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In 1776, the United States of America as we know it declared independence. And from the 18th century to today, the country has had a packed, complicated history, full of events that were inspiring, shocking, and heartbreaking. But reading about the past doesn’t always make it click the way a photograph can.
That’s why we’ve rounded up some curious photos shared on the US History subreddit. From everyday slices of life to major turning points captured on camera, scroll down to check them out. They might make you view America’s history in a new light.
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#1
In 1969, When Black Americans Were Still Prevented From Swimming Alongside White People
Mr. Rogers decided to invite Officer Clemmons to join him and cool off his feet in a pool, breaking a well-known color barrier.
Earonn - 1 day ago
It wasn't "just how it was". Good people always knew better. Everyone else just was/is a cvnt.
Joyce Brown 1 day ago
The year I was born -1960 - I was adopted by a white family who was not told that I am half black/half white. I didn't realize until I was an adult that 'daddy and me' time spent swimming at the YMCA was related to me not being welcome in one of my grandparents' white neighbor's pool. They told me they only allowed family to swim in their pool. But they allowed my white sister to join them. My parents must have put two and two together, because they didn't allow her to go back. We got a kiddie pool at our house that we shared with our neighbors.
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#2
In November 1945, Frederick C. Branch Became The First Black American Officer In The Marine Corps
There’s something special about looking at photographs from American history. These images let us see what life actually looked like decades or even centuries ago, capturing moments that would otherwise be lost to time.
Naturally, none of these photographs would exist without the invention of photography itself and its arrival in America. Inventor Samuel Morse happened to be in Paris just as the daguerreotype craze was blooming and met with Louis Daguerre twice in March 1839.
The first daguerreotypes in the United States were made on September 16, 1839, by D.W. Seager, just four weeks after the announcement of the process. Back in New York, Morse set himself up to teach others how to make these images.
#3
A Young Jimmy Carter, In His Naval Uniform, With Wife Rosalynn. They Were Married For 77 Years
emorinelli49 1 day ago
So fresh and young! I try to remember that all of the “cute” older couples I see were once like that. My husband and I are in our seventies and we used yo be.
#4
This Is Something I Would Fight For
Meisbär 1 day ago
You really think voters are THAT smart? Especially the uneducated and clueless US-Americans would call such a list "communism", the losers see workers Rights as benefits and don´t understand PTO, Sickpay or minimum wag in the double digits :D :D :D
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CP 1 day ago (edited)
Bruno the Liar never disappoints. Have you ever accidentally told the truth and then had to retract it?
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 1 day ago
That is all fine and well but those yachts don't pay for themselves. Think of the poor rich bastards this would affect :P
Photography took off pretty fast in America. By 1853, an estimated three million daguerreotypes per year were being produced in the United States alone.
The daguerreotype process created images on polished silver-plated copper sheets, and each one was a unique photograph that showed extraordinary detail when viewed in proper light. Cities like New York had hundreds of photographers competing for customers by the late 1850s.
#5
George McLaurin, The First Black Man Admitted To The University Of Oklahoma In 1948, Was Forced To Sit In A Corner Away From His White Classmates
But his name remains on the honor roll as one of the university's top three students.
These are his words:
"Some colleagues looked at me as if I were an animal, no one gave me a word, the teachers seemed like they weren't even there for me, nor did they always take my questions. But I dedicated myself so much that later, they started looking for me to give them explanations and clarify their questions."
The Chronic Insomniac 2 days ago
Why would some people prefer to go back to horrid times such as this?
Chich the witch 1 day ago
because they didn't listen to Mr Rogers when they were kids.
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Robert Trebor 2 days ago
Actually had a better desk, as anyone who tried to take notes on one of those armrest desks could testify.
#6
A Civil War Veteran With His Grandchildren
David Timothy 20 hours ago
Union colors so good chance he enlisted and fought as a free man fighting for The Union. The thought of slaves being forced to fight for the South the s my stomach
#7
First African American To Serve In The US Senate
Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate—just five years after slavery was abolished.
panther 1 day ago
There would be people today who would say he was a DEI recipient and should not have been elected. And then would try to erase him from history.
