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10/18/2024

A baby from the early 20th century getting some sun in its fancy stroller. Glass negative photo of unknown location.

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My great great great aunt taken in Vermont around 1900

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My great grandfather and great grandmother on their wedding day. Etta and Oliver. 1908. I wear her wedding ring everyday.

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BOX BED

Box bed in Austria. Lit class France.

A box bed, also known as a closed bed, is an old-fashioned type of bed that looks like a closet. It appeared in the Middle Ages and was common in northern and central Europe until the 19th century.

The box bed was closed on all four sides by wooden walls like a drawer. They were entered by drawing aside some curtains and opening a hinged door or a sliding door. The bed could be freestanding and have short legs, to avoid moisture from the floor, or be built into a hole in the wall.

A large oak arch, the same length as the bed, was often placed in front of the box bed. This was always a "seat of honor", and also served to climb into bed. It was also used to store clothes, underwear, and bedding.

As humbler houses usually only have one room, the built-in box bed allowed some privacy and helped keep people warm during the winter by retaining the user's body heat.

Sometimes they have two floors. In this case, the young people slept upstairs. It was the main piece of furniture in rural houses and farms until the end of the 19th century, often carved or painted, it was the pride of the family. Then they were abandoned as they were expensive to manufacture and went out of style.

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North Carolina, 1939...

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Rural filling station becomes community center and general grounds for loafing. The men in baseball suits are on a local team which will play a game nearby. The team is called the Cedargrove Team. Fourth of July, Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina...

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Farm Security Administration (Dorothea Lange photographer)

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Yuma musician, Arizona, 1880s.

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A homestead family living in their one-room cabin in Colorado, 1870s.

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Little girl tending to the care of her dolls. Early 20th century glass negative.

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The great movie actor Gene Hackman, 93, spotted out recently. Tough as they come.

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A Coal mining dad with his children, 1945.

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My Great-Great Aunt Helen taken in 1913 when she was 16 years old. She passed away at 90 years old in 1987.

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A photo of my grandfather, Clyde Hensley, lived deep in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina, in Jackson County, Town of Dillsboro, on Macktown Gap Road.

Lived off the land, kept bees, grew to***co, dried it, twisted it, made molasses. You name it.

I always knew him as happy and content. For no special reason.

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Iron Tail, Oglala Lakota. His image was used on the Indian Head Nickel.

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Nora Washington with a catfish she caught with a cane pole, no less in the Colorado River, Bastrop, Texas 1950s.

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Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history, with his family in 1935.

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When Saturday Night Live was actually funny…

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A young boy comforting his friend in Scotland, 1968.

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“Les Nouvelles Meirveilleuses”. In the Spring of 1908, three women walked onto the Longchamp racecourse in Paris and jaws dropped. The elite society event was known for debuting the latest couture creations to the public, but no one had seen fashion quite like this before. Dressed in blue, white and havane brown creations, according to newspapers, spectators called the three women a “monstrosity”, accused them of being semi-naked and showing revolting décolletage. It was these three dresses however, which would forever change fashion that day and launch the twentieth century silhouette. As for the designer? Well, no one really bothered to remember her name…
But perhaps you might like to know who it was. Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix was her name, a young Parisian designer who had taken over her mother’s long-established couture house and was starting to gain popularity in turn-of-the-century Paris for her lightly corseted dresses featuring minimum boning and more elastic material…
Long before Lycra or Spanx came along, she soon began making dresses made from stretchy elastic silk jersey, outlining the hips and thighs and slimming the figure. To debut her creations to society, she hired three beautiful models and chose the Parisian racetracks of 1908 as her catwalk.

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A bautiful married couple from 1940.

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3 sets of twin girls pose together for a portrait in 1895.

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This photograph was taken in her backyard sometime around 1910, when she was in a very pleasant mood. Glass negative photo of unknown location.

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A farmer and his sons make their way through a dust storm in Cimarron Co., Oklahoma in April, 1936.

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Vintage bridge 1920’s

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