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The First Girl Scout: Portraits of Daisy Gordon Lawrence
How often is a preteen celebrated as a genuine pioneer? In 1912 Savannah, Georgia, one 11-year-old girl named Daisy Gordon earned that lofty, evocative appellation when she became the first ever Girl...
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Weeping for FDR: In a Classic Photo, the Face of a Nation’s Loss
Leaving aside, for a moment, the question of how effective they really were while in office, some American presidents simply loom larger in the public imagination than other Oval Office occupants:...
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Bigotry in the USA: Photos From a Klan Initiation in 1946
According to a recent report (March 5, 2013) by an Alabama-based civil rights group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of extremist and anti-government “Patriot” groups in the U.S. reached an...
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Classic Images of College Football
The Ohio State football stadium in 1948, shown above, had a capacity of 66,210 people. Today the stadium holds 102,780 fans, due to an expansion that closed up the open end and cut off the magnificent...
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