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Mary Cassatt, “The Child’s Bath,” 1893.

Art Institute of Chicago.

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February 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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February 14, 2026
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February 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Edmund Lewandowski, “The Waterfront,” 1935.

[Dan Shogren and Susan Meyer Collection. Minneapolis Institute of Art.]

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February 14, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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February 13, 2026
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February 14, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Yesterday's Substack post, with historic photos of American life.

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February 12, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Marsden Hartley, “Lobster Fishermen,” 1940-41.

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#art #painting #history #Maine
February 13, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Barnard students,, 1907.

Library of Congress.

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February 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Barnard students,, 1907.

Library of Congress.

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February 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Merchant marine trainees work in the boiler room of the training ship USS New York, 1942.

John Vachon photo. Library of Congress.

#history #photography #WWII
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
excerpt from yesterday's Substack post

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February 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row, May 1943. The sunken USS Arizona is in the foreground.

USS Arizona Memorial photo.

#history #photography #WWII
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Navy divers recover the Apollo 11 crew and command module after splashdown following their trip to the Moon, July 1969.

NASA photo.

#history #photography #NASA
February 9, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The cook and his helper aboard a lumber raft on the Wisconsin River, 1886.

Henry H. Bennett photo. Library of Congress.

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February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Has-No-Horses, a man of the Lakota Sioux tribe who appeared in New York with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1898.

Joseph T. Kelley photo, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#art #history
February 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Men of the 71st New York Volunteer Infantry wait at the port of Tampa for transport to Cuba during the Spanish-American War, 1898.

#history #photography #Cuba
February 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
On February 5, 1918, a US troop ship was torpedoed and sank off the Scottish coastline.

Survivors and deceased washed ashore on the island of Islay.

#history #photography #WWII #Scotland
February 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Doris Lee, “Thanksgiving,” 1935.

Art Institute of Chicago.

#art #history
February 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
February 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
US Army nurses liberated in the Philippines after 3 years of Japanese captivity, February 1945.

[US Army photo]

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February 6, 2026 at 2:23 PM