Do you know the location? Photographer Jack Allison from the Farm Security Administration took these great photographs on the streets of New York in 1938 VINEGAR OF THE FOUR THIEVES: Recipes & curious tips from the past See best-selling books by Donna R Causey WHERE DO I START? Hints and Tips for Beginning […]
The Bakery Chef Queensbury Hotel, Glens Falls, NY by Carole Dawson I could sit here for hours and talk about my wonderful growing-up years in Glens Falls. It brings back very happy and nostalgic memories for me. Baker/pastry Chef My grandfather, Charles W. Wilson, was the baker/pastry chef at the Queensbury Hotel all during […]
Niagara Falls are voluminous waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. Niagara Falls were formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly-formed Great Lakes carved a path through […]
Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. Millions of newly arrived immigrants passed through the station during that time–in fact, it has been estimated that close to 40 percent of all current U.S. […]
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 […]
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 New York City ghetto fish market was bustling with activity on this day as the film taken by Thomas Edison company in 1903 reveals. The streets are crowded The view, photographed from an elevated camera position, looks down on a very crowded New York City street market. Rows of pushcarts and street vendors’ vehicles […]
These photographs below of young workers from the 1915s include names of children from New York, Mississippi and Maine who worked in the cannery industry. Canning was once an industry that hired young workers in America as seen by the following photographs. Instead of attending school, children were often forced to work by their parents […]
Everyone has seen this iconic photograph of Marilyn Monroe below. The photograph from the movie The Seven Year Itch is probably the most recognized among thousands taken of the famous actress. I recently ran across an old 1901 film made by Thomas Edison’s film company in New York City and wondered if the inspiration to do the scene of […]
“The English Sparrow was imported to North America to protect trees from a caterpillar which is the larva of the Geometrid Moth. About six inches long. Grayish brown, the back streaked with black. Brown wings with white bars. Buff white underside. Narrow white stripe over the eyes. White and chestnut cheek patches. White sides and […]
