Old images of Madison Wisconsin. (Slideshow)
Madison, Wisconsin is the “City of Four Lakes.” In 1836, the city, just a name on a paper, was named...
History
WPA, Great Depression-era posters
In 1935, during the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established.Over its eight years of existence, the WPA put around...
Construction of the John Hancock Center (Video Footage)
(Video from thekinolibrary)
Video of the devastating “Great Flood of 1993”
The "Great Flood of 1993" occurred from May to October along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers . The devastating flood...
Photochrom photos from the late 1800s to early 1900s
Photochrom photos were popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photochrom was a process of colorizing black and white...
Surreal, color photos of railroad life in 1940s Chicago
This is a collection of photos documenting life on the railroad in 1940’s Chicago, from the Library of Congress’ Farm...
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
In the 1860s, Abraham Lincoln was both an admired and despised figure. Some of his supporters included influential minds of...
The final piece of the Gateway Arch
On October 28, 1965 the top of the arch was put into place. Vice President Hubert Humphrey observed the final placement from...
When new color tvs were radioactive
According to a recent post from Mental FlossTesting in 1967 revealed that large-screen models of GE color televisions sets were...
Cave-in-Rock and its river pirates
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, packing a flatboat in Pennsylvania and floating down the Ohio River was the...