This is a photo of my Dad, Francis (Buddy) McGowan Sr. Dad is probably around 3 or 4 years of age, so that dates this photograph around 1931 or 1932. This photo was taken in Philadelphia, Germantown Section, W. Seymour Street.
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 ...