
Flag, from Burma series, 2009

images that haunt us


Captain Jim Gardner coming into Avalon with 3 Sea Bass and the Bass flag flying, Santa Catalina, CA., ca. 1903 / source

436 pound record Black Sea Bass being reeled up (the Bass flag flying) caught by Levin Graham Murphy on 80 line, Santa Catalina Island, July 16, 1905 / src: Islapedia.com

Voula Th. Papaioannou ::
Child wearing a National Youth Organization (EON) uniform, points at the wooden figure of Mussolini, Athens, Greece, 1940
/ src: Benaki Museum
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Pre-WWII yacht with German flag (and Nazi icon) leaving New York, ca. 1938 / src: eBay

Yevgeni Khaldei (Evgeny Khaldey) :: Raising the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag [Raising the Hammer and Sickle over the Reichstag], 1945. Gelatin silver print. / sources: nailya alexander gallery and lumiere gallery
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L. Stevens :: Hydrogen balloon, “Wanamaker no. 1,” in flight from New York City to Philadelphia, with balloonist and pilot Albert Leo Stevens (1873-1944), 8 July 1911 / source: The Library of Congress