Main Railroad Leipzig, Germany

This is the main railroad station in Leipzig, Germany. It is the world's largest railway station by floor area. It opened in 1915.

The card below is a translation.

The card below is the orginal.

 

Ohio Hospital For Epileptics

This is the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics. It was the first Epilepsy colony in America, opening  in 1893. It closed in 1976. The dining hall pictured here was a Union Hospital during the Civil War. The number 5 was inserted in the time slot upside down.

Fish or Fool

In France, “April Fish” is the name of a person duped on April Fools Day. The day is also celebrated by bakeries and chocolatiers displaying fish-shaped chocolates and pastries. It has been known to have been celebrated as far back as 1564. 

Mail Delivery in Alaska

In Alaska, dog sleds and reindeer were used to deliver the mail into the 1960s. Mail delivered by reindeer only took half the time required by a dog team. They could carry more weight, and the reindeer would feed themselves by foraging for lichen. A disadvantage of dog teams was that their food had to be prepared in advance and carried along the mail route. The dogs ultimately replaced the reindeer because the reindeer's handling and harnessing were difficult, and fresh dogs were more readily available from villages along the routes.

  

 

1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Forestry Building

The columns were 124 unpeeled old-growth fir timbers.  They were 4.5 feet in diameter and 37 feet high. Known as the “temple to timber,” it was the largest log cabin in the world. 2.5 million feet of lumber were used to create the building.