Andy Frobig 22 hours ago
There were people then who would say and do those things! That's how Rutherford Hayes was elected, and how the Klan rose to power
Load More Replies...Before photography, getting a portrait painted was expensive and out of reach for most people. Daguerreotypes changed that.
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these photographs were affordable enough that seamstresses, carpenters, and miners could have them taken. For the first time, regular folks could own an actual image of themselves or someone they loved.
#8
Man Looking For A Job During The Great Depression. 1934
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Today if he revealed he knew three languages he would probably be put on ICE's watch list.
#9
During The Civil War, Frances Quinn Disguised Herself As A Man And Enlisted 5 Different Times
Each time she was discovered to be a woman and was dismissed. She served in both infantry and cavalry. She was wounded at the Battle of Stones River in 1862.
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
This must have been so hard to carry off. Especially given the lack of privacy in military camps.
#10
Frederick Douglass
“I therefore hate the corrupt, [...], women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land…I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.”
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
He sure hit that nail right on the head. Too bad it still exists, and in great numbers in the US at this time.
Mathew B. Brady set himself the task of photographing the nation’s leading figures after opening his first studio in 1844, capturing everyone from presidents to stage performers. When the Civil War started, Brady wanted to document it photographically.
But his poor business skills and love of attention drove away his best employee, Alexander Gardner, who went on to become one of the top Civil War photographers himself.
#11
First Social Security Recipient 1940
LUDLOW, Vt. - Seventy-five years ago, the government cut 65-year-old Ida May Fuller a check. It was numbered 00-000-001 - the first Social Security payout.
Earonn - 1 day ago
That's what living without a dishwasher, washing machine, drier etc. does to you.
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#12
President John F. Kennedy's Flag-Draped Coffin In Washington, DC, 1963
#13
The State Of Massachusetts Passed The First School Vaccination Law In 1855, Followed By New York (1862) And Connecticut (1872).
December 15, 1827 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts, the School Committee voted to require, effective 1 Mar 1828, that public school students show that they had been vaccinated against smallpox prior to the school entrance
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
We knew this 200 years ago and yet people like DeSantis and RFK, Jr. want us to go back BEFORE 200 years.
Two days after the Battle of Antietam, Gardner became the first of Brady’s photographers to photograph those who had fallen on the battlefield. These photos shocked the public.
The New York Times wrote that Brady brought home the terrible reality of war. The images made it feel real in a way words never could.
#14
The Shape Of The Statue Of Liberty Formed By 18,000 Soldiers Standing In Formation At Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, 1918. (Photo By Mole And Thomas, Chicago, Illinois)
Crystal Spencer 1 day ago
You are so wrong. Look at all the information on the photo one more time.
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BrunoVI 2 days ago
I was going to say, "Very cool, but no way near 18000 people. Maybe a few hundred." But then I realized that they were avoiding having greater perspective by making the back rows larger and larger. Still seems hard to believe its 18,000, but it's a lot more than I thought. And way more difficult to plan.
otiose 2 days ago
I don't have the words to say how much I would detest being forced to do this (discipline for disciplines sake and building esprit de corps be dämned - what a fücking waste of time and energy)
Lewis KR 1 day ago
The US was fighting in WWI when this was taken (August 1918), so I guess it was taken to promote the war effort / improve national morale. Everyone in the photo is getting paid - probably the easiest mornings work they've had in a while!
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John Vandyke 1 day ago
18K seems highly dubious to me. There are 17 across the base, the widest part of the group. I counted about 130 rows, guesstimating near the torch. 17-130 = 2210.
#15
One Of The Only Known Photos Of Presidents Theodore And Franklin Roosevelt Together In Person, 1915
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Regarding the man in the middle, the original post says: "Per an earlier post that is the lawyer who was representing TR. He was being sued for libel after accusing a political boss of corruption. W.H. Van Benschoten per Google."
Michael Largey 1 day ago
TR and FDR both served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and president. Reportedly Teddy thought Franklin was a bit of a lightweight at the time. If so, things changed.
#16
Theodore Roosevelt’s Diary Entry On The Day His Wife And Mother [Passed Away]
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago (edited)
That read disturbingly like a single redneck funeral initially....
George Eastman made photography much easier in 1888 with the Kodak camera. His advertising showed women and children using the camera, and he came up with a catchy slogan: “You press the button, we do the rest.”
