This is an incredible stereographic card, taken during the Civil War. It’s a powerful image of an Alexandria slave pen. Source: Library of Congress

This is one of those amazing photographs that you can stare at for hours, just wondering who these two boys were. We dug up an amazing series of photographs at the Library of Congress, showing the lives of young boys working at the Alexandria Glass Company in the 1910s.       If you want […]

Hazel Johnson (née Hazel Lee Roberts) was only 36 years old when she succumbed to heatstroke on August 1st, 1930. It was such a tragic death for the wife of Washington great Walter Johnson, who understandably took it very hard. Source: Library of Congress Below is the article from the Baltimore Sun, published on August […]