Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Apparently, this is why there were very few single mothers back in the day...



via The Retroist

Tuesday, April 21, 2009



Life in Soviet Russia from English Russia.

(Click on image for more)

Friday, March 20, 2009

Drunk History - The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Totally NSFW)



Part 2:



I've posted a couple of these before...they're funny.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

America from the Great Depression to World War II:
Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945



Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass. (January 1941)


Kitchen utensils hanging below a spice rack with mint, caraway, thyme, and sage jars.
(Between 1941-1945)


Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.](1942 or 1943)


Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa (1943 April)


"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (1941 Sept)


Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas (1943 April)


Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma [1939 or 1940]

Click here for the index and more fascinating historical photos from The Library of Congress.