Where time sleeps with shadow

572148cuaidH — Lester Jones, August 24, 1940, “FIRST FLOOR, STAIRHALL – Shaker Centre Family Dwelling House (Third), North side of Village Road, North of Route 68 & State Route 33, Shakertown, Mercer County, KY.” Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ky0033.color.572148c/. Post-processed for color and detail. Additional data about this series of photographs are at https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ky0033.photos.071803p/.

Greetings from what was once America

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Source: “Protest against child labor in a labor parade,” May 1, 1909. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ggbain/item/97519062/. Post-processed in Photoshop. The full texts of the signs would read “Anider mit Kinder Shklaferey” and “Abolish child slavery!!”

1922, the year of Leopold Bloom: “Shall ignorant millionaires be allowed to run amuck?”

Three artifacts from the time before social media: The Washington Times, 21 May 1922, page 57; 21 June 1922, page 70; and 28 July 1922, page 5:

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Greetings from what was once America

1922, the year of Leopold Bloom: “Shall ignorant millionaires be allowed to run amuck?”