Old photos......

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The first Waffle House? - circa 1900-1916. The Two Girls Waffle House was located in the tent city on the north side of Ship Creek in what is now Anchorage, Alaska


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An evening at home - date unknown.


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1916 4th of July Parade, Front Street, Nome Alaska


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Rural Mail Delivery - circa 1914.


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Pumping gasoline - circa 1925.


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Detroit Opera House - 1906
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José Doroteo Arango Arámbula (Pancho Villa) - circa 1914.

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Old General Store - circa 1917.

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Cowboy - circa 1888.

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Cincinnati Street Car - circa 1913.

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Bea Arthur (nee Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45 WW II
Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash DC, then air stations in VA and NC. Best remembered for her title role in the TV series "Maude" and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls".

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Lucille Ball - circa 1930.

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Miss America - 1924. My, my - how our standards of b

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy - as a boy.

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Emily Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister. In 1856 she married Benjamin Helm, a Confederate general. After Helm's death in 1863 Emily Helm passed through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House. This caused great consternation in the Northern newspapers. Emily Helm took an oath of loyalty to the Union and was granted amnesty.

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Three days before his 19th birthday, George H.W. Bush became the youngest aviator in the US Navy.

NOTICE:President Bush became what he believed (at the time) to be the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy. I also believed that, but lately have learned differently.

For years, the former President, a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot, thought he was the youngest Naval Aviator of the war, but Chuck Downey, of Poplar Grove, Illinois, has the President beat by 11 days, a fact the President has since acknowledged.

Downey was born Aug. 2, 1924, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy on July 16, 1943. He earned his Wings of Gold at the tender age of 18 years, 11 months and 14 days and later flew SB2C Helldiver dive bombers off the carrier U.S.S. Ticonderoga. You can read more about Mr. Downey at The Youngest Naval Aviator of WWII (http://oldnorthwestterritory.northwestquarterly.com/2013/07/the-youngest-naval-aviator-of-wwii/)

Mr. Downey passed away on February 19, 2016.

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Washington, D.C., circa 1919.
Walter Reed Hospital flu ward. One of the very few images in Washington area photo archives documenting the influenza contagion of 1918-1919, which killed over 500,000 Americans and tens of millions around the globe. Most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection.

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Market Street, San Francisco, after the earthquake, 1906.

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NOTICE: It has come to my attention that this cannot possibly be a real photograph of Sacajawea, as she died prior to the invention of photography. My best guess is that this is a photo of a wax museum piece, or a staged/posed recreation.

Late Breaking: I have learned that this is a studio portrait owned by the Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library, and was made in 1884 or 1885. It is actually Mary Enos, a Native American (Shoshone) woman, and a baby in a cradleboard. Thanks to Walter Graham. In any event, I'm leaving it up.

Sacajawea - Stolen, held captive and sold, eventually reunited the Shoshone Indians. She was an interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark in 1805-1806 with her husband Toussaint Charbonneau. She navigated carrying her son, Jean Baptiste, on her back. She traveled thousands of miles from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean. The explorers said she was cheerful, never complained, and proved to be invaluable. She served as an adviser and caretaker, and she is legendary for her perseverance and resourcefulness.

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Naomi Parker-Fraley, who was the inspiration behind the famous Rosie the Riveter poster.

NOTICE: I must apologize for having used the wrong name (Geraldine Doyle) for this photo for several years. This was brought to my attention by a visitor, (Julie Jimenez (http://geekmommedia.com/about-us/)
), who offered proof of her contention with this web page from Harpers Bazaar (http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/news/a17573/real-life-rosie-the-riveter/)
magazine. As you can see, I was not alone in this mis-identification. Thank you, Julie!

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April 1945. Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson plays "Going Home" as FDR's body is borne past in Warm Springs, GA, where the President was scheduled to attend a barbecue on the day he died.

[ifonlyihad1]

Keep them coming buddy.. Good job.

[dogdayz]

The good old days - when men were men and the women were ladies. :thumbsup:

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Wagon train on Marietta Street, Atlanta. Citation (Library of Congress): Barnard, George N, photographer. Atlanta, Ga. Wagon train on Marietta Street. Atlanta Georgia United States, 1864.

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Bonnie and Clyde's car following the shootout that ended the two outlaws. The gunfire barrage was so loud that many members of the posse experienced temporary deafness.

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Civil War veteran Samuel Decker poses with the prosthetic arms he made for himself... somehow. Perhaps with his teeth?

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Inmates at Attica play chess.

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American soldiers hunker down in a trench less than a mile away from the detonation of a 43 kiloton nuclear bomb in 1953.

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Mark Twain smokes a cigar in 1906.

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Children in iron lungs in 1937, before the advent of the polio vaccine.

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LAPD police officers going undercover in 1960 to catch purse snatchers.

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Cincinnati's cavernous main library, demolished in 1955.

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The first known sports team photo ever taken, the 1858 Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, Hoboken, New Jersey.

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Albert Einstein visits The Grand Canyon in 1922.

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1945 - Eisenhower. Bradley and Patton examine a trove of stolen artifacts that the Germans hid in salt mine.

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An American field hospital in the bombed out remains of a French church in 1918.

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Waiting in line following the Louisville flood of 1937.

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John F. and Bobby Kennedy in 1960.

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A group of school children visit a bison in 1899.

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Although not a true historical photo, this is intended to illustrate the advances in communications technology in the space of a mere 57 years (less than my life time). For thousands of years, the horse was the fastest way to send a written message. But then, due to technology, the pace increased by more than 2000 times. This happened as we moved from 40 miles per day on horseback, at end of the Pony Express in 1861 to 100 miles per hour in an airplane, with the inception of Air Mail service in 1918.

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The first ambulance: Bellevue Hospital Center, NY, 186

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Abraham Lincoln inspects the battlefield in 1862.

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A mountain of bison skulls ready to be ground into fertilizer. This picture was taken in the 1880s at the Michigan Carbon Works in Detroit, and the original of this image is at the Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library. This additional information thanks to Le Roy G. Barnett, PhD.

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Michigan loggers in 1890.

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Prohibition begins and alcohol is poured down the drain in 1921.

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12th Street in Miami, Florida in 1908.

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An Alabama schoolhouse in 1935.

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Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill pose together in 1885.

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The road leading to Woodstock in 1969.

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Lewis Powell, taken by Alexander Gardner just before Powell's execution on 7 July 1865. for being a co-conspirator in Lincoln's Assassination.

[Gabacho]

I hope they hoooked up a few more horses for the log haul.

These old photos are wonderful Justdroppin....Thanks so much.