A group of white and Black prospectors look for gold at Spanish Flat, California, 1852. A group of white and Chinese workers prospect for gold using a sluice box, Auburn Ravine, northern California, 1852.
Shoppers at Marshall Field & Co., on State Street in downtown Chicago, 1905. Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal on South Water St., Chicago. April 1943..
Tennis for Two, considered the first video game created solely for entertainment and not as a demo or research tool, was devised by a physicist for visitors at the Brookhaven National Lab in 1958. Pong, a table tennis game, is considered one of the earliest arcade video games. It was made by Atari in 1972.
A bar after abolitionist Carrie Nation has smashed it with her hammer, c. 1890. A happy crowd celebrates the repeal of Prohibition, Dec. 5, 1933.
Members of the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division move in a convoy to a staging area for entry into Cambodia, May 14, 1970. Students gather in Cambridge, MA, to protest the US invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four students at Kent State Univ. May 8, 1970.
A Black family from the South has just arrived in Chicago, their new hometown, c. 1920. Trackwomen, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1943.
and finally…
“I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.” — Johnny Carson, 1973
