by Maria Levandoski | Dec 5, 2022
The Vitascope is an early motion-picture projector that was developed from Thomas Jefferson’s Kinetoscope and patented by Thomas Armat in 1895. The creation of this projector caused a revolution around the world. By creating a device that could display images...
by Tamara Wijesinghe | Dec 4, 2022
This image pictures Louis Armstrong playing a trumpet in from of a large group of people in Mascot, Sydney((Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Plays for Fans on Arrival at Mascot, Sydney, 27 October 1954. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_%22Satchmo)). Louis...
by Deloris Hynes | Nov 30, 2021
This historical source is a photograph of a 14-year-old newsie taken by sociologist and muckraker photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in February 1910. Hine produced over a hundred photographs documenting child labor in the United States which was instrumental to the...
by Faith Carbone | Nov 30, 2021
Beginning on December 7, 1941, with the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii until the final surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, the United States was involved in a brutal war in the Pacific. Allied with Britain and France, U.S. troops fought...
by Ashlin Miller | Mar 17, 2020
The source presented here, at first glance, is a simple photograph of a child from the 1900s. This photograph was taken by photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in 1913. Hine was a photographer during the Progressive Era who was known for documenting the lives of the...