#historical pictures

[krumpkin]

Grant Woods American Gothic painting 1930 . The two models are Grant Woods sister ( Nan Wood Graham and Dr Byron Henry McKeeby ) Mckeeby was actually Woods dentist. Those happy smiling faces can't help but draw you in to this classic painting 😁

[orphic222]

the romanovs.

[lesmisscraper]

The two most memorable barricades of the June Revolution of 1848. Volume 5, Book 1, Chapter 1.

[major-richard-sharpe]

With the resurgence of HBO war due to Masters of the Air, I figured y'all might like my phone wallpaper for the past year or so:

There's really not too much of my own work in this. I just took the original color picture of these easy company fellas...

...and extended the color. I also added some misty clouds/mountain peaks to make it a little bit nicer. Maybe if I wanted to be extra fancy, I could find that exact view of the Alps, but yknow.

Feel free to use! I had this for about a year and a half and haven't changed it, so it must be pretty alright haha

[echera]

The Sorrows of Satan, directed by D.W. Griffith in 1926.

"A Midnight Visit to The Neighborhood Bloodbank", by Tom Wright in 1972

An album cover for Bela Lugosi's Dead, by Bauhaus, released in 1979.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Outstanding single picture of the noted Comanche Peyote leader Red Sun or Puiwat (Without Eyes), ca. 1893. Photograph taken by W. J. Lenney. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C

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In the 1890's, the American ethnographer James Mooney traveled to the land of the Comanches to gain an understanding of the Comanche Peyote Ceremony. He eventually saw the ritual as a fountain of honesty and of true spiritual inspiration. Mooney soon began to see the medicinal value of the peyote to tribal people as well. In the encounter with well-known peyote men, Mooney realized that the Comanches were one of the early users of peyote within the teepee ceremony. As he was welcomed into the Comanche peyote meeting, he observed the gathering very closely. For the meeting, the famed Comanche Chief Quanah Parker who was the main protector of the ceremony had the elder Red Sun command the all-night meeting of fellowship. Of the respected old great warrior Red Sun who was also known as Puiwat (Without Eyes), Mooney would later share that Puiwat "was blind and very feeble" yet "when it came to his turn to sing the midnight song, he took the rattle and sang as vigorously as any of the others." After the meeting was over, the Comanche participants posed for a group picture beside their teepee for James Mooney. They were shown posed in front of Quanah Mountain. In his later report at the Smithsonian, Mooney shared that the peyote was not to be feared. It allowed him to pursue a commitment to help preserve tribal ways.

[Historical Pictures]

[petermorwood]

Various interesting features here:

Look how colourful their clothes are - okay, these are high nobles, but according to Dung Age Hollywood there was no difference between nobles and peasants, everyone wore dingy cloth or black leather or dingy black leather.

The battle scene on the background tapestry shows how important bright colours could be: Know Your Ally, Know Your Foe. Mistakes (and "mistakes") did happen...

Lapdogs are allowed on the table but greyhounds aren't. I think this may have to do with size, though it may also mean there's a chance to catch a thieving lapdog but a thieving greyhound can be in the next county with half a roast beast before anyone is out of their seat.

The lapdogs are Being Good, eating from their own dish rather than pinching from the platter of roasted quails behind them. This is almost certainly artistic license combined with a lot of optimism, as anyone who knows Pekes, Poms and indeed cats can tell you.

The ship-shaped thing on the table beside the lapdogs is a container for salt or spices and is called a nef, which means "ship" (or at least a kind of ship) and may have been shaped that way either because salt came from the sea or because spices were transported by ship from far away, though YMMV on that one.

Part-coloured hose is clearly in fashion, as is wearing spurs indoors. Sir Standing Blue is wearing just one spur, which is almost certainly Significant in some way, but I have no idea what that might be.

Also, I think that pattern on the floor is mean to represent rush matting. This makes a lot more sense than the usual "strewn rushes" like a badly scythed lawn, especially in periods when the fashion of the day was for floor length gowns such as houppelandes. Those would raise bow-waves of loose rushes with every stride and leave clean-swept lanes in their wake, all of which sounds a bit unlikely.

More wishful thinking? More "for high nobles only"? Again, YMMV, but weaving rush mats strikes me as another means of income for peasants. Scattering aromatic herbs that smelt nice when trodden on (and could be brushed up later) is another matter.

Finally, Sir Standing Green and Sir Standing Blue aren't flashing their junk, those are dagger hilts. The weapon was called a ballock dagger.

Guess why.

‘January’ in the ‘Tres Riches Heures’ - Probably Pol Limbourg.

[muhammad-ubaidullah-khan]

[daancienttime]

This famous black-and-white photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt captures the euphoric moment in Times Square, New York City, on August 14, 1945, when Japan announced its surrender, ending World War II. The photograph shows a U.S. Navy sailor passionately kissing a young woman in a white dress, symbolizing the relief and joy felt by Americans at the war's end.

Website:- https://youtu.be/OmHcIiKDiFk

[sealedintime]

Cat on a car, October 1958. New York City, Photo by Angelo Rizzuto

[theorderofthetriad]

"That photo of the suspected shooter probably isn't of the actual shooter so it's ok to spread it around"

[arrimorr]

My ocs, Sir and Ser, aka the eldritch malevolent policemen 😔

[every-ogata]

[tchoupiraterie]

Traced a little picture because I was bored and couldn’t draw anything with memory. This photo is so cute and… aziracrow you know

[echera]

An American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who made his great discoveries on the best telescope in the world at that time - the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson in southern California. Today his name carried by the best telescope we have, not on Earth, but a satellite observatory orbiting our planet. The Hubble Space Telescope is continuing the work begun by Hubble himself to map our Universe, and producing the most remarkable images of distant galaxies ever seen, many of which are available via the World Wide Web.

Source: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hubble/

[clove-pinks]

Couples from Fashionables: les mois par Gavarni, published 1837.