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Future President Warren Harding as a young man.

Future President Warren Harding as a young man.

His father, Dr. George Tryon Harding, told him: "Warren, it's a good thing you wasn't born a gal because you would be in the family way all the time. You can't say no."

u/CryptographerKey2847 — 12 hours ago

Inquiring Photographer Column: “If you were writing a book of human interest or a play for the screen, which part of New York City would you go to for characters?” December 17,1923.

u/CryptographerKey2847 — 14 hours ago

British Child Evacuees to the country on day out in Devon, England 1941. Teacher Miss Betty Hall helps three-year-old Marion Davison, the youngest evacuee to Dartington Hall, over a stile as part of their nature walk in the countryside surrounding the Dartington estate.

u/CryptographerKey2847 — 17 hours ago

Ancient Saharan rock painting located in the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau of southeastern Algeria.The artwork belongs to the "Horse Period" (circa 2000–50 BCE) of Saharan rock art. The Headless figures once had white sick heads now long disappeared[1273x1804]

The bottom are thought to Women with long flowing dress and two warriors.

Facial reconstruction of one of the young men buried in Lake George, New York and likely a teenager in the Continental Army, created by forensic artist Jenny Kenyon. Image courtesy of the New York State Museum.[1284x1894]

He had one of the more complete skulls of the 44 skeletons unearthed during a construction dig in Lake George in 2019. The soldiers were likely part of the 1775-1776 Quebec Campaign of the American Revolution, and they likely died of smallpox or other diseases.

1890s Alfred J. Cammeyer couture Victorian lace-up boots.Most likely made for the stage. Cammeyer was a prominent high-end shoe retailer based in New York City active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Inquiring Photographer Column asks Lower Manhattan pedestrians how they would describe the "typical New Yorker." May 1st, 1923.

Dated between the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE, this artifact was discovered in the Jordanian desert.A nomadic hunter is mounted on a camel and chasing down a native Arabian ostrich with a Bow or spear. Currently preserved in the Amman Archaeological Museum in Jordan.[1284x1514]

The accompanying text is written in Safaitic, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet utilized by mobile nomadic pastoralists.

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Texas Ranger E. J. Banks leaning against a tree and speaking with white students in front of Mansfield High School in Texas during late August 1956.

Hanging directly above the school's entrance is an effigy of a lynched Black man.Protesters used this, along with explicit threat signs attached to the figure, to intimidate the students.Following the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a federal court ordered Mansfield High School to admit Black teenagers. However, an angry mob of several hundred white residents surrounded the school during registration days to block entry. Due to the violent backlash, lack of local law enforcement support, and the governor's alignment with the segregationists, the three Black plaintiffs were forced to remain segregated and ride public buses to an all-Black school in Fort Worth. The defiance successfully delayed integration at the school until 1965.

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[1912] Can you believe this gall? I just want to see what this new fad of moving pictures is all about and Bertha wants to show off!

[Meta]Movie theater etiquette lantern slide from 1912. It was created by John D. Scott and Edward Van Altena to be projected onto the screens of early cinemas and nickelodeons [Meta]

Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Archduchess of Austria) in her enormous crinoline and hoops holding her eldest son, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.C 1864. Original photo held in The imperial collections in Vienna

Son and Grandchildren Of President Benjamin Harrison with their Goat “ His Whiskers”. The Goat and cart once took off through the WH gates with the children on aboard and the President chasing them down street.

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Inquiring Photographer “Will the assassination of Dr. King advance the cause of civil rights in the U.S.?” April 12,1968

Inquiring Photographer: "The contributor of this question contends that there should be a national beauty contest for colored beauties similar to those for white girls. Do you agree?" August 13, 1949.

u/CryptographerKey2847 — 2 days ago