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Stories behind the pictures in the Snapshots of the Past archive. 43 posts.

Halloween - Chapter 1 : “Thys Yere The Towne Of Depe” (Part 1) (May 26th 2020)Halloween - Foreword: A Coal-Region Halloween (May 26th 2020)WPA Poster: The Sun Rises In The West Written And Produced By Southwest Theatre Unit (May 12th 2020)Edward Penfield And The American Poster (May 8th 2020)Ye Ghost Ship (May 8th 2020)The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, And Matilda Joslyn Gage (May 5th 2020)The Chicago World's Fair Invented The Best And The Worst (May 2nd 2020)We Heard The Bells: The Influenza Of 1918 (HHS Documentary - 2015) (May 1st 2020)Historic Songs For A Pandemic (Apr 30th 2020)Backyard Chickens, Then And Now (Apr 26th 2020)States Helping States. It Has Happened Before. (Apr 21st 2020)Napoleon Lajoie, The Definition Of Grace (Apr 19th 2020)Jane Addams, George Pullman, and King Lear (Apr 17th 2020)Great Horses Of The Silver Screen (Apr 16th 2020)Bayard Rustin, Man Of Many Faces (Apr 15th 2020)“A Fortress Besieged By An Invading Army”: The Astor Place Riot (Apr 12th 2020)Elephants On The Brooklyn Bridge (Apr 12th 2020)“A Span, A Cry, An Ecstasy" (Apr 12th 2020)How Buffalo Bill Invented The Wild West (Apr 11th 2020)Mark Twain on the Danube (Apr 11th 2020)The Stories Of Monhegan Island (Apr 10th 2020)It Came From Above: A Visual History of Astronomy (Apr 10th 2020)The American Library Association’s Library War Service (Apr 9th 2020)The Coast Guard’s Forgotten History (Apr 9th 2020)Cloud Chasing Chariots: Early Yosemite Photographers (Apr 8th 2020)Braille: The Language Of The Blind (Apr 8th 2020)The Gold Rush’s Hazy Grays (Apr 8th 2020)Research Locates Site Of Salem Witch Hangings (Apr 7th 2020)Baseball's Bloomer Girls (Apr 7th 2020)Read All About It! In Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (Apr 7th 2020)The Civil War Battle at Mill Springs - Logan's Crossing, Kentucky, January 19, 1862 (Apr 5th 2020)Podcast: The American Library Association’s Library War Service (Apr 5th 2020)Star Spangled Images (Apr 5th 2020)Halloween (Apr 5th 2020)Nellie Tayloe Ross: More Than A Woman (Apr 5th 2020)New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free To Download And Use (Apr 5th 2020)Susan Glaspell and Alison’s House (Apr 5th 2020)Paul Revere's Will (Apr 5th 2020)NY Times: Ruth Newman, A Survivor Of The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Dies At 113 (Apr 5th 2020)Rare Pictures Capture Native Americans In Late 1800s (Apr 5th 2020)The Great Bartholdi Statue Of Liberty (Apr 5th 2020)Daguerreotype Photography At Yosemite (Apr 5th 2020)The Tractor Rumbles To Life (Mar 11th 2019)