Posted on 10/07/2015 8:39:23 AM PDT by JoeDetweiler
"Yale University has published 170,000 Library of Congress photos taken in the US between 1935 and 1945. Just click on this map and keep clicking. To Yale’s credit, they’ve used captions written at the time. Some may be jarring to modern sensibilities, but they assist in providing the era’s feel. A quick batch of highlights: "
The Map....
http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.news.com.au ...
Not sure why this link isn’t working...
http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/
But you can cut and paste, or follow the link from Tim Blair’s blog.
fascinating
One man is described as an “ex world war veteran.” How can someone be an ex-veteran?
Great! Thanks so much for posting this.
Amazing how much nicer the people dressed back then when clothes were much more expensive (in terms of hours worked) than today. Fewer overweight people. And modesty was the norm.
I love old photographs.
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