One of the projects that I’ve been working on lately is scanning a box of over 150 glass negatives that were taken around 1895. Most of them are what we would call snapshots today, lots of pictures of the kids, the chickens, the kids feeding the chickes, etc. Also most of them show the limitations of the technology available back then, as exposure times were on the order of a half to a full second, so anything that moved was usually blurred. Such as kids and chickens. Every once in awhile though I would come across one that was either a truly outstanding picture, or just so weird, I would start laughing out loud. The picture here is one that fell in the latter category. Apparently they grew some BIG potatoes in Ferndale back then.