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"Reckon I been in mill 2 years. Don’t remember."

Springstein Mill. John Lewis (boy with hat), 12 years old, 1 year in mill. Weaver — 4 looms. 40 [cents] a day to start, 60 [cents] a day now. Brother and mother in mill. Morris Small (boy with cap), “Reckon I been in mill 2 years. Don’t remember.” Chester, S.C., 11/28/1908

Series: National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine, ca. 1912

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Defend Moscow! 

Russian Propaganda from WWII

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The term bog bodies are human burials, some likely sacrificed, placed within peat bogs of Denmark, Germany, Holland, Britain, and Ireland and naturally mummified. The highly acidic peat acts as a remarkable preservative, leaving the clothing and skin intact, and creating poignant and memorable images of people of the past.

The reason that bogs permit a high level of preservation is because they are both acidic and anaerobic (oxygen-poor). When a body is thrown into a bog, the cold water will hinder putrefaction and insect activity. Sphagnum mosses and the presence of tannin add to the preservation by having anti-bacterial properties.

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Straight Shooter, Navajo - 1903 Aka “Adilth’doni’”. He was a jeweler, trader and medicine man.

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Back, back in the USSR

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Disneyland,  Tomorrowland, 1965

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A great example of continuing inequality in public spaces

Black children standing in front of half mile concrete wall, Detroit, Michigan. This wall was built in August 1941, to separate the Black section from a white housing development going up on the other side.

Photo by John Vachon

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The Outbreak of the First World War, 1914 Crowds outside Buckingham Palace cheer King George, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales (who can just be seen on the balcony) following the Declaration of War in August 1914.

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“How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”

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Third class menu on Titanic.

Gruel for supper!  Yay!

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Members of the Black Panther Party, stripped, handcuffed, and arrested after Philadelphia police raided the Panther headquarters, August, 1970 The Black Panther Party had its local Philadelphia headquarters in a storefront on Columbia Avenue, from which a group of young men and women went forth to sell the party’s news paper and in other ways agitate for the Panthers” Ten Point Program, calling for ‘land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace.” When the party decided on Philadelphia as the site of its Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention - to begin to draft ‘a constitution that serves the people, not the ruling class, the Church of the Advocate was the location for the convention’s registration center, 1970. On the Saturday before the convention a murder was committed when a Philadelphia policeman was shot and killed in a Fairmont Park guardhouse. There were also other attacks on policemen. Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo used this opportunity to attack the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia. At dawn, August 31, 1970, heavily armed police raided three Panther Offices in the city, 2935 Columbia Avenue, 3625 Wallace Street, and 428 W. Queen Lane. Around the world flashed news photos of young black men arrested in the raids, who were ordered to strip. One photo showing them in their underwear and another showing them stripped naked at gunpoint.” Reggie Schell, local defense captain, organizer for the party remembers it this way, “Each cop took an individual Panther and placed their pistol up the back of our neck and told us to walk down the street backyard. They told us if we stumble or fall they’re gonna kill us. Then they lined us up against a wall and a cop with a .45 sub would fire over our heads so the bricks started falling down. Most of us had been in bed, and they ripped the goddamned clothes off everyone, women and men. They had the gun, they’d just snatch your pants down and they took pictures of use like that. Then they put us in a wagon and took us to the police station.” 

Credit: Courtesy of Urban Archives, Temple University

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Stairways. Guizhou, China.

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Kachina dancers, Shongopavi pueblo, Arizona Photo of dance by kachina dancers of the Hopi pueblo of Shongopavi, Arizona, USA taken sometime between about 1870 and 1900. The dancers, which would be members of the local kiva religious societies, represent spirits called kachinas and wear elaborate masks. Changes to original work: Cropped out right image of stereo pair, converted to greyscale, adjusted brightness and contrast.

A kachina (/kəˈtʃiːnə/; also katchina, katcina, or katsina; Hopi: katsina /kətˈsiːnə/, plural katsinim /kətˈsiːnɨm/) is a spirit being in western Pueblo cosmology and religious practices. The western Pueblo, Native American cultures located in the southwestern United States, include Hopi, Zuni, Tewa Village (on the Hopi Reservation), Acoma Pueblo, and Laguna Pueblo. The kachina religion has spread to more eastern Pueblos, e.g., from Laguna to Isleta. The term also refers to the kachina dancers, masked members of the tribe who dress up as kachinas for religious ceremonies, and kachina dolls, wooden figures representing kachinas which are given as gifts to children.

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The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon in the old Fort William, at Calcutta, India, where troops of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, held British prisoners of war after the capture of the Fort on 20 June 1756.

One of the prisoners, John Zephaniah Holwell, claimed that following the fall of the fort, British and Anglo-Indian soldiers and civilians were held overnight in conditions so cramped that many died from suffocation, heat exhaustion and crushing. He claimed that 123 prisoners died out of 146 held. However, the precise number of deaths, and the accuracy of Holwell’s claims, have been the subject of controversy.

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These photos depict Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who fought and bared arms during the American Civil War in the 95th Illinois Infantry. It was later revealed that he was born Jennie Hodgers, one of the estimated 400 women who went undercover to fight alongside men in the Civil War.