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Brenda Elthon

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We publish "Photo of the Day," a Substack newsletter with history's best photos and the stories behind them. look.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZLqQwuTaQ097UtBodeBcQ

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 9h

a reporter should inquire whether Trump or Trump Org. will receive a development fee in the deal

Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 14h

The US Marine Band in 1864.

#history #photography #CivilWar

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 15h

The lead picture in this afternoon’s substack photo collection on the Civil War news as it was reported on this date in 1862.

#history #photography #CivilWar

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 17h

Farm couple, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1890.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 20h

Sunday afternoon joy ride, Chico, California, 1910.

Cal State Chico library.

#history #photography #California

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

Cover of this afternoon’s photo collection, with a story from Trump in New York, c. 1980.

…. going to our substack subscribers later today

#history #photography #EastWing

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

An unsung hero of the US Civil War is Herman Haupt, who stands in the center of this photo, on the hill.
He was made an army colonel and given the job of building/repairing/scheduling federal trains and extending telegraph wires alongside them.
#history #photography #CivilWar

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

Roll call at the Federal battery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1863.

Huntington Digital Library.

#history #photography #CivilWar

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

At the fair in Milwaukee, 1894.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

cover of today's substack photo collection

#history #photography #Belgium #WWI

Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

the lead picture in today's photo collection

Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Actress Mary Pickford encourages the purchase of war bonds, 1918.
…. one of the pictures we include in this afternoon’s substack photo collection on the war news on this date in 1917.
#Hollywood #film #history #photography #WWI

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Britain’s unknown soldier, 1920 and 2020.

Imperial War Museum.

#history #photography #Britain #WWI

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

California shipyard welder, April 1944.

UC Berkeley library.

#history #photography #WWII #California

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

A summer kitchen on a Wisconsin farm, 1898.

People who could afford it would set up an outdoor kitchen in the summertime to keep heat and smoke out of the main house.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography #food

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

British soldiers haul an 18 pounder field gun through the mud in Belgium, October 1917.

… one of the pictures we include in this afternoon’s substack photo collection on WWI news as reported on this date in 1917.

#history #photography #WWI #Britain

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Left: Georges Braque, ‘The Port of La Ciotat,’ 1907.

Right: Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, California, 1894.

#art #history #painting #photography #California

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

Men wait in line at the San Francisco Social Security office on Jan. 4, 1937, the first day of operations.
At the time, 10 million people were out of work.
At this office, the people filled out forms and awaited payment of $6-$15/week for 16 weeks.
Dorothea Lange photo. Oakland Museum of California.

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

Logging crew in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, 1895.

The guy in the long fur coat is the logging camp superintendent.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography #Wisconsin

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

Santa Monica, 1925.

Adelbert Bartlett photo. UCLA library.

#history #photography #California

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

High school baseball champions, River Falls, Wisconsin, 1885.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography #baseball

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

Malibu, 1927.

Adelbert Bartlett photo, UCLA library.

#history #photography #California

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

Wisconsin National Guardsmen practice at the Camp Douglas firing range, 1885.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 5d

Cover of today’s substack photo collection.

#history #photography #Poland #WWII