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Catboy Autonomist posted:Here you go: I think it's freaking awesome that this is the first GIS result for "dude eating rice"  Self-Portrait, Alexandrina Victoria, 1835. Two years later she was coronated Queen Victoria
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J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, the First Lord Brabazon of Tara, had one goal in his life: To prove that pigs can fly. In 1909 he finally got his chance when he acquired an aero plane, he then put a pig in a basket and took to the skies: 
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Khazar-khum posted:My bad. http://thanatos.net/ Shame I gotta pay to view most of these. The samples, however, beg a ton of questions. Tempted to subscribe but I cant get past the thought of paying money to be depressed and more than a little morbid. I went to a place in New Orleans called the Museum of Death, and a portion of it was dedicated to exactly this stuff. Contradicting my previous statement, I paid money to be morbid and I'd totally go back. Are paintings kosher in this thread? Was going to make a post about John Rabe because that guy's story is wild.
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buglord posted:Are paintings kosher in this thread? Was going to make a post about John Rabe because that guy's story is wild. Is it a picture? Is it from history? 
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buglord posted:Are paintings kosher in this thread? Was going to make a post about John Rabe because that guy's story is wild. Who are those guys they're guarding, do you know? To celebrate reaching the second page, I set myself a challenge: Look up five random digital collections I didn't know before and post one thing out of them. Go! 1. The Harry Ransom Center Digital Collections The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin is a huge collection specialising in the arts and humanities, although the only way to actually download its pictures seems to be a screengrab, sadly. It contains amongst others many photographs taken from the Black Crook cast, a Broadway play of the 1860s that is widely seen as the prototype to the modern musical. The daring dresses of its dancers as well as the fact that it was the first live performance of the can-can dance in the US made it the subject of heated debate at its time.  Pauline Markham (1847-1919) was an English actress who got cast as the fairy queen Stalacta for the 1870 revival of "The Black Crook". It was her breakthrough role and one for which she would be remembered decades later. 2. The Victoria and Albert Museum I know about this world-famous museum specialising in decorative arts and design, of course - as a matter of fact, I even visited it once many years ago! I didn't know however that they also offer a huge digital collection with over 750,000 pictures available, amongst them this WW2 poster that was part of the Ministry of Home Security's "Careless Talk" campaign:  3. Éischte Weltkrich The University of Luxembourg just put up this cool digital exhibition about WW1 in Luxembourg. Sadly, its images can only be screengrabbed again.  German soldiers parading through the town of Echternach in Luxembourg, right at the German border (1914) 4.The Photographical Archive of the Swiss Ethnological Society Oh yeah, that's the really good stuff (for me, a cultural historian, that is  ). This archive offers more than 95,000 photographs documenting Swiss folklore, religious practice and everyday life during the 19th and 20th centuries. In the photo below we see one of Switzerland's last wainwrights at work in 1963. 5. Archive of Malian Photography This is a cool and laudable effort undertaken by Malian photographers and archivists with US support to digitise the collections of five of Mali's most important photographers of the 20th century. As of now, their collection houses more than 100,000 photos covering the 1940s (when Mali was still a French colony) to the 1990s.  At a dance party at the Grand Hotel of Bamako, a couple is dancing face-to-face in front of guests sitting around tables (1961) System Metternich has a new favorite as of 20:58 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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 A painting by Albrecht Dürer, depicting a personal dream (1525): "In the year 1525 after day of whitsun between wednesday and day of whitsun at night during sleep I have seen this face: large waters fell from sky And they met the soil about 4 miles from myself with such crudelity with tremendous murmuring and spatter and drowning all the land.In the course of this I frightened so hard that I woke up by this. [...] I did not come to myself When I arised in the morning I painted the above as I saw it. God may change all things to the best."
