Career

When starting his private practice of surgery in Saint Paul, MN he lived and worked at Anoka State Hospital with Peggy and young children. Anoka housed the criminally insane there and many patients had Tuberculosis. This was the pre-antituberculosis drug and pre-antipsychotic drug era. Many patients required surgery for TB and many had mental illness symptoms that were out of control. It was at Anoka State Hospital that he performed surgeries referred to in his list of publications. He practiced for 40 years at Lowry Medical Arts, died in 1996 of B-cell Lymphoma.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Ballerinas!

United China and Glass Company Ballerina and Arbor


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This twirling ballerina was found among Connolly Estate Items and likely dates from the 1940s or earlier. Maybe a gift when my Grandfather was the Chief of Police in Sound Bend in the 1930s or owned by Spinster Aunts from Michigan.
Other ballerinas on Etsy:

Sandizell Hoffner & Co. Dresden Crinoline Lace Ballerina (1951)






Occupied Japan Ballerina (1945-1951)






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