Tag: 1930’s

• Do Criminals Look Like Criminals?

  Images courtesy of Saratoga Historical Museum

  Adrienne Morris

  September 15, 2014

  Beautiful Images, United States History

  1930’s, female criminals, Men, mug shots, photographs, Saratoga, true crime, women

• Incomplete Embryos in a Metal Womb

  Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937. courtesy All Proud Americans “There was a tremendous psychological element at work in all of us in our relationship to the lung. The metal respirator assumed an almost animate personality…

  Adrienne Morris

  November 20, 2013

  Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, Uncategorized

  1930’s, Breathing, Epidemics, Iron Lung, Photograph of Children in Iron Lung, Photography, Polio, Polio Cure