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 | Ernest John Rudolph as a toddler
Back of photo says:
Daddy
Ernest John Rudolph
died June 24, 1936
born April 10, 1882
From the photo collection of Robert Charles Rudolph |
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 | Ernest John Rudolph flyer of January 28, 1912 for a series of Gospel Meetings he is hosting at his home on Mountain Avenue in North Plainfield, NJ
Original cared for by Robert Charles Rudolph |
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 | Ernest John Rudolph Monthly Report Cards From the Friends Select School in Philadelphia for the School Year 1893 - 1894
Includes his courses, grades, conduct, teacher's comments, physical measurements and condition and his dad John Mason Rudolph's signature each month. Compare your natural talents to his.
Original cared for by Robert Charles Rudolph |
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 | Ernest John Rudolph, his second wife Maude Gertrude Pindell, John Mason Rudolph Sr., Robert Erskine Rudolph - July 5, 1925 - Might be at the Pindell inlaws home
Handwriting on back: July 5, 1925
You can roll your mouse over each person's face to see their name if known, then click on them to see their other photos.
From the photo collection of John Mason Rudolph Jr. |
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 | Evelyn Louise Baumgartner - 90-minute Family History interview on 12 Nov 1986
An audio recording of a family history interview with Evelyn Louise Baumgartner from 12 Nov 1986. She primarily discussed Rudolph family history and also briefly touched on Hopkins and Lee. We were going to discuss the Baumgartners on another evening. |
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| Evelyn Louise Baumgartner - Two minutes about William Washington Lee on 12 Nov 1986
A couple minutes abstract from a 90-minute family history interview with Evelyn Louise Baumgartner from 12 Nov 1986 where she talks about her memories of William Washington Lee |
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 | Evelyn Louise Baumgartner and her son Robert Ernest Rudolph
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 | Evelyn Louise Baumgartner at the 50th Anniversary of her marriage to Robert Erskine Rudolph
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 | Farewell Article about Robert Erskine Rudolph as he resigned as Director Of Traffic for the City of Cambridge, MA
Robert Ernest Rudolph was Director of Traffic for the City of Cambridge, Mass. from July 1962 through April 1969. This position was a high point of his career and he was always proud of what he'd accomplished there. This and the next four newspaper items were framed and hanging on the walls of his study until he passed away.
Cambridge had never had a Director of Traffic before. He was hired to bring order to the chaos, which he accomplished quite well. I remember one time when I was about six years old and shortly after he took the position, he brought me to the top of a tall building on the edge of Harvard Square to observe the traffic there. This may have been a view of Central Square, I was quite young, but I believe it was Harvard Square. As I remember looking down into Harvard Square, there were five or six streets that came together in Harvard Square at irregular angles. The square itself was a vast plain of umarked paved black asphalt. There were no lane markings of any kind, nor traffic lights, islands or crosswalks. Cars came in from the various streets and fought their way through the square to get out to one of the other streets. There were no orderly streams or lines of cars making their way through the square. Each driver crawled toward any opening that appeared to the left, straight ahead or right of where their car was at that moment. There were constant horns honking. It sure looked like chaos to me!
The position of Director of Traffic was contentious and political. He embraced and experimented with new approaches, some succeeding and some not. He attended the City Council meeting every Monday evening and usually came home drained. As he explained it to me, some members of the City Council had an axe to grind, or a business interest somewhere in the city that they wanted traffic to flow past, and if possible be stopped in front of their business interest, so that drivers would notice their business. He introduced alternate side of the street parking and parking bans during snow emergencies, which exasperated Council members if their home or their friends' home were on the side of the street that lost parking.
During snow emergencies, he drove the streets in his city-issued black Ford Galaxy 500 sedan directing city towing operations to enforce the parking ban. He became quite the excellent snow driver, once taking me with him during one of these snow emergencies. It was snowing hard at night and the streets were deserted. We crept down a narrow snow laden street with cars parked along both sides. We got to the end of that stretch and he needed to reverse direction to see it traveling the other way. So at the end of that stretch in the middle of the 4-way intersection under the functioning traffic light, he did a slow-motion 180-degree doughnut turn, rear tires spinning the whole time until through the 180 degrees, and then slowly crept back up the street the other way. Casual and under control. I asked about the doughnut turn and he said 'I do these all through every storm to get around.'
I remember in one of these snow storms, a particular City Council member who was especially unpleasant to him at many Monday night City Council meetings and who was unaccepting of the snow emergency parking in front of his house, had left his personal car illegally parked in front of his house during the storm. Robert happily directed the tow trucks to the council member's car and the car was taken away to an impoundment lot. Of course the council member called in wanting to know where they'd towed his car too. But they just couldn't seem to find the councilman's car! As I remember, it was three days before they located the car!
I remember him describing his approach for awarding a contract for purchasing parking meters for the entire city. Parking meter vandalism and coin theft was a constant problem. Each bidder for the parking meter contract supplied one of their candidate parking meters. The candidate parking meters were then installed by the city in a row beside three parking spaces. Then all on the same day, the bidders were invited in for a competition. Each bidder was allowed to designate one guy, bringing with him whatever tools he wanted, to break into his competitors parking meter for theft. The last parking meter still holding its coins would win the contract. So one big guy with sledge hammers and crowbars at each of the candidate parking meters, Go! But Robert said that in the end it had been unfair because one the bidders had gotten their competitor's parking meter up out of the ground, laid it flat on the concrete sidewalk and then wailed away at it with the sledge hammer, smashing it open. But the rules of the competition were the rules and that smashed parking meter lost, although Robert thought that perhaps it had been the best one.
