From portraits to families to war vets' peaceful reunions

 I've got my collection of old photos to share.

Don't you want to play cards with her?

1955 African American girls pose in Atlantic City

Union and Confederate soldiers shake hands in peace at 1913 Gettysburg reunion

William T. Shorey (July 13, 1859 – April 15, 1919) was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain known to his crew as the Black Ahab.

Typical family in the midwest, taken around 1910

1939 Family that traveled by freight train, by Dorthea Lange, Toppenish, Yakima Valley, Wash.

"Cartoners in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7 Eastport ME 1911, by Lewis Hine

And back to beautiful women, Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist

Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week:

And today's quote:

A collection of old photos

 

Happy First of October! And happy Sepia Saturday. Each Saturday, some of us bloggers find something of interest to share over at that site, either on topic from the suggested meme (see below) or something else that might harp back to older and perhaps wiser times...or not!

My older photos are borrowed from the internet.

Steamboats on the Mississippi, about 1906 (colorized.)

Two seater motorcycle in Paris 1922.

The girls rifle club at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia PA, 1925

A Victorian home moving by horse power, 1908, Steiner St, San Francisco. 

Goat cart rides, Central Park, NY, NY, 1905

Toboggan rides, Bois Blanc Island, Michigan, 1903

1919 all the horse drawn wagons to deliver milk for the Phenix dairy (that's the way they spelled it) Houston, TX

Today's quote:

"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion." Barry Lopez, author.

Old days in Asheville

 The circus came to town. Early 1900s.

Crowd gathered in Pack Square to hear President Teddy Roosevelt...1902

End of WW I welcoming soldiers home. at Vance Memorial.

 Buncombe County Court House, 1800's

 Court House 1930s.

 Pack Square, 1897

Looking down Patton Ave from Court House, 1881