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The Johnstown Flood, A Calamity of Biblical Proportions, 1889
On the morning of May 31, 1889, after a night of heavy rain the artificial reservoir of Lake Conemaugh appeared to be on the verge of overwhelming the notoriously leaky South Fork Dam impounding it....
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27 Vintage Portraits of Victorian Nuns in the 1890s
These glass plate negatives,taken from Woodchester, Stroud, Gloucestershire, show everyday life of Victorian nuns in the 1890s. The post 27 Vintage Portraits of Victorian Nuns in the 1890s appeared...
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The Story of the Walker Sisters in the Smoky Mountains
The seven Walker Sisters – Margaret, Polly, Martha, Nancy, Louisa, Sarah Caroline, and Hettie – spent their entire lives in a cabin in Little Greenbrier Cove that was built by their grandfather in the...
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Neuroscience Experiments from the 19th Century: Capturing the Human Facial...
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne wanted to determine how the muscles in the human face produce facial expressions which he believed to be directly linked to the soul of man. Influenced by...
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25 Fascinating Photos of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, best known for his development of alternating current electrical systems. He also made extraordinary contributions to the fields of...
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The Unusual Life Story of Dr. James Barry
Dr. James Barry had led a colourful life. A renowned military surgeon, he rose to become inspector general of hospitals – one of the highest army medical posts – and served throughout the British...
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Old Photos of the First Flying Man
Known as “the flying man”, Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. Starting in 1891, he made over 2,000...
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Aboard the World’s Very First Cruise Ship
Launched in 1900, the SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise, a German passenger ship of the Hamburg-America Line, was credited with having been the first purpose-built cruise ship. It only spent six years in...
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A Look Inside Victorian Homes in the 1800s
Here’s glimpse of what daily life could have been like in these houses in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Here’s an 1890’s Victorian dining room. If these walls could talk! 1865 photo called...
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A Look on the Amazing Life Of Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 in the small town of Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth of seven children, and the growing farming family moved in 1939 to the new town of Hannibal,...
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This is What Dorm Rooms Looked Like in the 1800s and Early 1900s
What did dorm rooms look like 100 years ago? These photos give you a rare look inside… Four young students enjoy some time together at Lindenwood at the turn of the century. A group of girls pose...
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The Real People Behind ‘Little House On The Prairie’
Little House on the Prairie has a special place in the hearts of Americans and many others around the world. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s stories, based on her real-life experience of growing up amid the...
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The Peculiar History of the Cliff House in San Francisco
Senator John Buckley and C. C. Butler originally built the Cliff House in 1863. At first, it was difficult and very expensive to get there because it was situated on the rocky hills of Land’s End...
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Women in History: The Unstoppable Isabella Beecher Hooker
Isabella Beecher Hooker was a woman who didn’t take “no” for an answer. After taking a considerable amount of time weighing out what a woman’s role in political arenas should be, she drafted a bill...
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10 Things You You Probably Don’t Know About The U.S. Secret Service
Officially titled The United States Secret Service or USSS, the organization has been around since 1865. The USSS agents are way more than just bodyguards and there are probably a couple things that...
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Did Author Really ‘Predicts’ the Titanic Sinking 14 Years Earlier?
The novella Futility, written in 1898 by U.S. writer Morgan Robertson, shows some eerie similarities to the famed story of the sinking of the Titanic. Just how many similarities? Let’s take a look:...
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The Orphan Train Movement, 1854 – 1929
The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural...
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19 Rare Lantern Slides Show the Postmen from 1914 – 1918
A collection of lantern slides from The Postal Museum showing postal operations for various nationalities during the First World War. Most of these photos were hand-colored. Handwritten captions in...
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Photos of Old Kitchens from 1860 – 1970
The notion of a ‘kitchen’ as we know it today came about due to a book by the Beecher sisters, Catherine and her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1869, the two sisters published a revised version of...
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Photos of Old Kitchens from 1860 to 1970
The notion of a ‘kitchen’ as we know it today came about due to a book by the Beecher sisters, Catherine and her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1869, the two sisters published a revised version of...
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