Category: Pictorial Daily

1822 New Universal World Atlas
1920s Life in Paris
A Children’s Wedding Day?
A Fish Font for an Advertising Trade Card
Advertising Angels’ Gifts of Tobacco
Ajax Defying The Lightning – Advertising Trade Card
Ambrotype of a Cowboy from the Early 1860s
Anatomical Eyeglasses Fit The Earth
Ancient Marquilla From Cuba
April 1. Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago in 1891.
April 10. Aleister Crowley completes Book of Law, 1904.
April 11. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks founded, 1876.
April 16. Vladamir Lenin comes out of exile, 1917.
April 17. Aurora Texas Flying Saucer crash, 1897.
April 2. The RMS Titanic begins trial sailings in 1912.
April 20. Chicago Cubs play first game at Weeghman Park in 1916.
April 21. Sam Houston wins Battle of San Jacinto in 1836.
April 23. William Shakespeare dies in 1616.
April 24. Annie Oakley joins Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, 1885.
April 25. Napiervill, Illinois train disaster, 1946.
April 26. Royal Blue takes its final run, 1958.
April 28. Benito Mussolini executed in 1945 (fascist)
April 29. Civil War Admiral Farragut takes New Orleans in 1862.
April 3. Trial of Oscar Wilde on charges of libel, 1895.
April 30. Engineer Casey Jones dies in 1900.
April 4. Dan Bryant Minstrels perform “Dixie.”
April 9. Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattax in 1865.
Are You Lyin’?
August 1. Colorado admitted as America’s 38th State in 1876.
August 11. Babe Ruth hits home run number 500, the first to do so, in 1929.
August 13. Mock battle secures Manila from rebel Filipinos in 1898.
August 14. Start of the Tillamook Burn, a forest fire destroying 1/4 million acres in 1933.
August 15. Panama Canal opens in 1914.
August 17. Confederate held Fort Sumter, South Carolina attacked by Northern forces in 1863.
August 18. Women gain right to vote in United States in 1920.
August 19. East Coast Newspapers start California Gold Rush in 1939.
August 2. Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President on the death of Warren Harding in 1923.
August 20. Baseball record for Grand Slam Home Runs is set by Lou Gehrig in 1938.
August 21. Hawaii becomes 50th U.S. State in 1959.
August 22. Yacht ‘America’ wins first America’s Cup in 1851.
August 23. Napoleon leaves Egypt in 1799.
August 25. United States Park Service becomes a part of the Department of the Interior in 1916.
August 26. Walter Johnson has Winning Streak stopped at 16 in 1912.
August 27. Oil is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859.
August 28. Slavery is banned throughout most of British Empire in 1933.
August 29. Founding of the Goodyear Tire Company in 1898.
August 30. FDR’s Wealth Tax enacted in 1935.
August 31. ‘Navigable Balloon’ is patented by Count Von Zeppelin in 1895.
August 5. Harry Houdini performs underwater escape in 1926.
August 6. All foreign assets nationalized by the new Cuban government in 1960.
August 7. In the Battle of Boyacá Simon Bolivar defeats Spain in 1819.
August 8. In New York City Ulysses S. Grant’s funeral attracts 1.5 million, in 1885.
August 9. Battle of Cedar Mountain, Stonewall Jackson defeats Union Army in 1862.
Basso Profundo Feodor Chaliapin
Billy Carroll the Clown
Boxing Day
Canadian Thanksgiving Turkey Time
Catch the Express Train! – A Great Tobacco Label
Check Out The Sylphs
Choir of Girls in Butte, Montana
Circular 1880s Cigar Box Label – In Passing
Comedian Fred Allen
Debutantes – Politics of Beauty
December 14. Amundsen’s Exploring Team first to reach the South Pole in 1911.
December 16. Bank Robbery dramatically thwarted in Clinton, Indiana in 1930.
December 2. John Brown hanged for attack on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1859.
December 21. Benjamin Disraeli is born in 1804.
December 22. The Lincoln Tunnel opens in New York City in 1937.
December 25. At West Point Military Academy the all-night Eggnog Riot rages in 1826.
December 28. Iowa becomes the 29th State of the American Union in 1846.
December 3. Teddy Roosevelt begins battle against trusts in the State of the Union Address in 1918.
