Photo Credit: England/Flickr

“After sleeping in the open for several weeks, these men of a U.S. 1st Army combat patrol, 69th Division, get well-deserved rest in a German town. 3-24-45″

Photo Credit: National Archives

“Four young members of the Madison Square Boy’s Club rowing a boat in a rooftop pool, Manhattan skyscrapers in the background, Feb. 1950.” With such little space in New York City, I guess people have to get their training in anywhere they can…

Photo Credit: National Archives

Vocational training for S.A.T.C. (Students’ Army Training Corps) at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Pictured is the Pole-Climbing class for the college’s telephone electricians with some of their instructors, ca. 1918.

Photo Credit: State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory)

Survivors of the Battle of Olustee gathered at the Monument dedication in Olustee, Florida on October 23, 1912. The Battle of Olustee was fought in Baker County, Florida on February 20, 1864. It was the largest battle fought in Florida during the American Civil War.

Photo Credit: Weird Vintage

This 1947 Andrews Liver Salt ad proclaiming “EXCUSE ME . . . Inner Cleanliness comes first” is the fourth installment in our “Odd Ads of the Past” series.  It makes its way into History By Zim’s series mainly because the product description reads…umm… a bit descriptive.

THERE’S NO SECRET about her cheerful well-being – it is Inner Cleanliness with Andrews. FIRST: Andrews refreshes the mouth and helps to clean the tougue. NEXT: Antacid in action, Andrews settles the stomach, corrects digestive upsets. THEN: Andrews tones up the liver and checks biliousness. FINALLY: To complete your Inner Cleanliness Andrews gently clears the bowels, relieves constipation and purifies the blood. Family size tin 2/-.

This English product is still available but with a better advertising pitch - “Fast and effective relief for an upset stomach.”

Photo Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston/Smithsonian Institute

A group of school children in 1899 viewing the first bison at the National Zoological Park – commonly known as the National Zoo – part of the Smithsonian Institute.

Photo Credit: Lewis Hine/Works Progress Administration (National Archives)

Frederick and Dimmock spinning glass wool at a factory in Millville, New Jersey on March 26, 1937.

Photo Credit: Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections

Left to right: PFC Preston Toledo of Albuquerque, New Mexico and his cousin PFC Frank Toledo of Penistaja, New Mexico, at Ballarat, Australia with the 11th Marines in July 1943. Between 400-500 Native American “code talkers” served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. Their job was primarily to transmit secret tactical messages by using a coded language. This coded language was built upon their native languages and sent over military telephone or radios.

Photo Credit: National Archives

Massive crowd photographed on the Lake Michigan beach in Chicago, ca. 1925.

Photo Credit: Vintage Gal

Betty Barrett crowned diaper queen at a convention for the Diaper Service Institute of America, Chicago, 1947. As if beauty contests could not get any weirder…

Photo Credit: Jack Delano/FSA/OWI/Library of Congress

Model airplanes decorate the ceiling of the train concourse at Union Station in Chicago during World war II, February 1943.

Photo Credit: Jack Delano/FSA/OWI/Library of Congress

Little boy shows great interest in the model airplanes on the ceiling of the Union Station in Chicago, February 1943.

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force

Newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming. The mission included 54 C-141 flights between Feb. 12 and April 4, 1973, returning 591 POWs to American soil.

Photo Credit: State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory)

Student at the Florida State College for Women reading about the Pearl Harbor Attack in Tallahassee, Florida, December 1941.

Photo Credit: Burgert Brothers/State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory)

Horse-drawn ambulance in Tampa, Florida around 1912.

Photo Credit: Arthur E. Scott/Reni News Photos/Courtesy of WHNPA/NPR

Television cowboy and roping legend Montie Montana lassoes President Eisenhower in the presidential reviewing box during his 1953 inaugural parade.

Photo Credit: Museum of the American West/LA Times