At the end of his tenure as Director of Traffic, traffic in the city was dramatically improved. The current design of traffic patterns in Central Square and Harvard Square are his best known successes, lane markings on the streets, all modernized traffic signals and a computerized traffic signal control system. His default picture on his page here shows him sitting on one of the traffic control islands in Central Square, as designed by him. |
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 | Financial Records for the Family Drug Store on the NW Corner of 29th and Popular St, Philadelphia - Beginning October 4th, 1888
You can see what they bought and sold, how they were doing on a daily and monthly basis, some payroll records with names. Also house expense records for House at 1007 Mifflin St.
Original Daybook in the genealogical archive of Robert Charles Rudolph |
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 | First Cousins John Mason Rudolph, Jr. and Francis Charles Thorpe, Jr. in 2002
Taken at the Rudolph Family Reunion on August 25, 2002 in Galena, MD at the home of Elizabeth Jane Thorpe and Robert Hunsperger. Video by Robert Hunsperger. |
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 | Fogg Family Bible with entries by Samuel Bern Fogg - Birth Page One
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 | Fogg Family Bible with entries by Samuel Bern Fogg - Birth Page Two
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 | Frances Evans in Approximately 1901
From the photo collection of Elizabeth D'Attilio |
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 | Francis Charles Thorpe and Elizabeth Julia Rudolph at roughly the time of their marriage in 1930
Back of Photo: Frank and Elizabeth Thorpe
From the photo collection of John Frederick Brenner from Robert Hunsperger |
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 | Francis Charles Thorpe Jr on 7 Jun 1964
Taken at the wedding of Robert Ernest Rudolph and Rosemarie Puglisi where Charles Thorpe was the best man for his first cousin. |
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 | Francis Charles Thorpe on 7 Jun 1964
Taken at the wedding of Robert Ernest Rudolph and Rosemarie Puglisi |
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 | Francis Charles Thorpe on August 22, 1930
Back of photo:
Francis C. Thorpe
August 22, 1930
From the photo collection of John Frederick Brenner from Robert Hunsperger 07 Nov 1997 |
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 | Francis Charles Thorpe, Jr - June 1937 - Age 2 1/2
From the photo collection of Elizabeth D'Attilio |
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 | Francis Charles Thorpe, Jr. at a Family Reunion in the Summer of 2002
Hosted by Elizabeth Jane Thorpe and Robert Hunsperger at their home in Galena, MD. |
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 | Francis Charles Thorpe, Jr., taken on the stairs at 2042 Conlyn St, Philadelphia, PA
From the photo collection of John Frederick Brenner from Robert Hunsperger |
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 | Francis Leo Grogan and Yvonne Desaurlier in approximately 1960
Back of photo is blank.
From the photo collection of Cleasse Elizabeth Grogan. |
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 | Freeman, Sarah - Telephone interview by Laura Lisa Nichols in Dec 1997 with handwritten notes.
Includes information on the three Nichols sisters Sarah (Sally) Rebecca Nichols, Adelaide Eugenia Nichols and Mabel Lena Nichols along with Walter Freeman, husband of Mabel Lena Nichols and their daughter Sarah (Sallie) Freeman. |
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 | Freeman, Walter - Family Headstone - St Peter's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cheshire, CT
The name, birth year, death year and marriage of both Walter Freeman and his wife Mabel L. Nichols are readable. |
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 | Friends Select School - 1893 to 1894 Catalogue for the School Year - Includes Ernest J. Rudolph in the list of Pupils
Includes sketches of the inside of the school, yearly school calendar at a glance, school committee similar to a board of education, teachers and the subjects they taught, list of graduates 1841-1884, list of current pupils including Ernest J. Rudolph, the history and mission of the school, four detailed pages about the curriculum, the lunch program, rules, daily hours, how to apply and that applications quite exceed accommodation and finally the tuition starting with primary education at $20 a month to high school at $55 a month.
Original cared for by Robert Charles Rudolph. |
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 | Friends Select School - Ninth Mo. 28, 1892 - Offer to partake in the hot dinner program at 12.15 p.m. daily
"The dinner will consist of soup, hot meat and vegtables, and dessert. The cost will be $1.25 per week, paid in advance, in the dining room."
Original cared for by Robert Charles Rudolph |
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 | Friends Select School Tuition Bills from October 1891 to March 1899 for Ernest John Rudolph
The tuition bills are made out to John Mason Rudolph, but with Thomas Rudolph scratched out a couple times.The bills were mailed to John M. Rudolph, 565 N. 25th St, Phila.
Originals in the genealogical archive of Robert Charles Rudolph |
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 | Friends South-Western Burial Ground - Notebook for section B - Lot B0 (version 2)
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 | Friends SouthWestern Burial Ground - Plans of Family Lots #1601 - Lot B0
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 | Friends SouthWestern Burial Ground - Plans of Family Lots #1601 - Lot B40
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