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This is insanely cool, thank you! One small correction, though: it's "Pfinztag" (=Donnerstag/Thursday) and not "Pfingsttag" in the first line after "Mittwoch" 
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Durer was a genius. I love his work. He did some of the first self-portraits. He happened to be in port when a ship arrived, carrying examples of gold Mesoamerican pieces. His father was a goldsmith, so he really understood and appreciated what he saw. Sadly, the notebook he filled with drawings of the pieces is now lost.
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buglord posted:Shame I gotta pay to view most of these. The samples, however, beg a ton of questions. Tempted to subscribe but I cant get past the thought of paying money to be depressed and more than a little morbid. I went to a place in New Orleans called the Museum of Death, and a portion of it was dedicated to exactly this stuff. Contradicting my previous statement, I paid money to be morbid and I'd totally go back. Cultural history is a part of what I love, Art history. Thanatos is great for it. You see how customs changed, see fashion and hairdos change, see how the whole ritual of death changed. People make comments, and some of them do geneological searches to find out more about the families. It's not morbid unless you tell yourself it is. It does make you appreciate how fragile life can be.
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Salvador Dali taking an anteater for a walk in Paris.
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Great stuff, everybody! We all know monkish marginalia. Here are some pieces I've come across at the national archives in Denmark. On the inside front page of a 1830s case index for a small claims court. Next to the soldier's foot is written "Accordance"; it is possibly a reference to often the heated proceedings at the court.  On the back of a folder of police case documents, 1836. Perhaps a cop became bored during questioning?  On the front of a census form, 1916. Maybe the census taker's kid
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System Metternich posted:Who are those guys they're guarding, do you know? This source lists them as "federal officers and locals", which.... seems like two strange groups of people to have together in the same place.
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Did you know street view existed in NYC in the 80s? Well not really but to figure out who needs to pay what kind of property taxes they had to figure out which lots were vacant and what kind of buildings were built on the occupied ones. So they just drove around and photographed every building in NYC. The result is a kind of street view from a place and era I only know from weird 80s movies. You can check it out here: http://80s.nyc
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Shai-Hulud posted:Did you know street view existed in NYC in the 80s? Well not really but to figure out who needs to pay what kind of property taxes they had to figure out which lots were vacant and what kind of buildings were built on the occupied ones. So they just drove around and photographed every building in NYC. That's really interesting! It reminds me of the pictures of Bruce Davidson, who in the 1980s travelled the NYC subway with his camera and produced some imo really captivating pictures:     (An undercover cop arresting a mugger  )
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“Regen”(Rain) is a short film consisting of typical street scenes filmed in Amsterdam in 1929. It’s pretty relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ADNWzg4ZmE twoday has a new favorite as of 22:34 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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Shai-Hulud posted:Did you know street view existed in NYC in the 80s? Well not really but to figure out who needs to pay what kind of property taxes they had to figure out which lots were vacant and what kind of buildings were built on the occupied ones. So they just drove around and photographed every building in NYC. Thats awesome! I'm fascinated by gritty old 70's and 80's NYC. There was a thread with some neat stuff but it's been dead for ages. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3736887&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 I've never actually been there. I only live a couple of hours away so my only excuse for not visiting is that cities make me nervous. I'll always be a backwards townie.
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System Metternich posted:That's really interesting! It reminds me of the pictures of Bruce Davidson, who in the 1980s travelled the NYC subway with his camera and produced some imo really captivating pictures: This is like steeping into the world of the Get Down, which is an extremely dumb thing to say as the Get Down is a show with a real world setting in the New York of 1977 but it reminds me of that show which captures the Bronx of that time really well
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More old New York photos: In 1870, the 21 year old carpenter Jacob August Riis emigrated from Denmark to New York. After working in his trade as well as odd jobs for some time, he eventually settled on becoming a journalist. In the 1880s, he worked for the New-York Tribune as police reporter, and when flash photography was invented in 1887, he was in a perfect position to photographically document the slums that he himself had lived in.  "Bandit's Roost", 59 Mulberry Street (1887)  Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street (1889)  A New York man wakes from his sleep, circa 1890. He was one of four pedlars who slept in a cellar.  Street Arabs In The Area Of Mulberry Street (1890)  A Black-and-tan (all races allowed) dive in 'Africa' A selection of his photos were published in How the Other Half Lives in 1890, opening the eyes of middle & upper class New Yorkers to the conditions that they thus far had been able to avoid seeing. The Jacob Riis Houses public housing project in New York City is named for him.
