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Here's another from 1900...

http://www.shorpy.com/fark

Full size...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10935?size=_original#caption

A comment from the photo site...

Mom's experience
Submitted by gblawson on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 4:46am.

A number of years before her death (at 97), I asked Mom to write her account of growing up in rural Ontario without running water or electricity. We ended up with quite an autobiography, including a section on soapmaking.

All the soap used in the Shannon household was home made from materials at hand, fat and potash. The fat came from the pork which was a staple meat. The potash came from wood ashes from the kitchen stove. Near the back door was a round tank about 4 or 5 feet high and whenever the ashes were taken out of the stove they were put in this tank along with some water. When it was time to make the soap, the liquid, now lye or potash, was drained off through a tap at the bottom of the tank.

Now the big iron kettle on the tripod came into service. Measured amounts of fat and potash were put in the pot and a fire was started under the kettle. I remember seeing Grandma Lou stirring the contents of the kettle and imagining she was a witch. Indeed she could have passed for one, long dark clothes, shawl around her head and shoulders, all she lacked was the pointed hat and broomstick.

After several hours of boiling and stirring the soap was finished, the fire allowed to go out and the soap to set. On top would be about 4 inches of lovely white soap which would be cut into bars and used for hands and baths and laundry. Below was about 2 inches of light brown liquid soap, called soft soap. This was put in a bowl beside the wash basin in the woodshed for the workmen (just Grandpa by this time) to get the real grime off.

Below the soft soap was about 1/2 inch of glycerine. This was mixed with rosewater (the only purchased item) to use as a hand lotion to repair the damage done by the soap.

My mother carried on the tradition of soap making on the kitchen stove, but she bought the lye in cans to mix with the fats which she had carefully saved. I do not remember there being soft soap and glycerine as a byproduct.
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Cruse ship for live stock.

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It's amazing how much it looks like one for humans.

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Rurudyne said: ↑

It's amazing how much it looks like one for humans.
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Did you see the movie Escape Plan by Arnie and Sly? A perfect (almost) way to contain humans.

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Rurudyne said: ↑

It's amazing how much it looks like one for humans.
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It probably smells as good.

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Prison ships worked very well for the Romans, the British and others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKfw8nysLA

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How do you think they clean the stalls?
Wash it overboard leaving a long brown stain on the ocean?

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We haven't advanced much over the years. I wonder why that is?

During the American War of Independence, more Colonist Americans died as prisoners of war on British prison ships through intentional neglect than died in every battle of the war combined.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] During the war, 11,500 men and women died due to overcrowding, contaminated water, starvation, and disease on prison ships anchored in the East River; the bodies of those who died were hastily buried along the shore.[15] This is now commemorated by the "Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument" in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn in New York City.[15]

Christopher Vail, of Southold, who was aboard one such British ship the HMS Jersey in 1781, later wrote:

'When a man died he was carried up on the forecastle and laid there until the next morning at 8 o'clock when they were all lowered down the ship sides by a rope round them in the same manner as tho' they were beasts. There was 8 died of a day while I was there. They were carried on shore in heaps and hove out the boat on the wharf, then taken across a hand barrow, carried to the edge of the bank, where a hole was dug 1 or 2 feet deep and all hove in together.'

In 1778, Robert Sheffield of Stonington, Connecticut, escaped from one of the prison ships, and told his story in the Connecticut Gazette, printed July 10, 1778. He was one of 350 prisoners held in a compartment below the decks.

"The heat was so intense that (the hot sun shining all day on deck) they were all naked, which also served well to get rid of vermin, but the sick were eaten up alive. Their sickly countenances, and ghastly looks were truly horrible; some swearing and blaspheming; others crying, praying, and wringing their hands; and stalking about like ghosts; others delirious, raving and storming,--all panting for breath; some dead, and corrupting. The air was so foul that at times a lamp could not be kept burning, by reason of which the bodies were not missed until they had been dead ten days."[16]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_ship

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I met a bloke once who worked on one of those live sheep trade ships from Australia to the Middle East. Poor devil was aboard when it sank in high seas in the Med.

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Russian log transport on Volga river in 1910s-1920s. Logs cut during the winter months were taken to the saw mills when the rivers thawed.

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By the looks of the flags, I would have to assume the photo was taken before the Czar and his family were murdered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_flags

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Viking River Cruise and Timber Line

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Эх ты, Волга, мать-река,

Широка и глубока,

Ай-да, да ай-да,

Aй-да, да ай-да,

Волга, Волга, мать-река

Oh, you, Volga, mother river,

Mighty stream so deep and wide.

Ay-da, da, ay-da!

Ay-da, da, ay-da!

Volga, Volga, mother river.

(from the Song of the Volga Boatmen)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Volga_Boatmen

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http://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2014/10/16/judged-boat-shows-dying-slow-death/

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That boat sure has yacht attitude!

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