1/ Mick Jagger sings for Pres Obama, 2012. 2/ Captain and Tennille ["Muskrat Love"] perform for Pres Ford and Queen Elizabeth, 1976. 3/ Pres Nixon and Pearl Bailey perform together, 1974. 4/ Cellist Pablo Casals performs for Pres Kennedy, 1961.
2. American kids, 1935.
1/ Middlesboro, KY. 2/ Crossville, TN. 3/ Scott's Run, WV. 4/ Little Rock, AR.
3. German photographic postcards of World War I, 1914-18.
A German publisher arranged for a series of staged photographic scenes depicting German war dominance to be produced on postcards for the German home-front. While interesting, they fail miserably in conveying the catastrophic experience of Germany in the war. Of the 13 million Germans who served in the military, 2 million [15%] were killed; and the heaviest losses occurred in 1914, the war’s first year. The war’s consequences uprooted German society, leaving an entire generation of German women to lead lives without marriage or family, overwhelming the postwar German government with millions of disabled veterans, war widows and orphans who required aid, and institutionalizing grievances that would bring nationalist extremists to power in the 1930s.
4. Producing wool fabric, 1912.
1/ Sorting and grading raw wool fleece. 2/ Carding wool. 3/ Spinning yarn. 4/ Examing yarn. 5/ Steam finishing completed fabric. 6/ Examining completed fabric and mending flaws.
5. Preserving memories of former slaves, 1936-38.
During the Depression, the federal government hired unemployed writers to conduct oral history interviews of former slaves, then in their 80s and 90s, to create a permanent record of their memories and viewpoints that could augment the white perspective of slavery that then dominated the historical record. More than 2,300 former slaves in 17 states were interviewed and 500 stood in front of their houses for photographs. Photos: 1/ Georgia Flournoy. 2/Sarah and Sam Douglas. 3/ William Colbert. 4/ Lula Wilson. 5/ Henry Robinson. 6/ Walter Rimm.
6. Today’s odd lot.
1/ Black US Army Air Forces fighter pilot unit receives cyanide packets before a mission, Italy 1945. 2/ RMS Lusitania, a British oceanliner of the Cunard Line, arrives in NYC in 1907. She would be sunk 11 miles off the Irish coast by torpedoes from a German U-boat on her 202nd transatlantic crossing 8 years later, with 1200 lives lost. 3/ Workers in the Siberian city of Tyumen, 1885, located on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains and now a wealthy oil and gas production center. 4/ Mata Hari, 1910, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, convicted of spying for Germany during WWI and executed by a French firing squad in 1917. 5/ Outside the NYSE after the 1929 crash. 6/ Jazz pianist Fats Waller, 1938. 7/ Eddy, Montana, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1909. 8/ Songwriters Richard Rodgers, seated at piano, with Lorenz Hart ["Blue Moon"], 1936. 9/ Circus performer Johann Aasen [7' 2"] holds two little people, 1923.
Thanks for taking a look. We’ll see you on Saturday.
