In 1942, the Workplace of Warfare Info was created by the U.S. authorities to create and distribute info and propaganda concerning the warfare effort at residence and overseas. The OWI absorbed the photographic unit of the Farm Safety Administration...
Shortly after getting into World Conflict II, the USA army discovered that delivery and delivering immense volumes of mail to and from servicemen abroad can be a problem, particularly given the necessity to reserve cargo area for essential weapons an...
Through the late 1800s, magic shows occupied American stages alongside traveling circuses and vaudeville acts. Near the turn of the 20th century, however, magicians began to occupy an elevated theatrical status, commanding their own one-man shows in...
In April 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published his Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes, or The Universal Cosmography according to the Tradition of Ptolemy and the Dis...
In the first decades after the invention of photography, police forces began assembling “rogues galleries,” collections of images of suspected and convicted criminals. These galleries were rarely organized in any systematic way, much to the chagrin o...