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A photo of Anne Frank with her mother Edith in Germany, before they moved to the Netherlands.

Perhaps Nazi soldier and family

My father, Dixon Etheridge, brought this photo home from the European Theater of World War II. My mother kept it along with family photos. I suspect my father removed it from the body of a dead German soldier. The stains on the photo appear to be blood.

If this is your family or relative I will gladly give the photo to you. On the back of the photo in green ink is written "Hab uns immer Lieb!"

A 1910's photo of the newest electrical appliance - for a quick convenient breakfast?

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in Vogue magazine, January 15th, 1917.

A young newsie holding a sign which reads "Titanic Disaster - Great Loss of Life. Evening News" is surrounded by gentlemen on their way to work reading the local newspaper regarding the tragedy.

The Titanic was advertised as "unsinkable" and because of this, and the fact that some of the wealthiest and best known people of the time were on the Titanic, the sinking of the ship was big news at the time. The loss of life was massive, Of the approximately 1317 passengers and 885 crew, less than 1/3 survived. There was confusion about the exact count of passengers and crew since many people cancelled their bookings at the last minute, others traveled under aliases, and some were counted twice on casualty lists.

The Titanic hit an iceberg at 11;40p on April 14th and sunk in the early morning hours of April 15th . . . this is a picture of one of the earliest reports of the sinking at a time in which papers were the king of news reporting.

A photo of Raymond A Stamm & Edith Peggy Batson: My grandma Peggy with my grandpa Ray, probably in St. Louis Missouri
People in photo include: Raymond A. Stamm and Edith Peggy (Batson) Stamm

A photo of Phineas Gage in 1850, holding the tamping iron that caused his brain injury. He was a construction foreman (in charge of blasting) on the railroad, age 27, when an accidental early explosion occurred. The explosion drove a tamping iron (large iron rod, 1.25 inches in diameter) into his head. A large part of his left frontal lobe was destroyed.

After the accident, with the bar still in his head, it is reported that he sat up, talked, and walked to a wagon. Sitting in the wagon for the 3/4 mile ride into town, he was seen by a doctor. The doctor said:

"When I drove up he said, "Doctor, here is business enough for you." I first noticed the wound upon the head before I alighted from my carriage, the pulsations of the brain being very distinct. The top of the head appeared somewhat like an inverted funnel, as if some wedge-shaped body had passed from below upward. Mr. Gage, during the time I was examining this wound, was relating the manner in which he was injured to the bystanders. I did not believe Mr. Gage's statement at that time, but thought he was deceived. Mr. Gage persisted in saying that the bar went through his head. Mr. G. got up and vomited; the effort of vomiting pressed out about half a teacupful of the brain [through the exit hole at the top of the skull], which fell upon the floor."

The doctor removed some coagulated blood, some of the protruding brain, and some skull (bone) fragments, then bandaged his head and cheek.

Gage survived but his personality and temperament were changed. Later in his life, some social skills and personal skills returned and he worked as a stagecoach driver in Chile and later as a farmworker in Santa Clara County, California.

He died of an epileptic seizure (which was being treated by bleeding) in San Francisco, CA on May 21, 1860 at age 37.