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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/16

There have been other hard times.And, in their day, as events unfolded, many were called ‘unprecedented.’Commentators would despair, ‘where is the new leader who will carry the nation through this peril?’At times, a white knight would appear, but not always.Sometimes, the public arena seemed devoid of heroes, leaving the incompetents and evil doers standing there alone and unchallenged.And the crepe hangers would do their work, forecasting national doom.But yet, despite those other dark times, here

3:55

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/13

The German assault on Poland is in its final stages, with Warsaw encircled and remaining pockets of Polish defenders isolated and subject to aerial attacks.The German emissary in Washington has claimed Hitler’s Third Reich does not seek world domination, claiming a satisfactory settlement of the ‘Polish problem’ would have been possible in the absence of ‘British interference.’The Nazi Office of Racial Policy published a report warning against ‘mixed marriages’ between German and non-German

2:18

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/11

It is the second week of September, one-hundred-eleven years ago.Five weeks have passed since Germany declared war on Russia and France and invaded neutral Belgium.The Germans are following a plan which, if successful, will enable them to parade down the Champs-Élysées in forty days.The plan calls for the German army to swing north and west through Belgium, then bear down on Paris to the south.With a quick conquest of France, Germany will then be able to concentrate its forces on Russia before it

2:08

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/09

Constant swearing about the government gets tiresome.And it’s ineffective.Rogue politicians who are doing the bad things just tune it out as background noise.They tell themselves they are ‘above it all.’But make fun of them and it’s a brand-new ballgame.Laughing at them pops their ego balloon.[So many of these guys are simpletons, and they know it.] Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:14

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/06

The German army is now thirty-one miles from Warsaw and German artillery and aircraft are bombarding the city.Nazi troops have rounded up all men of ‘arms-bearing age’ in conquered Polish territory in a bid to eliminate snipers.Both London and Berlin have instituted nighttime blackouts and placed sandbags around government offices.Military induction officials in both countries report a surge of new volunteers.France reports contact with German forces along the Rhine.More than three hundred

3:54

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/05

The Lady Be Good, a B-24D Liberator bomber based at an Allied airfield near Benghazi, Libya, disappeared without a trace on April 4, 1943, on its return from a bombing raid over the Naples harbor.The Lady Be Good was one of twenty-five aircraft that had taken off from the Benghazi airfield earlier that afternoon.Storms had disrupted their mission.The Lady Be Good became separated from its formation and flew alone on its return to the airbase.Somewhere over the Mediterranean, the plane’s pilot

3:12

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/09/03

It is September 3, 1862.In two weeks, Confederate and Union forces will clash in the fields of southern Maryland along a creek called Antietam.Tomorrow, September 4, Confederate Col. Robert E. Lee's army will begin crossing the Potomac River and entering Maryland, bringing the Civil War into Union territory for the first time.The South is ascendant.The Confederate summer offensive yielded several battlefield victories, including Lee’s victory at Manassas, Virginia, just thirty miles west of

4:25

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/30

Hitler sent messages to London today in an effort to prolong negotiations regarding Poland, Hitler’s current target for territorial concessions in Europe.While the content of those messages has not been revealed, Germany’s recent troop mobilizations have slowed, buoying optimism that war may be avoided.Rumors swirl that there may soon be a multinational peace conference to settle the Polish question, raising hopes that a broader peace between Britain and Germany, addressing a broad range of issues,

2:07

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/25

Some pictures stick with you.These are the ones from last week which have stuck with me.The general store which served as the Post Office in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, in the late 1800s.Captain Felix, the head of the French military aviation school, was likely a hero during World War I, but I must confess that his picture, taken in 1910, reminded me of Snidley Whiplash from the “Rocky and Bullwinkle” cartoon show. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:13

