American machine gunners are letting go a strip of "typewriter" bullets from a gun emplacement in the frontline trenches somewhere in France . In Yankee trench slang a machine gun is called a "typewriter" because of the likeness of the rhythm and…
This 1900 photograph taken of Oskaloosa, Iowa's famous town square and Mahaska County Courthouse from 1st Avenue East captures the organization and layout of Midwest towns of the period. Space was set aside at the town square so that horses and…
