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Tag Archives: 20th Century
1958: Don’t Cross Our Mom’s Picket Line
International Ladies Garment Workers Union picket line at Michele Frocks, Scranton PA, 1958 (source)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Children, Labor, Mothers, Photography, Strikes, Unions, USA, Women
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1948: Weird Tales
Weird Tales, July 1948
1918: It Is Well that No Protection Be Afforded the Bird
The Common Crow (corvus brachyrhynchos); frontispiece of The Crow and Its Relation to Man (E. R. Kalmbach, 1918). When feeding on injurious insects, crustaceans, rodents, and carrion, and when dispersing seeds of beneficial plants, the crow is working largely for … Continue reading
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1940: Top Women
The official title of this item in the National Archives is “Like girls from Mars are these ‘top women’ at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works. Their job is to clean up at regular intervals around the tops of twelve blast … Continue reading
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2013: The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz
Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz constructed these model buildings in the 1950’s and 1960’s, working with cardboard, matchboxes, wallpaper scraps, and magazine pages. They were discovered by artist Oliver Croy in 1993 in a Berlin junk shop, each in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 1960's, 2010's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Architecture, Austria, Miniatures, Oliver Croy, Peter Fritz
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1913: Whitlock’s Folly
Once located on the southeastern tip of the Bronx, this mansion was built by Benjamin Morris Whitlock in 1859. Sitting on a fifty-acre estate, the structure boasted a hundred rooms and was said to have cost $350,000 (about $9.5 million … Continue reading
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1976: Kids and Comics
“12-year-old Freddie Lewis, left, and Marshall Beck, both of San Diego’s Normal Heights neighborhood, set aside superhero comics to check out a copy of ‘Howard the Duck’ in 1976. (Dennis Huls / San Diego Historical Society)” (source)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Children, Comics, Dennis Huls, Howard the Duck, Photography
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1962: Nurses’ March
April 1, 1962: 8,000 union nurses march for higher pay in Trafalgar Square, London. In 1958, at the worst stage of the recession, the Conservative government took a firm stand against pay increases and, having won the busmen’s strike in … Continue reading
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1933: World Revolution
April 3, 1933: Workers gluing maps to globes at the Geographia factory in London.
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1966: Likewise, a Jazzy Tachometer
Ad for the 1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport.
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