Maurice Himes was my Great Grandfather. His son Maurice “Red” Himes was my Grandfather. They both worked for Spicer Corp witch later became Dana Corp.
Maurice “Red” Himes was also a photographer for the Pottstown Mercury. In 1953 he was recognized for his photography skills by the Pottstown Mercury, and then again in 1954 for a Korean War-1954 photo of POW reunion with 7 year old daughter.
Peter Maurice Nimmerichter
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...