This is a photo of Frank Miller - he was born about 1882-83 in Missouri. He moved to Philadelphia, married Anna Scholz there and had 4 children. Alvina, Ferdinand, Harry & Ruth. According to the 1910 census reports he was a butcher in Philadelphia PA. Presuming he died about 1918 in Philadelphia probably during the Great Influenza that hit that city hard. Believed his daughter Alvina died during that same time frame. If you have any information on him or his ancestors, please contact me!
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 ...
Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...