The camera came loaded with enough film for 100 photos. When you finished, you mailed the whole thing back to Rochester, New York. They developed your pictures, put in new film, and sent it all back. Just ten years later, over 1.5 million of these cameras were out there in people’s hands.
#17
A Delegation Of Sixteen Arapaho Indians LED By Chief Old Eagle Arrives In Paris, Capital Of France, To Beg The League Of Nations To Ask The United States Government To Recognize Indians As U.S. Citizens
Michael Largey 1 day ago
They were here first. We should have been asking them to accept us as citizens.
#18
The Real Iwo Jima Flag Raising
#19
Helmet Graffiti
Earonn - 1 day ago
And now we're standing at the brink of the next war, all because in the USA being a rapist doesn't mean you can't be president - as long as you're rich and white, at least. And because people refuse to clean up the shyte.
CP 1 day ago (edited)
Why the /s? Poor people die all the time in the USA to make the rich richer. War isn't even required.
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🎶 Be the first one on your block to have your boy sent home in a box! And it's 1 - 2 -3 🎶
When color photography arrived, it changed how people saw the world. Kodachrome film came out in 1935. It was the world’s first commercially successful color film, known for its sharpness, archival durability, and vibrant yet realistic colors.
National Geographic magazine photographers used the film extensively in the 1950s and ‘60s, with their images of exotic destinations inspiring readers. The film was also used to capture Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953 and Edmund Hillary’s climb to the top of Mount Everest that same year.
The film stayed popular for decades because the colors didn’t fade. Many Kodachrome photos from the 1940s through 1960s still look bright and fresh today.
#20
The Mississippi River, Frozen Solid In St Louis, Missouri, 1905
Billo66 1 day ago
I live near here. We are lucky to get a couple of light snows per year now. Can't even sled anymore, maybe for a day or two. It gets cold enough to walk on ponds but the old Miss certainly doesn't freeze like that anymore.
Lotekguy 1 day ago
I can remember seeing large chunks of ice floating down the river past St Louis, but nothing approaching this level of obstruction of maritime traffic.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
No no no >.< That scares me. That kind of cold is terrifying!
#21
Teddy Reasoning
Lotekguy 1 day ago
If anybody needs to be reincarnated to run for a term as president, Teddy is the guy. Trust-busting is needed more desperately now than ever, especially the consolidation of media ownership that used to be prohibited, and enforced by agencies that have grown toothless by design.
#22
Former Enemies, One Nation — Gettysburg, 1913
From those first daguerreotypes in 1839 to the color films of the mid-twentieth century, photography transformed how Americans understood their own history. What started as a complex process requiring long exposure times became something anyone could do with the push of a button.
Today, we can take photographs in seconds with our phones, a convenience we often take for granted. But that doesn’t diminish their importance. These images still capture meaningful moments, and there will surely be many more to come that help define American history for future generations.
#23
Construction Of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada -Rigger On Cableway Headtower During Construction- 1934
#24
This Is A Human Zoo In Coney Island, New York, 1905. White Americans Bought Tickets To See A Filipino Girl Tied To A Pole And Had Peanuts Thrown At Her
Jerome Lenovo 1 day ago
i guess those peanut throwers went to church after that ........ (yeah whine little lurker)
Billo66 1 day ago
No, they went before. That's where the peanuts were being passed out.
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Laszlo Larthlanc 1 day ago
I'm not religious. but I hope there's a Heaven and that this poor kid got to spend all eternity there when her days here were finished.
#25
Women Of The Toledo Shipbuilding Co. Responsible For Building The Icebreaker Mackinaw - Toledo, OH (1944)
During the 1940s, women played a vital role in shipbuilding across the Rust Belt as World War II created an urgent demand for industrial labor and thousands of men left for military service; in cities along the Great Lakes, women stepped into skilled positions as welders, riveters, electricians, and draftspeople, helping keep shipyards operating at full capacity. At the Toledo Shipbuilding Company in Ohio, women were an essential part of the workforce that constructed naval and Coast Guard vessels, including the icebreaker Mackinaw (WAGB-83), a massive and technologically advanced ship designed to keep Great Lakes shipping lanes open year-round for wartime transport of iron ore, coal, and other critical materials. Built with the combined efforts of male and female workers, the Mackinaw symbolized both industrial innovation and social change, demonstrating how women’s labor in Rust Belt shipyards directly supported the war effort while permanently expanding opportunities for women in American manufacturing.
