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"The Old and the New" – Puck New Year's cover from 112 years ago, via https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011648851/
Three more on my blog at https://markstoneman.com/2023/01/01/peace-and-war-hope-and-fear/
#HappyNewYear #HistoricalIllustrations #Puck #OldAndNew

New Year "1911" arrives by airplane, while on the ground Father Time looks aghast at the winged machine overhead and the wreck of his automobile labeled "1910".

Pictures from the center of Bristol, New Hampshire, in late February 2018. I like the small river, once important, I'm assuming, as a power source for milling grain or sawing lumber. And there are the abutting or nearby clapboard and brick buildings. #NewHampshire

White church in background, river in foreground, snow

American Red Cross initiative: women in Louisville, Kentucky, pack Christmas parcels for soldiers in November 1917. Source: U.S. National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20801912.
#HistoricalPhotographs #WorldWarI #RedCross #Christmas

Black and white photo: hall full of women of various ages wrapping presents for the soldiers' parcels. Their faces are not quite clear because of the exposure time required.

#RedCross #Christmas

German Red Cross poster featuring a gift-giving Christkind from 1917. Description and details at https://markstoneman.com/2022/12/23/red-cross-poster-with-christkind/ #WorldWarI #GreatWar #ErsterWeltkrieg #Christkind #HistoricalPoster

Description available at link in caption

"The German Jewish soldiers before Metz [in 1870] celebrating the Day of Atonement [Yom Kippur], in the presence of Emperor William and staff." Chromolithograph with text in English, German, and Yiddish, New York, 1890. Source: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018697689/
#FrancoPrussianWar #GermanArmy

1915 panoramic view of the town of #Mariampol (now #Marijampolė in modern-day #Lithuania) on a postcard for German consumption. (The caption refers to "the eastern theater of war.") My German-speaking great grandfather left there in 1900, followed by his wife and their first four children in 1906. (The father had returned a couple times, judging by their young ages.) Somewhere I have a picture of him and his brother as conscripts in the tsar's army from before their emigration.
#HistoricPostcards

The postcard shows a medium-sized town, not a city or a village. The earth is flat here, and the buildings appear to be no more than two stories high.

Public domain image, obviously. Please Pixelfed gods, please give us an edit button.

Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, Ohio. I have no information to go with this postcard, but it attracted me because it would have been from the time when my great grandmother immigrated to the city with four kids, joining her husband and having another two soon after, the youngest of them my grandmother. The smoke, exhaust, and haze in this picture are quite something, by the way, as this was decades before the Clean Air Act.
#Cleveland #HistoricCleveland #Ohio #HistoricPostcards #FossilEmissions

Electric streetcars and a couple carriages or cars on the viaduct. Looks pre-World War One. Buildings and water towers in the hazy background.

The Writing Lesson by Morris Schulman, sponsored by the WPA, ca. 1935–43, and digitized by the New York Public Library, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/531c32d0-2892-0132-4433-58d385a7bbd0 I first ran across this image while looking for images that might display knowledge as something lived and experienced. See https://historyofknowledge.net/2017/09/08/writing-lesson/.
#WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #NewYork #Literacy #HistKnow #Histodons #History

Painting of middled-aged African American woman in blue, seated at a table doing her writing lessons, many years of experience clearly visible on her face. The wall behind her is yellow.

Poster encouraging immigrants to naturalize: "To enjoy American opportunities, become an American citizen." Lithograph by Stanley Service Co., ca. 1919. Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95507947/
#history #migrationHistory #historicalPosters #histodons

German refugee boy in New York City, October 1942, sitting in a chair, one leg crossed, reading a big Superman comic book. Photo by Marjory Collins, in the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013649072/. #history #comicBooks #Superman #migrationHistory #WorldWarII #historicPhotographs