July 30, 1896
Born in Poseyville, Indiana to Wilbur Davis and Mabel Thomas Cushman

Graduates from Poseyville High School

12/1913
Works for The Bozeman-Waters National Bank of Poseyville, Indiana

01/1914
Enrolls at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi honorary journalism fraternity, Boosters' Club, Le Çercle Francais, Arbutus yearbook staff, and Sporting Editor for the Indiana Daily Student

1917
Graduates from Indiana University with an A.B. in English

07/1917-11/1917
Works for The Illinois Central Railroad Company in Bloomington, Indiana and Indianapolis, Indiana

05/25/1918
Enlists in the U.S. Navy Auxiliary Reserve Force at Municipal Pier, Chicago, Illinois

12/18/1918
Released from active duty (is honorably discharged on Sep. 30, 1921)

01/1919-02/1919
Works for Carson, Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago, Illinois
03/1919-08/1919
Works for Albert Pick & Co., Chicago, Illinois
08/1919-06/1920
Works for Addressograph Company's Indianapolis, Indiana office

07/1920-02/1921
Works for Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, Illinois

02/1921-01/1922
Works for South Side Rugwashers, Chicago, Illinois

02/1922-07/1928
Works for the LaSalle Extension University, Chicago, Illinois

06/21/1924
Marries his first wife, Elsa Jean Hamilton in Chicago, Illinois

08/1928-07/1932
Works for Standard Statistics Co., in New York, N.Y. and Chicago, Illinois

09/1932-01/1937
Works for Drewry's Limited, U.S.A., Chicago, Illinois

35mm Kodachrome color slide film first introduced

02/1937-07/1942
Unemployed. "Travelled...[and] looked after personal interests..." (From his Application For Federal Employment dated 03/01/1944)

Kodachrome processing changed from controlled-diffusion bleach baths to the selective re-exposure method

09/22/1938
Coulee Dam under construction

09/23/1938
Street scene, Alberton, Montana

Charles Cushman first uses Kodachrome film

Travels from Florida (with side trips to Georgia & South Carolina) to Northern Indiana, Chicago, Illinois, Grand Canyon and Boulder Dam

02/1939
A Sunday crowd at Miami's Fishing Pier

The Wizard of Oz appears in movie theaters

02/1940
Indian Grandma

06/09/1940
Roof tops of Laguna Beach, California

12/20/1940
Monticello

Travels from Chicago to New York and Massachusetts.

07/04/1941
South Shore Country Club beach

09/27/1941
An old house, ramshackle, in Anthracite town

Travels from Indiana to Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, New Orleans, and Chicago.

11/01/1941
A negro shack in western Alabama

08/1942-02/1944
Works for the federal office of the Division of Liquidation in the office of the Alien Property Custodian

10/01/1942
Portable soft drink stand at Bowling Green

In Chicago and Vicinity

01/18/1943
Old C.B. & Q. depot at Yorkville, Illinois

03/1944-?
Works for the War Department's Chicago Ordinance District

09/01/1944
Sunday strollers along Jackson Park lagoon

In Chicago and Vicinity

09/09/1945
An extra freight stops outside Chesterton, Indiana

Travels to Indiana

10/11/1945
Country home in the coal mine country south of Clinton, Indiana

03/07/1946
Urchin looks at old 3-story tenement set far back in low yard

08/11/1946
Actor Joe E. Brown

04/21/1947
Brick house west of Naperville, Illinois

08/10/1947
Clown Felix Adler

09/17/1948
Dancing girls of the Gold Rush days.

03/01/1949
"Sweet Shoppe"

Travels to St. Louis, Missouri

05/11/1949
Garrick Theater, St. Louis, Missouri

Travels to Laporte, Indiana

07/15/1949
Field of shocked wheat Laporte, Indiana

09/04/1950
Ice cream vendor & second-story customer

Travels from Alabama to New Orleans, Texas, and Mexico

06/1951
CBS broadcasts first hour-long television program in color

12/14/1951
A leaning Sarcophagus Famille Gauthier de Montrevil, New Orleans

12/25/1951
Bashful girl in red velvet

03/20/1952
View east from top of Broadway toward the Bay and Bay Bridge, San Francisco

Travels from Colorado to Utah and Nevada

11/04/1952
Jack W. Holley at home near Moab, Utah

In San Francisco

04/07/1953
Bison in Golden Gate Park

Travels to Colorado

10/13/1953
Houses at Leadville, Colorado

06/16/1954
Cable car in San Francisco

In California

08/12/1955
Nevada City, California

04/20/1956
The wooden cross below San Marcos pass

In California

08/03/1957
Fishing boat off fishing pier at Santa Cruz

04/27/1958
Nearing Red Canyon on road to Bryce

06/16/58
Power house and rock face

Robert Frank's influential book of photography, The Americans, is published

Travels to Texas

01/16/1959
Glass dome, City Auditorium, Austin, Texas

05/08/1960
News stand in Paris

Travels to Italy

05/22/1960
Post office, Rome

Travels to England

05/27/1961
Old Thatch Tavern

Travels to Nashville, TN

06/18/1963
Elks Club, Nashville, Tennessee

Travels to Austria

05/18/1964
Tulips!

06/10/1964
Covered bridge at Innsbruck

Travels to Greece, Crete, and Turkey

04/05/1965
Young lad in doorway

04/27/1965
Doorway, Athens

Travels to Damascus and Beirut

05/06/1965
Fruit carts, Damascus

06/13/1966
Hotel de Paris, Georgetown, Colorado

In California

03/29/1967
Haight Street hippies

10/14/1967
Inlet below Heritage House, Mendocino County coast

In California

03/16/1968
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

06/1969
Charles' wife, Elsa Jean Hamilton Cushman, dies

11/24/1970
Marries Elizabeth Juliana Gergely Penniman. Charles and Elizabeth's marriage license states that Charles is an "Investment Analyst" with a "publication"

06/08/1972
Charles Cushman dies
10/06/1972
Bulk of Cushman's slides, notebooks sent to Indiana University Archives

06/23/1989
Additional slides and Cushman's camera equipment sent to Indiana University Archives

07/18/2000
Additional notebooks sent to Indiana University Archives

06/02/2003
Additional photographs, and personal items that had belonged to Charles arrive at the Indiana University Archives

08/14/2003
Charles' second wife, Elizabeth Juliana Gergely Penniman Cushman, dies