On March 6, 1930 International Unemployment Day was held which was a coordinated international campaign of marches and demonstrations, marked by hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world taking to the streets to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression. The Unemployment Day marches, were organized by the Communist International […]
A surprise hurricane in July, 1943 that hit Texas was considered at the time the worst since the 1915 Galveston hurricane. The tropical storm developed over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on July 25 and strengthened while it tracked westward. The Old Southern Hotel 1943 Texas City Library.org Information and reports about the hurricane were […]
Greene County, Georgia was formed on February 3, 1786, from land given by Washington County. It was named in honor of General Nathaniel Greene, a hero of the American Revolutionary War. Most of its early settlers were veterans of the war for Independence. Old Plantation Bell in Greene County, Georgia Nathanael Greene and wife Catharine […]
It is hard to believe that children as young as five were allowed to roam the streets of Washington D. C. and help sell newspapers. The young boy in the photograph below could not even talk well. This is why child labor laws are so important. The photographs below were taken by Lewis Wickes Hine to […]
On November 12, 1936 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. You can see a timeline of his fairly uneventful day at: FDR Library However, one major event in President Roosevelt’s schedule shows that at 3:30 pm. “In Cabinet Room, pressed button to open San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (CA).” Photographer Dorothea Lang was in […]
Birmingham, Alabama was a pilot city for the ‘Quiet home’ program in 1965 to eliminate the “jangled nerves” caused by working and living in noisy urban environments. The 1965 Parade of Homes was a marketing event in Birmingham, Alabama for new home construction put on by the Birmingham Association of Home Builders in 1965. Many […]
Did you know that in the seventeenth century, a person’s social standing determined what he or she ate at dinners? The best food was placed next to the most important people. Also, people didn’t tend to sample everything that was on the table, they just ate what was closest to them. In the seventeenth century […]
Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky is located one mile west of the Cumberland Gap. The city was incorporated in 1890 as “Middlesborough”, named after the town of Middlesbrough on the south bank of the River Tees in what was then the North Riding of Yorkshire, now known as North Yorkshire England. The U.S. Post Office began […]
“Get the Sack’ actually comes from the days when workmen carried their tools in sacks. Before the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the age of mass employment, people who needed work done and had the means to pay someone else to do it would hire workers with the skills to do specific jobs. These workers […]
*Note: The language below may be a little antiquated because they are excerpts and transcriptions from a the book –Transcription from Historic Houses of New Jersey By Weymer Jay Mills .J. B. Lippincott Company – written in 1902 The Belcher Mansion in New Jersey was a place were many important people in the colonies were entertained. […]