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Krankenstyle posted:
Jesus Christ I'm usually not the emotional type but this is breaking my loving heart. That hug is just to much for me 
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If you can stand YouTube videos made up of pictures with music playing, Perfect Life has lots of old photo videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVO3xD3LkQ
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Shai-Hulud posted:Jesus Christ I'm usually not the emotional type but this is breaking my loving heart. That hug is just to much for me Yeah there's a lot of really heartbreaking photos of homeless kids in his books 
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If you ever get a chance, the New York Tenement Museum is actually pretty interesting. It's more of a tour through restored apartments, than a singular building; but very neat. https://www.tenement.org
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London 1903 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVQiEJW7RWg
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Recent history, the two tall guys are Darth Vader and Chewbacca.
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Ommin posted:If you ever get a chance, the New York Tenement Museum is actually pretty interesting. It's more of a tour through restored apartments, than a singular building; but very neat. If you want a quick view of the building the movie fantastic beasts was filmed on sight.
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115 years later and there's still ads for Nestle products everywhere.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Is that r2d2 in front there? Yes, actually. C3P0 was probably being a whiny oval office so they didn't let him in the picture.
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Let's do Part 1: From the Kingdom of Prussia to the Republic of Germany The earliest (known) photos of Berlin were taken surprisingly late, in about 1853 or 1854, a good 14-15 years after Germany's first photos were taken in Munich. They are also not very interesting. How about this photo of Spittelmarkt square instead, which was taken in 1868? Back then, there was no unified Germany yet, and the Kingdom of Prussia was governed by King Wilhelm I and his chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The memory of the war fought between Prussia and the other German states two years ago was still fresh in everybody's mind, and I guess that nobody really thought it possible that Berlin would become the capital of a newly created German Empire only three years later.  Below you can see the same location, almost two decades later. Berlin was still governed by the same two men who together had formed an entire generation of Berliners and Prussians, although, unbeknownst to both of them, their era was quickly coming to its end. Berlin had grown rapidly during these years, almost doubling its population. Many old buildings had vanished and were replaced with new ones. If you look at the two images you'll notice that the church in the former one can't be seen. Indeed it was torn down in 1881to make place for the ever-increasing traffic. In 1887 it still consisted mainly of horse-drawn carriages and the occasional electrical tramway, but very soon afterwards the first cars would begin driving through the streets of the German capital. The emperor, who was old enough to personally remember when Napoleon had occupied Berlin more than eighty years before, was known for his nostalgia towards the older and (at least on the surface) simpler days of yore.  There was no going back, of course. In 1888, Wilhelm I died and was (after the quick death of his son Friedrich III , a passionate smoker, who only reigned for a few days before succumbing to cancer of the throat) eventually succeeded by his grandson Wilhelm II. The new emperor felt no affinity towards the old Prussia, that had ceased to exist when he was only a young boy. He was instead a passionate supporter of technological progress, and under his reign Berlin underwent even more changes. One part of this rapid change were the first coloured photos of Berlin, taken in 1903:  The not-yet-completed new cathedral...  ...the medieval Krögel neighbourhood (one of the oldest parts of the city), which was completely torn down in 1935...  ...small restaurants in the quieter parts of the city...  ...and finally the vibrant night life. The fast-paced modernisation saw a lot of people on the losing side too, of course. Like in many other cities all over the world, rapid growth and quick industrialisation had created a massive underclass whose members often lived in appalling poverty.  This 1905 photo shows a couple in its one-room basement flat...  ...while eleven people altogether lived in this run-down flat that consisted of one room and a small kitchen with nothing else. In 1914, World War I broke out. Like in many other cities, towns and villages all over Europe, people were exuberant. Nationalist fervour had gripped all but a few minds, and after many decades of peace, not a few people were eagerly awaiting the next war. While many people nowadays tend to think of pre-1914 Europe as socially stable, where people "knew their place" and wizened monarchs were gracefully waving from their balconies, it was anything but. The rampant modernisation, the extreme changes in social structure and hierarchy and many other things led to many contemporaries thinking of their own time in negative terms: "spoiled and decadent", "devoid of meaning and devoid of God" or "technological dystopia leading to certain doom" were common descriptors by intellectuals critical of their time. Shortly after the war, German author Ernst Jünger published his war memoirs under the title "Storms of Steel". This wasn't random, but instead picked up on a common pre-war sentiment: The air had been growing hot, humid and heavy, and it needed a proper thunderstorm (i.e. war) to make breathing easier again.  On July 31, 1914, military officials announce to the people of Berlin that Germany had entered a "status of imminent danger of war! and also proclaimed an ultimatum by the German government towards the Russian czar. If Czar Nicholas II wouldn't recall his troops within 12 hours, there would be war.  The next day: Thousands of people wait in front of the Berlin palace to hear whether Russia had accepted the terms of the ultimatum or not. It hadn't...  ...and upon the news that there would be a war, people were cheering in the streets. In Berlin they were carrying around portraits of the two emperors, Wilhelm II of Germany and Franz-Josef of Austria.  Entire school classes were marching off to the recruiters, and during the early days of the war, scenes like this where cavalry soldiers are departing from Berlin under the cheers of the people were common.  I also like this photo which shows people eagerly gathering around the newest issue of the local paper, bringing news of the war effort during its earliest days.  During the beginning of the war, lists with the names of fallen soldiers were put up on the streets, like Prussia had done during previous wars. When after a couple of weeks those lists grew and grew into ever larger sizes, the government eventually banned them. While the war raged on in both the east and the west, life in Berlin initially went on as normal. When the war didn't end by late 1914, as the government had promised, it soon became apparent that the German government was ill prepared for a long war. The Allied blockade of German ports as well as the fact that German agriculture tended to be extremely small-dimensioned (i.e. small, family-owned holdings that were worked on in pretty much the same way and with many of the same tools that had already been in use during the late Middle Ages) in contrast to the large stretches of land in e.g. Great Britain or the US, where machines made sowing and harvesting much easier and more efficient. A famous German historian once remarked that on a strictly nutritional level the war had been lost already by 1916.  Goulash being handed out to the hungry masses in Berlin, 1916. During the winter of 1916/17, official rations for adults were limited to 270 grams of bread, 35 grams of meat (including the bones), 25 grams of sugar and a quarter of an egg. Thousands starved.  On November 9, 1918, many of Germany's political elites had come to the conclusion that the imminent defeat also had to mean the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Chancellor Max von Baden, who wanted to somehow preserve monarchy altogether, proclaimed the Kaiser's abdication before Wilhelm knew anything about it; he fled to the Netherlands afterwards. The social democrat politician Philipp Scheidemann was notified that the communist party was preparing a big statement at the Berlin palace, the same place where four years before Kaiser Wilhelm had officially proclaimed the beginning of the war. Scheidemann, who wanted to prevent a communist takeover of Berlin or even Germany, decided that the only way to do so was to issue a proclamation of his own. Around noon he appeared on one of the Reichstag's (i.e. the parliament's) many balconies and publicly proclaimed the new German republic. The masses broke out in cheers, and when communist politician Karl Liebknecht proclaimed a communist Germany two hours later, he had already lost the people's support before he even began. The war would end two days later. There were probably many people in Berlin during these days who thought that the end of the war would finally bring some peace and quiet back to their city. They were sorely mistaken, of course.
