Eva Slater

Eva Slater posed in a brief costume with striped skirt and matching head dress.(ca. 1860-1910)  
 photograph by Webster & Albee.                                                                                                                                                                                            

NYPL | New York (City) Museum of Modern Art photographs

Chorus Girls

Chorus girls, ca. 1920-50, Creator Sam Hood

acms.sl.nsw.gov.au | State Library of New South Wales

Wizard of Oz

On January 21, 1903, The Wizard of Oz opened on Broadway at the brand new Majestic Theatre on Columbus Circle. It became the favorite of a generation. The audiences couldn’t get enough. The Tornado scene! Fred Stone’s boneless Scarecrow walking about on his ankles! The lovely all-girl poppy field! The glittering Emerald City! The audiences came back for seconds and thirds. They brought their kids. Everyone bought the sheet music, the phonograph records, the player-piano rolls, and Baum’s original novel! Oz had entered the American consciousness.  digitalgallery

The Wizard of Oz is one of the best-loved fairy tales and one of the best-loved films of all time. Yet few people know that it was a Broadway musical in 1903 that made Oz, Dorothy Gale, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman household names. ( Montgomery and Stone as the Tin Man and Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz.)             

Source:  digitalgallery |The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Billy Rose Theatre Division

SS Eastland

Passengers being rescued from the hull of the Eastland by the tugboat Kenosha in the Chicago River

The SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915 the ship rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was to become the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

Following the disaster, the Eastland was salvaged and sold to the United States Navy. After restorations and modifications the Eastland was designated as a gunboat and renamed the USS Wilmette. She was used primarily as a training vessel on the Great Lakes and was scrapped following World War II.

Source: wikipedia

African American History

Eubie Blake (left) with Noble Sissle (right) and Josephine Baker, c. 1951 

Source: mdhs | Maryland Historical Society, Special Collections Department

African American Infantry Regiment

The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 15th New York National Guard Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the United States Army that saw action in World War I and World War II. The 369th Infantry is known for being the first African-American regiment to serve with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. The regiment was nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters and the Black Rattlers, in addition to several other nicknames.

 Wikipedia

Vintage Photos

 Thousands of young men flocked to hang upon the words of their leader, Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, as he addressed the convention of the National Socialist Party in Nuremberg, Germany on Sept. 11, 1935.

Hitler's Nazi party convention, underway in Nuremberg, Germany, on Sept. 10, 1935. 

Source: google

Japan

Stereo photographs of Japan, c.1895-1910: 

Chris Wild

Source: farm5.static.flickr

American Gothic

The models for American Gothic 1930 

"American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood. The figures were modeled by the artist’s dentist and sister.” One of the most famed US paintings of its generation, went the models who posed for it, Nan Wood Graham, the painter's sister, wife of an oil-station operator, and Dr. B. H. McKeeby, a dentist.

Source: retronaut | via roger bourland |text by wikipedia

Vintage Photo

Harvey Jackson, Sr. Photographs Detroit Public Library, vintage

Source: vintageblackfolk