Image: Engineer camp at the Zuni Pass, in the Sierra Madre, N.M., 975 miles west of Missouri River. The Kansas Pacific Railway and the Struggle to Become a Transcontinental Line In the decade after the American Civil War, few ambitions loomed larger in the imagination of railroad promoters than the dream of a second transcontinentalContinue reading “The Building of the Kansas Pacific Railway”
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22 Amazing Vintage Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in the 1940s by Weegee
Weegee, born Usher Fellig on June 12, 1899 in the town of Lemburg (now in Ukraine), first worked as a photographer at age fourteen, three years after his family immigrated to the United States, where his first name was changed to the more American-sounding Arthur. Self-taught, he held many other photography-related jobs before gaining regularContinue reading “22 Amazing Vintage Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in the 1940s by Weegee”
