Celebrate American Independence day with Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton
You can see more Kate’s work at:http://harkavagrant.com/
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Military genealogy site for the UK
Military Genealogy is the ONLY site where you can find military records of over 2 million British Armed Forces personnel exclusively cross matched with over 4000 Regiments, Bases and Ships of the British Armed Forces going back to before 1630, making your genealogy task much easier and more complete.
Here is the link.
“Hark a Vagrant”, a web site of history comics by Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton of “Hark a Vagrant” is very accomplished cartoonist, that was born in Nova Scotia and now I believe lives in Ontario, Canada. Below is example of one of her satiric, and off the wall cartoons. Be sure you check out the link to her archive page.
Here is the link: http://www.harkavagrant.com/
From the Library of Congress: Color Photos of the 1930s-40s
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations with Photos
My daughter emailed me about an interesting web site from the National Public Radio web site (http://www.npr.org/). As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct from milkman to telegrapher, from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.”
Here is the link: The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
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The Wonderful World of Early Photography.
Here is a link to the early history of photography and photographs by Alex of Neatorama.com. It show some of the early photographs dating back over 180 years ago. Also, it shows the first motion picture (1872) by Eadweard Muybridge. You can see examples of early and unique photographic equipment. You may find it very interesting.
1839 photo of Dorothy Catherine Draper
Here is the link: http://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/29/the-wonderful-world-of-early-photography/
New Rhodes Forum and Guest-Book
http://www.rhodesfamily.org/guestbook.php
I have recently encountered errors in the Rhodes Family Guest-book. Unfortunately, the guest book script is no longer supported by it’s developer, so I am unable to repair it. Therefore I have installed a new genealogy forum and guest book. One advantage to this new site is that you can reply to someone’s post, and there are other new features that are very useful. So, I encourage you to post you queries, and wish you the best of luck.
All the best,
Carl
A newly discovered blog: Civil War Memory
Kevin Levin is a High School History Teacher and Civil War Historian. For the last three years he has been writing the blog ?Civil War Memory?.
In 2007 Kevin’s blog was honored with the Cliopatria Award for Best Individual Blog.
The following is about ?Civil War Memory? in Mr. Levin own words: ?I blog about subjects related to how Americans have chosen to remember and commemorate their Civil War. Topics cover a range of issues from Civil War historiography to issues in public history and the teaching of history on the high school level. To get a better sense of the range of topics covered on this site I highly recommend browsing the archives by category or by individual tags. You can also take advantage of the ?Related Posts? feature, which can be found at the end of individual posts and before the comments section.?
Here the link: http://cwmemory.com/
The Incredible Century Old Color Photography of Prokudin-Gorsky
In 1909 a remarkable project was initiated by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. His mission was to record – in full and vibrant color – the vast and diverse Russian Empire.
To veiw more of these wonderful photos follow this link:
http://www.socyberty.com/History/The-Incredible-Century-Old-Color-Photography-of-Prokudin-Gorsky.797569
Great site to see high-resolution vintage photo
Shorpy.com is a site that contains a high-resolution vintage photo archive, with thousands of HD images.
New Orleans circa 1910. A corner of the French Market
You will find photos featuring images as far back as the Civil War and continuing on to more modern times. If you have an interest in history I guarantee you will find something fascinating at Shorpy’s.
Here is the link: http://www.shorpy.com/