Thread: Old Black & White Photos

Originally Posted by Lemur

So... what did I win?

You'll have to ask sharptonn, but I think it's a weekend, all expenses paid, trip to the apple orchard in Mayberry, RFD.

Howard

Originally Posted by SirStropalot

You'll have to ask sharptonn, but I think it's a weekend, all expenses paid, trip to the apple orchard in Mayberry, RFD.

Howard

Weeee!
I go look for my passport....

Originally Posted by Lemur

I can't get this one out of my head, so strange!

Ku Klux Klan on a ferris wheel Retronaut | Retronaut - See the past like you wouldn't believe.

Great website, thanks for posting the link.

I now have a scanner, so I can contribute a picture or two! Heres my Grandfather, nice mustache. Wrecked a Model T in "31" and died.

Originally Posted by Sailor

A quick search led me to these two war time photos.

First pic is from the US Life magazine ( i had no idea Life was interested in our far-away war). The photo is taken in our winter war, soon after the battle of road to Raate. i have no idea about the second either, just two sergeants smoking a pipe. The one on the left (sgt major, four arrows) has German-style Finnish helmet and the the other (3 arrows) has a Russian helmet (spoils of war?). I have no idea. I have some of hat cockades, taken by my grandfather and my great uncle. I think they are just a memorials of the sad times.

Tomi,

I thought I'd throw this one at you...

Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimɔ ˈhæy̯hæ]; December 17, 1905 – April 1, 2002), nicknamed "White Death" (Russian: Белая смерть, Belaya Smert; Finnish: valkoinen kuolema; Swedish: den vita döden) by the Red Army, was a Finnish sniper. Using a modified Mosin–Nagant in the Winter War, he has the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills – 505 – in any major war.[2]

Originally Posted by Lemur

I can't get this one out of my head, so strange!

Ku Klux Klan on a ferris wheel Retronaut | Retronaut - See the past like you wouldn't believe.

I guess I'm a bit late to tout the ubercool website, Retronaut! I can get lost on that site for huge chunks of time!! This popped up on my FB news feed today.

The Thomas W. Lawson Retronaut | Retronaut - See the past like you wouldn't believe.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

1912 Lawrence Textile Strike

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

On November 22, 1909, Clara Lemlich had been listening to men speak about the disadvantages and cautions about the shirtwaist workers going on a general strike. After listening to these men speak for or more hours at a local 25 union meeting, she rose and declared in Yiddish the she wanted to say a few words of her own. After rising to the podium she declared that the shirtwaist workers are on a general strike. Her declaration recieved a standing ovation and the audience went wild. Clara then took an oath swearing that if she became a traitor to the cause she now voted for, then that the hand she now held high should wither from her arm. Less than one day after the strike had been declared ,15,000 shirtwaist workers walked out of the fatories.


Result of the Ludlow, Colo. massacre

The company hired the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency to protect the new workers and harass the strikers.
Baldwin–Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking. Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and fired bullets into the tents at random, occasionally killing and maiming people. They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a machine gun the union called the "Death Special" to patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo, Colorado from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Frequent sniper attacks on the tent colonies drove the miners to dig pits beneath the tents where they and their families could be better protected.

The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 vigilantes on July 12, 1917. The workers and others were kidnapped in the U.S. town of Bisbee, Arizona and held at a local baseball park. They were then loaded onto cattle cars and transported 200 miles (320 km) for 16 hours through the desert without food or water. The deportees were unloaded at Hermanas, New Mexico, without money or transportation, and warned not to return to Bisbee.

Just prior to his execution, Joe Hill had written to Bill Haywood, an IWW leader, saying, "Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize... Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don't want to be found dead in Utah."

Originally Posted by donv

I guess I'm a bit late to tout the ubercool website, Retronaut! I can get lost on that site for huge chunks of time!! This popped up on my FB news feed today.

The Thomas W. Lawson Retronaut | Retronaut - See the past like you wouldn't believe.

Hey that's a cool site! Thanks!

I've come across these the other day and had to share with you all.
This moron below is my father. When he was going thru medical school he knew he would have to take dissection classes and wasent sure he could handle cutting a human body. So he got a part time job in a funeral home to desensitize himself with bodies.

This was one of his brilliant ideas during some down time. The worst thing was he thought it would be funny to send the photos home to his parents. Needless to say that didnt go over very well. Har!!!

This photo caught my eye today at the local antique store I visit about every month & a half. No shaving supplies to be had.
I decided to buy the old photo & share it.
It was taken at National Studio, 114 Court Street, Boston, no tile or names of the two people.
I named it, "Father & Daughter"