Snow Job
In Michigan, snow brings much beauty and allows us to enjoy winter seasonal activities. Of course, along with this comes some occasional extra work.
Archive for December, 2009
No Depression
One of the best known agencies from the Great Depression was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration (”Work Projects Administration” after 1939). The reach of the WPA projects is legendary–from bridges to stream improvements to roads to arts, crafts and writing projects. The WPA even thought about holiday planning.
A Wartime Christmas
This 1918 Christmas card is interesting for its simple graphic, deftly evoking the bittersweet reality that while the war is over, Sgt. Ray Alger Pennington is not yet home.
They’ve Got Your Number!
The women in this photo would presumably have appreciated the “miracle” of the telephone. They were early telephone operators in Lansing, Michigan.
A Healing Place
Michigan Public Act 254 of 1905 called for a state tuberculosis sanatorium to be built at a “suitable location.” The town of Howell, Michigan offered pure air, pure natural spring water and rolling hills about 1100 feet above sea level.
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