Category: Places & People
Travel the world through vintage photos of places and people that defined an era. From city streets to rural landscapes — every image tells a human story.
See how culture, architecture, and everyday life looked decades ago, captured in timeless frames.
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#10 Elks Club, Memphis, 1906
Brick and stone give the Elks Club building in Memphis a confident, civic presence in this 1906 view, its rounded corner bays and ornamented upper façade designed to be noticed from the street. A carved emblem and decorative panels sit above tall windows, while the arched entry and short run of steps create a formal…
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#8 Mrs. Emily Strutynsky, a Ukrainian school teacher, walked into St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, pulled a gun from her dress, and killed Rev. Father Basil Stetsuk on October 7, 1923. She claimed she had to kill the priest because he was “such a bad leader of the Ukrainians”. Strutynsky’s husband, Rev. Nicholas Strutynsky, was the former priest of the church and had been driven away to a church in Pennsylvania. Strutynsky spent four years at the Kankakee State Hospital, Department of the Criminally Insane, before she slipped away on July 9, 1927 and jumped into the river.
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