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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/16

Major General J.E.B. Stuart and a Confederate force of 1,800 cavalrymen have raided towns and supply depots along a 125-mile track through Pennsylvania and Maryland, successfully avoiding confrontations with thousands of Federal troops encamped there.Stuart’s raiders traveled in a circuit around McClellan’s Army, entering Union territory to their west and retreating south, to safety, on their east.Along the way, they seized fresh horses, Federal uniforms, hats, shoes and arms, cut telegraph wires,

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/15

This old man, photographed in the early 1920s, is hauling a wheelbarrow full of mutilated currency to the ‘death chamber’ at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, where it will be destroyed.The photo caption says he has been doing this work for fifty years.If this is correct, then he would have joined the Bureau in the 1870s, when it was still a young Treasury Department agency.Congress created the Bureau in the early days of the Civil War, when it became clear that the federal

2:32

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/14

Fifty-two years before Trump and the others signed the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement, the four warring parties in Vietnam — the US, North and South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong — signed the Paris Peace Accords.Each agreement, in their time, was hailed across the globe.In the US, the 1973 agreement meant America’s military’s offensive campaign in Vietnam was over.Americans held captive in North Vietnam — men like John McCain — would come home.The draft ended.Remaining US combat troops were withdrawn, with

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/11

As seasoned German soldiers, fresh from the Polish battlefield, replace reservists along the German defensive Western Wall, Hitler reiterated his claim that Western powers were fomenting a war in which the ‘invulnerable Reich’ and German peoples of Europe would stand united.The Western Powers must choose, he said, between ‘a war of destruction’ or peace on his terms. 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 ·

2025/10/09

In a fierce two-day battle, Union forces under General Rosecrans have defeated a rebel army seeking to regain control of Corinth, Mississippi, a vital rail hub used to supply Union armies in the Western theater.During the first day of the fight, the rebel force penetrated the Union defensive line outside the city, forcing Union troops to retreat into Corinth.The rebels renewed their assault early the next morning.From a St. Louis reporter with Union sympathies:‘The woods seemed alive with

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/08

Pay a dime and come inside the tent.It’s your fantasy come true.Beautiful girls wink and tease.And you feel like such a man.That was the pitch at the 1941 Vermont State Fair’s Girlie Show.And they did a good business.Who doesn’t like what that carnival barker is selling?The mistake we make is thinking that people have changed since then.Wake up and look around.They haven’t.Offer enticing illusions of power and manliness, and people will pay the dime to get inside that tent.They know they’re not

1:33

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/07

In March 1924, nineteen-year-old Madeline Blair, a prostitute who worked the streets of Manhattan under the name “Blackie,” befriended a group of sailors from the USS Arizona who were in town on shore leave.Blackie told the sailors she dreamed of going to California and making it big in the movies, but she didn’t have any money for the trip.So the sailors smuggled her onboard the Arizona, which was California bound. 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 ·

2025/10/04

Hitler is said to be drafting an address to the Reichstag in which he will propose a ninety-day truce with Britain to negotiate terms for a permanent peace.Should the British reject any such offer, it is expected that the war on the Western Front will escalate immediately.David Lloyd George, the elder British statesman who served as Prime Minister during the First World War, caused a storm in the House of Commons yesterday when he urged Members to consider carefully any peace offer which Nazi

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/03

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, John Burns volunteered for service in the Union Army.He was a combat veteran of the War of 1812 and claimed to have also served in 1846 during the Mexican-American War.But he was almost 69, so the the Army rejected him.But when the war came to his hometown of Gettysburg two years later, John got a his chance to serve.It was July 1, 1863, the first day of the battle, and John could hear distant gunfire from his house.He dressed in his very best, but very old,

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/02

President Lincoln arrived in Harper’s Ferry by special train from Washington yesterday.After reviewing Federal troops, Lincoln visited the ruined railroad bridge and federal buildings destroyed three weeks ago by General Stonewall Jackson’s Confederate forces.The fight at Harper’s Ferry opened General Lee’s Maryland campaign and resulted in the capture of arms and more than twelve thousand Federal troops.Lincoln left Harper’s Ferry at noon today and traveled by horse and wagon to General McClellan’s

