Yesterday Today Nov 13, 2025 Mordecai Brown of the Chicago Cubs, 1903. Mordecai Brown, nicknamed “Three Finger” due to a childhood farm injury, was a dominant pitcher in the early 1900s. He was a key player for the Chicago Cubs, leading their pitching staff to two World Series championships in 1907 and 1908. Brown wasContinue reading “YESTERDAY TODAY – NOVEMBER 13, 2025. FREE ACCESS”
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FREE ARTICLE: Yesterday Today – July 24, 2025
Dolores Dorn was an American stage and film actress, who was the co-star of The Bounty Hunter (1954), Uncle Vanya (1957), Underworld U.S.A. (1961), and several other films and was active from 1954 to 1980. She passed away on October 5, 2019, at the age of 85. #ChristmasinJuly https://amzn.to/46WrsaV A Ford Model T U.S. PostalContinue reading “FREE ARTICLE: Yesterday Today – July 24, 2025”
Historical Photos Showing Life in New York City during the 1940s – Video
Amazing Photographs Showing Life in Chicago During the Early 1940s
Chicago in the early 1940s was a city undergoing significant transformation. As the United States entered World War II in December 1941, Chicago emerged as a pivotal industrial and transportation hub, contributing massively to the war effort. The city’s factories were repurposed for wartime production, manufacturing everything from tanks to aircraft components. This industrial boomContinue reading “Amazing Photographs Showing Life in Chicago During the Early 1940s”
Amazing Photographs of Car Accidents in California During the 1950s
Vintage Photographs Showing Everyday Life in America During the 1940s
Everyday life in the United States during the 1940s was shaped largely by World War II, which profoundly impacted the home front. The early part of the decade saw families adjusting to wartime realities, with many men enlisting or being drafted into military service. Women stepped into roles traditionally held by men, working in factoriesContinue reading “Vintage Photographs Showing Everyday Life in America During the 1940s”
58 Historical Photographs Showing People with their Cars in the Early 20th Century
50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1940s Volume 4
Street Life of Shanghai in 1947
“A great, wicked and quite extraordinary city” was how, in 1947, LIFE described Shanghai. In 1947, four million people had made the City their residence (today, that number is 26 million). It seemed that at any one time, a very substantial proportion of the population was on the Shanghai streets. “The traffic has become aContinue reading “Street Life of Shanghai in 1947”
Amazing Vintage Photos of London Buses Used to Take British Soldiers to the Western Front During World War I
When the First World War broke out, the era of the horse bus drew to a close. London’s largest bus operator, the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC), had replaced all its horse buses with motor buses in 1911 and 1912. A few other bus operators continued to use horses until August 1914. These new vehicles,Continue reading “Amazing Vintage Photos of London Buses Used to Take British Soldiers to the Western Front During World War I”
