To think if Napoleon managed to live to 1844, we would have a photo of him as well. Closest we'll get is his illegitimate son.
Actual photograph of the Duke of Wellington, most famous for defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, circa 1844.
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Rare and Crazy Historical Photos [OT] The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Hilarious & the Horrifying
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Motorized nanny (1922). Note the blackface doll in the stroller.
Damaged mannequins after a fire at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum (1925)
Princess Diana meets Rowan Atkinson (1984)
Damaged mannequins after a fire at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum (1925)
Princess Diana meets Rowan Atkinson (1984)
I dug up some personal pictures.
The following two pictures are of my grandfather, Johann/Hans. He was drafted at the age of 17 and 1/2.
He got captured at the end of the war, and spent 6 or 7 years in a POW camp, working in a mine. He refused to have very short hair after that, since it conjured up memories of having his head shorn back then.
I'd like to explain that while he fought for the Nazis, he was not a nazi. He was the last boy in his circle to join the Hitler Youth, to stop the daily beatings, according to him.
I just want to make sure I say he was a good man, and for a farmer from the mountains, incredibly broad minded. He later went on to visit many places, including Israel.
According to my grandmother, the family weren't nazis in general, causing a bunch of trouble once they took over, especially with her teacher, who was an extreme nazi.
Of course, that doesn't excuse whatever the took part in, in the end. I don't know about any of that. Just wanted to say my piece on this.
This is my grandmothers uncle Anton, sent to the WWI front in 1914. In 1943, at the age of 56, he was drafted again, to fight in WWII.
The following two pictures are of my grandfather, Johann/Hans. He was drafted at the age of 17 and 1/2.
He got captured at the end of the war, and spent 6 or 7 years in a POW camp, working in a mine. He refused to have very short hair after that, since it conjured up memories of having his head shorn back then.
I'd like to explain that while he fought for the Nazis, he was not a nazi. He was the last boy in his circle to join the Hitler Youth, to stop the daily beatings, according to him.
I just want to make sure I say he was a good man, and for a farmer from the mountains, incredibly broad minded. He later went on to visit many places, including Israel.
According to my grandmother, the family weren't nazis in general, causing a bunch of trouble once they took over, especially with her teacher, who was an extreme nazi.
Of course, that doesn't excuse whatever the took part in, in the end. I don't know about any of that. Just wanted to say my piece on this.
This one has a personal connection for me, so it's a little indulgent to post it, but I think it's a damn good photo.
My father was nominated for the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in photography for this photo:
A Vietnam vet took a church full of people in Charleston, WV hostage to protest the lack of mental health care for veterans. When a woman had heart problems from the stress, my dad volunteered to go in so she could go free. He stayed there and helped talk him into releasing the hostages, then the gunman used him as a human shield when leaving the church.
The picture was run on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post - the first time since the moon landing that both papers used the same shot.
It's just crazy to think of how close I came to not existing that day. :D
There's a bit more about it here
This is an incredible shot. Thanks so much for sharing.
This is most badass thing I've read about in a while. You have quite the father.
Toronto in 1856.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong,_Beere_and_Hime_panorama
There's a whole panorama.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong,_Beere_and_Hime_panorama
There's a whole panorama.
At a KKK rally in 1992.
Remains one of the most heart breaking photos. Kids getting swept up in their parents bullshit.
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Wow, very interesting. Small world to, I went down a YouTube rabbithole the other day watching various videos about the Titanic. I found this one that interviews a few of the survivors:
CAUTION: My Photos are a graphic depiction of the violence involved from Slavery, Jim Crow, to Present Day. I believe these photos show us the brutality and the senseless hatred that has taken place in America and serves as a reminder that we as a country have made astounding progress but have so much farther to go when it comes to the treatment of African Americans.
I will be using text that I find that can best describe each instance
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Whip Wounds
After enslaved men and women were whipped or beaten, overseers might order their wounds be burst and rubbed with turpentine and red pepper. There have been cases where salt, dirt, and other minerals have been used as a form of torture. One overseer reportedly took a brick, ground it into a powder, mixed it with lard and rubbed it all over an enslaved Black person.
