This is a family photo of the Clark Ritter family of Olney, Illinois. Clara Ebie Ritter was the daughter of George Ebie and Mary Slichenmyer, also of Olney. The couple's other daughter, Vera Lois, was not born until 1916, hence this photo can be dated between 1908 and 1916.
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 ...