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FAKER
"forged and forgotten", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Frank R. Moore Yuma Prisoner 2502 A typical scam in the west during the early 1900s was the check forgery. A "customer" would go into the bank with a check from an out of town bank, usually claiming it was...
KNIT ONE, PURL TWO
"round and round", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Demand being insanely high, cottage industries began to appear; a hat-knitting guild appeared in England in 1424, along with many others across Europe. Once the common man knew how to knit, the obvious happened....
KNIT ONE, PURL TWO
"slip stitch", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.
KNIT ONE, PURL TWO
"knit two together", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. My favorite local knit shop, Jessica Knits and Crochets, has offered to show and sell my knitting related images in their Scottsdale store, so I am beginning a new series called Knit one, purl two.
SHARDS OF GLASS
"shattered life", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Margarito Garcia Yuma Prisoner 2987 So, sometimes I can find a bunch of information, and sometimes none at all. For Margarito Garcia there was a scattering of unrelated material, only one thing pulled these...
BROKEN STORIES
"roy got ditched" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photo paper. Broken Arm Last Sunday Roy C. Dalton of this place received a broken arm last Sunday afternoon enroute from the scene of the tragic death of the members of the Strickland family about fourteen miles north of...
BROKEN STORIES
"after the fourth" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photo paper. Hit and Run While returning to her home in Clint last night after the Fourth in El Paso, Miss Williams, daughter of Miles Williams of that village, was thrown from a buggy on the county road and sustained a...
TESTING
Today I wanted to experiment with painting right onto an old photo. It was difficult to do emotionally because it meant that it is no longer that photograph. Technically it was also challenging. It is kodak paper, so I thought it could stand being wet, but it curled...
PURLOINING PORTER
"check your baggage?", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Charles Kelley Yuma Prisoner 1982 Charles Kelley, who while porter for the Hotel Weatherford, in February appropriated a valise belonging to one of the guests, entered a plea of guilty to the charge of...
SANTA FE FREIGHT CAR ROBBED
"forks and knives", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Harry Stanton Yuma Prisoner 1964 Charles Jones and Harry Stanton (pictured), who broke Into a Santa Fe freight car, in October last and appropriated a lot of cutlery, entered a plea of guilty to the charge of...
REVOLVER
"expression: sinister", 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. William Kirk Yuma Prisoner 1965 William Kirk, who in November last assaulted a man with a revolver in a Williams saloon, plead guilty to a charge of assault with intent to commit murder, was sentenced to a...
THE TROUBLE WITH TRIMBLE
As I research stories from turn of the twentieth century I am truly struck by the hardness of life, especially in the American West. This is one story that left me feeling especially forlorn. "my wife was 1919" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. When he was arrested...