In 1938, I got my Oakland buddy Orten Sollie to move to Indianapolis & we started a tire shop at 800 N Delaware St. Orten managed the business while I covered Indiana, East to W. Virginia, South to Tennessee, West to Missouri, North from Wisconsin to Michigan for Bacon Vulcanizing Company selling & supervising plant layout for rubber vulcanization of tires. - Ray Van Tassell (middle)
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 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...
Old photos of workers and businesses from past decades
While we don't know what the first business transaction was, it is easy to imagine that thousands of years ago a good hunter bartered his excess meat for something more useful to him. In the history ...
Family History & Photos of Hendrick Van Tassel, William Gerard, & John Mc Robbie of Jefferson Co, NY - John Markland Aldridge (TN), Stephen Aldred, Zebedee Markland, Oscar Moore, Stephen Beach, Ignatius Ross (OH), John Hughes Holmes(CA), Clarissa Laine (IO), Samuel Jackson Lewis (CA), Euphemia Jackson Braden, James Barker (IL), Anthony Keithley Brinson (IN), Joel Lefferage Copher(IN), Martha Love, Cassandra Le Sueur, Sarah Foley (VA).