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![Check out these great photos of Australia in the 30s by E.O. Hoppé
Aboriginal tribesman, Palm Island, Queenland, 1930
Aboriginal women looking at European film poster, Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station, Central Australia, 1930
Mrs. Annie Brown, sheep farmer, (and mother of 12 children) Tasmania, 1930
Bondi Beach, Sydney, 1930
The Bank At Coober Pedy Opal Fields South Australian Outback 1930
Incident In Play, Aboriginal War Dance, Palm Island Queensland 1930
The Sydney Harbour Bridge From The Domain 1930
Test Match [Latest] Scores, Old Car, Coober Pedy South Australian Outback 1930
Girls Applying Sunburn Cream, Bondi Beach Australia 1930
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Check out these great photos of Australia in the 30s by E.O. Hoppé
Aboriginal tribesman, Palm Island, Queenland, 1930
Aboriginal women looking at European film poster, Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Station, Central Australia, 1930
Mrs. Annie Brown, sheep farmer, (and mother of 12 children) Tasmania, 1930
Bondi Beach, Sydney, 1930
The Bank At Coober Pedy Opal Fields South Australian Outback 1930
Incident In Play, Aboriginal War Dance, Palm Island Queensland 1930
The Sydney Harbour Bridge From The Domain 1930
Test Match [Latest] Scores, Old Car, Coober Pedy South Australian Outback 1930
Girls Applying Sunburn Cream, Bondi Beach Australia 1930
The Internet Archive is hosting a copy of the American Specimen Book of Type Styles put out by the American Type Founders Company in 1912. It’s a 1300-page book listing hundreds of typefaces from newspapers, signs, shops etc.
There’s some amazing stuff, check it out.
Life has an photo essay called The ‘Halfway to Hell’ Club about the construction of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
‘The bridge pioneered the use of a moveable safety net that saved the lives of 19 construction workers over the course of the bridge’s manufacture. These 19 went on to become members of the unofficial “Halfway to Hell” Club.’
There’s more images at the San Francisco Library and the Retronaut has some too
Check out this living portrait of Woodrow Wilson from 1918.
Click through to My Modern Met for a heap more
The retronaut has some pics of a gun safety class at an Indiana school in 1956
The retronaut has some fantastic colour Saul Leiter photos of New York in the forties and fifties
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t have any.
-Jane Russell, here posing for The Outlaw’s (1943, dir. Howard Hughes) poster art via
Wikipedia: The FP-45 Liberator was designed for the United States Army in 1942 by General Motors. It was originally intended as an insurgency weapon to be mass dropped behind enemy lines to resistance fighters in occupied territory. A million were assembled. It was believed that if vast quantities of these weapons could be delivered into Axis occupied territory, it would have a devastating effect on the morale of occupying troops
Check out the making of a giant coke sign click
In 1998, an archeological team led by French professor Francoise Dunand discovered around 60 mummies from 50 tombs at Ain Labakha, a Roman fort in southwestern Egypt, including this 10 year-old girl pictured here, freshly exhumed, resting on the desert sand. click
How come this chick’s 4000 year old hair has more body and shine than mine?
