Old Glory: America in Archives

DAR member descended from revolutionaries, B.A. in History

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Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸

(Vogue, 1942 by Toni Frissell)

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Happy 250 birthday, America 🇺🇸

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Vintage Collections: Independence Day in Chicago

Happy Fourth of July!

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Source

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Fifth Avenue, looking towards 48th Street, 1955.

Photo: Pinterest

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Happy Flag Day!

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Dorothy Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968)

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postmarked 1954

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May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris' Le Bourget Field, completes the world's first solo non-stop translantlatic flight

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Charles Lindbergh, in full Charles Augustus Lindbergh, also called Charles A. Lindbergh, (born February 4, 1902, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died August 26, 1974, Maui, Hawaii), American aviator, one of the best-known figures in aeronautical history, remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York City to Paris, on May 20–21, 1927.

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May 21, 1927: On this day in history, Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, France and became the first person to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight.

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Olivia de Havilland fishing in 1935

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Debra Paget in May 1949. Photographer Peter Stackpole.

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Song of the Lark (also known as In the Field) by Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

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The Dinner Horn (Blowing the Horn at Seaside), Winslow Homer, 1870

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Autumn (1877) - Winslow Homer

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Study in Black and Green, c. 1906

John White Alexander