January 4, 1954
While still working as a truck driver, Elvis Presley went to the Memphis Recording Service (Sun Studios) on Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, and paid $8.25 to record a song for his mother's birthday. He records "It Won't Be The Same Without You and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way".
Marion Keisker did the recording and took down Elvis' number with a note "Good ballad singer", and would later get Sam Phillips to call Elvis.
PHOTO: Acetate receipt for "I'll Never Stand In Your Way"/"It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You"
New York City, 1911...
Photographer's Caption:
Mrs. Palontona and 13 year old daughter, Michaeline, working on "Pillow-lace" in dirty kitchen of their tenement home, 213 E. 111th Street, 3rd floor. They were both very illiterate. Mother is making fancy lace and girl sold me the piece she worked on. Location: New York, New York...
Source
National Child Labor Committee Lewis Hine photographer
There were many brothels in ancient Rome, but standard Roman coins, Serters and Denars, were not used and were even banned from being there. Store-bought Tokens were used for Denar and Serters and images on them were often obscene. Reason is understandable, because on all Roman coins there was a head image of emperor of that period. Even picture of emperor entering the brothel was synonymous with humiliating and cursing him. Of course, punishment was severe.
In resorts like Herculaneum and Pompeii, brothels were much busier places.
Over time, such places encouraged their customers to use their own currency, called spintriae in Middle Ages. Prevalence of prostitution in Roman culture can be inferred from concentration of this coin in circulation and abundance of examples at these resorts in southern Italy already mentioned.
Part of the surface of Mars.
Ashtray, Utah