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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/25

Coming to America.Murray, Isaac and Adelle Youman were the children of Jews who had fled Poland in the 1920s as pogroms swept the country.They had settled in Finland, where the children were born, and the family found safety and prosperity there.The children’s father had been a tailor in Poland, and in Finland, he became the wealthy owner of a factory which produced men’s clothing.The family lived happily in a large apartment with two maids and the children were sent to private school.But everything

3:18

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/24

Using the new weapon.It was an odd situation.In the late 1930s, Britain, the US, Germany and Japan learned independently that special aluminum foil strips dropped during an aerial attack could jam the enemy’s radar, making it more difficult for the enemy’s artillery batteries to down attacking aircraft.But when World War II began, neither side chose to use this technology, fearing that their enemy would find the foil strips, duplicate them, and then use them in their own aerial attacks. Get full

4:17

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/23

In name only.During World War II, Britain needed more than a million tons of supplies each week to maintain its war-fighting capabilities and feed its civilian population.And even more supplies would be needed later, to prepare for the D-Day invasion and the advance of Allied troops through Nazi-occupied Europe.These supplies came from US manufacturers.They were transported across the Northern Atlantic in large convoys of merchant ships. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

2:35

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/22

FBI Special Agent Richard M. Nixon?It is April 1937.Richard Nixon, age 24, will soon graduate from Duke Law School.And, like most third-year law students, he is looking for a job.So, Nixon submits an application to the FBI, the investigative arm of the Justice Department, for a job as a special agent.Nixon interviews for the job in July 1937 and then undergoes a physical examination.But then, he hears nothing further.Ever. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:49

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/20

What might have been.In the photograph, a young German officer holds a tattered pair of men’s trousers.The right trouser leg is in ribbons which extend above the knee.And the left leg is shorn off on one side.These are the pants which Adolph Hitler wore to his staff meeting in East Prussia on July 20, 1944, when a bomb placed in a briefcase exploded beneath his conference table.This day, eighty years ago, was like none other in the twentieth century for raising the question, ‘what might have been.’

3:43

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/19

Parallels of attitude.In November 1961 the Kennedy administration instituted Operation Mongoose, a multi-faceted, covert CIA operation to remove Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from power.Castro had led an armed revolution two years earlier which had removed Cuba’s corrupt dictator, President Fulgencio Batista, from power.Castro had portrayed himself initially as a champion of the poor who wanted to improve social conditions.For many Cubans, Castro became a national hero.But once in power, Castro

3:52

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/18

An anxious time.November 1862.The shocking losses on both sides in the September battle in the farm fields of Antietam had previewed what was to come.But, at the moment, the battle lines were little changed.Lincoln was frustrated.On November 5, he had relieved McClellan of his command of the Army of the Potomac after McClellan had refused press a hard-won advantage against Lee’s retreating forces.But McClellan’s replacement, General Ambrose Burnside, will fare little better in the days ahead.And

4:21

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/17

Finding common ground.They were the most unlikely of seat mates.Lyndon Johnson, the former president, out of office just six months, and Spiro Agnew, the new Vice President.They had come to Florida from opposite poles of the political universe to watch men take off for the Moon.And they sat there, side by side, dressed in suits and ties in 85-degree sunshine, and ‘made nice’ for the cameras.It happened 55 years ago. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:22

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/16

To end the darkness.Camille Monet was sick.And, despite everything, she continued to slip away.Then an unexpected pregnancy sucked the last bits of life from her, and in 1879, she died.She was 32.The Monet family was living in the house of an art patron in the village of Vétheuil then.Claude Monet could no longer afford Paris.The impressionist style of painting, once so popular, which he himself had christened, had faded. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:47

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/15

The soundtrack of the war.By 1939, Glenn Miller had become an American sensation.Just about everybody recognized the sound of his trombone when they heard his theme song, “Moonlight Serenade.”Miller’s band played in ballrooms all across the country and played live on the radio.His records were best-sellers and he and his band were featured in two Hollywood movies.It was a time when couples held each other while they danced.In a troubled time, Miller’s songs were perfect. Get full access to Photo of

5:15

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/13

Unfinished family business.Theodore Roosevelt wanted to be the hero of the Spanish-American War.He was convinced that his gallantry fighting the Spanish in the Battle of San Juan Hill was deserving of the Medal of Honor.Roosevelt’s lobbying for the award began soon after the battle, while he was still in Cuba. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:05

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/12

The end has come.It is July 16, 1945.The peace in Europe is not quite six weeks old.And the leaders of the victorious Allied powers — Truman, Churchill and Stalin — are traveling to Potsdam, Germany, to discuss the fate of postwar Europe.For Winston Churchill, the trip offers an opportunity to see Berlin.His car passed through the Brandenburg Gate and then arrived at the remains of Hitler’s New Reich Chancellery. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:50

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/11

With the nation falling into a dizzying spin, we all need to find something to hold on to. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/10

A badge of honor.For a long time, it was customary for the valedictorian of West Point’s graduating class to be commissioned into the US Army Corps of Engineers.And so it was that Douglas MacArthur, the top-ranking cadet of the West Point class of 1903, became an Army engineer, a job he’d fill for the first fourteen years of his Army career.As a graduation present, MacArthur’s family presented him with two 14-carat gold pins in the shape of a castle, the West Point logo.MacArthur wore these pins as

4:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/09

The Irish.A blight caused by a mold destroyed the leaves and edible roots of the potato plant in Ireland in the mid-1840s.The result was a famine which lasted seven years.During this time, from 1845 until 1852, starvation, disease, and evictions from leased farmland drove two million people to North America.Among them were all eight of President Kennedy’s great-grandparents. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

6:33

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/08

Friday, October 27, 1961.The Berlin Wall is ten weeks old.The Soviet Union moves 33 tanks to Checkpoint Charlie, near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.They face-off against ten US tanks, five US armored personnel carriers and three British anti-tank guns. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:26

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/06

November 6, 1860It is election day.Lincoln leaves his office in Springfield at 3:00 PM and walks to the polling place in the courthouse where he votes a straight Republican ticket.He spends the evening in the Springfield telegraph office monitoring election returns from across the nation.Shortly after midnight, Lincoln joins his wife for a late supper.He’s been elected the sixteenth President of the United States. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:51

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/05

Get off the old path.The Holocaust.The scale of loss is incomprehensible, and the directors of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum seem to understand this.So, they have made available more than one thousand family journals and diaries of Holocaust victims which tell the story of loss on a personal scale. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

6:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/04

Seeking perspective.It is July 4, 1942.More than 3.9 million Americans are deployed across the globe in the new world war.With their primary breadwinner gone, families left behind are suffering financial hardship.And so much happened on that day: 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 ·

2024/07/03

Plenty of blame to go around.It is 1828 and the Southern economy has changed.Tobacco plantations in the northern regions are in decline.But in the Deep South, cotton and sugar plantations are thriving.Isaac Franklin and John Armfield sense a business opportunity is this dichotomy. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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