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/01

A story from World War II:Frank would wait until take-off.Then, with the plane up in the air, he’d climb down into the plexiglass sphere, about four feet in diameter, which hung from the plane’s belly.He’d position his backside in the bottom of the sphere, put his feet in the stirrups in the front and draw his knees up next to his ears.Then, Frank would practice the reach up to the triggers for the two .50-caliber machine guns and adjust the gun-sight that hung down in front of his face.He was

3:52

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/30

The condition of the 150-year-old White House in 1948 was a testament to the danger of making short-term improvements on the cheap for temporary residents.Engineers determined the foundation beneath the interior walls could no longer support the upper floors and roof, causing the interior walls and floors to pull away from the exterior walls, leaving large gaps.The building wasn’t safe, so the Truman family moved into Blair House, across Pennsylvania Avenue.The total gutting and three-year

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/27

Germany’s foreign minister Von Ribbentrop will travel to Moscow tomorrow for meetings with Soviet officials and the foreign minister of Turkey.Turkey will likely be asked to close the Bosphorus Strait to belligerents to facilitate Soviet shipments of war materials across the Black Sea to Odessa, and then on to Germany by rail.As hand-to-hand combat rages in the outskirts of Warsaw, Soviet occupation troops are replacing German assault troops in conquered Polish territories.These German units are

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/26

It is November 6, 1860.One of the most consequential election days in American history.Four major national political parties have nominated presidential candidates.Abe Lincoln, a former one-term congressman from Illinois, is the Republican party’s nominee.While the Republican party opposes slavery, the party platform promises not to interfere with slavery in the South, pledging, instead, to prohibit slavery in the Nation’s territories.Among Lincoln’s challengers is Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, his

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/25

Both Germany and its capital of Berlin were split into four sectors after World War II.The Soviet Union was placed in control of the easternmost sectors of Germany and Berlin, and the other sectors were placed under the control of the US, France and Britain.West Germany rebuilt and began to prosper after the war, but East Germany languished under communist restrictions.Soon, the economic and social conditions of the West outstripped those in the East.The economic development and societal freedoms of

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/23

It is February 27, 1860.Abraham Lincoln, a contender for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, is in New York, where he will deliver an address to the Cooper Union, a private educational institution.His topic is slavery, the current subject of all political debate.Southerners intent on preserving their slave-holding tradition have called Lincoln and Republicans opposed to slavery ‘radical extremists.’In his speech, Lincoln says the opposite is true:“But you say you are conservative –

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/20

In a speech yesterday, Hitler claimed he had no war aims against Britain or France but said ‘Poland was doomed.’Germany and the Soviet Union have partitioned Poland between them, with Germany taking Poland’s west and the Soviet Union taking the east.As German aerial bombardment continues, Polish radio tonight broadcast a forlorn message:“Warsaw presents a very pitiful sight.Buildings, monuments, museums and art galleries are in ruins.[But] we will fight to the last drop and never surrender.”Hitler

2:52

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/19

The fires which consumed the San Francisco business district after the 1906 earthquake upended the lives and careers of hundreds of thousands of people.More than 75,000 left town permanently.Another quarter of a million were left homeless.They spent months living in tent cities built and managed by the Army.Small businesses set up shop quickly on their sidewalks.But old, established businesses had a harder time resuming operations.It was especially difficult for big banks, whose metal vaults had

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/18

September 18, 1862.A day of great sadness.Thousands of dead and wounded Americans lay on farm fields in southern Maryland.The day before, McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had met in battle along southern Maryland’s Antietam Creek.23,000 men were killed or wounded in the one-day fight. 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 ·

2025/09/17

The rise of industries in the late 1800s eroded the tradition of people living together in multi-generational households, where old and young worked together to provide for everyone.Nuclear families became the norm.Younger generations moved to cities to take good-paying industrial jobs, leading lives distant from their older, often infirm, relatives.And they became consumed with the struggle to support their own children.With the traditional family support system eroded, poverty became pervasive

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