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Los mineros de Charbonnagge de Mariemont-Bascoup se apretujaron en el ascensor de una mina de carbón después de un día de trabajo. Fotografía tomada en Bélgica en c. 1900.

Una extensa publicación en Facebook, que afirma falsamente que los irlandeses fueron vendidos sistemáticamente como esclavos en el siglo XVII, ya ha sido compartida más de un millón de veces. El mensaje es una tontería y una imagen mal utilizada de los mineros belgas. La trata de esclavos irlandeses comenzó cuando 30.000 prisioneros políticos irlandeses fueron enviados a Estados Unidos y vendidos a ingleses […]

Chester E. McDuffee’s patented diving suit, 1911

1910 – Submarine Armor by Chester E. Macduffee. In 1914 a diver in the new armored diving suit went down to a depth of 212 ft. in Long Island Sound, establishing a new American record.

This is Kodak truck, 1912

This little promo truck re-created from the before photo to the after photo. An extremely unique showpiece that commands serious attention – the early photos…

In 1960, six submariners from USS Amberjack (SS-522) who had earned their dolphins were thrown overboard just as a destroyer passed nearby.

On May 22, 1968, the American nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion, went missing with 99 men aboard on her way back to Norfolk, Virginia. Scorpion left New London, Connecticut, in February 1968 with a goal of reaching the Mediterranean Sea for a two-month European deployment, the Naval History and Heritage Command writes. However, they continue, she last radioed her position on May 21, 1968. She was lost southwest of the Azores, a group of islands about 950 miles west of mainland Portugal, on May 22, the US Navy reports.

A French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, 1945.

It’s amazing to see how our minds can wander in different ways; how imaginations can wander from a single picture. We recently proposed a new challenge for our readers to become the storyteller, prompted by a historical found photograph with very little information about its author, or the subject i

Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

In 1902 the American author Jack London visited his namesake city – at the time when it was still the largest in the world. In a book that became to be known as The People of the Abyss he described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and … Continue reading “Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902”