#26
Lieutenant Colonel R. D. Garrett, Chief Signal Officer, 42nd Division, Testing A Telephone Left Behind By The Germans In The Hasty Retreat From The Salient Of St. Mihiel. Essy, France. - 1918
#27
The Battle Of The Running Bulls
On January 11, 1937, striking General Motors workers battled Flint police at GM's Fisher Body No. 2 in a bloody night of fighting and a turning point in the Sit-Down Strike.
Known as the "Battle of the Running Bulls," the fight triggered the mobilization of the National Guard by Michigan Gov. Frank Murphy the next day.
"On Jan. 11, violence began outside of Fisher Body 2 when company police shut off the heat, locked the gate to the plant and removed the ladder used to supply food to the strikers," according to the book "The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-37: Witnesses and Warriors."
"When the sit-downers forced the gate open, the company police called in the Flint police for help and they responded with tear gas and bullets," the book says.
Car parts and water from fire hoses were launched at the police. Law enforcement fired buckshot and tear gas at the strikers.
Fighting ended with strikers controlling the gates to the plant and with the police retreating. Governor Frank Murphy sent in the National Guard to maintain peace and order but refused to direct them to act with force against the workers.
"In the morning Chevrolet Avenue looked like a battlefield of the industrial age," recalled Victor Reuther. "Smashed and overturned vehicles, broken windowpanes, shattered bottles, stones, hinges, splintered picket signs, used tear-gas canisters, and everywhere the ice formed by the water that had served so effectively as a defensive weapon."
Duane Ringlein 1 day ago
My grandfather, Hans Larson, was in that strike, and got shot in the leg. I remember always asking to see his scar when I was young kid.
#28
The Lincoln Memorial In Washington, DC In 1917
Oskar vanZandt 1 day ago
Gives a completely different impression... May one day look the same if civil war breaks out in the US.
#29
January 15, 1919 – The Great Molasses Flood: A Wave Of Molasses Released From An Exploding Storage Tank Sweeps Through Boston, Massachusetts
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
They did a pretty good job describing this in an episode of "Drunk History."
#30
Harvard Historians' Ranking Of US Presidents From A 1948 Life Magazine
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Take Jackson out and put him and Trump in the lowest category, or make an even lower one for them both.
Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 day ago
This was before we suspected that Wilson had had a stroke after having influenza and that his wife had been running the presidency
Michael Largey 1 day ago (edited)
Grant and Harding are ranked so low because of the massive corruption during their presidencies. They had no part or - unfortunately - knowledge of it. Otherwise, Grant was at least average and Harding only below average.
#31
Future 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1884
In this picture, a two-year-old Franklin is unbreeched. Breeching” was the occasion when a small boy was dressed in trousers for the first time. Before this, young boys were often dressed in gowns or dresses until they first wore breeches, typically between the ages of two and eight.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, to James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. James was 54 at the time, 27 years older than Sara, and his eldest child from his first marriage was actually older than his new wife.
Franklin grew up deeply privileged. He played tennis and golf, traveled frequently to Europe, and benefited from substantial family wealth on both sides, as well as his father’s successful business and political career. James often brought young Franklin along to meetings, including one with President Grover Cleveland. During that meeting, Cleveland famously told the boy, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you may never be President of the United States.”
But Franklin’s childhood wasn’t defined by privilege alone; it was also marked by affection. Though James was a reserved patriarch in the style of the era, he was more involved with his son than many men of his status. Sara, meanwhile, utterly doted on Franklin. Unlike many wealthy parents of the time, she personally educated and cared for him rather than relying entirely on servants. Franklin returned her devotion, and the two remained close throughout her life.
This upbringing shaped Franklin into an optimistic, confident young man, though one also insulated by privilege and lacking broader empathy early on. That perspective would only change after his later diagnosis with polio.
