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Vintage Photos and the Politics of Smoking

I just posted an image from the ever-magical Shorpy’s Photo Blog, and when I returned to my RSS reader to continue browsing the images I stumbled on another moving photo titled “A Big Kiss for Grandpa” featuring a cool-looking, supine man holding his grand-daughter up in the air.

What you may or may not notice [...]

Office Images

I really like this image…

…of workers in an Insurance Office on the South Side of Chicago in 1941. See the full-size image on Shorpy’s blog here.

Mary Washington Centennial on flickr

UMW’s centennial is on the Flickr bus!

As 2007 comes to a close, the University of Mary Washington’s centennial year is set to begin. There has been much preparation for the centennial festivities, and the occasion has in many ways helped the university to focus on the importance of a digital memory for the institution more [...]

Babe in Uniform

Babe Ruth in full salute after signing up for a three-year stint in the New York National Guard. I have to give a special thanks to the RSS feed at Shorpy’s Photo Blog which delivered this gem of an image right to my feed reader. Can you image that? All this history delivered straight [...]

Wireless has come a long way at UMW, baby …

… but it cerainly lacks some of the “innate coolness” that characterized the aesthetics of Mary Washington wireless from ages gone by - what can I say, like any good noir will testify to, they just dressed better back then!!!
But don’t let me sway you - take a look for yourself at the picture below [...]




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