December 4. Woodrow Wilson Conducts Peace Talks in 1918.
December 5. President Polk starts California Gold Rush, announcing the discovery in 1849.
December 7. In Gallatin, Missouri, Jesse James robs his first bank in 1869.
Diogenes Examining Harvester
Erotic Hammock from the Victorian Era
Father of Manitoba Louis Riel
February 1. In the Philippines Mayon Volcano erupts, 1814.
February 10. Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf in round 13 of a boxing match, 1933.
February 11. BBC Television produces The world’s first ever science fiction program in 1938.
February 13. Knights gather for the Challenge of Barletta, 1503.
February 15. US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases, 1879.
February 19. The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison, 1878.
February 2. Chinese immigrants first arrive in San Francisco, 1848.
February 20. Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball in 1951
February 21. Dedication day for the newly completed Washington Monument, 1885.
February 24. The National Socialist Party is founded in Germany, 1920.
February 25. Italian-American tenor and actor Enrico Caruso born, 1873.
February 26. Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from his imprisonment on the island of Elba, 1815.
February 29. Child labor laws reformed in South Carolina.
February 3. Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down, 1916.
February 4. Guadalupe Island is seized by the Royal Navy, 1810.
February 5. U.K. and U.S. sign Panama Canal Treaty, 1900.
February 7. The U.S. establishes a blockade of all Cuban imports, 1962.
February 9. The Davis Cup International Tennis competition is established, 1900.
Fire Wagon Flying at Full Speed
Fishing Party from The Rucker Archive
Folies-Bergere King Kong
Frontier of Lithograph Promotion from The Rucker Archive
Galactic Gourds
Galactic Gourds
Gambling Cowboy Grifters
General Store Interior
Gertie Granville
Getting That Poster Up On The Wall – Not the best job in the world!
Ghost Dance
Golfer Ben Hogan
Happy May Day and a Dance Around a May Pole
Happy Native American / First Nations Mother
January 11. Grand Canyon Monument created 1908.
January 12. United States House of Representatives denies women the right to vote, 1915
January 19. Goethe’s Faust first performed 1n 1829.
January 2. World Exposition Opens Chicago 1893.
January 21. Jefferson Davis resigns the United States Senate, 1861.
January 22. United Mine Workers organize in Columbus, Ohio in 1908.
January 24. Gold discovered at Sutters Mill, California in 1845.
January 25. The Wedding March by Mendelssohn first played.
January 26. General McClellan will ignore President Lincoln’s order for a Union Army offensive.
January 26. Union commander General George McClellan.
January 27. Lewis Carroll born 1832.
January 28. Record sized snowflakes fell in Keough, Montana in 1887.
January 29. First inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame announced. 1936.
January 30. Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, 1933.
January 31. United States Congress abolishes slavery, 1865.
January 4. The Boy Scout Association incorporated
January 5. Henry Ford offers Living Wage 1914
January 6. New Mexico Admitted to the Union 1912.
January 7. First Transatlantic Telephone Service 1927.
January 8. Last Execution for Blasphemy 1697
January 9. Anson Jones, first President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide, 1858.
July 1. Canada Day.
July 11. Babe Ruth plays his First Game in the Major Leagues in 1914.
July 15. During Reconstruction Georgia is last Confederate State to be readmitted to the U.S. Union in 1870.
July 16. Haile Selassie of Ethopia signs first constitution into law in 1931.
July 20. Confederation of Canada welcomes British Columbia into the fold in 1871.
July 22. John Dillinger shot by FBI agents in Chicago in 1934.
July 24. Brigham Young leads Mormons into Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
July 26. General George McClellan takes command of Union Army in 1861.
July 28. 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified in 1868.
July 29. First Olympic Games played since Germany in 1948.
July 3. Idaho becomes State number 43 in 1890.
July 31. The Shadow appears as radio mystery, pulp fiction of the air in 1930.
July 4. Lou Gehrig gives ‘ luckiest man ‘ speech, 1939
July 5. FDR signs Labor bill into Law.
July 6. First All-Star Game for Major League Baseball, 1933.
July 8. Chippewa Band transfers vast land to U.K., 1822.
July 9. Queen Victoria creates nation of Australia, 1900.
June 1. Navajos allowed to return to their native lands, 1868.
June 10. Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest player in ML history, 1944.
