(1897-1987) in Memphis, TN, daughter of Shelton 'PaPoo' Hinson, Jr. and Mattie Daisy Fletcher. She m. Robert O. Black, Sr. in 1918. Issue; Robert O. Black, Jr., DDS (1920-1964). They divorced and she m. Cornelius Milton 'Whit' Whitaker in 1938. She was a professional artist.
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 ...
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 ...