with a "flying barrel", an annular-winged plane that takes off vertically from a launching truck, then shifts to horizontal flight.  Called the C-450 "Coleoptere", the tail-sitting plane has a one-man cockpit, flanked by air-intake ducts that feed the central jet engine.  Fuel is contained in the surrounding wing.  The experimental craft is expected to fly at speeds up to Mach 2 or 3.  Manufactured in Paris, the strange plane is expected to be test-flown for the first time this summer.

This was in the August 1959 edition of the Popular Mechanics magazine

1960 Elvis & Juliet

"Oh, it's Juliet Prowse...That's Frank Sinatra's girl! What's she doing with Elvis? ...Has Elvis gone off his rocker?"  The newsy tidbits flew faster than a gossip columnist's pencil. 

Juliet, in a crisp green cocktail dress, slid her arm through Elvis' while he tried to cut a pathway into the club.  As he felt her touch, he grasped hold of her arm as though it was the last thing he was goint to feel, ever. He looked into her blue eyes as if for reassurance and she looed up at him, a small smile gently curving her lips.

This is part of an article in Photoplay magazine, November 1960

1963 Gifts for kids & babies ~ Newspaper Ads

The racetrack!

Love the bike

1943 Face Mask

Plastic Masks Protect Workers in War Plants

Eyes, throat, and lungs are shielded against flying particles of metal and dust by this mask fitted with clear plastic lenses and a plastic respirator that is packed with several different filters for as many types of fumes.  The masks are being turned out by mass-production methods to equip plants engaged in America's speeded up war work, and are a refinement of the familiar goggles long used in this country in counteracting industrial hazards.  As worn by the young woman in the photograph, it would seem also to be a  safeguard against disfigurement of the beauty of the hundred of thousands of women workers who are doing their full share of our country's war work.

Check out the Coffee Cup with this image!

This was in the January, 1943 issue of Popular Science.