History in Photos

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Artur Pastor

Back to Portugal for more of Pastor's great work.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Detroit Publishing

Casino, Riverton Park, Portland, Maine, 1900-06

Driving from ninth tee, Mount Pleasant golf links, 1900-05

Hans Behm: Seeing Chicago, auto at Monroe near State, Chicago, Illinois, 1900-15

Midwinter carnival, storming the fortress, Upper Saranac Lake, NY, 1909

Russian boat crews being towed to races, Columbian Naval Parade, April 1893

Friday, June 3, 2016

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States. It turned out also to be a major impetus for the Great Migration of southern African Americans to the north. The flood inundated roughly 27,000 square miles of land and displaced some 700,000 persons. Property damage was estimated at $400 million, and 246 people died in the flood waters. Particularly hard hit by the disaster was the Mississippi Delta region.

African-American flood refugees stand in line at Birdsong Camp,

Cleveland, Mississippi, April 29, 1927

Birdsong Camp at Cleveland, Mississippi, April 29, 1927.

Flood refugees sitting at tables eating.

Greenville, Mississippi, April 30, 1927

Leland, Mississippi, May 1, 1927

Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Kids

From the Library of Congress Stereograph Collection.

"Now smile a little dolly, while I take your picture", 1902

Children are children the wide world round--little folks

playing Hop Scotch in Cashmere [Kashmir], India, 1903

I'd rather sleep then eat, 1905

I've found them, 1904

In the daisy field, 1903

Patchwork, 1903

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Pitcairn

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, May 1943. Before the "Rust Belt" became the Rust Belt, it looked like this. Photos by Marjorie Collins.

Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad

Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad

as a car repairmen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour

Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car

shop boiler room as a stationary firemen's helper, earning seventy-two cents an hour

Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a

rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop

Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed

in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents an hour

[notice the difference?]

Twins Amy and Mary Rose Lindich, twenty-one, employed at the Pennsylvania

Railroad as car repairmen helpers, earning seventy-two cents per hour

Mrs. Julia Sabo, thirty-five, mother of three children, employed as a machinist's helper

in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents an hour

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Vintage Deseronto

Deseronto is a town in Ontario, Canada, on the shore of Lake Ontario.

At 12 O'Clock Park, ca. 1910

Crew members of the Rapids King, June 1921

Crew members of the Rapids King, a steamship operated by the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company (Canada Steamship Lines after 1913). The middle decks of the ship are visible in the background. The photograph was taken by the photographic firm of Black and Bennett, 85 Bleury Street, Montreal. The Rapids King was built in Toronto in 1907 and was retired from service in 1931.

An article in the New York Times of 18 July 1921 describes the crew's rescue of passengers of this ship on the previous day, after its rudder chain was broken in the Long Sault Rapids en route from Prescott, Ontario, to Montreal, Quebec. It is possible that this picture was taken after this event.