Air France Routes, 1934
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From David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The Ghost Who Walks
“Key Men”, 1940
Colt M1911, 1931
Happy Mothers Day!
Jitterbuggin, 1939
Jitterbugging on Saturday Night in a Juke Joint near Marcella Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi (1939). Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Gelatin silver print
It’s Swing Time!
Secret Service Operator #5, 1939
Bile Beans
Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde. In the early years Bile Beans were marketed as “Charles Forde’s Bile Beans for Biliousness”, and sales relied heavily on newspaper advertisements. Among other cure-all claims, Bile Beans promised to “disperse unwanted fat” and “purify and enrich the blood”. (Wikipedia)