#32
Down The Ramp Of A Coast Guard Landing Barge Soldiers' Storm Toward "Omaha" Beach During The "D-Day" Landings, 6 June 1944
UnclePanda 1 day ago
Never thought of it until this photo but in addition to all the horrors they faced that day, they had to do it soaking wet.
Barbara Wilcock 1 day ago
I visited all the beaches in Normandy. Omah hit bad. You can still find bullet, wire,bits of fabric on the beaches
#33
Private William “Edward” Black Began His Military Career When He Was Just Eight Years Old. His Father, Lieutenant George Black, Joined The 21st Indiana Volunteers With His Son, William, Accompanying Him As The Regiment’s Drummer Boy
His father, Lieutenant George Black, joined the 21st Indiana Volunteers with his son, William, accompanying him as the regiment’s drummer boy.
During the 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge, Confederates captured William and imprisoned him at Ship Island. Union troops eventually liberated the prisoners, leading to William’s discharge in September 1862. In February 1863, he re-enlisted and became the youngest Civil War soldier injured on active duty when a shell damaged his left hand and arm. He remained with his unit until he was mustered out of service in January 1866. His wartime drum was passed through generations of his family until it was eventually gifted to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.
Chich the witch 1 day ago
"Yeah we'll get right to the battle but first lil bill is going to lay down some mad beats"
#34
LRV Fender Repair - Apollo 17 Moon Mission - Clamps & Duct Tape
From NASA:
A close-up view of the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site photographed during Apollo 17 lunar surface extravehicular activity. Note the makeshift repair arrangement on the right rear fender of the LRV. During EVA-1 a hammer got underneath the fender and a part of it was knocked off. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt were reporting a problem with lunar dust because of the damage fender.
Following a suggestion from astronaut John W. Young in the Mission Control Center at Houston the crewmen repaired the fender early in EVA-2 using lunar maps and clamps from the optical alignment telescope lamp. Schmitt is seated in the rover. Cernan took this picture.
Technical information: Rear View from Station 2, Lunar Roving Vehicle LRV, taken during the second Extravehicular Activity EVA 2 of the Apollo 17 mission. Original film magazine was labeled C, film type was SO-368 Color Exterior, CEX, Ektachrome MS, color reversal 60mm lens with a sun elevation of 27 degrees.
#35
Mugshot Of Famous Outlaw Butch Cassidy, Taken In 1894
#36
An Air Transport Command Plane Flies Over The Pyramids In Egypt. Loaded With Urgent War Supplies And Materials, 1943
AtMostAFabulist 1 day ago
An Air Transport Command plane, loaded with urgent war supplies and materials, flies over the pyramids in Egypt in 1943. Good lord, whoever put that headline together needs to go back to school.
#37
Ice Skaters In Central Park In New York City, With The Dakota Apartment House Visible In The Background. 1898
#38
December 21, 1891 - First Game Of Basketball, Based On Rules Created By James Naismith, Is Played By 18 Students In Springfield, Massachusetts, Celebrated Today As World Basketball Day
Sara Frazer 1 day ago
Wow, so it really was, a basket and a ball... why is this blowing my mind so much 😅🤣🤔
Billo66 1 day ago (edited)
I have seen pickleball. Not a pickle in sight. smh Don't get me started on cornhole. That meant something completely different when I was a kid lol
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John Dilligaf 1 day ago
He wanted something that could be played indoors with minimal equipment. Apparently they didn't even cut the bottom out of the baskets for the first few games. They had to stop the game and have someone with a ladder retrieve the ball.
Chewie Baron 1 day ago
It took 30 years before some had the idea to take the bottom of the basket out!
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Snow In North Dakota, 1966
#40
1936 Map Shows The Depth Of Franklin Roosevelt's Popularity
OwlEyes00: Fun fact - in 1936 FDR won South Carolina with 98.57 percent of the vote. Landon only received 1,646 of the almost 120,000 votes cast there. It's the most lopsided result in a contested state in any US presidential election (on a few occasions early in US history some states were completely uncontested, with only one candidate, who naturally got 100 percent of the vote).
