Subject: THE ROAD GRADER
THE ROAD GRADER
February 20th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly THE ROAD GRADER When grading your road was accomplished using mule or horse power as seen above in "Road Grader"; Oklahoma c.1923. An "Okie" couple sit ...
LIFE ON THE PLAINS
February 15th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly LIFE ON THE PLAINS Wow! The above photo "Kansas Farmer"; Kansas c,1925 looks like a scene from the "Grapes of Wrath". Too bad it was taken about a deca ...
A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT
February 13th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT Above is "Hoover: 1932 Campaign"; Illinois (November 4, 1932). President Hoover on his whistle stop campaign for re-election. Th ...
THE ENTREPRENEURS
February 8th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly THE ENTREPRENEURS Entrepreneurship. The way to a better life in the United States. Risk, of course. Above is "Joe's Tire Shack"; U. S. c.1919. We asses ...
"HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVED'
February 6th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVED The reference, of course, is to Jacob Riis's "How The Other Half Lives" (1890). As the DOW passes 26,000 it may be easy to fo ...
BREAKING ALL THE RULES
February 1st, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly BREAKING ALL THE RULES Sometimes it feels good to break some rules in photography and still come away with a great image. Breaking the rules aside, whi ...
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
January 30th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly ON THE ROAD AGAIN Stuck in the mud. The true meaning of "Horsepower"; California (1918). Below is "Pickup Truck on a Gravel Road"; Culbertson, Montana ...
CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
January 25th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS The title of this newsletter refers to Samuel Huntington's thesis in Foreign Affairs in 1993 regarding the incompatibility of Is ...
THE HOOVERVILLE
January 23rd, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly THE HOOVERVILLE Let us pray that we never have to live through a time of tribulation like this ever again. Above is "Hooverville: On The Mississippi"; ...
CALIFORNIA GIRLS
January 18th, 2018 at 10:00 am ESTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly CALIFORNIA GIRLS Not what you were expecting I assume. No, these images were taken during the Great Depression before the Beach Boys began recording. A ...