- +108
- +100
- That's Charleston For You
- Not Bascule
- Just roof things
- The Midland King
- This is a Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge
- A beautiful day
- Bascule Bridge
- Housing prices.
- Penobscot Family
- Military? Perhaps not.
- One block west of Auto Row
- Today's housing prices
- Jennings, Garrett County, Maryland
- The tonier district
- The other half
- Embiggen
- Mom?
- ON Kearny Mesa
- What Comes Next?
- Thank heavens for internal combustion
- I married Mom?
- Here's how it's done
- About 2 mules per horse
- Cumberland, Maryland
- Upstairs
- Also from Wikipedia
- Flintstones, meet the Flintstones
- Somewhere Near Cumberland Maryland - Maybe 1938
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Vintage photos of:
Former Slaves: 1916
Washington, D.C., 1916. "Convention of former slaves. Annie Parram, age 104; Anna Angales, age 105; Elizabeth Berkeley, 125; Sadie Thompson, 110." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
125!!!
I hope at least some of those 100+ years were happy ones for these women.
[Indeed. Even if the ages given might not be super-accurate, there's history written on these faces. -Dave]
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