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Antique Store Find: 40 Stunning Portraits from the 1880s
Collection: California and the West
Collection: Civil War Buildings
Collection: Fashion Models
Collection: FSA/OWI Color Transparencies
Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
Collection: Late 1800s Sailing Regattas
Collection: Learned Men at Their Desks ca. 1910
Collection: Life at West Point
Collection: Life in Old Rural Kentucky, 1916
Collection: Liljenquist Family - Civil War Photographs
Collection: Loaded Cars Heading West
Collection: Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties
Collection: Marjory Collins - FSA/OWI Jan 1942 - June 1943
Collection: Portraits of Abraham Lincoln
Collection: River Baptisms of the Past
Collection: School Days in 1943, by Philip Bonn
Collection: Vintage Boxing Portraits, 1910
Collection: Vintage Portraits of Actresses, 1915
Collection: Wright Brothers Collection: 1897-1928
Detroit Publishing Company
Event: 1923 World Series, NY Giants vs. NY Yankees
Event: Business Leaders Gather at The Roosevelt's Home - April, 1918
Event: Field Mass on Washington Mall - 1914
Event: Launch of USS Tennessee, 1919
Event: Vermont State Fair, 1941
Iowa Tin Types
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Snapshot: 1920 Olympics - Swimming Portraits
Snapshot: A Day at the Car Races, 1910
Snapshot: A Day with Actress Grace Valentine in 1920
Snapshot: Babe Ruth on the Field
Snapshot: Billiards in the early 1900s
Snapshot: Buying Easter Flowers in New York City in 1908
Snapshot: Carrot Farming in Coachella Valley, CA - 1937
Snapshot: Christian Dior Fashion Shows of the 1940's and 1950's
Snapshot: Destitute Farmers Visiting FSA Offices Seeking Relief Grants, 1937-1939
Snapshot: Friends of Germany Stage Nazi Rallies in Madison Square Garden, 1934-1939
Snapshot: Gold Prospecting in the Klondike 1898-1900
Snapshot: Launching a Barrage Balloon - May 1942
Snapshot: Life Aboard the 1890's USS Iowa
Snapshot: Life at the Blue Blaze Coal Mine in Utah, 1936
Snapshot: Life at the Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle Making the B-17s, Nov 1942
Snapshot: Life at the Columbia Steel Company, Utah, Nov 1942
Snapshot: Life at the Utah Copper Mine, November 1942
Snapshot: Making Turpentine in Georgia, 1937
Snapshot: Mining in Creede, California
Snapshot: One-Room Schoolhouse Outside Durkee, Oregon, 1939
Snapshot: Orville Wright and His St. Bernard, Scipio, 1917
Snapshot: Pea Farming in California, 1936-1939
Snapshot: Portraits of Mark Twain, 1850-1909
Snapshot: Preparing for a Cycling Race in 1909
Snapshot: Putting out a Fire in NYC in 1909
Snapshot: Quicksilver Mining Company in New Indira, CA, Nov 1943
Snapshot: Strikers in Focus
Snapshot: Teddy Roosevelt's Summers at Oyster Bay
Snapshot: The Austin Dam Disaster of 1911
Snapshot: The Native Americans of The Wild West Show, 1898
Snapshot: The North American Indian by Edward Curtis
Snapshot: The Pie Town, New Mexico Fair - October, 1940
Snapshot: Toy Yachts in Central Park, 1910
Snapshot: Trading in downtown Campton, KY - Sept 1940
Story: A Family at the United Nations Service Center - Dec. 1943
Story: An Afternoon at Coney Island, NY in 1910
Story: Bill Snyder and Hattie the Elephant in Central Park, NYC
Story: Farming and School Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916
Story: Greyhound Bus Trip from Louisville, KY to Memphis, TN - Sept 1943
Story: Inside the Kern County FSA Camp
Story: Life in a Civil War Camp
Story: Making the B-25 Bomber at North American Aviation, Inc., 1942
Story: Men of the Ola Self-Help Sawmill, Ola Idaho, Oct 1939
Story: Newsboys of the Early 1900s
Story: Portraits of African American Men - 1900 Paris Exposition
Story: Portraits of African American Women - 1900 Paris Exposition
Story: Producing the New York Times - September 1942
Story: School Life at Lincoln Bench School, Ontario Oregon, Oct 1939
Story: Soprano Anna Fitziu at Work and Play
Story: The Amazing Life of Annie Oakley
Story: The Glouster Fisherman, 1942 by Howard Liberman
Story: The Life of Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian Soprano
Story: The Men and Women of North American Aviation: 1942
Story: The Rich Life of Opera Singer, Enrico Caruso
Story: The Strike of Baldwin Locomotive Workers, February 1910
Story: The Tumultuous Relationship of Hamilton Moore and Lucy Ann Searcy
Story: The Wedding of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier and John F. Kennedy, 1953
Story: The Young Bike Messengers of the South, 1910
Story: Tobacco Farming in Person County, North Carolina, July 1939
Story: Visiting the Crouch Family for Thanksgiving, 1940
Story: Women Bus Workers and Taxi Drivers in Salt Lake City, Nov 1942
Story: WWII Letters Home - Carl V. Birdwhistell 1942-1945
Story: WWII Publicity Campaign at the Douglas Aircraft Facility
Second Lieutenant Solon R Briskin was born in 1923 in Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and served with the 445th Bomber Group, Heavy as a co-pilot.
Solon died March 23, 1945, and is listed as MIA. He is buried at American War Cemetery Margraten.
He was awarded the Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters and Purple Heart.
Military Record
O-2009001
Second Lieutenant
- United States Army
- MIA
Decorations:
Purple Heart