Earl Edward "Smitty" Smith
1900 - 1982

   

These are from my grandfather's driver's license photos.  The one on the left was probably taken some time in the 1920s, and the one on the right dates from 1933.  We have LOTS of these, so I picked what I thought were the best two to post here.  He had very blue eyes which is why they look so light in these photos. He married Dorothy Van Kleeck (1909 - 2010).

   Two postcards generously provided by one of Earl's nieces.  He was probably in his late teens when these were taken.  Right-hand photo, left to right:  William L. Smith (1906 - 1989), Earl E. Smith (1900 - 1982), Charles H. Smith (1904 - 1978)

 Earl Smith with one of his nieces.  Probably taken in the mid 1920s.

 Earl Smith on a big tripod on High Point in the Catskill Mountains.  This photo was probably taken some time in the 1930s.  Mom says that the last time she was up there in the 1980s, the marks from the tripod legs were still visible in the rock.

 Grandpa with Mom sometime in the early 40s.

 Earl with a deer after a hunting trip in the Catskills in 1943.  My mother remembers him coming home with a bear once, which she thought was awful because the meat was so greasy.

 Grandma and Grandpa Smith with me on New Year's Day in 1966.

 Visiting relatives in Texas sometime in the late 1970s.

   

A metal "credit card" for Gulf brand gasoline that belonged to Earl Smith.  This came in a small leather case with the Gulf Oil logo on it, perhaps made to go on a key chain.  We don't know much about it, including what time period it might date from.  The front has his name and address (Apple Street, Kingston, NY - house number has been blurred to protect the privacy of any current occupants) and on the bottom line says:  3.00  GULF  45998

The other side reads as follows:

I am scanning over 50 photos that were taken of or by my grandfather at various construction sites that he worked on.  He operated cranes and shovels at many locations around New York state and northeastern Pennsylvania near the border with New York - possibly also other states in the northeast - from at least the late 1920s or early 1930s on.  Identifying the locations of these is difficult because Grandpa usually never bothered to label his photos.  I am currently in the process of uploading them all.  I think they're all interesting, but it will take time to get them all organized and uploaded.

Click the picture of the shovel to see my grandfather's on-the-job photos.

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