Emmet Till
While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants–the white woman's husband and her brother–made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. Less than two weeks after Emmett's body was buried, Milam and Bryant went on trial in a segregated courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi. There were few witnesses besides Mose Wright, who positively identified the defendants as Emmett's killers. On September 23, the all-white jury deliberated for less than an hour before issuing a verdict of "not guilty," explaining that they believed the state had failed to prove the identity of the body.
His mother chose to have an open casket funeral to show people the cruel injustice that was done to her boy.
The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Alabama's Jefferson County on January 15, 1889.
Mob violence due to white supremacy was rampant throughout the south. Lynching was one of the more common. Racial crimes and lynchings occurred throughout the country even up until 1955 with the Emmett Till Case. Some were public events while some had children present at the gathering.
A postcard showing the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. Two of the black victims are still hanging while the third is on the ground
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In 1964, John Lewis coordinated SNCC efforts to organize voter registration drives and community action programs during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The following year, Lewis helped spearhead one of the most seminal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Hosea Williams, another notable Civil Rights leader, and John Lewis led over 600 peaceful, orderly protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights in the state. The marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as "Bloody Sunday." News broadcasts and photographs revealing the senseless cruelty of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Trayvon Martin
On the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old high school student. Zimmerman, a 28-year-old was the neighborhood watch coordinator for his gated community where Martin was visiting his relatives at the time of the shooting.Zimmerman shot Martin, who was unarmed, during an altercation between the two.
Zimmerman was charged with Martin's murder but acquitted at trial on self-defense grounds. The incident was reviewed by the Department of Justice for potential civil rights violations, but no additional charges were filed, citing insufficient evidence.
Easily sparking the biggest surge to Social Justice we have seen since the 1960's, Trayvons death incited protests in over 100 US cities uniting people from all over. One could also view this case as the progenitor to the #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement despite the others who have needlessly perished before and after this incident.
Stephen Martin - Trayvons Cousin
Protestors after the verdict
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Mike Brown & The Ferguson Riots
The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis. Brown was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white police officer in an encounter that took place a short distance away from the convenience store, several minutes after officer Wilson received a radio alert.
The shooting sparked unrest in Ferguson. Although a subsequent FBI investigation found that there was no evidence that Brown had his hands up in surrender or said "don't shoot" before he was shot, protesters believed that he had done so, and used the slogan, "Hands up, don't shoot." in protest. Protests, both peaceful and violent, along with vandalism and looting, continued for more than a week in Ferguson; police established a nightly curfew. The response of area police agencies in dealing with the protests was strongly criticized by the media and politicians. There were concerns over insensitivity, tactics, and a militarized response. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon ordered local police organizations to cede much of their authority to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
A grand jury was called and given extensive evidence from Robert McCulloch, the St. Louis County Prosecutor. On November 24, 2014, McCulloch announced the St. Louis County grand jury had decided not to indict Wilson. On March 4, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice reported the conclusion of its own investigation and cleared Wilson of civil rights violations in the shooting. It found forensic evidence supported the officer's account, that witnesses who corroborated the officer's account were credible, and that witnesses who had incriminated him were not credible, with some admitting they had not directly seen the events. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded Wilson shot Brown in self-defense.
This could be considered the birth of the #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement.
I hope this post can illuminate a glimpse of the struggles of Black Americans and the fight for Social Justice and Equality. There is so much more to the picture but honestly just taking this hour or 2 to put this together has wore me down a bit. I hope to continue posting more in this thread because I believe images are so powerful and can help us understand things.
Amazing photos. Thank you for sharing
It's actually what he ate every day for lunch. The man loved cottage cheese with fresh fruit that he had flown in from California with a side of grain cereal or wheat germ. He also had his coffee beans flown in for his breakfast which was always fresh orange juice, half a grapefruit, cold cereal and skim milk, and coffee. The guy was a huge fan of fresh produce and loved salads. Dinner was his big meal, and like our current impeachment in process, he was a fan of meatloaf.
