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The People of Yesterday

Some of the most interesting parts in the research of history is the photographs. Some have been deemed “boring” and are often thrown in the garbage or end up in the bins of Goodwill or antique stores. Here are a few from our collection: This is Casey. Her name is written on the back of…
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If There’s A Story In Every Picture, What Is It?

Have you ever seen a mysterious photograph and you don’t know what the story about it is because you have no context? Yeah, we have too; we all have. In our various travels, we see a lot of vintage and antique photographs that have nothing written on the back of them. No names, no dates,…
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Old News Is Still News

Newspapers were and still are (although that is slowly fading away) used as a primary source of reading the news. People used to depend wholly on what was written in the newspaper and sometimes what was written and not written was due to the politics of that newspaper. Baseball Toledo, Toledo Blade (Toledo, Ohio), August…
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