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Good thing Mary Todd wasn’t alive to see this, because she was very much a believer in contacting the deceased… this would have broken her even more

🎈 A Balloon Could Still Stop a City in Its Tracks 🎈 In the early 20th century, filling a hot-air balloon was enough to draw an enormous public crowd. This 1906 photograph shows spectators watching a balloon being inflated on the grounds of St. Louis City Hall, when human flight was still an extraordinary spectacle rather than everyday transportation. 1906.

⛏️ The Steam Shovel That Helped Cut Through America ⛏️ Steam shovels transformed enormous excavation projects by replacing much of the muscle that had previously been required to move earth and rock. This 1905 machine was photographed during construction of the Needham Cutoff in Massachusetts, with workers standing beside the massive bucket and boom. 1905.

🚗 The Woman Who Took the First Road Trip 🚗 In 1888, Bertha Benz secretly took her husband Karl’s experimental Patent-Motorwagen on a 106-kilometer journey with their two sons, proving that the automobile could actually be useful beyond short test runs. Along the way she cleared a fuel line with a hatpin, had a shoemaker reinforce the brakes with leather and bought Ligroin at a pharmacy—effectively creating the world’s first automobile refueling stop. August 5, 1888.

👻 Houdini Once Photographed Himself With Abraham Lincoln’s “Ghost” 👻 Harry Houdini became one of the most prominent opponents of fraudulent spirit photography, demonstrating how photographers could create convincing images of supposed apparitions. To expose the trick, Houdini himself posed with a manufactured “ghost” of Abraham Lincoln, turning the fake photograph into evidence against the practice.

Evolution of the doughnut hole through the years, 1927 to 1948.

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US cavalry soldiers pose in front of a tree known as the "Grizzly Giant" 1900.

Park Row in New York City as it appeared around 1900.

Queen Victoria and family, 1900

September 25, 1957 — Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

September 25, 1926 — The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

September 25, 1912 — Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.

Jew in Jerusalem, c. 1900-1910

September 25, 1911 — An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

September 25, 1868 — The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

September 25, 1790 — American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.

Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1900, at the age of 18

September 25, 1775 — American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.

September 25, 1555 — The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.