Andy Frobig 22 hours ago
This was before the party shift on race; Democrats were still more the party of workers than of big business, but they were also the party of white supremacy in the South until LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He said privately, "we'll lose the South for a generation," and in 1968 Nixon used his Southern strategy to get the votes of Southern whites, and that's about how it's been since
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Payday On A U.S. Navy Cruiser, 1942
Robert Trebor 2 days ago
Still did that up into the 1970/80's, at least, although most people had all but spending money go to direct deposit.
John Dilligaf 1 day ago
I remember doing a cash payday in the field in Korea in the 1980s . They set up a small tent surrounded by concertina wire for the pay officer. He had a pistol and two MP guards with pistols and shotguns were with him. One person at a time in the tent. You stepped in, saluted, and gave him your name, rank and SSN. He checked your name off 2 separate rosters, counted out your pay and you had to sign both rosters. Then you saluted again and left the tent. There was over 100 of us, that guys saluting arm must have been pretty sore when it was all over.
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And nowhere to spend it... Until they went wh0ring, drinking and gambling ahore.
#42
In 1943, Soldiers Of The 36th Infantry Division Enjoy Bottles Of Coca-Cola During The Italian Campaign
Oskar vanZandt 1 day ago
Coca-Cola probably sponsored the drinks for the war effort... Maybe safer to drink than water or other local beverages.
Michael Largey 1 day ago
It can be quite cold in Italy, particularly in the mountain regions like this.
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Multa Nocte 1 day ago
If I was off somewhere in a nightmare situation like that, I would allow all the commercialisation anyone wanted just for a few minutes to relax and have something to eat or drink that reminded me of home.
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The US Army Was Founded June 14, 1775
Poland’s Pulaski and Kosciusko helped mastermind it. Pulaski as father of US Cavalry and Kosciusko being the founder of West Point. Also; look up the crazy gay Prussian General Von Steuben who hosted no pants parties. No joke.
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
Now. There's an old expresssion. I think both gentlemen may, actually.
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#44
A Daguerreotype Of John Armstrong Jr With His Dog, 1840. Armstrong Was The Last Surviving Delegate To The Continental Congress. He Is The Only Delegate To Have Been Photographed
#45
Republican Election Poster From 1926
Chich the witch 1 day ago
How are those tariffs working for you? I have been avoiding US goods for months and our local grocery stores have switched from largely US produsce to South American, Asia etc. I also had a look and items that used to be cheaper to buy from US shops are now on par or cheaper here. For example, my hobby is astronomy and a telescope that used to be a few hundred$ less in the US is now 50$ more that here.
#46
January 12, 1888 - The “Schoolchildren’s Blizzard” Brings Tragedy To The Northwest Plains
AtMostAFabulist 1 day ago
Details: An estimated 235 people died when a blizzard blew in after warmer weather that same day lulled people. Children were in school and people at work when it hit. Before noon it was warm enough to melt snow, by that night the temps had dropped to -20 to -40 degrees.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
Scared me stiff reading ''The Long Winter'' by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
azubi 1 day ago
You mean because these extreme changes become more likely with climate change? I, too, don't like people too much, but freezing them to death seems a bit harsh to me.
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10th Of January 1776. Thomas Paine Published The First Edition Of Common Sense, A 47-Page Pamphlet That Became A Catalyst For The American Revolution
Published anonymously in Philadelphia, the work challenged British authority in plain language accessible to the average colonist.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago
Yeah, kick out a monarchy. Get in presidents. What could possibly go wrong. Oh.....
Chich the witch 1 day ago
IIRC Washington warned against the establishment of political parties as they would be more interested in the well being of the party over that of the people.
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#48
80 Years Ago The Empire Of Japan Surrendered To The United States Of America, Bringing A Definitive End To World War II
Laszlo Larthlanc 1 day ago
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is famous for having predicted Japan's failure against the U.S., famously stating, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." He spoke these words after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I'm sure the Emperor and his cohort wished they'd paid attention to the Admiral.
Andy Frobig 22 hours ago
I remember seeing this at the end of Tora! Tora! Tora!, but learned later that this may have been falsely attributed to him. Yamamoto had spent time in the US, though, and was against the attack personally, but felt it was his duty to plan it
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Eisenhower At West Point. He Graduated In The Class Of 1915, The Class That Stars Fell On
Out of 164 students that year 59 of them became Generals. Two Five stars, two four stars, 7 three stars, 24 two stars and 24 one-star Generals.
