Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[richhodg66]

Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmer John Barnett's daughter Delphaline, Reading a Book as She Lies on and iron bed in her bedroom. C.1930s.

 

[KeithB]

I wonder if the newspapers on the walls were an attempt to keep out the dust.

 

[popper]

Early wall paper for the poorer folks. Chinking would leak a lot, paper on the inside to keep draft down. Used in mud huts instead of plaster.

 

[RicinYakima]

Very common in KY when you could not afford tar paper under the boards and batten.

 

[fiver]

they are under the floor boards in my house, i'm sure as insulation from the unheated basement when the place was heated by coal.

 

[JWFilips]

From Shorpy.com
November 1938. "Migrant cotton picker's children who live in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp, California." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange.

 

[462]

A pastel of puppies make for big smiles.

 

[richhodg66]

That's a precious photo. Those kids had it so hard and found joy in something.

 

[richhodg66]

Abraham Lincoln once asked General Winfield Scott this question: "Why is it that you were once able to take Mexico City in three months with five thousand men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with one hundred thousand men?"

"I will tell you," said General Scott. "The men who took us into Mexico City are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond."

 

[richhodg66]

This is the oldest recorded photograph of a cat, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1850s using the Daguerreotype process, which is where the final image is on a silver-coated copper plate.

 

[richhodg66]

Did you know a dachshund was the first dog they were planning to cast in the Wizard of Oz. The part of Toto in The Wizard of Oz was originally meant to be played by a dachshund named Otto. He was owned by Margaret Hamilton who played the part of the Wicked Witch of the West in the film. The photo of Dorothy and Otto was shot from unreleased footage of the film, where Dorothy sang ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.

 

[richhodg66]

1939 Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Children in large private bean pickers camp. Pickers came from many states, from Oklahoma to North Dakota.

 

[richhodg66]

Are we there yet?

 

[richhodg66]

Salvage of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Preparing the ship for refloating, after she had been righted, 1943