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  1. June 16, 2013

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    ancientfaces: High Street in Belfast Ireland Great snapshot of city life on High Street in Belfast Ireland. I’m not sure when this was taken - do you have an idea? Notice the old trolley car, motor cars, cyclists and horses. [ Details: High Street Belfast Ireland ]

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    High Street in Belfast Ireland

    Great snapshot of city life on High Street in Belfast Ireland. I’m not sure when this was taken - do you have an idea? Notice the old trolley car, motor cars, cyclists and horses. [ Details: High Street Belfast Ireland ]

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  2. June 16, 2013

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    ancientfaces: Military Camera Technology We are so spoiled with technology today. Look at the size of this camera that Frederick G. Braitsch is holding! The Army Air Force would use cameras like these while in flight to take images of strategic positions. [ Details: Frederick G Braitsch ] 

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    Military Camera Technology

    We are so spoiled with technology today. Look at the size of this camera that Frederick G. Braitsch is holding! The Army Air Force would use cameras like these while in flight to take images of strategic positions. [ Details: Frederick G Braitsch ] 

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  3. June 16, 2013

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    McKinley Dome. President William McKinley was shot under this dome in 1901, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. The dome was originally installed at the Temple of Music, a spectacular concert hall built for the Expostion and sadly demolished following the event. Ironically the saved dome has now been abandoned. Source: scotthaefner.com

    McKinley Dome. President William McKinley was shot under this dome in 1901, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. The dome was originally installed at the Temple of Music, a spectacular concert hall built for the Expostion and sadly demolished following the event. Ironically the saved dome has now been abandoned.
    Source: scotthaefner.com

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    Tags: McKinley Assassination New York 1901 Presidential History Abandoned Ruins photpgraphy

  4. June 16, 2013

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    From his personal photos, remembering my father today, SSGT Herman Wright Cox, Jr. 1922-2003. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” 322nd Infantry Regiment, Hq Company. #WWII #Pacific #BronzeStar @USArmy

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    Tags: FathersDay WWII Pacific 81st Infantry Division Wildcats US Army

  5. June 16, 2013

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    peerintothepast: #WWII American paratrooper, sporting a Mohawk and face paint before a mission. #WWII #History @USArmy

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    #WWII American paratrooper, sporting a Mohawk and face paint before a mission. #WWII #History @USArmy

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  6. June 16, 2013

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    peerintothepast: “Going to work” London, 1959 #History

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    “Going to work” London, 1959 #History

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  7. June 16, 2013

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    U. S. Marine Hospital in Memphis: A crane moved the two-story, 600-ton nurses building from its 1884 location to make room for a $1 million expansion in 1936.

    Paint hangs like party streamers and fallen ceiling tiles crumble underfoot in the long closed U.S. Marine Hospital, an imposing three-story Colonial brick building with a breathtaking view of the Mississippi River.

    The dilapidated hospital at 360 Metal Museum Drive was once part of the federal health care system enacted under President John Adams to “provide for the relief and maintenance of disabled seamen.”

    Since the hospital opened in 1884, boatmen injured in engine and boiler explosions and wrecks were brought in for treatment. (The original building was replaced with the existing structure in 1936).

    The sprawling hospital campus sits on about six-acres of land on the edge of town in a natural quarantine, high on the bluff and directly across from the ancient burial mounds at DeSoto Park. Patient numbers mirrored the waxes and wanes of the river, and demand dictated a $1 million expansion in the 1930s. The property has since been divided and several buildings restored, but the hospital, nurses’ dormitory and maintenance building have fallen into disrepair after decades of neglect.

    The hospital closed its doors to patients more than 40 years ago when federal funding for the care of Marines dried up. By then its name had changed to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital and coverage had expanded to include Coast Guard and dependents, active duty #ArmedForces personnel and dependents and other government employees.

    Two buildings from the 1880s remain on the campus and both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places - the still-vacant nurses’ dormitory and the former executive building, now the Julius Blum Library at the National Ornamental Metal Museum.

    The French Fort neighborhood surrounding the hospital was full of life in the 1920s and ’30s - replete with a bar, bowling alley and bandstand.