Edit: There is also a rumor he like ketchup on his cottage cheese. Staff have denied it but the rumor persists.
Anyway, more food pics.
Dinner, 1940's
Christmas dinner of turnips and cabbage, Great Depression, 1929
The Black Panther Party serving free breakfast to children, 1969
Thanksgiving meal on a airplane, 1949. He probably brought it with him.
Border Patrol dogs awaiting dinner, Finland, 1940
Hitchcock dinner with MGM lion,
Breakfast Tea Service, Peshawar Pakistan, 1983
Remember when you could just bring a FUCKING HUGE KNIFE ON A PLANE CARRY ON NO PROBLEM?
Really missed this thread so it's nice to see it finally come back.
Picture of Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper nicknamed "The White Death" who became known for his marksmanship skill and the fact that he killed upwards of 500 Russian soldiers during the Winter War of 1939-1940; a body count higher than any other sniper in history during any major conflict. The second picture was taken after peace was declared; once Simo had made a full recovery from a sever facial wound (initially thought to be fatal) inflicted on him by a Russian counter-sniper in March 1940.
Prisoner photo of Witold Pilecki (Prisoner 4859); a Polish intelligence officer who volunteered for a mission to be sent into Auschwitz concentration camp as a prisoner and uncover the truth of what was occurring within its walls while also organizing a resistance movement within the camp. Despite compiling a massive amount of information on the situation unfolding within Auschwitz and the extent of what the Nazi's intended to do to the Jews throughout Europe, and eventually escaping the camp with the information and organizing a massive uprising in Warsaw, Pilecki's superiors deemed the information unreliable as they refused to believe the shear number of people reportedly being killed within the camp could be possible. Pilecki was later tortured and executed by order the same government he'd been serving faithfully for years (now under strict Soviet influence) after having personally dug up information on Soviet attrocities committed in Poland during the 1939-1940 occupation.
Picture of Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper nicknamed "The White Death" who became known for his marksmanship skill and the fact that he killed upwards of 500 Russian soldiers during the Winter War of 1939-1940; a body count higher than any other sniper in history during any major conflict. The second picture was taken after peace was declared; once Simo had made a full recovery from a sever facial wound (initially thought to be fatal) inflicted on him by a Russian counter-sniper in March 1940.
Prisoner photo of Witold Pilecki (Prisoner 4859); a Polish intelligence officer who volunteered for a mission to be sent into Auschwitz concentration camp as a prisoner and uncover the truth of what was occurring within its walls while also organizing a resistance movement within the camp. Despite compiling a massive amount of information on the situation unfolding within Auschwitz and the extent of what the Nazi's intended to do to the Jews throughout Europe, and eventually escaping the camp with the information and organizing a massive uprising in Warsaw, Pilecki's superiors deemed the information unreliable as they refused to believe the shear number of people reportedly being killed within the camp could be possible. Pilecki was later tortured and executed by order the same government he'd been serving faithfully for years (now under strict Soviet influence) after having personally dug up information on Soviet attrocities committed in Poland during the 1939-1940 occupation.
Picture of Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper nicknamed "The White Death" who became known for his marksmanship skill and the fact that he killed upwards of 500 Russian soldiers during the Winter War of 1939-1940; a body count higher than any other sniper in history during any major conflict. The second picture was taken after peace was declared; once Simo had made a full recovery from a sever facial wound (initially thought to be fatal) inflicted on him by a Russian counter-sniper in March 1940.
Portrait of arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, fashion illustrator Dagmar Cohn, 1947.
Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn't mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami. Dec. 15, 1941.
Only one of two photographs in existence of the US Supreme Court in session. Cameras are forbidden in the Supreme Court, but this photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, 1937.
Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn't mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami. Dec. 15, 1941.
Only one of two photographs in existence of the US Supreme Court in session. Cameras are forbidden in the Supreme Court, but this photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, 1937.
Wow. That looks incredible.1911 color photograph. There are older color photographs out there, but the quality of this one has always struck me.
