Historical Image of the Day
Ghost dancers, late 19th century
Showing posts with label Historical Images. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical Images. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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George Whitfield, preacher of the Great Awakening, Brought the movement to America in 1738.
Monday, June 13, 2011
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Back to a place where I have time to do the images again.
This week's set will be on American religion.
Methodist camp meeting, 1839
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
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The first food stamps, 1939
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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The ruins of Charleston, South Carolina, epicenter of treason in defense of slavery, 1865
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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John Hyman, the first black member of Congress from North Carolina, served 1875-77.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
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The next set of images will be from Reconstruction.
White supremacist campaign poster, 1866
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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I pulled this off a post at Whiskey Fire and it seemed a very appropriate image of the day. Barry Goldwater campaign ad, 1964.
Monday, May 16, 2011
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Mary Cassatt, "The Child's Bath," 1893
The images this week have come from CUNY's very useful women's history site Women's Leadership in American History. Check it out.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
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Now Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney while she was a city councilor, at work with her daughter, 1991
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A mother and her children at the Indian Independence Parade, New York City, 1990
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Mother and children making fake flowers as piecework laborers in a New York City tenement house. I don't have a date on this, but it's almost certainly from the 1900s or early 1910s, when such conditions attracted the attention of muckrakers. They did as early as the 1890s, but at that early date, the lack of light in tenement housing meant that you couldn't take photographs. Technological innovation made photos possible after 1900, not improved housing.
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