    But in the 1960s, construction of Interstate 55 severed French Fort from the Downtown core, leaving the hospital in relative isolation.

    The U.S Marine Hospital could accommodate 125 patients, with a provision for a maximum of 150.

    To this day, two dental chairs sit on the second floor of the main building, which is littered with outdated medical equipment. A room marked “laboratory” holds a rusty test-tube incubator. The operating rooms still have ceiling-mounted surgical lights. There’s even a padded, soundproof enclosure, probably used for hearing tests until 1965 when the hospital shut down.

    It was then that the property was halved. The federal government retained the eastern portion, using it for storage, training and as a bomb shelter during Operation #DesertStorm. In 2004, it was auctioned to a private buyer, who was then bought out by the current owner. Meanwhile, the western half was deeded to the City of Memphis, which in turn leased five smaller buildings, a gazebo and 2.3 acres to the founders of the metal museum for $1 a year.

    Owner Lauren Crews, who acquired the property in 2005, plans to gut the interior of the building and transform the property into upscale condominiums.

    In six weeks there might be 30 break-ins, suggesting the perpetrators are mostly thrill-seeking youngsters looking for ghosts. The urban legends are perpetuated online, mentioned by the Memphis Paranormal Investigations’ website as one of the city’s most haunted sites.

    “It’s not necessarily the building as much as the grounds,” said Michael Einspanjer, ghost hunter. “But we believe we captured the face of a small girl inside one of the mortuary doors.”

    Estimated renovation costs for the hospital building alone could exceed $12 million. #USMC #Memphis #History

    Source: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/jun/12/abandoned-memphis-marine-hospital-mississippi-rive/

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    Tags: USMC Marines Hospital Memphis Veterans History Abandoned Ruins Haunted

  8. June 16, 2013

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    Marine hospitals for seamen led to the country’s first example of publicly funded health care. This 1965 photo was shot when sources in Washington said Memphis’ U.S. Public Health Service Hospital would close for good. #USMC #Marines #Memphis #History

    Marine hospitals for seamen led to the country’s first example of publicly funded health care. This 1965 photo was shot when sources in Washington said Memphis’ U.S. Public Health Service Hospital would close for good. #USMC #Marines #Memphis #History

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    Tags: USMC Memphis Hospital History

  9. June 16, 2013

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    tuesday-johnson: ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Federal infantryman enjoying a meal] via Heritage Auctions

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    ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Federal infantryman enjoying a meal]

    via Heritage Auctions

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  10. June 16, 2013

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    tuesday-johnson: ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of Pennsylvania Zouave soldiers in a field] via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of Pennsylvania Zouave soldiers in a field]

    via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  11. June 16, 2013

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    tuesday-johnson: ca. 1870-1900s, [cabinet card, firemen and hose posed in front of the “Lake House”], George Haskins via Jeffery Kraus, Antique Photographics

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1870-1900s, [cabinet card, firemen and hose posed in front of the “Lake House”], George Haskins

    via Jeffery Kraus, Antique Photographics

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  12. June 16, 2013

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    tuesday-johnson: ca. 1860s-70s, [tintype portrait of George Custer’s photographer, William Frank Browne] via Cowan’s Auctions

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1860s-70s, [tintype portrait of George Custer’s photographer, William Frank Browne]

    via Cowan’s Auctions

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  13. June 15, 2013

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    Woolworths Plein street 1940’s. by Etiennedup on Flickr.

    Woolworths Plein street 1940’s. by Etiennedup on Flickr.

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    Tags: history memories 1940's woolworth

  14. June 15, 2013

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    RCAF Avro Anson 1942, by Etiennedup on Flickr.

    RCAF Avro Anson 1942, by Etiennedup on Flickr.

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  15. June 15, 2013

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    Spitfire Vb 1943. by Etiennedup on Flickr.Spitfires VBs escorting General’s plane after his visit to Ballyhalbert 1943 Mk Vb 315 Polish Sqn.

    Spitfire Vb 1943. by Etiennedup on Flickr.

    Spitfires VBs escorting General’s plane after his visit to Ballyhalbert 1943 Mk Vb 315 Polish Sqn.

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    Tags: wwii aircraft spitfires 1943

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