June 11. Sir Barton first to win racing’s Triple Crown, 1919.
June 12. At Windsor Castle King George V receives Irish disbanded ‘colors,’ 1922.
June 14. Congress adopts Star and Stripes as official flag, 1777.
June 15. Border with Canada officially established, 1846.
June 18. President Nixon starts ‘War on Drugs.’ 1971.
June 19. Slavery prohibited in U.S. colonies by the Congress, 1862.
June 20. Victoria becomes the Queen of Britain, 1837.
June 21. RCMP kill two in Winnipeg demonstration, 1919.
June 23. Government Printing Office established by Congress, 1860.
June 24. First airmail service from Montreal, Quebec to Toronto, 1918.
June 25. Custer dies at Little Big Horn, 1876.
June 27. United States enters Korean War, 1950.
June 29. Chicago becomes largest U.S. city in area, 1889.
June 3. The first opium war begins in China, 1839.
June 5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published in 1851.
June 7. Benjamin Harrison attends a baseball game, 1892.
June 8. Teddy Roosevelt authorizes land conservation, 1906.
June 9. William Jennings Bryan resigns cabinet post, 1915.
Leaders Lie. . . Cameras Tell The Truth
Long Ago In Detroit – The Brown Family from The Rucker Archive
Look At Adolph Hitler
Macabre Dance Postcards
March 11. Giuseppi Verdi’s “Don Carlos” performed in 1867.
March 12. Coca-Cola is bottled in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1894.
March 15. First cricket test match played in 1877.
March 16. Ford Motor Company makes car number 50 million, 1958.
March 18. Mexico claims all oil properties for the nation, 1938.
March 20. General theory of relativity published by Albert Einstein, 1916.
March 21. Stanley leaves to find Livingston, 1871.
March 22. First playoff game for the Stanley Cup played in 1894.
March 23. Teddy Roosevelt goes on safari in Africa, 1909.
March 24. Rapid Transit Railroad begun in New York City, 1900.
March 25. 146 garment workers die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911.
March 27. Europeans come upon the Yosimite Valley in 1851.
March 28. Viking raiders sack Paris in the year 845.
March 29. Royal assent given to formation of Canada in 1867.
March 5. FDR announces a bank holiday during the Depression in 1933.
March 6. Incorporation of York, Upper Canada as Toronto, 1834.
March 7. Wireless signals first sent to shore, 1900.
March 8. New York Stock Exchange is founded in 1817.
March 9. Pancho Villa and 500 supporters invade Columbus, New Mexico, 1916.
May 11. Minnesota admitted to the American union in 1858.
May 13. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees to England, 1940.
May 14. ” The Stars and Stripes Forever” first played.
May 16. Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by one Senate vote, 1868.
May 17. Formation date for the New York Stock Exchange in 1792.
May 18. Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of France, 1804.
May 19. Emergency Quota Act passed by the US Congress in 1921.
May 2. Stonewall Jackson fatally injured, 1863.
May 20. Amelia Earhart leaves on her Newfoundland to Ireland flight, 1932.
May 21. Federation International Football Association is founded in Paris in 1904.
May 24. John Brown and his men kill five supporters of slavery in 1856.
May 27. F4 tornado hits St. L. MO and East St. L. Illinois, with 255 fatalities in 1896.
May 29. Bing Crosby records White Christmas in 1942.
May 30. In New York City, a rumor of a Brooklyn Bridge collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
May 31. Johnstown Flood, 2200 people die after dam failure above Johnstown, PA in 1889.
May 4. Ernest Hemingway awarded Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
May 5. Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia, 1941.
May 6. George V takes the throne of England in 1910.
May 7. Joan of Arc leads her troops, 1429.
May 8. German Luftwaffe attacks Nottingham, England in 1941.
McLouglin Company Santa Clauses
Noted Indian Chiefs
November 1. At Whitehall Palace in London ‘Othello’ is first performed in 1611.
November 14. Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ is published in 1851.
November 16. In what is today Zimbabwe, David Livingstone is the first white person to see Victoria Falls in 1855.
November 17. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is named in 1950.
November 2. First meeting of the Soviet Military Committee initiating the Russian Revolution in 1917.
November 22. Inaugural date for the American Humane Society in 1954.
November 24. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is published in 1877.
