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Rare Collections
The Making Of Disneyland
April 24, 2022 | Kellar EllsworthThe “Happiest Place on Earth” began in Walt Disney’s mind in the early 1940s before becoming a reality in 1955. The now worldwide corporation broke ground to $17 million, a 160-acre orchard, ...
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Moments In Time
The Ballet That Provoked A Riot
April 22, 2022 | Linda SpeckhalsThe Rite of Spring was composed by Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company. The ballet was originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, and the costumes and stage desi...
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Moments In Time
British Royal Titles Explained … in Color
April 20, 2022 | Karen HarrisMost Americans have only a rudimentary grasp of British royal titles. Thanks to all those Disney movies, we know that a prince or princess is the son or daughter of a king, but ...
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Major Historical Events
War Pigeons, WWI's Vital Messengers
April 18, 2022 | Kellar EllsworthYou’ve heard of warplanes and probably even warhorses, but war pigeons?! That’s right! During World War I, both the Allied and Axis powers utilized messenger pigeons to a shocking degre...
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Rare Celebrity Photos Colorized
Who Killed Virginia Rappe?
April 16, 2022 | Linda SpeckhalsBorn in Chicago in 1891, Virginia Rappe was raised by her grandmother after her mother died when Rappe was 11. At 14, Rappe started to work as a commercial and art model. After she moved to San ...
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Major Historical Events
Breaking Barriers: 75th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball Debut, April 15, 1947
April 14, 2022 | Karen HarrisSeventy-five years ago today, on April 15, 1947, one extraordinary man took a giant step toward racial equality in Ameri...
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What Life Was Like...
How the '70s Hotpants Fad Began In The '50s
April 12, 2022 | Kellar EllsworthDaisy Dukes and booty shorts both owe their hip-hugging styles to a ‘70s fad that lit male imaginations and conservative ideals afire: hotpants. People rightly connect the ...
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Rare Celebrity Photos Colorized
The Great Stone Face Buster Keaton
April 11, 2022 | Linda SpeckhalsBuster Keaton, who was born on October 4, 1895, was a comic known for his deadpan expression and his pork pie hats which were often destroyed during his film antics. He created brilliant...
- Flappers: Girl Power In The 1920s
- A Prize in Every Box: Vintage Cereal Premiums
- A Colorized Look at Wilbur and Orville Wright
- The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company: Old-Style Hucksters
- Forecasting the Weather in the 1920s: Balloons, Barometers, and Broadcasts
- Colorized Pics of a Young Priscilla Presley, the Luckiest Teenager of the 1960s
- Vice President Charles Curtis: From The Reservation To The White House
- The Wave of the Future: High School Computer Classes in the 1970s
- Supporting Our Troops One Laugh at a Time: Colorized Images from USO’s Early Year of Ove...