In the far past, we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photo...
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 ...
From Karl Benz in 1885 to Elon Musk's Tesla, cars have always been a passion for some. See the evolution of car technology and the types of cars that caught our fancy in the past.
In the 1880's, in an effort to invent an automobile that could be used every day - rather than just a fire pumper or a locomotive for special use - inventors tried steam, gasoline, or electricity as a...
Old photos of different types of transportation - trains, planes, automobiles, and more - as well as the people who piloted them.
Of air, water, and land, only flying through the air had eluded humans for millennia. Wheels on carts as well as river boats are known to have been used since 3500 B.C. But since that time - especiall...
researching anything I can find on the name Dusek and Howard. I will share information with those who are interested. After 1870, both families resided in California, mostly Humboldt-Mendocino-Lake-and Sonoma Counties.
My Brisbin, Wonch, Tompkins, Thompson, Wimer, Tower(s), Winters, Weatherall, Witherall came from the Collbran, Colorado area. Most all of them were cattle ranchers in the area during the 1800s. My gggrandfather James Brisbin wrote a book about cattle ranching there which caused a large migration to that area. Benjamin Kite Witherill discovered the Mesa Verde area.