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History of the United States (1865–1918) ... Events from the year 1911 in the United States. Oyster shuckers in Biloxi, Mississippi 1911. Photograph by Lewis Hine.
1911 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the ...
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. [1]
The post “Undiscovered History”: 120 Interesting Pictures From The Past first appeared on Bored Panda. ... On A Self-Made Bicycle, 1912 ... #101 Rare Photo Showing Niagara Falls Completely ...
1902 – Arthur Korn devises practical telephotography technology (reduction of photographic images to signals that can be transmitted by wire to other locations).Wire-Photos are in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted to other continents by 1922. 1907 – The Autochrome plate is introduced. It becomes the first commercially successful ...
1911 Lewis Hine Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States Unknown (likely gelatin silver print) Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed. [s 2] [s 4] Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: 25 March 1911 Brown Brothers New York City, United States [s 2] [s 4] The South Pole: 14 December 1911 Bjorn Finstad Antarctica ...
After a three-year closure and 18-month renovation, the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens reopens its tea room with an outdoor addition. ... Built in 1911 on his sprawling San ...
A significant later effort to collect and publish photos of the American Civil War in an almost duplicate manner as the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [3]