{"id":51,"date":"2008-08-23T16:45:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2008-08-29T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T05:27:28","slug":"the-girl-of-the-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/the-girl-of-the-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl of the Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, I take a look at old newspapers pulled from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/chroniclingamerica\/about.html\">Chronicling America<\/a> by Ed Summers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/inkdroid.org\/feeds\/chronam-hundred.xml\">100 Years Ago Today feed<\/a>. Sometimes my gaze is caught by events of the day\u2014telephones, auto accidents, odd notions of gender roles. Just about every week I stare at the magazine section of the front page of The San Francisco Sunday Call*. Often I don&#8217;t know how to interpret these\u2014do they really have something to do with the news of the week?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Chronicling America copy of San Francisco Sunday Call, August 23, 1908\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/chroniclingamerica\/lccn\/sn85066387\/1908-08-23\/ed-1\/seq-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58\" title=\"sfcall-butterflygirl-19080823\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sfcall-butterflygirl-19080823.jpg\" alt=\"The Girl of the Butterflies, San Francisco Sunday Call, August 23, 1908\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Girl of the Butterflies, San Francisco Sunday Call, August 23, 1908<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week&#8217;s cover is particularly beautiful: The Girl of the Butterflies. So many questions arise from one simple image from August 23, 1908: Were there really so many butterflies in San Francisco 100 years ago? Would a woman really go netting in such a costume? What do butterflies have to do with anything? The wonderful thing about peering into the past is that it opens more questions than answers.<\/p>\n<p>*The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_Call\">San Francisco Call wikipedia entry<\/a> is a good start but needs some work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, I take a look at old newspapers pulled from Chronicling America by Ed Summers&#8217; 100 Years Ago Today feed. Sometimes my gaze is caught by events of the day\u2014telephones, auto accidents, odd notions of gender roles. Just about every week I stare at the magazine section of the front page of The San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8,10,14,13,9],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-newspapers","tag-butterflies","tag-chronicling-america","tag-digitized-images","tag-history","tag-san-francisco-sunday-call"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}