Kodak’s role in global photography is legendary. The name Hawkeye is a key part of the company’s legacy and the 759,000-square-foot “Hawkeye Plant” a totem pole of Kodak’s storied past. [Read more…] about The Hawkeye Plant: Kodak’s Enigmatic Landmark Languishes
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New Yorkers at the Massacre at Wounded Knee
On December 29, 1890, the deadliest mass shooting in American history took place near Wounded Knee Creek (Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála in Lakota) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. During what is now known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, hundreds of U.S. troops, including many recently arrived German and Irish immigrants, surrounded a Lakota camp and opened fire killing an estimated 250 to 300 Lakota people.
Over half of those killed were women, children, and elderly tribal members, and most of the dead were unarmed. Twenty-five soldiers also were killed and 39 wounded, many being the result of friendly fire (six of the wounded later died). [Read more…] about New Yorkers at the Massacre at Wounded Knee