Jacques Biederer, erotic photography pioneer, hard at work in Paris, 1928..
Helen, an American Indian telephone and switchboard operator, Montana, 1925.
Evolution of the airplane.
Only 59 years and four months. That’s the time it took to go from the very first flight of the Wright brothers to Kelly Johnson’s A-12/ SR-71 going over 2000 mph. Picture created by Tia Bertz
David Crockett’s first rifle, which he acquired in 1803, is on display in Knoxville, at the Museum of East Tennessee History.
https://www.easttnhistory.org/museum-east-tennessee-history
David Crockett bought the rifle at the age of seventeen, while he was living and working for the old Quaker by the name of John Kennedy in Jefferson County, East Tennessee.
David Crockett wrote in his book “A Narrative of the Life” from 1834, pp. 50-51: “I had by this time got to be mighty fond of the rifle, and had bought a capital one. I most generally carried her with me wherever I went, and though I had got back to the old Quaker’s to live, who was a very particular man, I would sometimes slip out and attend the shooting matches, where they shot for beef …”
David Crockett sold the rifle in 1806 just before the wedding to Mary (Polly) Finley to a man by the name of James McCuiston, who lived in the neighborhood of the Crocketts in Jefferson County, East Tennessee. Later the rifle traveled west with descendants of this McCuiston and in 1916 the rifle was found in Oklahoma. In 1978 Joe and Art Swann succeeded to find the rifle, buy it and get it back to East Tennessee.