It's interesting how a photograph can tell you something about times past, and present, in ways the photographer never intended.
How about this first photograph, for example, of the Durst annual Humane Education Society parade?
Unidentified man, Harding's dog Laddie Boy & Isley Randall, 5/13/21
Laddie Boy was President Harding's dog, an Airedale that was reportedly very attached to President Harding. Who was Isley Randall? I have no idea. Obviously, when this was taken she was still in her youth. A member, somehow, of the White House circle?
And the handsome well turned out African American man on the left? He almost certainly has to be a member of the White House staff. But who was he?
And how to we view this photograph today? Does it have messages unintended?\
More photographs of the parade below.
This one shows Sgt. Stubby, the Marine Corps mascot.
And here's another, of the Morse Elm in downtown Washington D.C. It was about to come down for a road widening project.
Under the Home Rule Act, elections were held in the twenty six southern counties of Ireland. Sinn Fein won 124 seats in parliament and Independent Unions won four. There were no opposed seats.
Half of those who won were in prison.
All the Sinn Fein candidates refused to take the oath of allegiance to the crown, meaning none of them could take their seats.
The Great Solar Storm of 1921 began to bombard earth.
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