Tag Archives: Photography

1976: Kids and Comics

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

“12-year-old Freddie Lewis, left, and Marshall Beck, both of San Diego’s Normal Heights neighborhood, set aside superhero comics to check out a copy of ‘Howard the Duck’ in 1976. (Dennis Huls / San Diego Historical Society)” (source)

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1962: Nurses’ March

Posted on August 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

April 1, 1962: 8,000 union nurses march for higher pay in Trafalgar Square, London. In 1958, at the worst stage of the recession, the Conservative government took a firm stand against pay increases and, having won the busmen’s strike in … Continue reading →

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1933: World Revolution

Posted on August 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

April 3, 1933: Workers gluing maps to globes at the Geographia factory in London.

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1977: I am a Passenger / I Stay Under Glass

Posted on July 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

Esther Friedman: Iggy Pop (c. 1977); from her book of photographs, The Passenger.

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1913: Inez

Posted on July 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Inez Milholland preparing to lead the great march for women’s suffrage: March 3, 1913 (source). As a student at Vassar, Inez Milholland enrolled two-thirds of the students in the fight for women’s suffrage and socialism; she was also the captain … Continue reading →

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1948: Poets’ Party

Posted on July 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

A party at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City to welcome poets Sir Osbert and Dame Edith Sitwell (seated, left of center) to the US for a series of readings. W. H. Auden is perched on the ladder … Continue reading →

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2016: Mother and Child

Posted on July 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

US Dept of Interior‏: “A mama moose & her calf in the early morning fog at Seedskadee Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming” (source)

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1966: Bring Me My Robe

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Louis Mélançon: Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra (1966)

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2012: Celebration

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Siphiwe Sibeko: Mineworkers at the Lonmin Marikana mine in South Africa celebrate a 22% pay increase after an extended strike (2012) (source)

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1935: Archive

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Undated photo of War Department records in the White House garage. Prior to the establishment of the National Archives in 1934, “federal records were kept in various basements, attics, abandoned buildings, and other storage places with little security or concern … Continue reading →

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