I mean is this really the time and place to make that joke?
Actually, come to think of it, I have quite a few photos to share.
These are photos circa 1966-1967 restored by my aunt of my grandpa who served as a marine captain in the Vietnam War. He later went on to be promoted to colonel and later general, but he died of a heart attack a few weeks later after learning that piece of news. He died in 1984, a full 12 years before I was born.
Anyway, I was always really fascinated by some of these pictures, showing the mixture of emotions that occur during wartime.
My grandpa is the one on the left in the first photo.
Bonus food picture:
Anyway, there are many, many more of these, but I'm just posting the ones that were the most interesting to me.
These are photos circa 1966-1967 restored by my aunt of my grandpa who served as a marine captain in the Vietnam War. He later went on to be promoted to colonel and later general, but he died of a heart attack a few weeks later after learning that piece of news. He died in 1984, a full 12 years before I was born.
Anyway, I was always really fascinated by some of these pictures, showing the mixture of emotions that occur during wartime.
My grandpa is the one on the left in the first photo.
Bonus food picture:
Anyway, there are many, many more of these, but I'm just posting the ones that were the most interesting to me.
Some pictures of post WWII DC showing baseball fields outside of the White House and the view west from the top of the Monument showing the temporary buildings constructed for all the new federal employees. My grandfather took these (he was one of those post WWII vets taking a job in DC), so, I'm guessing late 1940s, early 1950s though the cars can probably date them a little better.
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That thread about Anne Frank's uncovered dirty jokes reminded me of this, the only known footage of her to exist (at about 9 seconds in):
What I love about this is that she's a part of video completely incidentally. The photographer just happened to look up and see a little girl sticking her head out of the window to watch the bride and groom, who lived on the same floor of the building as the Franks. The newlyweds managed to survive the war and eventually donated the film to the Anne Frank House.
What I love about this is that she's a part of video completely incidentally. The photographer just happened to look up and see a little girl sticking her head out of the window to watch the bride and groom, who lived on the same floor of the building as the Franks. The newlyweds managed to survive the war and eventually donated the film to the Anne Frank House.
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One of these people is Osama Bin Laden. See if you can pick him out.
Ahhh yes, the Scooby Doo n' the Gang picture. If memory serves correct:
He's the one second-from-the-right in the green shirt and blue pants.
Is it weird that thinking about this being the iceberg that sunk the Titanic makes the image very...sinister? Like this inanimate object is this evil force. I think the blurriness, shape of it, and it being black and white really drives it home. Kind of interesting and creepy.
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Trump's legacy as President summed up in one picture:
Photograph by Getty Images photographer John Moore
More here.
Photograph by Getty Images photographer John Moore
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World leaders greet Russian President Putin at the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I (November 11, 2018)
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Some photos from the Notre Dame fire, photos are from The New York Times.
The collapse of the famous spire. The original spire was built in the 13th century, but it was completely reconstructed in the 19th century along with much of the current roof.
A view inside the Notre Dame cathedral during the massive fire. You can see the blaze that destroyed the roof still burning through the stone arches. We'll no doubt be seeing more photos of the fire and its aftermath in the coming days/weeks.
The collapse of the famous spire. The original spire was built in the 13th century, but it was completely reconstructed in the 19th century along with much of the current roof.
A view inside the Notre Dame cathedral during the massive fire. You can see the blaze that destroyed the roof still burning through the stone arches. We'll no doubt be seeing more photos of the fire and its aftermath in the coming days/weeks.
While not as good a picture, I feel this one will also become emblematic of what happened today:Some photos from the Notre Dame fire, photos are from The New York Times.
The collapse of the famous spire. The original spire was built in the 13th century, but it was completely reconstructed in the 19th century along with much of the current roof.
A view inside the Notre Dame cathedral during the massive fire. You can see the blaze that destroyed the roof still burning through the stone arches. We'll no doubt be seeing more photos of the fire and its aftermath in the coming days/weeks.
An unidentified Australian soldier looking towards the remains of the Cloth Hall, Ypres, 3 September 1917
