St. Paul Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California (1947). Photographs by Loomis Dean via LIFE Photo Collection
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St. Paul Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California (1947). Photographs by Loomis Dean via LIFE Photo Collection
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1921 A young girl with a dog, by James Van Der Zee. From Fashion of Bygone Days, FB.
when there’s an old photograph, AND the guy in it is really old, it’s like, wow, that guy is super old
Conrad Heyer, photographed in 1852 at the age of 103. He was born in 1749 and is thought to be the earliest-born person ever photographed.
i am experiencing Emotions about locking photographic gaze with a man who was born in the middle of the 18th century
this dude was an adult already during the american revolutionary war (ish)? he was getting real time news of the unfolding of France's emperors? what
whaaat
he is looking at me
This man was born before the invention of:
The sextant (1757), which allowed precise calculation of your position in the ocean
Lightning rods (1752)
The first English dictionary (1755)
Carbonated water (1767)
Sewing machines (1790)
The cotton gin (1794)
Flush toilets (1775)
And he's looking at you
When he was born, the US Looked about like this
And then it was this at about the time of the photo
He saw colonial rule, revolution, war of 1812, the subsequent rise in nationalism, and manifest destiny (not to mention all the subsequent wars)
And he's looking at you
He was born in Maine when it was still part of Massachusetts. He was 81 when it became its own state.
he's actually one of three contenders to the title!
the others are a formerly enslaved man named Caesar Prince (allegedly born 1737 and died in 1851, freed only 10 years before his death):
and John Adams (no, not that one- born 1745 and died 1849)
so why the debate? because Caesar's exact birth year is uncertain, and Hayer may have actually been born in 1753- every document on the date of his birth written before 1850 says so
if Caesar's birth year really is 1737, he's the earliest-born currently known person to be photographed alive
"hey Marzi, why are those all men?" greeeeeat question
the earliest-born woman ever photographed alive, who can currently be confirmed, was Mary Sanderson (1748-1852)
yes, I'm...pretty sure she's alive in that picture. her hands are clenched, and I doubt they could be if she were dead. not with her arms propped up like that on her chair
born earlier than Conrad Heyer, though not earlier than Caesar Prince if he was indeed born in 1737, or Not That John Adams
Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.1940
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Robert Leckie & Bill "Hoosier" Smith || I know it's over - The Smiths
scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon
great big wwii resource guide :)
when i first started looking into wwii records, my main thought was ‘damn really feels like this should be easier??’ i was thinking, given the booming books-about-tanks industry in america, that there would be some kind of massive GI database or a big book saying where every unit was when, etc etc. and there is super not. in my opinion this is the fault of the national archives and records administration, but we don’t have to get into it.
here is a big list of the workarounds and resources i use to find existing primary and secondary source information about wwii, from the level of one individual GI up to units and divisions, as well as general context about the soldier’s experience.
SO YOU WANNA FIND…
record access caveats under the cut, bc i can’t help myself:
all of these resources deal primarily/exclusively with american records, specifically american army records, specifically in the european theater, bc that’s my personal wheelhouse and also i had to cut myself off somewhere. as kate beaton said ugly people and other countries may have fought against the nazis but we may never know for sure. also i don’t know shit about the navy etc and i refuse to find out as i am afraid of boats. onwards:
draft cards - there were six waves of registration that all use slightly different paperwork. later ones (for men who turned 21 after october 1940) are slightly more informative as they give the relationship with the next of kin in addition to just their name and addy, but it’s much the same. also, it is possible for some guys who enlisted in their teens to kind of wiggle through eligibility periods and never actually register for the draft. the link above also has a breakdown of who registered when and potentially relevant records at nara regarding the draft process broadly, though a lot of specific classification records were destroyed in the 70s.
[also destroyed in the 70s at nara - millions of individual personnel records, in a big yet-unexplained fire at their facility in st louis. something like 90% of individual army service records were destroyed without ever being duplicated or indexed, which has very little to do with the rest of this post as you can't really get your hands on personnel files anyway unless you're a relative, but i just like to bitch about this. goddamn nara.]
enlistment records - the originals are held by NARA which means they’re a huge pain in the ass to get a hold of and i don’t believe they’ve been digitized anywhere. the index linked has a lot of mistranscriptions and misspellings in the names, so you may need to get creative with your search terms if you don’t find the guy you’re looking for.
hospital records - if possible search this collection by serial number. not every record has a name attached, and they were originally filed by serial number only. searching by name won't always get you complete results for a particular guy
newspapers - in a lot of cases neither the paywalled repositories nor the state collections will include the big papers of record for a particular city - ex, the boston globe, the nyt, the chicago tribune. if your guy of interest was a city dweller and doesn’t show up in a search of statewide papers, city public libraries will often have archival access to their big papers (in addition to microfilm records of other small local papers that might not have been digitized yet, if you’re in really deep).
census - the census is available like 16 places online. the links above are free, but i find ancestry’s (paywalled) search the most usable. lots of public libraries have institutional access to paywalled sites like ancestry, newspapers, jstor, etc. literally always worth checking
unit histories - the skelton library is home to all kinds of weird and extremely specific declassified paperwork! the ike skelton library is my best friend! i recommend searching all levels of the org chart - unit, corps, and army. in lots of cases for famous units like the 101st ab, other people have already combed through and collated this kind of documentation, but i still think it’s helpful to look at the og if you can. it’s often very interesting to see what is included/elided in these reports and how things are phrased.
technical/field manuals - unforch as usual there’s no central repository of tms and fms. once you have the tm or fm number of your manual of interest, you can look for a copy on hyperwar, hathitrust, or the internet archive. i haven’t personally noticed patterns in which type of manual lives where.
the green books - worth looking at for this insane logo alone.
William P. Welsh - Burlesque Queen (1941)
Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart
Marlene Dietrich kissing a soldier returning home from war (July 20th, 1945)
Cab Calloway circa 1933 ✨🤍
Allen Street, nos. 55-57, Manhattan, NYC. February 11, 1937
Photo: Berenice Abbott
Women of Two Wars
The Saturday Evening Post, May 29, 1943
Research by Helen Virginia Meyer
Women garage attendants at Atlantic Refining Company garages, Philadelphia, 1943.
Want to see a cool research thing? It's a collection of digitized menus from the 1800/1900s at the New York Public Library.
Perfect for my historical fiction peeps or culinary historians
I found these pictures of women of colour in the 1920s and they made me happy because you see them so rarely in the modern romanticization of this era x