Photos of all sorts of stuff...

[upthesaukee]

Originally Posted by Argie's Wife

I cringed when I saw the words "MercuroChrome" - I remember getting painted with that junk when I was a kid and eeewwwww-owwwwwwwww! Holy cow, that stuff hurt. Hated that stuff. It was still sold here in the US in the 70's...in fact, it wasn't outlawed until the late 1990's!

But that bottle looks like it was from the 20's....

As I remember it, it was the methiolate (sp) that hurt, and not the mecurochrome. Methiolate was thinner and more orange in color, where mercurochrome was redder in color, and thicker. At least by my feeble mecurochromed, methiolated, and iodinated (another hurt) mind.

[Water Camper]

Hi Diver 1111. I found a very informative website with info about Lakeport. Check it out at http://www.weirsbeach.com/topten/reason9frame.html

Among the various info is the following:

"The first Lakeport dam was built in 1766, the second in 1828. The third dam, built in 1851, was built to last out of stone, and it is still there today. In 1861, the wing dam, to the left in the postcard on the left, was built. (The main dam is just barely visible to the far right center of the postcard.) Around 1957 the wing dam was filled in. On March 31, 1958, the dam became state property. Below, another view of the wing dam, looking South towards Lake Opechee."

Hope this helps.
Sue

[Rattlesnake Gal]

Thanks for the link Water Camper! They've added so much stuff since I last visited. They even mention Winnipesaukee.com, thanks to McDude!

Another great source of historical information about Weirs Beach are the historical photograph and postcard galleries on Winnipesaukee.com. Many hours can easily be spent perusing these on-line galleries. One contributor in particular, "McDude", has posted a massive collection of old Weirs Beach photographs and postcards. His fascinating 3-part Weirs Beach thread can be found here, and his "Weirs Image Gallery" here.

[WinnDixie]

Originally Posted by upthesaukee

As I remember it, it was the methiolate (sp) that hurt, and not the mecurochrome. Methiolate was thinner and more orange in color, where mercurochrome was redder in color, and thicker. At least by my feeble mecurochromed, methiolated, and iodinated (another hurt) mind.

I go so far back I remember begging to have mecurochrome put on a cut or scrape rather than iodine...the iodine REALLY hurt! The two seemed to be the only choices back in my house in the 40's.

[Mee-n-Mac]

Originally Posted by WinnDixie

I go so far back I remember begging to have mecurochrome put on a cut or scrape rather than iodine...the iodine REALLY hurt! The two seemed to be the only choices back in my house in the 40's.

Hmmm, when I was a kid we only used leeches. Then again Dad fancied himself as a medieval "barber".



Or mebbe he was just a big Steve Martin fan ... naaaaaaah.



{Ooops a bit fo snizzle !}

[Diver1111]

My go-to-guy for pigeon ID is Mike at:

[email protected]

I trust his email address is still good. He lives in CT..

Thanks everyone for your input on this and other history-related topics. I love the help in putting these neat mysteries into perspective.

I will have more for you soon-photos of decent enough quality to post, I hope. All sorts of stuff, to my knowledge never before photographed underwater, plus video.

As for diving in general, if only you could see what we see-wow...

[offmycloud]

When I was a kid I found an Aldwell's rum bottle just like yours and a lot of other bottles that look like what you have just snorkeling near Clark's Landing, north end of Moultonborough Bay. There is a rock pile that sits in the north end of that area of the Lake and there is a lot of stuff down there.

Diver1111 - ping me if you want the exact location.

[Rattlesnake Gal]

I found this bottle last year wedged under a rock at the end of our dock - how I missed it for so many years is beyond me. It looks pretty old with no mold lines or ribbing on the bottom like new bottles have for labeling etc. The big bubble on the bottom makes me think it is a champagne bottle that got thrown from one of our lake steamers years ago. It's funny that someone's trash from long ago is now proudly gracing a shelf at the camp.

[Diver1111]

Offmycloud,

I PM'd you. Please check your mail. I'd love to check it out.

I appreciate the areas folks think should be dived and welcome all suggestions. In the future expect more photographs, possibly video as well-depends who I am diving with. While I love photos etc. I am not inclined to buy camera gear-that's what dive buddies are for. I'll bring the boat, side-scan, underwater scooter etc.-that's enough.

Some are tips to me from history buffs on Winni.com, some from local historians, some sites are found by diving with other divers, some I find by research and then check out.

One tool I use is to review USGS topo maps, generally dated 1909 although you will find later versions, about 1950. What I like about them is they show what WAS there not what IS there on a given body of water in NH-of course that's what interests me-what was there. I have a keen interest in any camps/cottages along a shore, as well as RR beds that generally don't appear on present day maps. RR beds are a great area to dive adjacent to.

For those interested in old USGS topo maps, go to:

http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/aboutmaps.htm

Scroll down to "The Images And Access To Them", then click the link.

Bear in mind these images can be hard to handle. For some reason if you click on a quadrant for an area, it opens full size then just shrinks by itself to a miniscule size that is pretty much useless. Can't remember how I got around that-I believe it was the Application I chose to open it in, say MS-Paint, or MS Picture & Fax Viewer etc.. that solved the problem. These quadrants are big, so you will have to scroll L/R, up/down, to see a given section of it.

A few years ago I printed out in color all of Lake Winnipesaukee-maybe 60 pages total, then cut, clipped, and taped them together, discarding areas covered that are not of the lake. Then I sent it out to my map guy for laminating. I now have a 1909 full sized topo chart of Winni that pushes 5' x 4' in size. What a great reference.

I am not the only one who knows of this map source. Rattlesnake Gal perhaps? McDude? (his postcard collection still blows me away); I know I have seen it referenced before on Winni.com but it's not well known.

[Rattlesnake Gal]

There are many historic maps in our PhotoPost. Here are a couple of my favorites.



The above map is an 1881 B & M Map of Lake Winnipiseogee and Vicinity can be found here.

The following map was posted by Boardwalk Blues Boy in the History Forum under the title of 1885 Map of Lake Winnipesaukee.



The large version can be found at Weirs Beach.com's website.

[offmycloud]

Diver - I just emailed you about the location.

[CrawfordCentury]

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup was aggressively marketed to young mothers with cranky babies. Its active ingredient was morphine. Muckraker-era reformers had a special ire for that product, which they credited with helping mothers unwittingly raise a generation of dope fiends.

And yes, Rattlesnake Girl- that was most likely a champagne bottle. I'd wager that you will find no mold seam going up from the base to the shoulder of the bottle. They were manufactured from the 1800s into well into the 20th century using a turn mold. Whilst the glass was still molten, the glassblower rotated the bottle slightly to erase mold seams.

Bit of bottle-related trivia - the natural color of glass is aqua or greenish, depending on the mineral content of the sand used in making the glass.

Glass is made colorless by adding manganese. (Interesting thing is manganese absorbs UV rays. Old clear glass left in the sun for a long time turns an amethyst color).