Snow Day agenda.

livelymorgue:

March 13, 1993: a powerful snowstorm with the “heart of a blizzard and the soul of a hurricane” rammed the East Coast, spawning tornadoes and 6-foot snowdrifts, killing 33 people and cutting power to 2.5 million homes. A week later, this photo, showing a woman struggling against the elements on 14th Street, appeared with a blurb about the reeling insurance industry, which struggled to cover the billions of dollars of recent storm damage. Photo: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

allaboutthepast:

Times Square at night, 1953

An army of mannequins stacked up in a warehouse in Long Island, 1970. From the @nytimes photo morgue. #photography #archives #nyc #mannequins (Taken with Instagram)

Mediterranean Beach Scene — Members of the Women’s Army Corps stationed in North Africa. Recreational periods mean time off from the war., ca. 06/28/1944 

oldnewyork:

Lenox Avenue and 116th Street. Harlem. Early 1960s, by Shawn Walker

PHOTOS: 17 Milestones in Women’s Sexual Liberation. (The Daily Beast) 

Plus: ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ Turns 40

todaysdocument:

Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is being done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the partriotic ambition to help. 09/16/1918

From the Records of the War Department; American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918

If you aren’t already following them, todaysdocument from the National Archives is fantastic.

life:

The days when we relied on newspapers to deliver us the news (long before Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc..) — When Newspapers Mattered