Posted in images, Social Studies, tagged Air pilots -- United States, aviators, Earhart Amelia 1898-1937, Knotts Howard 1895-1942, women on July 23, 2009| 1 Comment »
American pilot Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1898, in Atchison, Kansas. She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and to fly solo from Hawaii to California. She perished during a flight from New Guinea to Howland Island over the Pacific Ocean on July 3, 1937.
The photograph below, courtesy of Illinois Digital Archives, features Amelia Earhart and a World War I flying ace Howard Knotts at Municipal Airport, Springfield, Illinois, in 1934.
Amelia Earhart and Howard Knotts at Municipal Airport, Springfield, Illinois, 1934
Posted in images, Object, tagged aircraft engineering, aircraft industry, airplanes, B & W, Boeing, hangars, seaplanes, transportation on July 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On July 15, 1916, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products (later, Boeing). The airplane company was started in the hangar on the shore of Lake Union in Seattle, Washington, in December of 1915. The first airplane produced at this small factory was B & W seaplane, named after its designers, Boeing and Westervelt. The seaplane, constructed of spruce lumber, steel wire, and linen fabric, made its first successful flight over Lake Union on June 15, 1916. Only two B & W seaplanes were built; both were sold to the New Zealand government to be used for pilot training there.
On the photo below, courtesy of Seattle Historical Society Collection, part of a larger King County Snapshots: A photographic heritage of Seattle and surrounding communities digital collection, men are pulling B & W into Boeing Seaplane Hangar on Lake Union, Seattle, in 1916.
Men pulling B & W into Boeing Seaplane Hangar on Lake Union, Seattle, 1916
Posted in images, Social Studies, tagged Arizona, Bisbee, Bisbee deportation, Copper mining, Mines and mining, Mining history on July 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Bisbee Deportation started on July 12, 1917 as vigilantes kidnapped and deported nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
The photograph of Sacramento Pit open copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona, below, courtesy of Indiana University, Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection.
Sacramento Pit - famous open copper mine at Bisbee, Ariz., 1952
Mining history is one of the subject strengths of the Opening History aggregation. More than thirty digital collections — including Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, the source of the image featured in this post — contain materials on this topic, while five collections listed below specifically focus on mines, mining, and miners:
Coal Mining in Illinois, Machine vs. Man,
Doc Horrell Photo Collection,
Mining and Mother Jones in Mount Olive .
Mining in Idaho,
Thar’s gold in them thar hills: Gold and gold mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s.
Posted in images, Object, tagged 1929, aeronautics, airships, dirigibles, Graf Zeppelin, rigid dirigibles, transportation on July 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
171 years ago, on July 8, 1838, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, (1838–1917), German inventor of the rigid dirigible was born. The photograph below, courtesy of Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960, part of a California Historical Society Digital Archive collection, features a giant Graf Zeppelin dirigible in ca. 1929.
The Graf Zeppelin airship, ca.1929
Posted in Health, images, tagged 1906, innoculations, inoculations, refugees, vaccination on July 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On July 6, 1885, Louis Pasteur gave the first successful anti-rabies inoculation to a boy who had been bitten by an infected dog. The photograph below, courtesy of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection, pictures 1906 San-Francisco earthquake refugees receiving inoculations at the refugee camp.
Innoculation at refugee camp (1906)
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