Afeni Shakur was more than just the mother of a rap legend, she was a revolutionary
Читать полностью…Space Shuttle Challenger during an electrical storm prior to STS-8. August 30th, 1983
Читать полностью…USSR censorship example: picture was altered again and again after each person fell out of favor with the regime of Stalin, 1926
Читать полностью…Women firefighters direct a hose after the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor (1941)
Читать полностью…📜Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London. The 11,000 tonnes of steelwork would be eventually clad in Portland stone and Cheesewring granite from Cornwall which can be seen at the base of the bridge. The numerous ships and skiffs lurking in the background are all sourced from contemporaneous paintings of the era.
Читать полностью…President Obama and Anthony Bourdain eating pho in Vietnam while no one around them seems to care
Читать полностью…The White House Renovation, showing Oval Office above Blue Room. The north wall and part of floor removed for installation of steel shoring columns. Washington, D.C. Photo by Abbie Rowe. March 9, 1950
Читать полностью…Minhla, Burma, after its capture in the 3rd Anglo-Burmese War, by Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1885
Читать полностью…Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, November 14th, 1960.
Читать полностью…Hitler salutes as he oversees troops during the Nazi occupation of Poland.Thetroops march in formation toward a wooden bridge, constructed by the Nazis across the San River,near Jarolaw,Poland,Sep1939
Читать полностью…📜Inside the FBI’s Colossal Fingerprint Factory (1943)
Before the FBI went digital, it looked a little more like a giant stock warehouse for Amazon.com. In the 1920s, the bureau was only employing 25 workers to classify around 800,000 print cards, but by 1943, there were more than 20,000 employees sorting through 70 million fingerprints. At the height of wartime, the archives were so overwhelmed that the FBI eventually moved into an 8,000 square foot facility in the National Guard Armory in Washington D.C. They called it the Fingerprint Factory.
With the war came new responsibilities for the FBI. No longer was it only investigating domestic crimes committed in the United States, the bureau was now tracking suspected spies, gathering information abroad, pursuing draft dodgers, tracking immigrants and even their own personnel who could be potential saboteurs. There were fingerprint cards for members of the armed forces, US foreign agents, war-material manufacturers and even all the government girls who were working amongst the labyrinthine archive of cards themselves. Everyone needed background checks. Agents looked into nearly 20,000 reports of sabotage during the war, of which they found 2,282 actual attempts.
The thousands of women working at the FBI in the early 1940s were trained in the Henry System of fingerprint identification, a method used in the United States and other English-speaking countries which manually categorised fingerprints by their physiological characteristics. They worked 10 hour days, six days a week, processing upwards of 35,000 prints in total in a single day. Their salaries were paid by war bonds, the same bonds they were endlessly encouraged to buy.
A complex and time-consuming process, essentially, these ladies would spend their entire day assigning numerical value according to the ridge patterns of loops, whorls, and arches they saw in the magnified fingerprints. It was as this time that the bureau began investigating cases of espionage against the United States and its allies, which would continue until the 1970s. If promoted from classifying and categorising fingerprints, female employees would spend most of the war getting vital information and military secrets into the right hands to keep the war machine running. They worked 10 hour days, six days a week, processing upwards of 35,000 prints in total in a single day.
📜"Two forsaken children in the Bellary district of the Madras Presidency", by Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1877
Читать полностью…Jeremy Corbyn arrested after protesting agents Apartheid regime out side the South African Embassy in 1984.
Читать полностью…Soda Jerk. Peoples Drug Store, 14th & U, Washington, D.C. between 1920 and 1921. National Photo Company Collection.
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