Rare and very interesting photos

[alexw]

[Two women, Ada Turner and Evelyn M. Driver (Home Management and Home Economics Supervisor), canning English peas with pressure cooker in Mrs. Missouri Thomas' kitchen, Flint River Farms, Georgia, May 1939.]
Creator: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 -- Photographer

 

[alexw]

Image Title: A dry run for a class of elementary swimmers of the 25th Combat team.
[Group of mostly African American soldiers from the 25th Combat team lying on the beach and being taught how to swim by First Lieutenant Elmer R. Gray, Seventh Army Recreational Center, Fort Barrancas, Florida, August 7, 1946.]

 

[alexw]

Image Title: Chicago YMCA, Clean-up Campaign.
Young children standing in the street with baskets filled with tin cans.
Created Date: 1919

 

[alexw]

Image Title: Darktown Euchre Party
Creator(s): Griffith & Griffith -- Distributor
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 -- Copyright Holder
Medium: Stereographs

 

[alexw]

Image Title: Auto mechanics.
Man sitting at drafting table among two rows of colleagues and drawing with drafting instruments.
Created date: ca. 1935 - 1943

 

[alexw]

Men, both tenants and neighbors, eating dinner after the white men have finished on day of corn-shucking at Mrs. Fred Wilkins' home, Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina, November 1939.
Creator: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 -- Photographer

 

[alexw]

Uniformed woman working as a domestic feeding white child sitting in a high chair in kitchen, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1939.
Creator: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 -- Photographer

 

[alexw]

Image Title: Flight from the West.
[A group photograph of veterans with their veteran friends getting into a bus after flight, Washington, D. C,, 12 December 1945.

 

[alexw]

Image Title: Happy to be home.
Members of the Women's Army Corps standing in the snow and throwing snowballs at each other, Camp Shanks, New York, January 3, 1946.

 

[alexw]

Image Title: Mexican and negro cotton pickers inside plantation store, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Miss. Delta. This transient labor is contracted for and brought in trucks from Texas each season. October 1939.
Mexican and African American male cotton pickers standing and drinking beverages inside plantation store, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.
Creator: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 -- Photographer

 

[alexw]

Image Title: Negro Coast Guard officers' brave winter show.
Two Navy officers, [left to right] Ensign J. J. Jenkins and Clarence Samuels, aboard a cutter on the North Atlantic patrol.]

 

[hog fat]

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[alexw]

Title Baker School
Photographer Photographer unknown
Date Date unknown
Location Location unknown

 

[alexw]

 

[hog fat]

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[alexw]

Guess who?

 

[Mentor B]

Guess who?

Cassius Clay

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[DragonXJC]

Daphne Maxwell, 19, of New York, when she was named Northwestern University's Homecoming Queen October 20th 1967.
Daphne, was the first African American ever to be named Homecoming Queen.

That's Vivian Banks (the second one)

 

[alexw]

Image shows:
Saluting the flag at the Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia
Source: Library of Congress

The picture was taken in 1899 or 1900, just as the full force of segregation was tightening itself around the necks of African Americans – sometimes in a literal way.

Yet, these children – or their parents or teachers – still saw fit to salute the flag. But then, that flag might have freed those children’s grandparents, or even their parents. So the flag was still something to respect, perhaps even without a sense of irony.

 

[hog fat]

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[hog fat]

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[2 ONE 3]

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[hog fat]

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[hog fat]

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Parade Falchion

Dated: circa 1600
Measurements: blade 62.8cm; overall length 77.5cm
A ‘storta’ in the Milanese style with a heavy falchion blade struck with three spurious marks at the ricasso. The iron hilt includes vertically recurved fluted quillons cast in relief, with the tips formed as Turk’s heads cast in the round, chiselled moulded fluted iron grip. It was fitted with a Moor’s head pommel finely chiselled in the round with diadem and elaborately plaited hairpiece. The details picked-out in gold damascening (originally gem-set about the basal collar).

Source: http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_de/

 

[militantmidget]

our salvation

 

[Count23]

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clever

 

[Jrocrapguru]

bump!

 

[alexw]

Morris Brown College Baseball team in 1899/1900.

 

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[alexw]

A BOY AND HIS CAR, New York City, 1949

 

[alexw]

 

[hardcore_legend]

Image shows:
Saluting the flag at the Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia
Source: Library of Congress

The picture was taken in 1899 or 1900, just as the full force of segregation was tightening itself around the necks of African Americans – sometimes in a literal way.

Yet, these children – or their parents or teachers – still saw fit to salute the flag. But then, that flag might have freed those children’s grandparents, or even their parents. So the flag was still something to respect, perhaps even without a sense of irony.

I always found this interesting.

The pledge of allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a socialist magazine writer. When he wrote it for an children’s magazine, he also described a salute that he thought would be appropriate during its recital.
The pledge was aimed towards children, and the magazine also gave free flags away to schools, where the pledge was originally recited. The salute they were taught to give, with one stiff arm outstretched toward the flag, was deemed the “Bellamy salute” after its creator (who had gotten the idea from a salute that the Romans had done).

Above: The Bellamy Salute, before WWII In the early 1940s, it was noticed that the salute bore a resemblance to The Nazi Party being used in Germany at the time . As a result, it was formally replaced by Congress with the now-customary hand-on-heart during the pledge.

 

[Rick Spanish]

Ali was a damn fool...

 

[the13thround]

1994 Miami Hurricanes - Rohan Marley, Warren Sapp, and Ray Lewis.