library of congress on flickr

Did you know the US Library of Congress has a photostream on Flickr? Yeah, I didn't either...until I read Jordan's Oh Happy Day blog this morning! So I had to go take a look myself...and wow! What a find!

Here are some of my favorites (and I only went through the first 20 pages of over 3,000 photos!)...

Mine rescuer (1910s):



Monument of Oscar Wilde (1910s...there some interesting notes on the history of this monument if you click on the link to it...I think I'll have to go check it out on my next trip to Paris!):



An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va. American soldiers make good grenade throwers. (between 1941 to 1945...I didn't write this caption, by the way, but I love the caption as much as the photo! This photo also reminds me of this.):



X-ray of Roosevelt [shows bullet] (John Schrank shot Roosevelt in 1912..and here's the bullet to prove it!):



In the Sahara (1910s):



Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies. (1942...what isn't great about this photo? The hair-do and the two bright red points of the lipstick and hand tool and then the colors of the wires with the color of her armband, plus that beautiful blouse that I seriously doubt she actually wears to work!):



Ok, ok, enough already! I can't wait to go through more photos! But go find your own favorites! (And a note to my dad...besides some great war-time photos, I saw a lot of old baseball photos in there, too!)