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Hawaiian King David Kalakaua and Queen Esther Kapiolani with their retainers, on the lawn of Iolani Palace. 1888

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Trinity Church in Manhattan is still there. 

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Corner of B’way & 50th—1913.

None of the buildings remain today.  I’m told that De Dion Automobiles was once the world’s largest automobile manufacturer.

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Canal Street in New Orleans. In those day, New Orleans was the biggest and wealthiest city in the American South thanks to the Mississippi river and its port on the Gulf of Mexico. Time has passed since and cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Miami are more important and bigger. Yup, Texas and Florida were part of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

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Yup, Texas and Florida were part of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Did anyone not know that?

Great pic, btw

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Considered a big tractor in the 1930's, nowadays it would be a small one.

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This reminds me when last month I returned home after seeing my stepsister and after visiting Dodge City, Kansas, I took Highway 54 to Tucumcari, New Mexico and crossed into the Oklahoma panhandle through the Texas panhandle and into New Mexico and there were several oilfields and a bunch of pumps extracting oil from the area. No, they didn't have those derricks like in the photo but looking at the pumps, you could tell they were old and have probably been extracting oil for many years.

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Race riots during the 1919 Spanish flu pandemic. 

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A Douglass O-38B from the New Jersey based 44th National Guard Air Observation corp, photo taken sometime around 1932-1933.

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One of the most consequential presidents of the USA. Born on October 27, 1858, and died on January 6, 1919, he was the 26th President of the USA.

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Great pic, Goob.  The oil wells are amazing!  I was also struck by how much the car changed during the 30s—from the narrow bodied, separate fenders and running boards of the 20s look to a much bulkier vehicle mostly integrated and, basically, the cars of the 40s look. That one car at the lower right, with the outside spare, looks like an early 30s model with the others dating later in the decade.  Great stuff!

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This reminds me when last month I returned home after seeing my stepsister and after visiting Dodge City, Kansas, I took Highway 54 to Tucumcari, New Mexico and crossed into the Oklahoma panhandle through the Texas panhandle and into New Mexico and there were several oilfields and a bunch of pumps extracting oil from the area. No, they didn't have those derricks like in the photo but looking at the pumps, you could tell they were old and have probably been extracting oil for many years.

While visiting Fargo a couple of years back, we took a trip to see Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.  It was a fairly long trip, but aside from seeing a lot of sunflowers and other crops along the way we saw tons of oil pumps—all relatively recent in comparison to the ones you saw in Oklahoma or Texas.