This is my father, b. 28 Feb. 1919 in a dugout in Baca Co. CO to Elmore Hugh and Margaret Ormiston Palmer. He was raised in Liberal, Seward Co. KS. He fought in WWII with the 300th Combat Engineers in Europe. He married Lorene Hight in 22 Nov. 1945 in Arkansas City, Cowley Co. KS. My father died 7 March 1973 in Arkansas City, Cowley Co. KS.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!
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...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Coming out of the Great Depression, the world faced another challenge in the 1940's: World War II. Although the war began in the 1930's, it expanded and gained in ferocity (and atrocities) in the 194...