Above: An artist’s rendition of the horrendous carnage that occurred during the 1889 flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on the Stone Bridge over the Conemaugh River (a railway bridge) after it dammed ...
This picture of Riverside Avenue looking east from Post Street was taken just a couple of days before the" big fire" of August 4, 1889. A 40 block area of downtown including every building in this ...
The name "The Wall Street Journal" was the idea of Charles Bergstresser, the "forgotten" third man who teamed with Dow and Jones to create the news company that started publishing this newspaper in ...
A short account of the mass strike in London which spread from the great docks strike in the East End and peaked on 1 September with up to 300,000 strikers. Submitted by Steven. on August 29, 2017 ...