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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/17

0It is September 6, 1939.Five days have passed since Germany invaded Poland, sparking war in Europe.First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is writing to her old school friend Carola von Schaffer-Bernstein, a German citizen living in Berlin who supports Hitler.Dear Carola:All of us are appalled at plunging the European continent into war, but I do not think there is any bitterness toward the German people in this country. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:27

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/16

Some pictures stick with you.Here are the ones from last week which have stuck with me:*****Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division stand amid burned tree stumps after conquering Hamburger Hill, near the Laotian border in South Vietnam, May 20, 1969. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:30

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/14

The Allies have commenced an offensive from their 85-mile Normandy beachhead front with the main drive now located south of liberated Bayeux.The Allies have taken between six and seven hundred square miles of France, a result which General Eisenhower says, ‘exceeded his highest hopes.’German troops have forced their way back into Montebourg and Carentan, where house-to-house fighting is reported, and tank battles are taking place on the Allied drive east towards Caen. Get full access to Photo of the

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/13

The US Census Office produced a map in 1861 which showed the population distribution of the four million enslaved people then living in the Confederacy.The map was sold to raise funds for the care of sick and wounded Union soldiers.The map makers used data from the 1860 census.It showed that one-third of the South’s population of twelve million was enslaved.And the data for some states is wild: in South Carolina and Mississippi, the first and second states to secede, more than half the population

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/12

Would it matter to Clara Driscoll that few know her name? that she is given little credit for designing exquisite Tiffany leaded-glass lamps that now sell for half a million dollars, or more?It was Louis Comfort Tiffany’s practice to highlight his own artistic achievements and not publish the names of his designers, but recent discoveries of Driscoll’s letters have brought her achievements to light.It was Driscoll, the director of Tiffany’s Women’s Glass Cutting Department, who designed the Tiffany

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/11

These things happened January 31, 1968:Helicopters brought US paratroopers to the rooftop of the US Embassy in Saigon to repel a Vietcong force that had invaded the embassy grounds, killing two Marine guards and five MPs.The US would suffer its highest number of daily Vietnam casualty deaths on this day — 245 men — and the day would later be considered the second day of the Tet Offensive.The Senate Foreign Relations committee decided to begin hearings on the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which had

2:21

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/10

Hamburger Hill is the American name for a mountain in central Vietnam near the Laotian border.During the war, the mountain occupied a strategic position along an infiltration route which North Vietnamese soldiers used to enter South Vietnam.North Vietnamese troops were entrenched there to protect this infiltration route.In May 1969, 1,800 assault troops from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division were ordered to dislodge the North Vietnamese from the hill by frontal assault. Get full access to Photo of

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/09

Agreement had been reached at Yalta.There would be a criminal trial of the surviving Nazi leadership.No summary executions.But it would be unlike any other criminal trial in world history, staged by an international alliance of the victors who aimed to cobble together the world’s first precepts of international criminal law. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/07

‘Hitler’s Atlantic sea wall has been breached,’ the headlines scream, ‘with 10,000 tons of bombs clearing the way.’At daybreak, thousands of Allied troops ‘dropped from the skies of Normandy and swarmed up the beaches from thousands of landing craft, renewing the battle for France and Europe which had been broken off four years ago at Dunkerque.’ Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/06

The largest amphibious invasion in history was about to happen on his watch, departing from his ports, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill intended to witness it first-hand aboard the HMS Belfast.He would then transfer to a destroyer for a brief inspection of Juno Beach on D-Day afternoon.That was Churchill’s plan, and he told the British Admiralty to make the necessary arrangements. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:39

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/05

New York City was the center of the nation’s garment industry for more than one hundred years.It began in the late 1840s, when two drivers of economic growth — new machines and eager workers — came together there.After fits and starts, through the work of several inventors, an easy-to-operate sewing machine had at last become available.And, at the same time, the city was awash in immigrants needing work.Among them were skilled tailors and seamstresses who had learned their craft in their home

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/04

To be a good man in a bad time: the hope of many and the achievement of a few.Some old words from Rudyard Kipling on this difficult task:“If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too; Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/03

Religion’s the thing.Embrace it and doors open.But, it has to be the right kind of religion.“Religiously correct.”Is your heart in it?Doesn’t matter.Wear it on your sleeve.The show’s the thing.Only the good-at-heart will have trouble with this, which is something that Mark Twain, that chronicler of post-Civil War America, understood.Here’s an illustration, with Twain, speaking through the voice of Huckleberry Finn, a good-hearted boy in an evil, racist society who, try as he might, just can’t fit

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/02

Soviet nuclear scientist Andrei Sakharov’s break with his government began when the Soviets detonated “Tsar Bomba,” the most powerful nuclear weapon in history, in 1961.He was then forty years old and had been at the forefront of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons program for thirteen years.It was Sakharov who had developed the model for controlled nuclear fusion which had made the Soviet hydrogen bomb work.And he had believed in this effort.“If the Soviet Union could achieve nuclear parity with the

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/31

British tanks and aircraft attacked Gen. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in Libya yesterday, hoping to block his combined Italian-German force from advancing further east towards Tobruk, the deep-water Mediterranean port in Tunisia now under British control.The battle between the German and Soviet armies for Kharkov [Kharkiv], an industrial city in northeastern Ukraine, has ended with tens of thousands of casualties on both sides.While the Germans succeeded in holding the city, the Soviets claim success

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/30

It is 1887.Gustave Eiffel’s plans for his tower have been published and the foundations have been laid.And the artists of Paris are up in arms.With the flair and certainty that only self-anointed experts can muster, they protest to the Paris minister of public works: Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/29

Early American history can seem like a rush of events.The Pilgrims, the Thirteen Colonies, the Revolutionary War, and then — BAM — the Civil War.It’s easy to overlook the long stretches of time which separated these events.Case in point: 241 years passed between William Bradford’s stepping onto Plymouth Rock and South Carolina Lieutenant Henry S. Farley firing on Fort Sumter!It wasn’t only Einstein who noted the relativity of time.One’s perspective on time is a function of his own lived

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/28

The worst fears had come true.All that remained was the telling of the story.A search party has reached the crash site of a TWA plane in the mountains near Las Vegas.All twenty-two people aboard were killed in the crash, including the actress, Carole Lombard, age 33, and her mother.Also killed were fifteen Army ferry pilots who were returning to Long Beach after delivering new aircraft to US air bases. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/27

Embrace failure.Revel in its richness.It will teach you more about yourself than success could ever do.And, sometimes, failure will be the springboard to magnificent success.Oh, really?Just ask these guys:Lewis and ClarkTheir mission was to find the mythical Northwest Passage, the long-sought “direct water communication from sea to sea.”But there was no direct link between Atlantic and Pacific to be found.Instead, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery charted a continent more vast and varied than

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/26

Dick Dashiell’s Marine division landed on Iwo Jima on February 21, 1945, the third day of the five-week battle for the island.Later, he wrote this letter to his parents.“Dear Mother and Dad,As you know, the scrap continues.The japs are resisting here at Iwo Jima just as frantically as they did first day.What a horrible, horrible thing it all is.Death, filth, torn bodies, mortars, rockets, snipers, caves, pillboxes, tunnels, everything.The mental tension is terrific. Get full access to Photo of the

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