Interesting Historical Photos

[rug]

During the Great Depression, millions of people were out of work across the United States. Unable to find another job locally, many unemployed people hit the road, traveling from place to place, hoping to find some work. A few of these people had cars, but most hitchhiked or “rode the rails.” A large portion of the people who rode the rails were teenagers.




This is the last public execution by guillotine, not the last execution by guillotine. In fact, the guillotine was the only mean of execution that the French republic has ever known, the device has been in service from 1792 to 1977.




Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of fire bombs and atomic bombs. Over the next seven months starting September 1945, he traveled across Western Japan chronicling the devastation, revealing the plight of the bomb victims including the dead.





While part of every candidate’s retinue, security was simply not the pressing public concern in 1960 that it would suddenly and necessarily become within a few short years.


http://imgur.com/gallery/UCZ7u

There are a few dozen more, almost random, at the link.

[Bucky]

1. For those who missed it, there's a kid holding a toy gun right behind Kennedy

and a party boss in the background chomping on a stoogie.

Damn I wish thin black ties were back in fashion. I can't find them anywhere.

[Ungern]

2. A very strange guillotine during WWI in Belgium

During WWI a Belgian civil was sentenced to dead by guillotine in a small town just in front of the ennemy .
But the belgian guillotine was on the otherside of the front in to occuped area....
Thus Belgium asked the help of France to loan a guillotine with the "praticians"
The guillotine and the praticians must go now into the Belgian front: a little town into a little island into a flooded territory just in front of the germans ...
This mission was absurd .. but the mission was carried ...
The criminal has been executed.
3 "praticians" were killed during the transport ...

[thucythucy]

3. Interesting indeed.

Thanks for posting.