images that haunt us
A police officer directing traffic in London’s fog with the help of an “apparatus connected with the gas main, November 1935. Caption for the photo explains that the “device can be folded up and put in a metal box sunk
in the street.” | src New York Times
A police officer directing traffic in London’s fog with the help of an “apparatus connected with the gas main, November 1935. Caption for the photo explains that the “device can be folded up and put in a metal box sunk
in the street.” | src New York Times
Sameer Makarius :: Primera Junta square, Caballito, Buenos Aires, 1953-1962 / source: sameer.makarius
David Moore :: Before the Coronation, London, 1953 [Abandoned musical instruments in Birdcage Walk mark the impending route of the Queen from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.] / source:
State Library of New South Wales
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“Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.“
June 30, 1922.
National Photo Co.
/ source and hi-res: Shorpy
Foot Patrol. “S.S. Banks,
Washington DC, March 20, 1923.” We suspect this has something to do with traffic safety. National Photo Company glass negative
/ src: shorpy
un regard oblique 