I am always stunned out how hard life was back then, and yet, many of the people look happy in the pics. Great slideshow with good info along with the pics. Thanks for sharing.
In 1849, my great, great grandparents crossed the country with six small children in a covered wagon pulled by oxen. They went for the gold rush which never produced any money, ending up in Sacramento with a laundry business. There were actually Indians terrorizing them on the way, riding right next to the wagons. This stuff really happened, including people dying of cholera. I honestly don't know how they did it. They were tough stuff in those days.
A very strange - at least, in this 21st century - mix of nonsense ('never produced any money' - well it must have for some, mustn't it?), distinctly lame formulae ('this stuff really happened, including people dying of cholera') and outmodedly insensitive terminology ('actually Indians' - oh dear oh dear... - pretty lame, isn't it!, to say nothing of the historically outrageous reading that it was the indigenous population who were terrorizing the interlopers who stole - no other word for it, is there, in hindsight - the original inhabitants' land...)
I think people understand, without your help, that when he says that the gold rush never produced any money, he means that he never produced any money for his great great grandparents. I found their struggles to be very interesting. I don’t think that the Indians can claim any moral superiority just because they were there first. After all, every Indian tribe’s lands were taken from some other tribe. Most Indian tribes were engaged in more or less perpetual warfare with the other tribes. Many Indian tribes made a living by raiding other tribes. The arrogance and a-historical nature of your comments is very disturbing. I think that the temporary victory of that vile and evil man, Trump, is partly due to the arrogant and contemptuous attitude of people like yourself.
Loved it! I enjoy looking at all the little details in these old photo's, their clothing, housing, tools and anything else I can spot that tells us more about how our forefathers lived and survived.
My mom's dad, Grandpa Walter eberbach came to eliis Island in 1910. The form he filled out and given a copy which my older sister still has Today has a question on how You intended to make money to live ? Well grandpa was already a pharmacist in Germany at age 23.
my great grandfather came here from Poland in 1885 before ellis island can you you just imagine what he thought when he saw the Statue of Liberty going up . I heard a story of distant relatives that walked across Asia crossed the ice to Alaska put up by Eskimos and walked to Milwaukee .
I,m a Brit,but probably know more about American history than alot of Americans do,especially the civil war era,-which i always find intresting and have visited alot of the battlefields around the Virginia and Maryland area, and Gettysburg too,-enjoyd this video.
Around 1999 American trivia experts, some truly smart and knowledgeable historians and popular culture experts, took on the Canadian equivalent on NTN, now known as Buzztime. This was on the internet. The dedicated field that night was U.S. HISTORY!! The Canadians mopped the floor up with us. After that, I don't accuse Brian Corrigan and his ilk of being braggarts and so forth. It was a humiliating night.
Very good pictorial narration of US history. Every country in the world had good and bad historical pasts based on present understanding of those events.
Thank you so much that was great about American history those were great memories people worked hard and sacrifice a lot for United States of America to become great nation!thank for sharing.🇲🇦
Thankyou so much. Fantastic photos!! History is so important , and thanks to these hardworking people in the 19 th and twentieth century has made it possible for how we live today. I am truly grateful.
Speaking as an historic geographer I am drawn to the plethora of videos increasingly available on UA-cam relating to the US and other places. Many of these videos use photographs that are clearly not properly attributed or identified. Your video is certainly the best that I have seen of its ilk. Your narration was measured and relevant, with good background descriptions. Well done to you and I look forward to seeing many more.
Please keep in mind many videos are created by common folk, without proper academic training, but meaning well. They don't know about proper attribution and such. If you're looking for peer-reviewed documentaries, UA-cam is the wrong place. Wishing you well.
@@yvonneplant9434Rough it was, but yep, there was romance galore. Families of 8-10 were common. Cotton fields were still prominant in the 60s. My family share cropped in Tennessee Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee. No screens on windows. Fireplace for heat. Sharecropper houses always leaked. Yep, times were hard.
1:06 ..... if your old like me, when you saw this picture the first thing you thought of was the TV show "Death Valley Days", sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax.
I always wondered how they kept those poor mules watered on those long hauls pulling those heavy wagons across that hot, dry landscape, especially in the summer. Any water found out there is liable to be bad (brackish), so they must have carried their water with them, adding even more to the weight. If so, I wonder how much they had to carry for twenty hard working mules.
