History buffs - check these photos out.

[Deleted]

My mind is blown.

sobadsogood.com/2013/05/30/30-unique-and-compelling-photos-from-our-past/

[snorky]

Um, that bulletproof vest tester looks way too calm.

[luckyval]

Gah, I love these!!

SIL and I have been trading links of early color photos/videos and odd stuff like this

Here's one of color photos of Paris, circa 1903: www.vintag.es/2013/01/rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s.html

[Deleted]

I love history.

[janegold]

Charlie Chaplin was kinda hot!

[EmilieMadison]

First, that unknown soldier in #13 is hot. 
Second, the my sister had, in the 90s, the exact same "turtle shell", which is a negative pressure ventilator (draws down the diaphragm externally with vacuum like pressure to manually expand the lungs). She has a rare breathing disorder in which she would stop breathing many times per night in her sleep and not breath again on her own. (She's fine now).

[Deleted]

The one with the

SPOILER: Click to show

mom selling her kids

is so unimaginable in this day and age.

[luckyval]

And holy hell @ the Princeton snow ball fight.

That's no joke

[Deleted]

these photos would be excellent for a creative writing class

[deanlicker78]

What happened to the kids for sale.

azstarnet.com/news/local/sold-as-kids-their-lives-now-converge/article_f4fe5e61-f226-5a63-96f9-270154a02545.html

[Deleted]

Sept 25, 2013 15:40:39 GMT -5 deanlicker78 said:

What happened to the kids for sale.

azstarnet.com/news/local/sold-as-kids-their-lives-now-converge/article_f4fe5e61-f226-5a63-96f9-270154a02545.html

[speckledfrog]

Sept 25, 2013 15:40:39 GMT -5 deanlicker78 said:

What happened to the kids for sale.

azstarnet.com/news/local/sold-as-kids-their-lives-now-converge/article_f4fe5e61-f226-5a63-96f9-270154a02545.html

[Deleted]

Sept 25, 2013 15:40:39 GMT -5 deanlicker78 said:

What happened to the kids for sale.

azstarnet.com/news/local/sold-as-kids-their-lives-now-converge/article_f4fe5e61-f226-5a63-96f9-270154a02545.html

heartbreaking, omg

[jacquie]

Sept 25, 2013 15:36:31 GMT -5 luckyval said:

And holy hell @ the Princeton snow ball fight.

That's no joke

That's what I was thinking. They look like they were in a boxing match or something!

[textbookcase]

Sept 25, 2013 15:40:39 GMT -5 deanlicker78 said:

What happened to the kids for sale.

azstarnet.com/news/local/sold-as-kids-their-lives-now-converge/article_f4fe5e61-f226-5a63-96f9-270154a02545.html

I read this via reddit week or so ago and thought it was so interesting.

Great photos!

[Deleted]

OK I'm crying like a fool.

[jacquie]

The 7th Village Person:



Who knew the 'stache was cool in the '20s.

[Deleted]

I think the Prohibition one with the waterfalls of alcohol is super neat. Was that just the easiest way to get rid of it? Pour it out the windows and let it drain down the gutters?

[Gato]

Holy crap.  I did the math, and Annie Edison Taylor went over Niagara Falls when she was 63 years old.  That's pretty bad ass (if crazy).

[8675309]

Does anyone else wonder if that doll that the little girl was comforting was actually a real baby....maybe a sibling. The proportion is unreal. Gave me chills.

[Deleted]

No, that is definitely a doll.

[hopecounts]

if you enlarge the pic it's clearly a doll, the 'hair' is molded and the hands are clearly not real.

[Deleted]

Sept 25, 2013 15:36:31 GMT -5 luckyval said:

And holy hell @ the Princeton snow ball fight.

That's no joke

They probably put rocks in the snowballs. Typical teenaged boys trying to make it more painful.

[Deleted]

The "beautiful suicide" picture has always been a favorite of mine, in a morbid way. There's been controversy about whether it was staged or not because she looks so perfect without a hair out of place. Sad but beautiful.

[berbles]

Sept 25, 2013 16:17:53 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

The "beautiful suicide" picture has always been a favorite of mine, in a morbid way. There's been controversy about whether it was staged or not because she looks so perfect without a hair out of place. Sad but beautiful.

I was wondering that when I saw it.  No blood?  At all?  And then I felt really weird about staring at a dead body at work...

[wrathofkuus]

That kids for sale one... the picture looks so tragic and circumstantial, but the story behind it, maaan, what a horrible fucking woman. And where are those kids' father?

[hopecounts]

Sept 25, 2013 15:58:59 GMT -5 AuntFlo said:

I think the Prohibition one with the waterfalls of alcohol is super neat. Was that just the easiest way to get rid of it? Pour it out the windows and let it drain down the gutters?

pretty much.
let the police hack into the barrels with hatchets and then it just spills away, no unnecessary work and safer then trying to transport and store it.
Gangsters ddin't run booze for the fun of it, there was major momey in it. Enough that a cop going dirty was a real risk and common. no need to make it worse by holding onto the booze longer than neccessary.

[hopecounts]

Sept 25, 2013 16:14:22 GMT -5 @champagna said:

Sept 25, 2013 16:12:42 GMT -5 hopecounts said:

if you enlarge the pic it's clearly a doll, the 'hair' is molded and the hands are clearly not real.

Oh, that's good. That entire photo just broke my heart. 

yep that poor little girl. 
there are a lot of blitz pictures like that out there.