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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/24

Germany has launched an air attack, spearheaded by paratroopers, on the forty thousand British, Commonwealth and Greek forces on Crete.Most had withdrawn there following the fall of Greece in April.Fighting is centered on the airbase at Maleme, the sole German foothold on Crete, where hand-to-hand combat is reported.Offshore, a naval battle continues between German troop transport ships and British naval vessels attempting to thwart a German amphibious landing.Heavy losses are reported on both

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/23

On the day before he would take the oath of office for the second time, President Lincoln received this letter from William Johnson, a private in the Union army.“Mister Old Abe:Hereby, please find enclosed one pair of reenlistment stripes.I am a veteran which have been wearing said stripes.Thinking that as how you had reenlisted, I thought I would cut ‘em off and send ‘em to you.Hoping they may come in handy. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:03

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/22

Seventy-five canneries dotted Maine’s eastern coastline in 1900, producing canned sardines which were shipped across the nation.The work was seasonal, with intense periods coming in the fall and many unskilled workers willing to work long hours during these periods were needed.This period coincided with the end of the fall harvest season, so Maine’s farm families were recruited for this work.And entire families, including moms and children, would take these cannery jobs.r Get full access to Photo

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/21

Sixty million buffalo once roamed the grasslands between the Appalachians and the Rockies, supplying Native Americans with food, materials for clothing and shelter, and spiritual comfort.But by 1889, only 541 buffalo remained.This decimation happened quickly, over just a couple of decades in the late 1800s.How could this have happened? Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:28

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/20

In 1874, the world produced a remarkable crop of babies.Their life work has touched millions.Take a look:Carl Bosch was a German industrial chemist.Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, developed radio, a wireless communications system, in 1906.Winston Churchill, a grandson of the Duke of Marlborough, became an accomplished historian, author and orator.But it is his service as British Prime Minister during World War II which marked him as one of history’s most effective wartime leaders. Get full

1:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/19

One hundred-fifty years ago, the territory that would become the state of South Dakota was the stuff of dreams for hundreds of thousands of northern European immigrants.Between 1870 and 1890, the territory’s white population went from 80,000 to 320,000.It’s not hard to see why.South Dakota was made for fellows who wanted to make it on their own.Who believed that hard work breeds success.And who could tolerate very cold winters and very hot summers. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/17

The Pearl Harbor attack is in 204 days.The German government has declared the Red Sea a blockaded zone, warning that all shipping there is subject to sinking.President Roosevelt has rebuffed this threat.Recalling America’s defeat of the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean in the 1800s, he noted the country’s history of defending freedom of the seas, making clear the US would use its naval power to defend American shipping.Meanwhile, as British forces make headway in North Africa, much of Britain is

1:21

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/16

In August 1940, Flora Robertson spoke to journalists from a migrant camp in California about her old home in Oklahoma.She had come to Oklahoma Territory as a child in 1904, traveling from Arkansas with her family in a covered wagon.‘When we first went there, we lived in a little log cabin.In those days, we would start our crop and sometimes, why the horse thieves would come through.They was pretty bad then, there was a lot of horse thieves. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

1:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/15

Old words from Walt Whitman.“Great is Justice;Justice is not settled by legislators and laws…it is in the soul.It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,It is immutable…it does not depend on majorities…majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal. 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 ·

2025/05/14

Meriwether Lewis writes to President Thomas Jefferson on April 7, 1805, from Fort Mandan, a Native American village on the banks of the Missouri River in present-day North Dakota.“Dear Sir.Herewith inclosed you will receive an invoice of certain articles, which I have forwarded to you from this place:. 67. specimens of earths, salts and minerals; and 60 specimens of plants; these are accompanyed by their rispective labels expressing the days on which obtained, places where found, and also their

1:04

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/13

A second-grader from New Hampshire, writes to the president:“Dear Mr. President Kennedy,It is past my bedtime but I would sleep better if I wrote to [you] first.You have many big things to think about all of the time and one of them is the doctor shortage.When I grow up I plan to be a doctor like my daddy so please do not worry about the doctor shortage anymore. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:10

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/12

A British infantryman writes from Ypres, in northern France, in 1916:In early April we were dispatched with all possible speed to Ypres.Here we went in to support the Canadians and spent a most unpleasant eight days, during which time we lost several hundred men. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:07

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/10

Defeated German troops have begun mass surrenders.Soviet premier Stalin has ordered a thousand guns in Moscow to fire thirty rounds each in celebration of victory over the Nazis.After the German surrender in Berlin, Soviet Marshal Zhukov gave a dinner for the Allied delegation which lasted until 6:00 am.The dinner, which featured twenty-five toasts, included Zhukov’s toast to General Eisenhower (still in France) calling him ‘one of the greatest generals of the present times.’ Get full access to

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/09

A letter from the California gold fields of 1850.“Dear George,I have passed through so many scenes and changes of condition that I scarcely know what to write.We arrived in the Sacramento Valley in the rainy season.Rain and mud was everywhere. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

1:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/08

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:07

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/07

Take a look:On the left, Thaddeus Lowe observes the 1862 Civil War Battle of Fair Oaks in Northern Virginia from his balloon, the Intrepid.On the right, Billings, Montana, resident Chase Doak’s photo of a Chinese surveillance balloon flying overhead. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:30

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/06

It is Tuesday, June 6, 1944.Norman Brown, a B-17 radio operator, is writing in his diary:“Tuesday, 6th.This is it.D-day.We were in the first wave of heavies [B-17s] over the coast.It was the greatest sight a person could see.And if I lived to be a thousand, I could never forget it. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:50

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/05

Nixon, the Moon, Pong, M*A*S*H. What a year!The first tenants move into the World Trade Center’s South Tower, the second tower to be completed.The HP-35, the world’s first hand-held scientific calculator, is introduced. Its retail price is $395.The last two crewed missions to the moon, Apollo 16 and 17, take place.Nixon spends eight days in China, ending decades of diplomatic estrangement.Alabama Governor George Wallace is shot and paralyzed while campaigning for president. Get full access to Photo

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/03

Adolph Hitler has committed suicide.This report comes from Soviet forces which have taken Berlin after a twelve-day street fight, but there are conflicting reports on the date and true cause of death.While the German admiralty claims Hitler died ‘a hero’s death,’ a report from Paris claims Hitler was assassinated in an explosion ten days ago after a quarrel with Nazi war lords.General Eisenhower says Hitler had been suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage which proved fatal. Get full access to Photo of

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/05/02

It is April 1861.The US Army has 1,080 commissioned officers.Each has sworn an oath to “bear true allegiance to the United States of America,” and “observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States.”But as the wave of secession engulfs the Southern states, 286 resigned or were dismissed to enter Confederate service in 1861, elevating loyalty to their home state above their sworn duty to the nation. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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