When New Yorkers heard about the D-Day invasion, 1944
This post was originally published on this siteBy the time the sun rose in New York City on the morning of June 6, 1944, the […]
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The strange world of military research at Natick Soldier Systems Center, 1970-1990
This post was originally published on this siteThe Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) is responsible for the technology, research, development, engineering, fielding, and sustainment of […]
The billboards that sold the American Way, 1937-1940
This post was originally published on this siteMany Americans first encountered the phrase “the American Way” on huge billboards that by 1938 had sprouted in […]
Veterans of four different wars from the same town of Geary, Oklahoma, 1940s
This post was originally published on this siteWe can only imagine the horrors seen and shared between the four of these men. They all have […]
The only two illegal photos taken inside the US Supreme Court in session, 1932-1937
This post was originally published on this siteThere are only two known photos in existence taken inside the US Supreme Court while in session. The […]
Scars of Gordon, a whipped Louisiana slave, 1863
This post was originally published on this siteThe famous “whipped slave” photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his severely whipped back to the camera […]
John Vachon’s Chicago in candid photos, 1941
This post was originally published on this siteIn the hardships caused by the Great Depression, the American government created the Farm Security Administration to help […]
The Johnstown Flood in rare pictures, 1889
This post was originally published on this siteThe South Fork Dam was built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide water […]
Carving the iconic Mount Rushmore, 1927-1941
This post was originally published on this siteThe idea of creating a monumental sculpture in the Black Hills was first suggested in 1923 by South […]
The never solved bombing of Wall Street in rare pictures, 1920
This post was originally published on this siteOn September 16, 1920, as hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for lunch, a horse-drawn wagon parked […]
The infamous New York City blackout of 1977
This post was originally published on this siteThe 1977 blackout that hit New York was a crisis that came amidst a sweltering heat wave, a […]
The parallel world of American advertising targeted toward African-Americans, 1950-1960
This post was originally published on this siteIn the 1950s and 1960s, there existed a ‘parallel world’ of American advertising where mainstream brands targeted the […]
Mailing babies: The story of kids sent through the U.S. Postal Service, 1913
This post was originally published on this siteIt’s hard to believe it, for a brief period of 6 years, it was possible to mail a […]
The last Civil War veterans, 1890-1950
This post was originally published on this siteThe 1.5 million Union and perhaps 600,000 Confederate veterans were very visible members of post-war society. For one […]
The child miners’ photos of Lewis Hine that appalled America, 1908-1911
This post was originally published on this siteIn the early 1900s child labor was still extremely common in the United States. All across the nation […]
The Amphicar that President Lyndon Johnson used to prank people, 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteThe Amphicar was manufactured in West Germany and first made an appearance in America at the 1961 New […]
The Black sharecroppers of the American South, 1939-1941
This post was originally published on this siteAfter the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an […]
The story of the Radio Hat, 1949
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1949, Victor Hoeflich held a press conference to introduce the “Man from Mars, Radio Hat”. Hoeflich knew […]
The original Muscle Beach, 1949
This post was originally published on this siteWhen an earthquake ripped through Santa Monica on March 10, 1933, the city was already in bad shape. […]
When the KKK marched on Washington, 1926
This post was originally published on this siteThe early 1920s were the gilded age for the Ku Klux Klan, as many successful and powerful people […]
Interned German sailors in North Carolina, 1917
This post was originally published on this siteOnce the United States abandoned neutrality and declared war on Germany in April 1917, thousands of German commercial […]
Alarmist anti-marijuana film posters, 1936-1950
This post was originally published on this siteThe recreational cannabis smoking took on a negative connotation in the American cultural imagination when people began to […]
Rare pictures of the Chicago Race Riots, 1919
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1919 Chicago was in the throes of an exhausting heat wave. Thousands flocked to the beaches lining […]
This is how Spring Break looked like in the 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteThese pictures show what was acceptable in the 1980s at Spring Break. Mostly from Daytona beach and Fort […]
A rare photo collection of Native American life in the early 1900s, 1904-1924
This post was originally published on this siteBorn in Wisconsin in 1868, Edward Sheriff Curtis took to photography at an early age. In 1895 he […]