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Adriaen van de Venne, 1636. The blue hair is probably a thrum cap.  1770s comic picture of a prostitute washing her only chemise in a chamber pot, to the distress of a passing cat.  Renaissance(?) drawing of a cupid stealing honeycomb and getting attacked by bees while his babysitter doesn't seem too concerned about it. 
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It's around October 26th 1863, these dudes are the officers of the Russian fleet and that's Niagara Falls in the background; How could that story NOT be interesting? [The New York Times]The Russian Excursion to Niagara Falls. Published: October 21, 1863 The officers of the Russian fleet will start on their excursion to Niagara Falls to-morrow morning. The excursion has been gotten up under the joint auspices of the Hudson River Steamboat Company and the New-York Central and Erie Railroad Companies. All the officers of the fleet, numbering 100 and over, will join in the excursion, and they will be accompanied only by the Committee representing the Railroads and a few invited guests. The following is the form of the invitations which have been issued, and which are confined exclusively to officials or ex-officials of the City or State: NEW-YORK, Oct. 19, 1863. SIR: The honor of your company is requested on an excursion to Niagara Falls, in company with the Admiral and officers of the Russian fleet. The party will leave foot of Jay-street on Thursday morning, 22d inst., at 8 o'clock, by steamer, for Albany; on Friday, at 8 A.M., by New-York Central Railroad, for Niagara. On Monday, a train will leave Buffalo, (at an hour of which notice will be given,) passing through Portage, Elmira, &c., over the Erie Railway, to New-York. We have the honor to inclose tickets for these several conveyances. Should you be unable to go, we will thank you to return them to Mr. SHERMAN, No. 11 Nassau-street. An answer will oblige. We have the honor to be your obedient servants. DANIEL DREW, For Hudson River Steamboat Company. WATTS SHERMAN, For New-York Central Railway Company. J.C. BANCROFT DAVIS, For Erie Railway Company. We understand that it was the special request of the Russian Admiral, on accepting the invitation, that the trip should be as private as possible, and that there should be no speech-making, banqueting, or public demonstrations of any kind during the excursion. The Committee have, therefore, rigidly excluded from their list of invited guests all representatives of the Press. One of the reasons assigned by the Russian Admiral for wishing to avoid so far as possible all publicity in the affair was rather curious, and hardly to have been expected from a representative of Imperial Russia; but he doubtless knows his own business best. It is to be hoped that his wishes will be gratified on this occasion, and that the American Press will refrain from mentioning any of the incidents of the excursion, lest envy might be excited in the breast of Johnny Crapeau. There will be noise enough in the roar of Niagara without the accompaniment of buncombe speeches. "Speech," says CARLYLE, "is human -- silence is divine." Let no man open his mouth while the Russians gaze at the great cataract, or if he does, let no reporter take note of what he sayeth.
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sometimes i wonder how gender & sex was considered back then. this strong person is dressed like a woman -- clothing high up front like a bathingsuit & long hair in a sort of old grandma duck style. imo theyre badass but probably back then they were a freak
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Krankenstyle posted:sometimes i wonder how gender & sex was considered back then. I don't disagree with the general point you're making, but a reverse image search suggests the person in the photo was AFAB and named Louise Leers.
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Ah. My vocabulary is a mess anyway I hope they found happiness
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Krankenstyle posted:Ah. My vocabulary is a mess I don't think that picture actually is Luisita Leers, but I think the real one did in the end
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Ah, I meant strongwoman, and didn't realize I messed up until now. Content. I'm not surprised this didn't take off. 
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Catboy Autonomist posted:This source lists them as "federal officers and locals", which.... seems like two strange groups of people to have together in the same place. Most likely locals. AIM rounded up locals and "guarded" them, essentially taking the town hostage. Walter Littlemoon has a really good accounting of what happened with AIM and by his account they all sound like a bunch of shitheads.
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