17:41 I can imagine my great grandparents - my father’s (1915) grandparents from Russia 🇷🇺 and Poland 🇵🇱, standing like that looking at New York in the late 1880’s. My mother’s (1916) great grandparents came from 🇩🇪 through New Orleans, to St. Louis in the 1860’s. And her father came to St. Louis in the 1890’s from Greece 🇬🇷. My son’s father’s grandparents came from Poland and Ireland 🇮🇪 ! We’re a pure immigrant family 🇺🇸. :)🌷🌱
I really loved the background music. I actually recognized some of the old hymns that were being played in the background. I really appreciate that. And if it was AI at least it was a very genuine and pleasing sound thank you excellent Videos. 💕
It was actually 18 mules and 2 horses. They grew Alfalfa at the Greenland Ranch which later was the Furnace Creek Ranch, which now has the lowest elevated golf course in the world, at -214 feet below sea level. I lived there in 1979 and 1981. Cheers!!!!!
I am a lover of history - especially in photos. Several other youtubers present, like you, historical photos - with some description. But looking at this montage, I realize that you are the best. 😀 The images are stable and well in view, and the added information is well prepared and very satisfying.
Wonderful , would SO love to know more about some of the families and people ,as an ordinary English woman shocked at many of the native American items,and thebuffaolo heads
Reading the comments, many people seem to focus on the harsh living conditions and comment on how 'the good old days' were anything but. Yes, life was harsh, and living was precarious. But it was generally better than it had been. People moved into cramped, damp dwellings to take up work in filthy and dangerous factories by choice. The only reason being it was better than the rural poverty they had come from. I feel the expression ' the good old days' is nothing to do with money, living conditions, or material possessions. More to do with how people felt about their lives, the community they lived in, and the people they knew. The common struggle and how they survived together, despite all the hardships. I was born in the 'grey, drab, awful post war 1950s. I don't remember it like that at all. Granted I was a child but to me things were as they were. Even my parents, poor as they were, looked back on those days with affection.
I'm Mexican but I love American history.is Great, beatifull ,braveheard.
I feel so inspired after watching this video. Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
Of all the YT’s about old photos (of American history) THIS is the best. Well done! Thanks
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Thank you your commentary made the pictures come alive
I am always stunned out how hard life was back then, and yet, many of the people look happy in the pics. Great slideshow with good info along with the pics. Thanks for sharing.
They didn’t know any better and they had nothing to compare it to imagine if we were too be cut down without warning
It's just like now. Some people are happy and some are just cruel and mean.
@@misscody8792They really didn't have the dental care so they didn't smile. It's that simple.
happy ?? no way! they were almost all very poor
@@misscody8792they compared it to where they came from, and that may have been even harsher living conditions.
Just when you think you saw em all. Incredible photos just incredible.
In 1849, my great, great grandparents crossed the country with six small children in a covered wagon pulled by oxen. They went for the gold rush which never produced any money, ending up in Sacramento with a laundry business. There were actually Indians terrorizing them on the way, riding right next to the wagons. This stuff really happened, including people dying of cholera. I honestly don't know how they did it. They were tough stuff in those days.
A very strange - at least, in this 21st century - mix of nonsense ('never produced any money' - well it must have for some, mustn't it?), distinctly lame formulae ('this stuff really happened, including people dying of cholera') and outmodedly insensitive terminology ('actually Indians' - oh dear oh dear... - pretty lame, isn't it!, to say nothing of the historically outrageous reading that it was the indigenous population who were terrorizing the interlopers who stole - no other word for it, is there, in hindsight - the original inhabitants' land...)
I think people understand, without your help, that when he says that the gold rush never produced any money, he means that he never produced any money for his great great grandparents. I found their struggles to be very interesting. I don’t think that the Indians can claim any moral superiority just because they were there first. After all, every Indian tribe’s lands were taken from some other tribe. Most Indian tribes were engaged in more or less perpetual warfare with the other tribes. Many Indian tribes made a living by raiding other tribes. The arrogance and a-historical nature of your comments is very disturbing. I think that the temporary victory of that vile and evil man, Trump, is partly due to the arrogant and contemptuous attitude of people like yourself.
All I can say is amazing and wonderful and thank you so much these moments in time our history caught in the making ❤️
I am not American but i love American history. I enjoyed every second of this show. I loved it!
Thanks for all the photos and the background stories. Brings history to life.
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Thank you it's nothing like a picture from those times some how we are all related
To memories from our people in the old California days
Our Great American history, may we never forget.
Loved it! I enjoy looking at all the little details in these old photo's, their clothing, housing, tools and anything else I can spot that tells us more about how our forefathers lived and survived.
Great montage of fascinating pictures!
Very interesting. The last photo shows an immigrant family at Ellis Island in 1925. Two years earlier my family stood there.
My mom's dad, Grandpa Walter eberbach came to eliis
Island in 1910. The form he filled out and given a copy which my older sister still has
Today has a question on how
You intended to make money to live ? Well grandpa was already a pharmacist in Germany at age 23.
my great grandfather came here from Poland in 1885 before ellis island can you you just imagine what he thought when he saw the Statue of Liberty going up . I heard a story of distant relatives that walked across Asia crossed the ice to Alaska put up by Eskimos and walked to Milwaukee .