#50
An American Punches A Vietnamese Man Away As People Go To Blows For Space On A Helicopter Out Of South Vietnam As The Communists Close In, 1975
Laszlo Larthlanc 1 day ago
The puncher probably needed to get back to America to start a megachurch.
#51
Just Looked At Jimmy Carter's Electoral Map From 1976 And Was Amazed. The Dems Won Texas And The GOP Won California
Andy Frobig 22 hours ago
A little time with a history book will straighten that out for you. California has had a Republican governor as recently as 2011, and Texas has had a Democratic governor as recently as 1995
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago
Unfortunately I don't have a very in depth knowledge of America's voting pattern so I have no real idea what is surprising about this
#52
On This Day, November 19th, In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln Delivered The Gettysburg Address. This Is One Of Only Two Confirmed Photographs Of Lincoln At Gettysburg
wiseass20 wiseass20 1 day ago
Top right, looks like he's got 2 white paddle hands from what my phone is showing it's hard 2 c, top hat on left shoulder n Winston Churchill look a like I'm his right
#53
December 31, 1904 - First New Year's Eve Celebration Held In Times Square (Then Longacre Square), In New York City
#54
American Soldier Wearing Crown Of Holy Roman Emperor, 1945
#55
Tokyo Goes Up In Flames, 1945. There Were At Least 100,000 Casualties
Michael Largey 1 day ago
Later running mate with segregationist George Wallace.
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General Patton During A Welcome Home Parade In Los Angeles
Sara Frazer 1 day ago
I'm sorry but I was terribly distracted by the artistic rendering of the soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima.... WHO painted his derriere like that and WHY
Multa Nocte 1 day ago (edited)
I'm including the original (colourised) photo below. Which man are you referring to and what do you see as the problem?
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Sam Trudeau 1 day ago
Patton. A US general who was working with General Montgomery of the British in WWII, but broke their plan and led his troops on a different flank. He went on to perform other battles in the war as well
#57
The USS Enterprise - The Most Decorated US Warship
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Hopefully to be scuttled immediately after it is named.
Load More Replies... joann fielding 16 hours ago
That's the ship the Star Trek spaceship was named for, Oskar. It was a tribute.
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Last Image Of Sean Flynn And Dana Stone, American Journalists During The Vietnam War. In 1970, They Took Off On A Motorcycle Trip Into Cambodia To Document The Ongoing Coup And Were Never Seen Again
Michael Largey 1 day ago
Sean Flynn was Errol Flynn's son. He could have been a movie star, but he wanted a life of adventure.
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
Back in the day when the children of the famous set out make something of themselves, rather than just rely on genetics.
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1773 - Boston Tea Party
252 years ago, American colonists in Boston carried out the Boston Tea Party, one of the most famous acts of protest leading up to the American Revolution. In defiance of British authority, members of the Sons of Liberty boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped large quantities of tea into the water.
The protest was directed against the Tea Act, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies while maintaining Parliament’s right to tax them. Colonists opposed the measure not because tea was expensive, but because it reinforced the principle of taxation without representation.
Disguised as Mohawk Indians, the protesters destroyed 342 chests of tea, worth a significant sum, while carefully avoiding damage to other cargo or ships. The action was organised, symbolic, and deliberately nonviolent toward people, yet it represented a direct challenge to British rule, and inflamed tensions in the years preceding the Revolutionary War.
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Found This 1929 Indian Reservation Liquor Prohibition Poster In My Grandfather's (B. 1918) Belongings
Andy Frobig 22 hours ago
And then gave/sold them the alcohol! But this was during nationwide Prohibition
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Men Load A Steam Ship With Steel From Carnegie Steel Co. - Pittsburgh, PA (1918)
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First Syrians To Immigrate To The United States, 1878
Michael Largey 1 day ago
She won't be offended. She always looks on the bright side of life. (Hint, hint. Wink, wink.)
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Soldiers Walk During Armistice Day Celebrations After The First World War - Kalamazoo, MI (C. 1919)
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Dec. 25, 1868. The Civil War Is Over, But Post-War Tensions Are Still There. In An Attempt To Restore Unity, Andrew Johnson Pardons All Confederate Troops
Multa Nocte 1 day ago
Just like Trump did to the confederates who worked for him. Nasty people just can't help themselves from being evil.
