Kimberly Tilley rescues forgotten stories of early twentieth century America from obscurity. Her books, Grievous Deeds (2023); Has it Come to This? (2022), Cold Heart (2020), and The Poisoned Glass (2019) were Amazon category best-sellers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
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I came across the coolest set of photographs in Indiana’s historical archives! I already posted today but these are too great to keep to myself. Enjoy!
Primitivo Vela. Nov 30, 1919
Freeman Family on Paca Street, Ransom Place, Indianapolis circa 1910s
Louise and James Carpenter. July 4, 1908
Herman List Seated in a Bedroom. 1890s
This one is lovely and of the rare Smiling Victorian type:
Young Girl (unidentified) circa 1900
Apple Blossoms [woman and tree]. Circa 1900
A Young Woman Dressed in White Sits in Front of a Mirror. 1890s
Mike Harding on the Dome of the National Surgical Institute. 1890s
Country House in Autumn. circa 1900
Look how tall this corn is!!
David Jones with Corn in his Backyard circa 1910
Wow! Such great pics. Thanks for sharing. Loved the smiling girl…seldom see anyone smiling in that era’s pictures. She was a pretty young lady. That farmer definitely grew some tall corn! 🙂
I love the picture with the guy and his corn too! I have a full grown lemon tree in my backyard that isn’t that tall!
Lucky you to have a lemon tree in your backyard.
I actually chose this place because of that tree 🙂 no kidding!
I love these pictures. They so look like the 3rd Season of Fargo on FX! From the first to the last, this could be a line up of cast members from the mobs. Nevermind it’s supposed to be in Kansas City, MO, it’s close enough. The only part of the mobsters missing would be the Jewish ones. Love!
These pictures have a joyful feel to them!
Mob families are joyful — they have everyone’s cash $$
😂😂😂
P.S. Please water that lemon tree, it needs some love!
Good thing that tree can stand the drought!