A few days ago, I posted a photo of a coach full of merrymakers going to a football game in 1898. My grandfather was aboard. But I saw the flag with its RMC (Rush Medical College) was backwards, and I thought I’d neglected to flip it horizontally in PhotoShop.
I could do nothing about it for a few days; I couldn’t access that program because its scratch discs were full, and I had to get Bill, my superhero, to help me. He finally had time to get to it yesterday, and this morning I went to the photo and flipped it.
Lo and behold, when I did, the flag was corrected, but I could see a panel on the lower right side of the coach, ornately lettered with the name of the manufacturer….(It says “Blakeslee’s Columbian Coach Co., Western Avenue and Madison Street”)….and the flip had put THAT inside out. So I was right all along, and it’s not my fault that
a) the guy was holding the flag the wrong way, and
b) the letters on the flag were readable from both sides.
Odd that it doesn’t state the city where it was made! Rush Medical College is still in existence as part of Rush University, and it’s in Chicago, which apparently went without saying….I mean, what other city was there, right?
Ann Dickinson Sargent 