People Archive
1940’s appalachia
One of the first McDonald’s restaurants open in 1948.
Miners Panning for Gold in the Dakota Territory
Remember Kiss & Ride? 1981, Chicago.
Survivors of the Titanic row to the Carpathia 1912
Ten year old spinner in a North Carolina cotton mill, 1900-1937. (Lewis W. Hine)
Ernie Pyle (1900-1945): Compassionate, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who chronicled the lives of common soldiers and sailors throughout WWII; killed by a Japanese sniper on Okinawa in the closing …
These Mardi Gras masks
SUDAN. 1949. The Nubas of Kordofan by George Rodger
One popular early method of mailing letters to Santa was to put them in the chimney, because smoke was believed to magically transport wishes to the North Pole.