Some sepia photos

 

Sepia Saturday offers a different suggested meme each week. We can follow them, or not.

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.

The Alamo interior 1906, in SMU's Degolyer Library

Since I was born in Texas, I have interest in the sites reflecting it's history. Not  so much the politics of today.

"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.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN, John Oliver built, Cades Cove

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. 

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!

Model T Ford in the background, 1918.

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)