Snapshots Of The Past

11/27/2024

A pictorial history of Thanksgiving. Happy Day!

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05/02/2024

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Founded in 2001, Snapshots of the Past is oldest, most respected seller of museum quality reproductions of vintage maps, photos and artwork from the Library of Congress collections.

04/24/2024

New imaging techniques crack open the Herculaneum papyri, the famously indecipherable scroll from the the Villa dei Papyri.

03/31/2024

Throngs of Invaders Overtake Capitol! To Celebrate Resurrection. Capitol Easter Egg Roll ca. 1920 / 1924. 100 years ago! Happy Easter!

12/15/2023

Historic Framed Print, Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) at work on a drawing of a Grinch, the hero of his forthcoming book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

Seems appropriate for the season doesn't it?

Historic Framed Print, Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) at work on a drawing of a grinch, the hero of his forthcoming book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas".World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna.", 17-7/8" x 21-7/8"

11/30/2023

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06/15/2023

, June 15, 1752. Benjamin Franklin Flies a Kite. Ben Franklin famously sent a kite aloft to observe the connections between lightning and electricity. It was apparently a “shock heard round the world” judging from this Meiji-era woodblock print created in Japan in 1868, titled Furankurin to kaminari no zu (“Franklin and thunder and lightning”). In Shinto mythology, Kaminari was the god of storms.

By Ed Moran



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06/14/2023

, June 14, 1777, Betsy Ross’s flag was adopted by Continental Congress. At the request of George Washington, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the first American flag with thirteen red and white stripes, and an equal number of stars in a circle on a blue field. In this c.1917 painting by Percy Moran, Ross is shown displaying her handiwork to Washington.

By Ed Moran



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06/14/2023

https://savingplaces.org/stories/11-most-endangered-historic-places-2023

Now in its 36th year, the National Trust’s annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places continues to be a powerful, galvanizing tool for historic preservation, with over 350 sites listed and only a handful lost.

06/13/2023

, June 13, 1967, Thurgood Marshall nominated to Supreme Court. The first African American to sit on the high court, Thurgood Marshall had headed the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, for which he had won many battles against segregation. He was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson during the civil-rights struggles of the 1960s and served until 1991.

By Ed Moran



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06/13/2023

, June 13, 1986, beloved American clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman died at the age of 77. Nicknamed the “King of Swing” by Time Magazine in 1937, Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians. During an era of racial segregation, he led some of the first integrated jazz groups, The Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet. In 1935, Pianist Teddy Wilson, an African American, first appeared in the Benny Goodman Trio's performance at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. He later added Lionel Hampton, who would later form his own band, to the Benny Goodman Quartet. Goodman once said, “If a guy’s got it, let him give it. I’m selling music, not prejudice.”



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