History in the Raw (The bare facts of history that you don't get to read very often)

My name is Jack Stanley, I have studied history for many years. This blog is about history in a more raw view, not over done. I often use original materials to bring a historic event or story to life or an interview I may have done with the person mentioned. If you cook a vegetable too long it loses much. The same can be said of many histories. They are the history of the history written before it. Over done history. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE RAW. Comments send to phonograph78@hotmail.com

History in the Raw (The bare facts of history that you don't get to read very often)

New York Times March 1965... Maria Callas returns to the Met

The first records with labels. Johnson's "Improved Gram- O - Phone" record of 1900

I often wonder what we lost when talking pictures came in.

The Spanish Reales. The first international coin. Today many are found in shipwrecks. Also they would influence the coinage system in the United States.

Laying down the cornerstone of Grant's Tomb in New York City 1892. From a somewhat damaged original newspaper account.

An Ecstatic Democratic Editor in 1885 on the inauguration of Cleveland.

Obituary of General Sam Houston 1863

History of Senator John Logan of Illinois. Circa 1884