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

20091221

Mail Box


In the states the mail man used to come to the door and personally deliver the mail. In time they realized that they could save an hour and a half each day if they didn't have to wait for people to answer the door. They began an attempt to encourage people to put up mail boxes so that the mailman could just drop of the mail without having to wait for someone to answer the door. That is what you see in the picture above. These days in many areas they don't even deliver mail to houses anymore. They have a cluster of mail boxes down the street that where the mailman can drop off all the area mail in one spot and the people walk [usually drive] down there to pick up their mail.

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco, 1933


Photo by Dorothea Lange

20091213

Woodstock 40 Years Later



The couple from the Woodstock photo used on the album cover.

20091210

WWII


Carrier pigeons

Marine after Eniwetok assault.

Kent State 1970



20091102

Blueshirts



The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later named the National Guard and better known by the nickname The Blueshirts (Irish: Na Léinte Gorma), was a right-wing Irish political organization active in the 1930s.