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San Francisco Earthquake Of 1906 - Area North Of California Street In The Vicinity Of Grant Avenue Showing Telegraph Hill In The Distance. The Church Standing On The Right Is Saint Mary's Church
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Construction Of The U.S. Steel-Mellon Building (525 William Penn Place) - Downtown Pittsburgh, PA (June 1950)
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I Found An Undocumented American Ghost Town With No History Online
So, I was traveling America on the backroads, trying to find some old buildings/communities that haven't changed since their incorporation, and I found it ! This is Richwoods, Missouri, a town with a industrial past that started in the 1830s. That's about all the history that existed online, so I decided to park and walk around town and talk to locals and hear the stories of this old town.
Chich the witch 1 day ago (edited)
According to reddit it has hit hard times but is not a ghost town and this is a fine example of 'selective photography'
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January 14, 1882 - The Nation's First Country Club Established (Boston)
Michael Largey 1 day ago
Groucho Marx was a guest at a country club where he was told he couldn't swim in the pool because he was Jewish. He replied "My son is only half Jewish. Can he go in up to his waist?"
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A Sign For Technocracy Inc. In Josephine County, Oregon, 1939
John Dilligaf 1 day ago
google and wikipeadia are a thing: From Wikipedia-- The technocracy movement was a social movement, formed in the United States and Canada in the 1930s, which favors a technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy and partisan politics.
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At Ford’s Willow Run Plant, B-24 Liberator Production Reached Astonishing Levels By November 1943, A New Bomber Was Rolling Out Every Hour
Pandaodboredem22 1 day ago
The Yankee Air museum there now is pretty cool to visit, also an annual air show. Ford was responsible for I94 being constructed (hence the Edsel Ford Freeway) to connect the plane to the suburbs, where the plant employees were living. The B24 and Fords manufacturing processes are credited now as being pivotal in winning WW2.
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Thomas Jefferson Writes To The Baptists (Jan. 1, 1802)
Multa Nocte 1 day ago (edited)
From the original post - "January 1, 1802 letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association, outlining his views on religious liberty and the limits of government involvement in religion, later noted for the phrase “wall of separation between church and state.” Too bad that wall has become a tattered, fraying curtain these days.
Kelly Scott 1 day ago
The only wall that needs to be built in the US at this point is the one that should be between church and state.
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Martin Pbm Mariner Patrol Bomber Is Hosed Down After It Was Hauled Up A Ramp At Naval Air Station - Banana River, Florida - 1943
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Swan Creek Mine Common Housing (Michigan’s Last Coal Mine) - Saginaw County, C. 1946
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The White House Wasn’t Always Named As Such. In Fact, It’s Had Many Names Over The Years, Including The “President’s Palace,” “Executive Mansion,” And Simply The “President’s House”
Tucker Cahooter 1 day ago
I'm surprised the present incumbent hasn't slapped his name on it yet
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
Not until he destroys then rebuilds it, on the American peoples' coin -_-
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General George Patton, Despite Being A Self-Proclaimed Devout Christian, Was A Staunch Believer In Reincarnation, And He Believed That He Had Lived Many Lives As Great Warriors
togetherweserved says:
His extensive understanding of historical battles also made the great general a staunch believer in reincarnation, believing he had been a soldier in many previous lives and a quote that is credited to him reads; “So as through a glass and darkly, the age-long strife I see, where I fought in many guises, many names, but always me.”
"Among the many warriors, Patton thought he had been in a former life was a prehistoric mammoth hunter; a Greek hoplite who fought the Persians; a soldier of Alexander the Great who fought the Persians during the siege of Tyre; Hannibal of Carthage whose brutal tactics enforced loyalty among his troops and power over his enemies; a Roman Legionnaire under Julius Caesar who served in Gaul (present-day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, parts of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine); the Roman Soldier who pierced Jesus’ heart with a spear; an English knight during the Hundred Years War; and a Marshal of France under Napoleon."
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December 27, 1900 - Carrie Nation's First Public Smashing Of A Bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita, Kansas)
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