One of the many eerily inaccurate headlines printed on the morning of April 15, 1912.
(source: The Portsmouth (OH) Daily Times, April 15, 1912.)
This really shouldn’t make me laugh.
(source: The Daily Review (Decatur, IL), April 2 (top) and April 16 (bottom), 1912.)
Before and After c 1950- present
Corner La Trobe and Burton st, an entire neighbourhood that vanished in the mid 20th century as part of compulsorily acquired redevelopment of the Little Lon area by the Commonwealth Government.
Burton st still technically exists as a windswept pedestrian walkway between Telstra buildings.
before picture courtesy of the State Library of Victoria.
Things like this make me sad.
Anencephaly c. 1890’s
(Anencephaly is a neural tube defect that occurs when the cephalic end of the neural tube fails to close, resulting in the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp.
San Francisco after the earthquake, as seen from an airship in 1906 (source/via Mental Floss)
I’m having a hard time finding words for this picture. It’s visually stunning, but the devastation it shows…
(click through to the source for the big picture)
(via mudwerks)
life:
The 1948 photoessay “Country Doctor,” featuring pictures by the great Eugene Smith, is celebrated as one of the 20th century’s greatest feats of photojournalism. But not even LIFE magazine could publish every single picture that Smith shot during the several weeks he spent chronicling the everyday triumphs and tragedies of Dr. Ernest Ceriani’s practice in rural Colorado.
Here, LIFE.com presents previously unpublished photos from that extraordinary assignment.
Joe acquired 200 100-year old glass negatives taken from a neighbor.
He’s “scanning” each by placing the negatives over a lightbox and photographing from above. Can’t wait to see the rest!
200 100-Year Old Glass Negatives Found
via Reddit
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
London, 1940s, in hi-res colour. These photographs were taken using Kodachrome film by the improbably and wonderfully named Chalmers Butterfield, probably in 1949. Via How To Be a Retronaut.
(Source: coopranderson, via foreheadtittaes)
Pregnant & Drinking? My great-great-grandmother Ruth- 1920s.
By far the best group effort war kiss I have seen.
Planes, trains, and boats. It’s like these ladies tried to one up each other kissing their guys in acrobatic fashion.
“Oh, he hung upside down out of a train car window? Don’t worry. I got you!”
