
Plane landing accident, 1926

images that haunt us


Leslie Jones ::
Plane dives into harbour. Monoplane was piloted by Paul Herman of Winthrop and was rescued by Richard Couden of Portland ME. (East Boston), 18 May 1930 / src: Leslie Jones: The Camera Man

Nils Strindberg ::
The “Örnen” / “Eagle”.
S. A. Andrée and Knut Frænkel with the crashed balloon on the pack ice,
of the disastrous Andrée’s Arctic Balloon expedition, 1897 [Photographed by the third expedition member, Nils Strindberg. The exposed film for this photograph and others from the failed 1897 expedition was recovered in 1930.] / src: wikimedia commons

Hanging on the telephone wires. / source: C&T Auctions via The Telegraph

Newly-uncovered photos from First World War catalogue multitude of bizarre collisions before ‘magnificent men’ mastered skills of flying. / source: The Telegraph

Patrick Pound :: Portmanteau (installation view detail)
2015-17. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland
© Patrick Pound. Photo: © Dr Marcus Bunyan, National Gallery of Victoria and Patrick Pound. / src: Artblart

Raymond Mays in a Bugatti Type 13 Brescia. Shelsley-Walsh Mountain Race, 1924 / via saint john photography on twitter

Trouble with the Fence. undated, unknown photographer or place. / src: instagram

A photograph taken of The New Prospect Hotel on fire in June, 26th, 1942
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Credit: The Shelter Island Historical Society
/ source: northforker

Car sunk into a collapsed quay in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 1958
/ src:
Nationaal Archief