Rare and very interesting photos

[the13thround]

Overhead view of a jam session between a number of jazz musicians, held in the photographer's studio, New York, New York, 1943. Among those visible are Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974) on piano and Mezz Mezzrow (1899 - 1972) on clarinet (center, in white short and braces); among other artists who participated in the all night session were Eddie Heywood, Pearl Primus, Teddy Wilson, Lou McGarity, Bobby Hackett, Sidney Catlett, John Simons, Mary Lou Williams, Irving Fazola, Eddie Condon, Wilbur De Paris, Franz Jackson, Billie Holiday, James P. Johnson, Cozy Cole, Al Mott, Josh White, Lester Young, and Count Basie.

 

[Sea Bastid]

Gripping

 

[SirRahX]

I felt bad for not having contributed something.

Moses Fleetwood Walker. The first black baseball player to play for the white major leagues.

No shit?!

 

[456.North.side]

one of the best thread on BGOL,

 

[hog fat]

Sheila E.

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[World B Free]

Tell me Queen Latifah doesn't look like her in the face.

I see what you're sayin', but young Pearl is a lil cuter.....

 

[the13thround]

The son of Teddy Roosevelt, Quentin, and his friend Roswell Newcomb Pickney at the White House in 1901.
Quentin was later killer in WWI.

 

[InTheMind]

 

[hog fat]

 

[CoTtOnMoUf]

A couple that dived to the Titanic wreck taking a picture on the bow (like the scene in the movie):

i'm calling bullshit on this pic because if i'm not mistaken, the titanic is more than 2 miles deep!

there are only a hand full of subs in the world that can sustain the high pressures at such depths, let alone a human.

a human would be crushed to death at probably half that depth.

AWESOME THREAD BTW!!

 

[dwnsouth]

i'm calling bullshit on this pic because if i'm not mistaken, the titanic is more than 2 miles deep!

there are only a hand full of subs in the world that can sustain the high pressures at such depths, let alone a human.

a human would be crushed to death at probably half that depth.

AWESOME THREAD BTW!!

exactly !!!!!!! its too deep

 

[hog fat]

Marcus Garvey.

 

[SirRahX]

 

[Joe Money]

 

[Joe Money]

Che Guevara, within 24 hours of being assassinated. His hands and feet are bound.

Jon Snow...

Spintrii, ancient tokens used to enter Roman brothels

It ain't trickin if you got it!!

Morris Day & Prince (High School)

They look like brothers.

 

[the13thround]

Stereoscopic view of a line of African-American soldiers, some in uniform, at a military camp during the American Civil War, early 1860s. The image's title, 'A Group of 'Contrabands',' refers to the status of these men as former slaves who had escaped and joined the conflict on the side of the Union.

 

[the13thround]

A shirtless slave stands with his hands tied to a whipping post as a white man, possibly his master, prepares to begin the beating. Stocks are built on a platform on the whipping post. 1865.

 

[the13thround]

Portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North, sitting outside a house, possible in Freedman's Village in Arlington, Virginia, mid 1860s. Up to 1100 former slaves at a time were housed in the government established Freedman's Village in the thirty years in which it served as a temporary shelter for runaway and liberated slaves.

 

[the13thround]

1916 Convention of Ex-Slaves in D.C.

Below is an article published by the Washington Post on September 25th, 1916, leading up to the convention.

A mass meeting will be held tonight at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, Tenth and N streets northwest, to appoint committees and make other arrangements for the entertainment of delegates and visitors to the fifty-fourth annual convention of ex-slaves to be held here October 22-30 under the auspices of the White Cross National Colored Old Home Association of the United States and the National Evangelistic Ministers’ Alliance of America. Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, will preside at the meeting tonight.

A free dinner will be served for the ex-slaves each day during the convention. Former slaves of Gen. Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson will be present. All persons desiring to aid in entertaining the old slaves are requested to send contributions or articles of wearing apparel to Mrs. Julia Palmer, 1513 Tenth street northwest.


1916 Slaves reunion. Lewis Martin, age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, age 104; Amy Ware, age 103; Rev. Simon P. Drew, born free.

 

[the13thround]

cont.

 

[the13thround]

Eartha Kitt workout video in 1960.

 

[hog fat]

 

[SamSneed]

At left, Staff Sgt. Timerlate Kirven stands next to Specialist Samuel J. Love, Sr. as they read an award citation for the Purple Heart they each received for wounds sustained during the Battle of Saipan, 1944. They were the first African-American Marines to receive the Purple Heart.

There is no rank of specialist in marines, dude is a corporal.

 

[the13thround]

There is no rank of specialist in marines, dude is a corporal.

Yeah the caption is wrong, nice catch, but I didn't write it.

 

[hog fat]

Sugar Ray Robinson in front of his restaurant in Harlem, Seventh Avenue and 124th Street , 1950.

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[SamSneed]

Yeah the caption is wrong, nice catch, but I didn't write it.

That's cool man, I was just sayin tho.

 

[Gazoo]

Here is the oldest picture of a human available. You won't see them initially. Here is a grainy blowup of one man cleaning the shoes of another.

It was taken in Paris in 1838 by
by Louis Daguerre.

 

[Gazoo]

Teenager Bill Clinton meeting President Kennedy in 1962.

 

[the13thround]

Sugar Ray Robinson in front of his restaurant in Harlem, Seventh Avenue and 124th Street , 1950.

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He was stuntin' on boys 60 years before Mayweather.

 

[hog fat]

Redd Foxx and Eartha Kitt at a rally in New York for the Freedom Fighters in Birmingham. Redd was asked to give a speech and when he began he quoted a passage from Genesis. Halfway through he broke down with emotion, over the many injustices being dealt the Freedom Fighters.

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[Gazoo]

Redd Foxx and Eartha Kitt at a rally in New York for the Freedom Fighters in Birmingham. Redd was asked to give a speech and when he began he quoted a passage from Genesis. Halfway through he broke down with emotion, over the many injustices being dealt the Freedom Fighters.

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Talk about a picture telling a story.

 

[darth frosty]

 

[jack walsh13]

A shirtless slave stands with his hands tied to a whipping post as a white man, possibly his master, prepares to begin the beating. Stocks are built on a platform on the whipping post. 1865.

Man this shit gets me so heated yo!!!

 

[marcvoi]

Eartha Kitt workout video in 1960.

Amazing thread

 

[hog fat]