I've had your site bookmarked forever (10 years maybe?). I admire your perseverence. You took on the work of tracking things like 'Tupelo, MS public library has posted a collection of farm equipment photographs from 1922-1935' and so forth without fail for years.
I know. Back in the day there were two movies* out at the same time about an asteroid hitting the earth and suddenly there were lots of asteroid hitting the earth stories in the media.
* Deep Impact and Armageddon *
* (studios did this to piggy back on the marketing expenses)
Glad I could help.