Left: "gamers," 1941. Right: when a "destination wedding" meant a church, 1940s.
Left: logs cut from an old growth forest in Washington State, 1935. Right: The round metal furnace with the big chimney enclosed in this shack is called a “logging donkey.” It is an engine that powers a “yarder” — a cable system that pulls logs from the stump to a collection point. The man who operates the logging donkey is called a “donkeyman.” Clallum County, Washington, 1921.
Left: One of Confederate prisoner John Jacob Ommenhausser’s 42 sketches of life at the Point Lookout, Maryland, prisoner of war camp, the Union’s largest POW camp, 1864. Right: Brigadier General James Barnes (seated on the dais), the prison camp commander, leads the last group of Confederate prisoners in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States prior to their release from prison. The war was over. June 30, 1865.
In July 1925, the State of Tennessee prosecuted teacher John Scopes for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Clarence Darrow (left), prominent lawyer and member of the ACLU, defended Scopes, and William Jennings Bryan (right), three-time presidential candidate, represented the State of Tennessee. After an eight-day trial in which some proceedings were moved outside due to the heat, the jury found Scopes guilty after deliberating for just nine minutes, though Scopes’s conviction was later overturned on a technicality. The Scopes Monkey Trial was national news and sparked a heated debate between Creationists and scientists. [The sign posted in the final photo says “Read Your Bible.”]
Left: President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy meet with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders at the White House, June 22, 1963. Two days after JFK's assassination, Johnson telephone King and asked for his help in moving progressive legislation forward. Right: Johnson and King in the White House Cabinet Room in a meeting with other civil rights leaders, March 18, 1966.
Left: US troops serving in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, 1898. Right: US troops returned from the Philippines parade in San Francisco at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, August 1899.
In 1932, Howard Hughes (left) produced the gangster film "Scarface," which follows the rise of a young gangster through the ranks of Chicago organized crime in a story loosely based on the life of Al Capone. Actor Paul Muni, holding the disguised gun, played the lead. The film wasn't a box office success, but became the archetype of the gangster film genre. The film, remade in 1983, has been selected by the Library of Congress as one which is culturally significant. Right: Al Capone's 1932 federal rap sheet, showing most of his charges dismissed.
In 1882, an art nouveau stained-glass screen designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany was installed in the White House to separate the North foyer from the Cross Hall and formal state rooms. The artist Peter Waddell created this colorful depiction of the screen for the White House Historical Association recently. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the screen removed in 1902. Some say TR held a grudge against Tiffany that arose from a property squabble in Oyster Bay, NY, years before. It is said that the screen was sold for $275 to a Maryland hotel, but was lost in 1923 when a fire destroyed the hotel premises.
Ruth Buzzi, a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967-1973). Above left, as her character, park-bench spinster Gladys Ormphby. Right: with Goldie Hawn and Henry Giibson. No one could make America laugh quite like her. Buzzi will turn 87 next month. [IMDB photos]
