Texting or Telegraph? Which is faster? Texting is a major form of communication today, but is it faster than using the old form of communication, telegraphs? Indiana University put this question to the test in the following video. Which method do you think won, texting or telegraphing? Read more about the invention of the telegraph […]
Memorial arch was a monument dedicated to a child This is probably the earliest film taken of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was made in 1897 taken by Edison Manufacturing Company. The film is was taken at the above University, noted the world over, being the personal gift of the late Senator Leland Stanford. […]
Following World War I, leaders of Britain, France, and Italy met in London to discuss the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and the negotiation of agreements that would become the Treaty of Sèvres. Entrepreneurs opened clubs and restaurants “The lifting of war time restrictions in the early 1920s created new sorts of night-life in the […]
In the early 1900’s when automobiles became more affordable, auto racing was as popular as horse racing. The following photographs were taken around this era. The photograph below has the caption: Finish of 1st American auto race at Springfield, L.I. – A.L. Riker in electric, wass the winner. The Photograph below taken by Spooner & Wells […]
First Automobile parade in Manhattan The film below is probably the first annual automobile parade, held on November 4, 1899 in downtown Manhattan. It was made by Thomas A. Edison Company. At least ten different makes and models are seen, including electric and steam powered machines. Only three years earlier, in 1896, Henry Ford, Charles Brady […]
Samuel T. B. Morse missed the death of his wife due to a lag in communication and this was the impetus that provided an invention to change the method of communication forever. Samuel T. B. Morse Prior to becoming the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, Samuel F. B. Morse was an renowned artist […]
Delightful vintage government film from 1937 midwest – reveals how the drought affected the midwest during the dust bowl The Water Carrier Scenes from 1937 midwest show the importance of water for drinking purposes illustrated by views of one well that serves an entire community. Water is doled out and counted by the bucketful. The commentator describes the […]
Go back in time with this vintage film and see what life was like at the New York Fish Market in 1903 when producing moving pictures and film was in its infancy. Click here to see the film that may have inspired the iconic photo of Marilyn Monroe. Click here to Join Amazon Kindle Unlimited 30-Day […]
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dry land farming methods to prevent wind erosion. Farmer and sons walking in the face of […]
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Between the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, families had no other course but to leave the prairie lands and immigrant to the western states to become migrant workers. Below are vivid photographs documenting the difficulties they encountered on the road and interviews by the WPA with four men, Wayne […]
