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Florida, Schultz Heitman with 185 pound tarpon fish. 1921

Tarpon jumping, 1920s

Source: photography-news | Courtesy of The State Library and Archives of Florida

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The Malamute Saloon was the first saloon to open in Los Angeles after the repeal of prohibition. 1933 

A wine barrel is returned by police to Tony Pazich's cellar during Prohibition, Los Angeles, California, 1929

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Robert Wadlow (1918-1940) – 8ft11. Tallest man in History. 
Born in 1918, Robert is still to this day known as the tallest person in medical history. When the Pathe cameras went to film him in 1935, he was a mere 8ft1. When they returned the next year, he was 8ft4. By the time of his death at just aged 22, he had grown to 8ft11’’. In this picture, he is surrounded by his family and even though his father was 6ft, none of them stand much above his waist.

In this still, Robert was now 8ft4 and still had some way to go before he reached his final height of 8ft11. On record, there has only been about 18 people in history who have reached over 8ft tall. 

Source: britishpathe

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Hovels: Houses of African-Americans in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1936

Helping out: A small boy sits among the cabbages at a FSA community center labor camp in Texas

Source: napoleonlive | Library of Congress | NY Public Library

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Destitute: Children sitting on the steps of a dilapidated house in Michigan in June of 1937

Down-and-out: Mother and father and several children of a family of nine living in open field in rough board covering built on old Ford chassis on U.S. Route 70, between Bruceton and Camden, Tennessee

Source: napoleonlive

Malcolm X

Malcolm X, (May 19, 1925 - Assassinated: February 21, 1965) born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane, Yankee Clipper, Long Island Express, or simply the Great Hurricane) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($4.7 Billion in 2012). Even as late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas. To date it remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history, eclipsed in landfall intensity perhaps only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.

Source: randomnoodling | google

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Country store on dirt road, Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939.

Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Truck-load of cotton pickers, just pulled into town in the late afternoon.

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A look at the work of Dorothea Lange who captured the Great Depression through her lens and created some of the iconographic images of that era. A professional woman who took photographs for a living. The Great Depression of the 1930s is best remembered, photographically, by the work of the FSA, for which she worked. She traveled the USA recording the deprivations caused by the failure of the economy as well as taking many uplifting images that showed that, despite the hard times, life and love went on.

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"Education 1930: Separate rooms shall be provided for the teaching of pupils of African descent, and when said rooms are so provided, such pupils may not be admitted to the school rooms occupied and used by pupils of Caucasian or other descent."

Reform Schools 1930: The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other.

Source: tkminfo | nps.gov

Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers, Chicago, September 1926, Jelly Roll Morton is shown lecturing his very first Red Hot Peppers band. Standing left to right: Omer Simeon, Andrew Hilaire, John Lindsay, Johnny St. Cyr, Kid Ory and George Mitchell - courtesy of Ate van Delden

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1885 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, band-leader and composer.

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Vintage WWI Aviation Battle Action Photo, airplanes drop bombs onto the battlefield

Vintage WWI Aviation Battle Action Photo, biplane over the soldiers heavy artillery

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Moneta Sleet Jr.

Photo: Bereaved celebrities Nancy Wilson, Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier, Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and actor Marlon Brando proceed to Dr. King’s funeral., Moneta Sleet Jr., Ebony Collection. April 1968. 

Photo: Pulitzer-prize winning photo of Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. comforting her daughter Bernice, age 5, during her husband's funeral in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church

Moneta Sleet , Jr. (February 14, 1926 - September 30, 1996) is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph entitled “Deep Sorrow”. He captured the photograph of a tearful Coretta Scott King cradling her daughter Bernice at the funeral of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sleet was the first and only black man working for a black publication (Ebony magazine) to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Moneta Sleet , Jr.

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Twins

Millie and Christine McCoy (1851-1912) were conjoined twins born into slavery. They and their mother were sold to a showman, Joseph Smith. Smith and his wife educated the girls; they eventually could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. They were known as 'The Two Headed Nightingale'. In the 1880s they retired and purchased a small farm. Millie died of tuberculosis at age 61, with Christine following hours later. They remain one of the oldest-lived set of conjoined twins.

Daisy and Violet Hilton (1908-1969), conjoined twins. The pretty and talented twins worked in the sideshow and vaudeville (with Bob Hope). They also appeared in the movies 'Freaks' and 'Chained for Life'. They had a few short-lived publicity marriages. They couldn't get work in the 60s and ended up abandoned by their manager and penniless. They worked at a supermarket the last eight years of their lives. After not reporting for work, it was discovered they had died of influenza.

Life was difficult for these sets of conjoined twins because they are what society called not "normal". However, they did a great job going on with their lives the best they could. It is encouraging how we as a society is now more accepting toward people who are "different".

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Poor Southern children in a rundown shack. | 1936 | Photographer:Margaret Bourke-White

Girl poised at window of log shack, shutter covered w. tattered newspaper, in poverty of rural South recorded for the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration. | Gee's Bend, AL. | 1937 |Photographer:Arthur Rothstein

Interior of converted warehouse in northern British industrial town showing family living in poverty. | United Kingdom |1933

 

Man drinking wine and eating a sandwich on a public bench during the ongoing French economic crisis.| Paris, France | 1932

Source: images.google | life

Anne Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh), aviator, getting into cockpit of airplane after stopover in Warsaw on the way to Moscow with her husband.| vintage

 Anne Morrow Lindbergh (née Anne Spencer Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.

Source: images.google | wallflowerdispatches | wikipedia

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This photo, taken in the late 1930s, is of the first African-American Girl Scout troop in the Dixie Region, which covered the Southern states.

 

Barbara B. Wilborn, pictured here as a Girl Scout troop leader in a parade.

Source: madamenoire | girlscouts.org | chicagotribune.com

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1920s

A century of women’s cycling in photos. Cycling isn’t just a sport, a passion or a hobby. It’s a lifestyle. vintage photo 1930s

 Source: ecosalon

Jackie Robinson

 Jackie Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

By Alfred Eisenstaedt 1939

Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German born American photographer and photojournalist.

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Admitted his crime: Carpenter George Whitehall handed himself into Newtown police after hacking his common-law wife Ida to death at their home in 1922

Bad company: Kong Lee makes numerous appearances as a ‘safe blower’ and ‘thief’ and was known to travel with ‘card sharpers’

Source: mafiatoday | mafiatoday | dailymail.co.uk