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Nathan W. Armes
@nathanwarmes.bsky.social
Photographer. Not from around here.
Focusing on travel, the American West and exploring historical timelines.


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Nov 11, 1864

The destruction of Atlanta is systematic.

Union General William T. Sherman orders communication lines, railways in and out of city, and every strategically important structure vital to confederate supply chain destroyed, or damaged beyond repair.

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November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Total war.

On November 11, 1864, General William T. Sherman initiated the infamous scorched-earth strategy.

His troops were instructed to "forage freely" from the land and demolish railways, industries, cotton supplies, and anything aiding the confederacy. #History #OTD
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The iPod was launched on November 10, 2001, at $399. Thanks to its 5 GB hard drive, it could hold "1000 songs in your pocket." Two years later, the iTunes store opened, selling 275,000 songs the first day.

You can hear the satisfying click of the scroll wheel if you stare hard enough at the photo.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The iPod was launched on November 10, 2001, at $399. Thanks to its 5 GB hard drive, it could hold "1000 songs in your pocket."

You can hear the satisfying click of the scroll wheel if you stare hard enough at the photo.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
novelty-sized hallucinations

A swan paddle boat cast adrift in Ferril Lake.

City Park
Denver, Colorado
1550, 070823

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November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wave that flag
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Skeletons dancing, etching.
R. Stamper after C. Sharp, 1700s.
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Fantastic footage of Babe Ruth during a Boston #Braves vs. Newark Bears exhibition game in New Jersey! (1935)

In 1935, press photographers used medium—or large-format view cameras, considered the most advanced camera systems. It was another 30 years before 35mm film became widely used.
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A full at-bat from MLB legend and home run king, Hank Aaron. You don’t see these pop up very often.

Enjoy!
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Making an old joke new again and again. Considering reshelving as "contemporary history."
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hate is hate y'all.
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This clip is a Grade-A joke machine.

"This is your last warning about that."

Springfield strikes oil, Burns steals it, and the whole town turns against him — until he’s shot in one of The Simpsons’ greatest cliffhangers.

“Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)”
S6, E25
May 25, 1995
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Jack Kerouac died on this day, Oct 21, 1969:

“I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride
but bones?”

Scattered Poems
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon, they'll have written the greatest novel known to man."

Homer joins a secret society, the Stonecutters, and discovers the absurd power of exclusivity — a satire of secret orders and human ambition.

S6, E12
January 8, 1995
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Rajah of rogue, duke of depravity

“There was only one road back to L.A. — U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity.”
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – Oct. 11, 1965) documented America's harshest times, from the Great Depression to WWII Japanese American internment.

During World War II, Lange photographed Japanese Americans in concentration camps, but many images were censored by authorities.
October 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Fun fact: Thomas Jefferson initially used the phrase "fellow subjects" in the draft of the Declaration of Independence before altering it to "fellow citizens."

Revolutionary, one of history's great copy edits.

More: blogs.loc.gov/preservation...

Declaration: www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” - Jim Morrison, The Doors

September 17, 1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"You're out there somewhere, Beer Barron, and I'll find you," Rex Banner, Treasury agent.

‘Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment,’ Springfield spoofs America’s Prohibition era — from moral crusades to speakeasies — showing how resistance, not restraint, defined the dry years.

S8, E18
March 16, 1997
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door
Now testify

Oct 10, 2010
The Battle Of Santiago. Potentially the most hyped crowd ever.
La batalla de Santiago
Santiego, Chile
October 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Having fun on the way to changing the game.

Tyler Childers and the Food Stamps
“Messed Up Kid”

Somer Sessions
Oct 30, 2014
October 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Nothing to see here.
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Howlin’ Wolf and Willie Dixon - Smokestack Lightnin’
October 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from a single thing that I wanted to do."

Georgia O'Keeffe

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October 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Maybe the most important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just going to live in it versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."

Steve Jobs
Feb 24, 1955 -- Oct 5, 2011
October 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM