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Posted on February 4, 2014 Leave a Comment

94 years ago today: “General Pershing reviewing troops at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., Feb. 4, 1920” (Image by H.L. Summerville via Library of Congress)

From today in 1922:“The Variable Density Tunnel arrives by rail from the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The Tunnel was installed at Langley.” (Image via NASA on The Commons on Flickr.)

Nice socks, FDR!Franklin D. Roosevelt portrait in Poughkeepsie, New York, January, 1887 by The U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Today in 1902: “The elegant ladies in this studio portrait are Miss Eileen Hanrahan (standing) and her sister Mrs Margaret Rawley, who lived at No. 2, The Mall in Waterford City.” Photo via National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.

From today in 1943:Bomb crater at Njalsgade in Copenhagen after the RAF attack on B&W from the National Museum of Denmark on Flickr.

Dated c1902 January 24: “Portrait of Miss Roosevelt” The future Alice Roosevelt Longworth would have been nearly 18. She moved into the White House in 1901, and as Thomas Mallon writes in The New York Times: “The new president is said to have remarked to the writer Owen Wister: ‘I can be president of the […]

Today in 1939, “Cactus Jack” gets some sweet, sweet citrus: “National Citrus Week got off to a good start today when beauties from the citrus-growing sates presented Vice President Garner with baskets of the luscious fruit. Left to right: Martha Talley of Texas; Vice President Garner; Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of the Senator from Florida; […]

From today in 1905 in the New-York Tribune:“The Making Of Snow Men Threatens To Become A Fine Art” Image via The Library of Congress on Flickr.

Today in 1913: “The Dutch queen Wilhelmina and princess Juliana as snowmen. The Netherlands, 21 January, 1913.” (Image from Nationaal Archief on Flickr)

Today in 1954: “Wedding of Gwendoline Morris and William O Jones at Oswestry Parish Church.” Photograph by Welsh photojournalist Geoff Charles. (Image via Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales)