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WWI, soldier writing home. France, 1917

“French soldier in World War I preparing his correspondence ” writing on a wooden case. (Soissons. Aisne. France. 1917).

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Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939

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Baltimore Slums, 1938 (Colorized by Jordan J Lloyd)
 

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I love this one.
 

Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939 (Photo credit: Paul Edwards)

 

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Charles Darwin, 1874 (Photo credit: Sanna Dullaway)
 

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Nikola Tesla, colorized of course

 

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Operation: Crossroads Atomic Detonation (Thank you Steven Vaught, Western Michigan University) (Photo credit: Sanna Dullaway)

 

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Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933

 

 

There's just something evil about this one.

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(The Very First Motion Picture starts at about 2:23)

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Looks like our infatuation with cat videos transcends ALL generations...

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Just think, everyone involved in making the music and recording it is dead- most likely more than 100 years ago.

And think, in that time period most of the west was just beginning to be settled- Theodore Roosevelt was just a shiny-faced 30 year old at the time.

The worlds' first automobile was only in production for two years- and it would be 30 more before they went into mass production.

"Dracula" had not been written yet- not until 1897.

Britain was an empire stretching from hemisphere to hemisphere- the American Civil War was still part of living memory.

The United States only had 38 states at the time (4 more would be admitted just the next year.)

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And this was recorded a full generation before the above video.

 

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To think this generation will wrought social Darwinism, fascism, ultra-nationalism, eugenics...

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1850s India

 

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The drummer to the furthest left looks pretty young. Checking a roster of the 93rd, the youngest drummer or musician might have been William Baker. Here is what it says about the boy:
BAKER, WILLIAM.—Age , 14 years. Enlisted at Warrenton Junction, Va. , to serve three years, and mustered in as drummer, Co. E , August 10, 1863; deserted, March 20, 1864, at Brandy Station, Va.
From that, it looks like the boy joined the regiment just over a month after it fought at Gettysburg and shortly before this picture was taken (it was probably taken in August 1863).
Looking at the roster, I see a couple musicians who were discharged with disability on June 24, 1862, about a week before the Seven Days Before Richmond battles, but the only drummers or musicians who were killed or wounded seemed to have reenlisted as privates first.

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General William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort No. 7, ca. November, 1864


 

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Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to abandon the munitions center of the Confederacy. Sherman remained there, resting his war-worn men and accumulating supplies, for nearly two and a half months. During the occupation, George N. Barnard, official photographer of the Chief Engineer's Office, made the best documentary record of the war in the West; but much of what he photographed was destroyed in the fire that spread from the military facilities blown up at Sherman's departure on November 15.

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Petersburg, Va., Surgeons of the 3rd Division before hospital tent - ca July 1864
 

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Black teamsters near a signal tower, ca. 1864