November 25. Thanksgiving Day tornado outbreak ravages MidWest in 1926.
November 26. Thanksgiving Day proclaimed as national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
November 27. George Custer leads attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land, 1868.
November 3. Bank of Montreal, the first in Canada, opens in 1817.
November 30. At Glasgow England and Scotland play the first international football match in 1872.
November 4. The Arno River floods the City of Florence, Italy in 1966.
November 6. Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America, 1861.
November 7. The Battle of Tippecanoe fought in territory of Indiana, 1791.
November 9. Society of United Irishmen founded in Dublin in 1791.
October 11. The American League is legally formed from the old Western League in 1899.
October 14. Chicago Cubs win World Series, defeating the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in 1908.
October 16. Pitcher Ellis Kinder dies in 1968.
October 17. Rita Hayworth is born in 1918.
October 18. Mike Ditka is born in 1939.
October 2. First test of a television system is made by John Logie Baird in 1925.
October 20. Pope Pius XII issues the Summi Pontificatus encyclical in 1939.
October 21. The movie The Shiek with Rudolph Valentino premiers in 1921.
October 22. International Meridian Conference declares Greenwich, England the Universal Time meridian in 1884.
October 23. Stock market panic begins, bringing on Great Depression in 1929.
October 24. Revolutionary activity ramps up as Red Guards occupy buildings in Moscow in 1917.
October 26. Pony Express mail service ceases operation in 1861.
October 27. New York City Subway opens in 1904.
October 3. Adolfo Luque of Cuba becomes the first Latino to play in a World Series game in 1919.
October 30. Jackie Robinson signs contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945.
October 31. Work on Mount Rushmore is complete in South Dakota in 1941.
October 4. Mexico becomes a Republic with the adoption of a new Constitution in 1824.
October 5. Anaheim, California is founded in 1857.
October 7. Christy Mathewson dies in 1925.
Ode to “A Bar at the Foilies-Bergere”
Ojibwa Indian Tobacco Progressive Label & Proofs
Old West Stage Show Photo Postcard
Ottawa Post Card
RELIGION GONE WRONG – William Henry Jackson & Detroit Publishing
Sam’s Unsettling Cigar Box Label
Selling Santa
September 1. In Russia, St. Petersburg changes its name to Petrograd in 1914.
September 10. In Wembley Stadium, London, the first world motorcycle speed championships are held in 1936.
September 12. In Flatwoods, West Virginia a monster is sighted in 1952.
September 14. In the first military draft lottery this date as number one in 1969.
September 15. Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands in 1835.
September 16. Wall Street bombing kills 38 in 1920.
September 18. Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in 1850.
September 2. Teddy Roosevelt quoted: “Speak softly and carry a big stick” in 1901.
September 21. In the Opium Wars the Euros defeat the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao in 1860.
September 22. Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey in ‘long count’ match in 1927.
September 24. President Eisenhower enforces desegregation in Little Rock in 1957.
September 26. Sir Francis Drake completes Earth’s circumnavigation in 1580.
September 27. Albert Einstein delivers his paper to a physics journal introducing his equation E=mc2 in 1905.
September 3. Pleasure boat disaster in the Thames kills 640 in 1878.
September 4. The name Kodak receives a trademark, after George Eastman’s registers patents in 1888.
September 6. President McKinley shot in Buffalo in 1901.
September 7. With the bombing of London, the Nazi Blitz begins in 1940.
September 8. Northern Pacific Railway is completed in ceremony in Montana in 1883.
Slavery Exposed! repost of Abolitionists Trade Cards Set
Speed Skating
Summer Farmers Markets
Sweatshop Safety & Factory Disasters – From Today’s Headlines
Thanksgiving – It’s All About The Turkey
That Nasty Ol’ Uncle Sam – stunning 19th Century Advertising Litho
The Dust Bowl – Old and New?
The Negro Alphabet – An Unusual ABC Book
The William T. Coleman Story – 1880s British Columbia Promotions
Those Grand Masquerade Balls
Tower Of Babel Game – A Victorian Marvel
Trojan Horse – A Citrus Label
Warriors in Afghanistan
When Floods Arrive
Which Diamond Lil Do You Want?
Window Dressing Portland
Your Smiling Face – The Rucker Archive
Youthful Beard Pulling Incident