Month: June 2024

Louisiana’s Baton Rouge, 1861–1865… Two unidentified escaped slaves in torn clothing/ Taken in Baton Rouge by McPherson & Oliver

Five young girls, all dressed in white, are pictured posing on a house’s porch. Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image sometime between […]

Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image of a woman sitting outside with piles of lumber in the backdrop sometime between 1896 and […]

  The kitchen in a packed flat. Illinois’s Chicago…

Margaret, Nellie Johnson McLemore, and Dr. George Ammie McLemore are shown in the caption. (verso) The background shows the home and office…

The largest open pit iron mine in the world, the Hull-Rust-Mahoning pit, is located close to Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit is approximately four hundred feet […]

Pennsylvania, at Neffsville. Thanksgiving Day, Earle Landis freezing ice cream on the back porch. His son holds it down by sitting on the freezer when […]

The caption of the photographer Three-year-old Alma Crosien is the daughter of Baltimore resident Mrs. CoRa Croslen. They are both employed by Barataria Canning Company. […]

West Virginia and Ohio, 1896–1912… Two horses are pulling this hay wagon, which is pulled by a father and four kids. In the background are […]

1890s in Marion County The man in the front with the shutter release cable pointing toward him is Micajah C. Henley (1856–1927), and Earl Henley […]

Michigan’s Howell, in 1905… “In 1905, a Standard Oil carriage makes early morning deliveries of gas and kerosene to drug stores that sold the fuels […]

A female facing her tepee. Many people reside in such archaic tents on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico.