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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 23h

Cover of today’s substack photo collection.

#history #photography #Poland #WWII

Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

The conquering German army has rounded up a group of Polish Jews to do forced labor, October 1939.

… one of the pictures we include in this afternoon’s substack photo collection on the war news of this day in 1939.

Yad Vashem Photo Archives.

#history #photography #WWII

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

Silver wedding anniversary party in Madison, Wisconsin, 1899.

Everyone is ‘dressed to the nines’ with several women wearing veils.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

When people say “log jam,” this is what they mean.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

1895.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

Workers repair a damaged ship in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a port town on Lake Michigan, 1888.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling on Wisconsin’s streams and rivers was difficult. They don’t always connect! So, to keep going, you had to pick up your canoe and carry it through the woods to the next stream. That’s called “portaging.”
Clear Lake, Wisconsin, in 1898.
Wisconsin Historical Society.
#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 1d

Wisconsin National Guardsmen wash up before lunch, 1885.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Lead picture in today’s substack photo collection, which illustrates the time-tested concept of playing to one’s strengths.
#history #photography #film

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Hollywood legend, Billie Burke.

#film #history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Ike grills steaks on the White House roof.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Dorm room at Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, 1889.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 2d

Flowers for Mommy.

Montello, Wisconsin, 1894.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

A river baptism, 1888.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

The students of a Wisconsin school, 1876.
26 girls. 10 boys.
Why so few boys?
Most of the rest were probably helping dad on the farm. That’s how it was done.
I’d wager a dime that, of those boys pictured, most had big brothers who were doing the farm work.
Wisconsin Historical Society.
#photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 3d

A worker organizes logs, which have floated down Wisconsin’s Chippewa River, into large, tightly packed groups, called ‘rafts,’ so they can be pushed down the Mississippi River to sawmills, 1880.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 4d

The Doors in concert. Marin County, California, 1967.

“Hello. I love you, won’t you tell me your name.”

#music #history #VietnamWar

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 4d

A beautiful ship comes into the harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1890.
The city is located on Lake Michigan, at the point where the Manitowoc River empties into the lake.
This type of ship is called a schooner. The double masts are a defining feature.
Wisconsin Historical Society.
#history #sailing

Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 4d

A group from the Paiute tribe in camp in California, 1898.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography #California

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 4d

Circus performers in Wisconsin, 1897.

‘There’s no business like show business.’

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 5d

US Swift Boats on patrol in South Vietnam.

#history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 5d

Stanley Lathrop, a soldier from Montello, Wisconsin, who served in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry during the American Civil War.

Wisconsin Historical Society.

#history #photography #CivilWar

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 5d

Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle and Al St. John in “Out West,” 1918.

#film #history #photography

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Brenda Elthon @brendaelthon.bsky.social · 5d

Photo caption: “Wyoming cowgirls, 1898.”
Twenty years before this photo was taken, the Wyoming territorial legislature became the first government in the world to grant voting rights to women; and in 1924, Wyoming became the first state to elect a female governor.
[They never did it again.]
#history

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