Outstanding video. Thanks for taking the time to do a great job narrating. Well done!!!!
Yes! A real human being narrating!
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I,m a Brit,but probably know more about American history than alot of Americans do,especially the civil war era,-which i always find intresting and have visited alot of the battlefields around the Virginia and Maryland area, and Gettysburg too,-enjoyd this video.
Americans know Nothing anymore. Our history has all been Cancelled and changed. Schools teach little of any value nowdays.
Around 1999 American trivia experts, some truly smart and knowledgeable historians and popular culture experts, took on the Canadian equivalent on NTN, now known as Buzztime. This was on the internet. The dedicated field that night was U.S. HISTORY!! The Canadians mopped the floor up with us. After that, I don't accuse Brian Corrigan and his ilk of being braggarts and so forth. It was a humiliating night.
your probably right!
Our politicians like us stupid. Easier to pick out pockets to line their own.
Happy to be sharing these videos with school age students, 5th graders, these videos help to widen their imagination
Music And Natarror Voice JUST RELAXING 😊❤
Yet another wonderful display of US historical photos. Who needs museums or their restrictions on use, when photos like this abound online? Love this.
Museums have restrictions?
Very good pictorial narration of US history. Every country in the world had good and bad historical pasts based on present understanding of those events.
Say Hello if you're from the USA...hello, from Ireland, Germany and a bit Africa... hello brother, hello sister ❤❤❤
hello❤🙂
Hello from the USA ❤
Hello!
hello - and goodbye, now (7.11.2024), for ever perhaps...
Hallo, Grüße vom Bodensee / Germany
Very important to have a view like this into past years. I would like to enjoy more visits.
Thank you so much that was great about American history those were great memories people worked hard and sacrifice a lot for United States of America to become great nation!thank for sharing.🇲🇦
I love these historical photos! And much thanks for the detailed information!
Thankyou so much. Fantastic photos!! History is so important , and thanks to these hardworking people in the 19 th and twentieth century
has made it possible for how we live today. I am truly grateful.
Speaking as an historic geographer I am drawn to the plethora of videos increasingly available on UA-cam relating to the US and other places. Many of these videos use photographs that are clearly not properly attributed or identified. Your video is certainly the best that I have seen of its ilk. Your narration was measured and relevant, with good background descriptions. Well done to you and I look forward to seeing many more.
Please keep in mind many videos are created by common folk, without proper academic training, but meaning well. They don't know about proper attribution and such. If you're looking for peer-reviewed documentaries, UA-cam is the wrong place. Wishing you well.
@@CharlesBecketI do bear that in mind. However, my issue is not whether attributions have been set out but simple accuracy.
@@johnorchard4I see. Thank you for clarifying. Be well, sir.
@@johnorchard4Images are/content is noted as having been "altered or created."
@@user-mv9tt4st9k I have no idea what your comment is telling me!
Love American history late 1800s
At least some of these show how rough life was. No romantisizing things.
@@yvonneplant9434Rough it was, but yep, there was romance galore. Families of 8-10 were common. Cotton fields were still prominant in the 60s. My family share cropped in Tennessee Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee. No screens on windows. Fireplace for heat. Sharecropper houses always leaked.
Yep, times were hard.
@@yvonneplant9434 Well obviously rural places will look bad
@@jacoblecoy3700 Coal powered heaters were already a thing
Thanks So Very Much For This Gorgeous Pictures. Thanks To Them Pictures We Can Admired And Apreciate The Past ❤😊
Priceless collection.
Magnifique! Merci beaucoup! From France.😊
Excellent video slide show. Thanks for posting; I will be watching more
I’m a history enthusiast, and luckily, my eldest son is too. These photos are fascinating! I might have found an idea for our discussion this weekend
So I've watched several old time videos, but this naorater, with these portraits is the best, that's why I subscribed to this channel.
Nice pictures I enjoyed seeing them.
Amazing photographs, thank you for sharing I very much enjoyed watching this ❣️
Amazing photos, captures a very unique moment in history. Thank you . Bryn (Wales)
Cena Top, вы, лучший! Благодарю за возможность окунуться в историческое прошлое разных стран и континентов!
Wow thank you for the cool pictures and excellent narration..takes me back!
Definitely enjoyed it. Thank you for bringing the glorious past back in pictures, which spoke thousands of words. ❤
Most interesting thank you appreciated at 95 yrs of age amen ❤
Thanks! 📷😊🙏
Wow.... very nice video and thank you sir...
I love watching these videos!
Thank you for the wonderful photos, mostly America and how hard these pioneers had to endure rough rough times
Can you imagine people today living in those times? We'd be doomed
Say it all the time lol
1:06 ..... if your old like me, when you saw this picture the first thing you thought of was the TV show "Death Valley Days", sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax.
