I've been collecting a lot of old photos, mainly from the internet. There are also those who post their own photos, either from their ancestors' or their own lives.
Since I was born in Texas, I have interest in the sites reflecting it's history. Not so much the politics of today.
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"Great-depression-pictures" Whenever I feel blue about our current problems, I can look at the survivors in the depression, and know how well off I really am.
Col. David Stanley’s 1873 Yellowstone Expedition, by William Pywell, 275 wagons, Montana
I notice some wagons are going one way, and others another way. This photo may have been altered, because just look at where the camera must have been placed for this angle! But it is a good reminder of my ancestors who walked across many miles to settle in new places.
A great example of the homesteads which were built by various settlers in the 1700-1800s.
Lakota Sioux.
I'm ashamed of the western European settlers who stole so much from the native population that had been in America for hundreds of years.
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A homesteader and his family in front of their sod house in Cherry County, Nebraska. C.1900 (Photograph by Solomon D. Butcher)
Crossing Cumberland Mountain before Highway 25E. by Garnett Robinson
Coming through Cumberland Gap from Virginia to Kentucky was one of the main highways for settlers in areas of the western Appalachians and further west.
Oh look what I found! A picnic was the necessity of eating by the road, when no road-side restaurants had yet been built!
Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week...where you never know what kind of photos people will offer!
Today's quote:
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world, I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair, and disrespect.
-Nikki Giovanni, poet and professor (b. 7 Jun 1943)
...Barbara, you have a fabulous collection this morning, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tom. Sometimes a hodge podge of everything but the dishwater works out. Now I need to do the dishes!
DeleteWhat wonderful photos you've found and shared. I so much enjoyed looking through them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenny...Glad to share them with you, as I apologize to someone who is a "real" photographer! My captures aren't so much through a lens as through the internet~
DeleteYou put together a varied and awesome from the beautiful cabin to the sad depression and that long wagon train and more. ⭐️
ReplyDeleteI'm so grateful that as my health limits my own climbing to beautiful places there are still photographers willing to share with others on the internet.
DeleteGreat collection of photos. The wagon train is amazing. I love the cabin in the Smoky Mtns. Take care, have a great day and a happy weekend.
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DeleteThis post sure does take one traveling around, I admit. Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteLooking at pictures like these I am gobsmacked at how brave and how strong those people were. I often think of the pioneers of Florida and I can't begin to understand how they did it, how they survived, how they persevered.
ReplyDeleteI think the same things. And I didn’t even take into consideration the people traveling by wagons and horses, oxen or mules who also had to be fed while on the road! Just think of the logistics!
DeleteI've read quite a bit about the women who made this trek, including Narcissa Whitman preacher's wife, who crossed the country on horseback! I feel particularly for what women endured on the trail and after.
ReplyDeleteA very thoughtful and interesting post and everything has the flavor of your thinking. I really enjoy your posts. Barbara and congratulations to your wonderful son. Aloha
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos and commentary. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThese are a wonderful wide selection of pictures. I like your comment about whenever you feel our current problems are getting to be a little much, looking at pictures of those who survived the Great Depression to put things in perspective. The photo of the wagon train is amazing. Perhaps one line of the train was going another way in order to come around and form a giant circle for the night? I had no idea those wagon trains could be that big. Imagine all the dust everywhere.
ReplyDeleteThose old photos are priceless and offer a nice look back in history. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful glimpse into the past. Love the roadside picnic!
ReplyDeleteGreat selection of photos!
ReplyDeleteWow, such history.
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting collection - I loved the 1918 roadside picnic
ReplyDeleteI have always been fascinated by the esrly history of the USA and the way settles moved west. I like your project to resesrch the history of your birthplace. You have unearthed a wonderful collection of photograhs and you not but be struck by the clear evidence of families living in poverty.
ReplyDeleteWith apologies, Barbara - I was so keen to record my comment , I forgot to identify myself. The last Anon comment was from me.
ReplyDeleteSo much history.
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