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Tuskegee Airmen with The P-51 Mustang ; also affectionately known as the bombers “Little Friend” – saving countless crews from attacking axis fighters. After the war, many aircraft were scrapped for their raw aluminum to rebuild a nation in post-war prosperity and therefore very few were spared.

South Carolina Republican representative Robert B. Elliott’s famous speech in favor of the Civil Rights Act, delivered in the House of Representatives on January 6, 1874, is memorialized here. The Act, which guaranteed equal treatment in all places of public accommodation to all people regardless of their “nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political,” was passed on March 1, 1875

The celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment.

On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground. The Navy Lakehurst Historical Society and Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst recently observed the anniversary of the crash of the Hindenburg as a time to remember all losses in lighter-than-air service as well as those lost in the current Iraq and Afghanistan wars in a ceremony beginning at 7:25 p.m., the time and place of the crash on May 6, 1937.

This was the jeep in WWII and it was designed by Willys-Overland. They were among the first light utility vehicles ever created. They were rugged, dependable, durable and to make them easier to ship overseas, they were designed to be piled on top of one another. The Willys also gave birth to the term “jeep”, so the story goes, that a soldier read its “GP” (General Purpose) designation quite literally.

Vintage IWC Ad.

It was the first camera ever created by Oskar Barnack in 1914. The Ur-Leica, created for Barnack’s personal use as a prototype only, was a game changer as one of the very first small-format cameras ever. It was all metal and used 35mm cine-film. It would later be characterized as the precursor for Leica’s first production, the Leica I, otherwise known as the Model A, which went on sale officially in 1925.

One of the most influential acoustic guitars in the archtop era was the Gibson L5. Designed by Lloyd Loar for Gibson and first produced in 1922, they were the first guitars with F-holes - giving them their distinctive sound. They can be heard on anything from Big Band (Duke Ellington) to Rock N’ Roll (Elvis’ Scotty Moore). Though they are still produced to this day almost exactly as they were 88 years ago, nothing beats the sound from an old vintage Gibson like the 1929 L5 shown above - which is why you’ll typically see them going for around $30K today.

Various antiques found from The Yukon.

Strivers Row & Co. Japan.