Month: October 2024

It’s often advised that you shouldn’t share everything with your neighbors. If you’re fortunate, you’ll have neighbors who respect personal boundaries. In most cases, people […]

Photographed about 1896–1912 by itinerant photographer Albert J. Ewing, it features five children, two ladies, and three men posing outside their two-story frame home. It […]

On October 23, 1915, ten-year-old Mollie Schuman was left alone to care for a group of children in a small one-room shack near Sterling, Colorado. […]

In 1937, Alabama was gripped by the Great Depression, a time of deep economic hardship for much of the United States, and nowhere was this […]

Between 1886 and 1912, traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing captured everyday moments of rural life in southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. One such photograph, […]

Many sections of Georgia’s Dixie Highway were dirt roads for many years. Numerous cars became stranded in the mud following intense rains. Driving cars across […]

In 1946, Louis Shafer, a miner from the Westland Mine operated by the Pittsburgh Coal Company in Washington County, Pennsylvania, is captured carrying an armful […]

Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image of multiple generations of a family posing on a front porch sometime between 1896 and 1912. […]

In this snapshot of life from 1910, a group of boys and girls gather on the porch of their home in a coal camp, likely […]

The Duncan Family of West Point, Mississippi. Except for the mother and the baby, everyone is in the cotton mill. The child, Bill, replied, “I’m […]

Introduction Life on the American frontier was defined by resourcefulness, perseverance, and the ability to make do with limited resources. A photograph from Nebraska in […]

Introduction The American frontier of the late 19th century is often romanticized as a time of pioneering spirit, hard work, and resilience. One of the […]