There were at least 26 mules in that picture, but yea.
I always wondered how they kept those poor mules watered on those long hauls pulling those heavy wagons across that hot, dry landscape, especially in the summer. Any water found out there is liable to be bad (brackish), so they must have carried their water with them, adding even more to the weight. If so, I wonder how much they had to carry for twenty hard working mules.
Interesting pics. Thank you.
17:41 I can imagine my great grandparents - my father’s (1915) grandparents from Russia 🇷🇺 and Poland 🇵🇱, standing like that looking at New York in the late 1880’s.
My mother’s (1916) great grandparents came from 🇩🇪 through New Orleans, to St. Louis in the 1860’s. And her father came to St. Louis in the 1890’s from Greece 🇬🇷. My son’s father’s grandparents came from Poland and Ireland 🇮🇪 ! We’re a pure immigrant family 🇺🇸. :)🌷🌱
❤🙂
Beautiful american history Just born 250 yrs ago n today the strongest country in the world loved ur doco only one slavery was heartbreaking issue
Please post more of these videos. It is nice to have a human voice narrating these photos. No AI Voice which at times are horrible
This is AI
boomer
Good pictures & narration.
The narrator is excellent, elevating the video quality with their clear, captivating voice.
I really loved the background music. I actually recognized some of the old hymns that were being played in the background. I really appreciate that. And if it was AI at least it was a very genuine and pleasing sound thank you excellent Videos. 💕
Gone, all gone. My God look at the place now.
Awesome. Thanks for the video.
I loved it. Thank you!😊
Priceless photos of history,thanks for sharing and a great site and great narration and voice!
Love the narration and insight into each photo. Many channels show old photos but don’t say anything about them.
I love history, thanks!
Well Done!
Stunning material.
thank you very much📷😊
It was actually 18 mules and 2 horses. They grew Alfalfa at the Greenland Ranch which later was the Furnace Creek Ranch, which now has the lowest elevated golf course in the world, at -214 feet below sea level. I lived there in 1979 and 1981. Cheers!!!!!
I am a lover of history - especially in photos.
Several other youtubers present, like you, historical photos - with some description.
But looking at this montage, I realize that you are the best. 😀
The images are stable and well in view, and the added information is well prepared and very satisfying.
😎SUPER GREAT about the OLD ways of U.S.A. Hard workers in those days ,,family s were back bone. JUST GREAT !! RABBIT.
Thank you!!
Wonderful , would SO love to know more about some of the families and people ,as an ordinary English woman shocked at many of the native American items,and thebuffaolo heads
Fine narration and appropriate music. Thanks for the trip on the Wayback Machine.
Beautiful just beautiful.
Thank you for the pictures ❤
Change is constant and Change is inevitable
Salute from Brazil, S.A.
Loved it, thanks
Thank you for subtitres!
Very informative. Thank you!
Excellent! Subscribed.
Me too!!
A very good selection of pictures, keep up the good work! :)
Loved this...
Thank you!
Fascinating...
this video was educational and enjoyable. Watch It
So Great 👍
I came across your channel and found it interesting. I live in the United States
What lovely pictures ❤
Great video and pics. Thanks
Thanks Great Fotos.
Wow!! Good job 👍
Straordinaria narrazione!
Thank you🙏🏻🥰❣️
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informative clip
Thank you
Fantastic! Would also be interesting to see colorized.
a wonderful video. thank you so much!
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👩💻🇺🇲20 Mule Team Borax. Just came to mind. It was an advertisement for a show I watched with my dad on Sundays.
26 mules in that picture.
Hosted by Ronald Reagan
"Death Valley Days"??
I still use it!
Thank you
Absolutely enjoyed this presentation.
Thanks
Love and greetings from Germany.
Thanks ❣️
It was a hard time to live but they all survived without whining
12:23 A cotton gin-meaning "cotton engine"-is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
Hello from Tukanto, AD
I found your channel today and subscribed to it today 😀
Thanks😊🙏
Nice job!!!😮
Great photos!!!
Reading the comments, many people seem to focus on the harsh living conditions and comment on how 'the good old days' were anything but.
Yes, life was harsh, and living was precarious. But it was generally better than it had been. People moved into cramped, damp dwellings to take up work in filthy and dangerous factories by choice. The only reason being it was better than the rural poverty they had come from.
I feel the expression ' the good old days' is nothing to do with money, living conditions, or material possessions. More to do with how people felt about their lives, the community they lived in, and the people they knew. The common struggle and how they survived together, despite all the hardships.
I was born in the 'grey, drab, awful post war 1950s.
I don't remember it like that at all. Granted I was a child but to me things were as they were. Even my parents, poor as they were, looked back on those days with affection.