Photo of the Day

Some pictures stick with you.

Here are the ones from last week, which we posted here on Substack or on our Bluesky page or on our YouTube Channel, which have stuck with me:

American soldiers compete in a footrace in France in 1918.

Civil Conservation Corps guys haul a log along a mountain path in the mid-1930s.

This young woman works in the cotton fields during the Depression while wearing a pretty dress and earrings.

These side-by-side images: a Paul Gauguin self-portrait and a Depression-era photo of a Puerto Rican farmer.

This woman learning how to tighten gigantic nuts and bolts during World War II.

American soldiers training to deploy to France during World War I play football during a training break.

Newcomers to America wait for their turn to be processed at Ellis Island.

In a carefully staged photo, this wealthy homesteader shows off his family, his livestock and his organ.

This photo of the new transcontinental railroad stretching across the empty Plains shows that the new railroad made coast-to-coast telegraph communications possible.

A sewing class for girls in the 1920s. You can be sure that, while these girls stitched, the boys were learning carpentry and auto mechanics.

These US troops were stationed in Iceland five months before the US officially entered World War II.

And finally…

Here is smiling Yankee center-fielder Joe DiMaggio when he was twenty-seven. The picture was taken in 1941, the year of his famous hitting streak, when he got a hit in 56 consecutive games. No major leaguer has beaten Joe’s record.

I’ll see you tomorrow.

— Brenda