Interesting historical photos

[Mindful]

Florida, 1939...

Woman packinghouse worker from Tennessee with three of her four children eating supper of fried potatoes and cornbread and canned milk. Belle Glade, Florida...

Source
Farm Security Administration.

 

[Ringo]

A stuffed negro in front of a school entrance as a protest against black integration, Texas, 1956.

 

[Litwin]

A stuffed negro in front of a school entrance as a protest against black integration, Texas, 1956.

 

[Mindful]

Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938.

 

[Mindful]

California, 1936...

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Early in 1935, their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers...

Source
Farm Security Administration (Dorothea Lange photographer)

 

[Mindful]

Mother home schools her children in Transylvania, Louisiana, 1937.

 

[Mindful]

Immigrants detained at Ellis Island dancing, 1905.

 

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[Litwin]

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Asia (the horde ) 2017

The story behind the viral picture of a young woman's arrest in Russia

Olga Lozina was returning from McDonalds with her mum and sister when she got arrested.

mashable.com

 

[Litwin]

the horde 2022, the UGLIEST PLACE ON THE EARTH , THE arslet OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION

 

[Ringo]

“Radium Girls” at the bedside of Katherine Wolf-Donahue, dying of a tumor and having lost all her teeth. USA, 1938.
The girls were busy hand-painting luminous watch dials with radium-based paint. Factory management knew about the dangers of radium, but did not warn their workers.

 

[Ringo]

The PeelP-50 single-seater car, created in Great Britain in 1962, could accelerate up to 64 kilometers per hour.

Rowan Atkinson and his 1981 Aston Martin Vantage in London, 1984.

French 2-seater microcar Inter Autoscooter weighing 170 kg. It was equipped with a motorcycle two-stroke engine Ydral 175cc with an output of 8.5 hp and could reach a speed up to 80 km/h. It was produced at the SNCAN aviation company from 1953-1955. About 200 machines were assembled.

When cars were big. The cause of the baby boom. USA. 1950-е.

 

[Ringo]

Pontiac in 1937. Sweet dreams!

 

[BackAgain]

Shut up, Nazi.

Soros was the Nazi aide, odumbass.

 

[Ringo]

A former millionaire sells apples from his stall, 1931, San Francisco
Fred Bell, a former millionaire and now unemployed, sells apples from his stall on a street corner in San Francisco during the Great Depression.
Bell, a successful stockbroker nicknamed "Champagne Fred," lost his entire fortune in the stock market crash of 1929. He died on June 9, 1934, in a poorhouse.

First commercially available cardiograph, 1911, England
In 1911, the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in England produced the first commercially available cardiograph that recorded cardiograms by means of a projection optical recorder on a special light-sensitive tape. The electrodes used were buckets of strong saline solution into which the patient had to dip his hands and feet.

Kenji Kawakami's 360º panoramic camera system on his wife's head. Kyoto, Japan, 1994.

Bernard Tussauds, great grandson of French fashion designer Marie Tussauds, holds the wax heads of Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini. London, England, 1935.

Inventor Carl Ward demonstrates his invention, a pedal-powered monocycle in which the wheel is replaced by legs. The purpose of the invention, was to sit while walking. Los Angeles, California, 1971.

 

[Ringo]

Nov 1 1918 – During a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, a scab driver crashes a New York subway train. He had no driving experience with only a few hours of training. The Malbone Street wreck saw 97 die & 255 injured.

 

[FredVegbarfuss]

James Baldwin

 

[Ringo]

Marilyn Monroe on the set of the famous "subway grate" scene. USA. 1954 г.

 

[Deadstick]

Manchester Christmas eve 1940 after a German air raid, my Mother was from Manchester and lived through the Blitz, at one time it was every night, these days she wouldn't recognize the City with modern tower blocks all over the City.

the same area today.

 

[Ringo]

In the photo - Gino Done - the only European who participated in the landing from the yacht Granma on December 2, 1956 together with Fidel Castro, Che and others among the famous 82. He is also the most experienced, as he was a veteran of the Italian guerrilla anti-fascist resistance.