Subject: HARD TIMES
HARD TIMES
September 27th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly HARD TIMES A defining period for the United States, the Great Depression. Above is "Depression Couple"; U. S. (July 28,1930). Dot and Ed flank the spar ...
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?
September 25th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? No connection to the song by this name. We just borrowed the title. People do love their dogs, that's for sure. Above is "Man and ...
TANZANIA FERRY SINKING
September 24th, 2018 at 1:15 pm EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly TANZANIA FERRY SINKING The ferry sinking on Lake Victoria in Tanzania with the loss of hundreds of lives was not the first such loss involving a ferry ...
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - "SHOPKEEPER"
September 24th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly PHOTO OF THE WEEK - "SHOPKEEPER" "Shopkeeper"; Macon, Georgia (September 3, 1941). The weary, haunting stare of a Depression era shopkeeper. DPI's homa ...
SWAMP MEN: THE EVERGLADES
September 20th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly SWAMP MEN: THE EVERGLADES If you toured the Everglades in the 1950s you might have used the services of the Poppenhager's. Above is "Everglades Airboat ...
YOU IN MISSISSIPPI NOW
September 18th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly YOU IN MISSISSIPPI NOW A roadside sign above "Mississippi Welcomes You"; Mississippi (November 1971) announces your crossing. The Magnolia State. Below ...
WAITIN' ON THE LEVEE
September 17th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly PHOTO OF THE WEEK - "WAITIN' ON THE LEVEE" Crowd "Waitin' On The Levee"; Greenville, Mississippi (1936). The sidewheeler Robert E. Lee is long gone, b ...
JUDGMENT DAY
September 13th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly JUDGMENT DAY The end is near. So says the "Preacher Man"; California c.1936 in the above photo. Below is "Repent: The End is Near"; San Francisco, Cali ...
MEN OF STEEL
September 11th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly MEN OF STEEL No, not Superman - Man of Steel. Men of Steel. "Steel Workers"; Texas c.1940. Steel workers on a bridge they are building that is under c ...
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - "SHOCK, WEST VIRGINIA (May 30, 1943)
September 10th, 2018 at 10:00 am EDTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly PHOTO OF THE WEEK - "SHOCK, WEST VIRGINIA (May 30, 1943) Deep in Appalachia. Deep in the hollow is "Shock, West Virginia". The out of focus man in the ...