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Eduardo Gageiro, S. Título, Lisboa, Portugal, 1970

Jean Béraud, La Salle des Filles au Dépot (Women’s Prison at Saint-Lazare), 1886.

July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian

Willy Ronis (August 14, 1910 – September 12, 2009), Kids from Belleville, under the stairs on rue Vilin, Paris, 1959.

Photo de Ruth Orkin

2001: A Space Odyssey poster from Hungary, 1979.

Watching a solar eclipse in Paris, 1921.

Naples 1880/85

Soviet poster promoting archery as a sport, featuring two archers; one in contemporary clothing and another in traditional historical costume (c. 1970).

Photo: Brooklyn Eagle/brooklynhistory instagram

Advertisement for Borden's milk and ice cream, featuring the company mascot Elsie the Cow (1959).

Australian Road Safety Council educational road safety poster traffic featuring an instructional rhyming verse on traffic light signals (c. 1950).

Ballet Class, London, 1931. Alfred Eisenstaedt. Gelatin silver.

Körbecke, Germany 1910s

Wimpfen, Germany 1900/20

The Outer Harbor of Historic Delfshaven, Rotterdam (1959)

Liberated inmates at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp carry off bread after ransacking one of the five camp cookhouses. 24 April 1945