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/23

An armored column of Patton’s Third Army has punched through the current battle lines in central France and is within 155 miles of the German border.Three more columns of the Third Army are spread out around Paris, eliminating the German defenses around the city.A third Allied amphibious landing in France has begun in Bordeaux.As the Allied fronts in the north and south of France move closer together, 500,000 French resistance fighters have liberated fifty thousand square miles of the French

2:55

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/22

To the stilted pictorial history of the Civil War — the stiff studio portraits of men in uniform, the stylized woodblock engravings of the era’s weekly news magazines, the grainy after-battle photos of the dead in the fields and romanticized oil paintings of battles never seen by their artists — we can add these:A collection of 137 drawings and watercolors made in the moment by an immigrant soldier in the field as the Civil War unfolded around him.The clash of combat brigades, the rushing and

2:54

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/19

A box canyon is a type of canyon characterized by steep, nearly vertical walls on three sides, with access and egress only through the "mouth" of the canyon.Among the more famous box canyons is the one in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, near San Diego.In 1847, American soldiers used hand tools to widen a trail to permit passage by covered wagons.This widened trail became the first road into Southern California.An exhausted mother sells handmade cigars displayed in a cigar box on Lower Broadway,

2:48

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/18

Some pictures stick with you.These are the ones from last week which have stuck with me.A Confederate soldier makes flapjacks in camp during the American Civil War.The volcano on Krakatoa Island, in Indonesia, erupted on August 27, 1883, producing the loudest sound in history.The big boom was heard three thousand miles away. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/16

Seven waves of British, American and French troops have landed on the shores of the Riviera, from Marseilles to Nice, in an amphibious assault which covered 125 miles of beachhead.Nine thousand British and American paratroopers, along with airdrops of supplies, dropped inland, encountering little enemy opposition.Among the airdropped items were pamphlets of instructions for French resistance fighters and French civilians.The operation’s immediate objective is the capture of German-occupied Lyon, a

4:20

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/14

It’s a type of grass which is native to North America and has been grown here for thousands of years.There are two hundred varieties of corn and it comes in many0 colors.Columbus carried the plant back to Europe in 1493.And the plant soon spread to the rest of the world because it could be grown in a variety of climates. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:40

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/13

Col. George Boardman Boomer was a Federal brigade commander who was killed in May 1863 while leading his men in an uphill assault against entrenched Confederate forces in Vicksburg during the American Civil War.He was hailed as a heroic military leader and a memorial describing his actions stands in the Vicksburg National Military Park.French immigrant Louis Dupuy opened the luxurious Hotel de Paris in Georgetown, Colorado, in 1875, during the region’s silver boom.The hotel was famous for its

3:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/12

Lumbermen in Wisconsin, c. 1880.Scandinavian immigrants flocked to the Upper Midwest in the mid-1800s, recognizing a land similar to their own where their lumbering skills could generate income.Often, an uncle or older brother’s initial success in America would serve as a magnet for younger members of an extended family.0 Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:50

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/11

Some pictures stick with you.These are the ones from last week which have stuck with me.The ‘city room’ of the New York World newspaper, c. 1900.A reader noted the man in front looks like Raymond Burr’s character in “Rear Window (1954).”Getting hot dogs before the baseball game at Ebbets Field, 1920s. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:44

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/09

Germany has hanged eight military officers found guilty of involvement in Claus von Stauffenberg’s plot to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device on July 20.In a quick trial whose outcome was preordained, it was revealed that Von Stauffenberg had brought explosives into Hitler’s presence on two previous occasions but had not detonated them when SS Chief Heinrich Himmler had failed to join the meetings.As Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid another visit to Allied lines in Northern France,

4:23

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/08/08

To be called a clown is no compliment.Like the silly circus performer, a clown turns ordinary actions — like watering a flower in a pot — into something exaggerated and often grotesque, while engaging in dangerous actions — like walking on a tightrope — with nonchalance.As Shakespeare, whose clowns were called ‘fools,’ put it, "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."I can’t tell you which politician was first called ‘a clown,’ but these days, you hear it all the

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