Curious as to what to get that special someone who has a love of historic photography from the American Civil War for Christmas!? Check out our republication of photographer and entrepreneur Alexander Gardner’s 1866 photographic manuscript, “Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War” on the iPad. From The man who laid a war at America’s [...]
This twenty three page book of alphabet rhymes was published in Windham, Connecticut in 1813, by Samuel Webb. For the letter A: “Great A stands for Adam’s administration and B for betraying the rights of the nation.” This rhyme refers to John Adams, the second president of the United States and a conservative Federalist who [...]
Starting with the Gold Rush, Chinese migrated to California and other regions of the United States in search of work. As several photographs show, many Chinese found work in the gold mines and on the railroads. They accepted $32.50 a month to work on the Union Pacific in Wyoming in 1870 for the same job [...]
On Memorial Day, 1921, four unknowns were exhumed from four World War I American cemeteries in France. U.S. Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger, who was wounded in combat, highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Medal in “The Great War, the war to end all wars,” selected the Unknown Soldier of World War [...]
A twelve frame satire of real and fictitious important figures. They are: 1. Dr. Albert Frederick Cook, “Inventor of the North Pole,” who claimed to have discovered the icy region before Admiral Robert E. Peary. Powers suggests that he may have discovered another “pole” by juxtaposing a bust-length caricature of the American physician and explorer, [...]
Favorite Scotch Melodies arranged in brilliant style with Variations for the Piano forte…no. 6. ‘Scot’s [sic] Wha Hae…’ by Wm. Vincent Wallace. New York: Published by Wm. Hall & Son, 239 Broadway; London: R. Cocks & Co. [ca. 1854]. This popular Scotch national air (the tune to Burns’s “Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled”) is [...]
On March 2, 1861, President James Buchanan signed the bill creating the Dakota Territory, which originally included the area covered today by both Dakotas as well as Montana and Wyoming. The name was taken from that of the Dakota or Sioux Indian Tribe. Beginning in 1877, efforts were made to bring Dakota into the Union [...]
In early years of American movies, Jacksonville, Florida, experienced a brief turn in the spotlight as one of the hubs for filmmaking on the east coast. The Vim Comedy Company, based in Jacksonville and New York, was one of several film studios operating in the Jacksonville area in the first three decades of the 20th century. The [...]
From Wikipedia: It wasn’t until the advent of Wild West Shows that “cowgirls” came into their own. These adult women were skilled performers, demonstrating riding, expert marksmanship, and trick roping that entertained audiences around the world. Women such as Annie Oakley became household names. By 1900, skirts split for riding astride became popular, and allowed women to compete with [...]
Photographs of a marketplace along the waterfront in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. This market was a main source of shopping for the Resettlement Administration’s rehabilitation clients. Between 1936 – 1937, a major renovation of the market was undertaken by the WPA and the city of New Orleans. The market had fallen into [...]
From The Great Delaware Sports Book: In 1913 Mrs. Harriet Hammond organized the Nemours Club for women trapshooters, the first women’s shooting club in American. The Nemours Club soon boasted over 100 members, mostly from the agricultural division of the Du Pont company. The Nemours women even toured the country to demonstrate their skill. From [...]
From Hope Farm Press: The Ellenville Glass Company was organized in 1836 by a group of glass makers from Coventry and Willington, Connecticut, headed by Jasper Gilbert. The site was on Sandbergh Creek, where the New York, Ontario & Western station now stands, and in October, 1837, they began to make bottles, carboys and demijohns, using [...]
Soon after moving into the White House in 1945, President Truman noticed large areas of cracking in the plaster throughout the house. A structural survey revealed major problems caused by stress from the 1902 floor-bearing steel beams and the weight of the third floor and roof, all pressing against the inner brick walls. In 1948 Truman appointed [...]
The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially constructed work car on a parallel track. At the time of filming, the subway was only seven months old, having opened on October 27, 1904. The ride begins at [...]
He (Alexander Gardner) remained in Scotland until 1856, when he emigrated to this country and landed in New York in the spring of that year. He was at once employed in the leading photographic establishment of that city, and introduced, for the first time, “Imperial Photographs.” They were a new sensation to the professions as [...]
Bargain day on 14th Street as this film shows hundreds of tightly packed people crowding into the front door of the Rothschild Co. 5 and 10 cent store. They are so closely packed it is difficult to tell one from another. The view is from across the street, looking down from the 2nd floor. Filmed [...]
