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Chase Kunz

Saint Petersburg. Hermitage (the New Hermitage): visitors outside the museum, and children. Circa 1931

By Cristina Garcia Rodero

November 14, 1917

The campus of American University in Washington, DC was used for training and weapons storage during World War I. This soldier was demonstrating a uniform designed to conceal him while climbing trees.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

“The Electrical Experimenter” Cover

“For the annual “Celery Day” in National City, Evelyn Hayes puts on a costume made entirely from celery”.

Ian Gamache. A Short Long War

Fog in the Morning, by Elizabeth Quandt, 1978

As a nonconformist prisoner in Cool Hand Luke, Newman bellows to God in the pouring rain: “Let me know you’re up there, c’mon! Love me, hate me, kill me, anything — just let me know it!”

An attendant at the Snake Farm in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with pythons wrapped around his neck, 1928.

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, 1979

Gustavo Minas

Martine Frank, 1996

Prarie hunt. Fall 1956

Cristina Garcia Rodero

February 1910. Buffalo, New York. “Home of the Palia family, 260 Terrace Street. The boy, Amorica, center, goes to the canning factory with his mother in summer.” Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

The LA Public Library’s 1928 bookmobile for the sick.

1920's. Anti-Prohibition protest.

Port view from the old fortress, Odessa, 1958

“Riga-7” moped advertising. From «Sowjetische Fahrräder und Mopeds», UdSSR, V/O «Avtoexport», Moskau, Wneschtorgizdat. 1960’s.

Hiram and Barney were two mentally disabled brothers from a Connecticut farm, born in 1825 and 1827 respectively. They were each 40 inches tall and weighed about 45 pounds, yet could perform feats of great strength such as lifting heavy weights and wrestling with audience members on stage. Discovered and subsequently promoted by a traveling showman in 1850, Hiram and Barney were given new names, Waino and Plutano, and a sensational back story - they were said to be from the island of Borneo, where they had been captured after a great struggle with armed sailors.

Bangkok, 1951. By Dmitri Kessel

Overstocked with a large supply of men’s spring and winter coats, a clothier in Copenhagen, Denmark, adopted a unique sales scheme. He erected a scaffolding around his store building and completely covered it from roof to sidewalk with more than a thousand overcoats. The novel display attracted prospective customers in such droves that police were summoned. Although the police ordered the proprietor to remove the display, he succeeded in selling all the overcoats.

/Washington, D.C., circa 1920. “Internal Revenue (narcotics — concealment and smuggling).” National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

1800's. Portrait of three women featured in the book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious by W.M. Hunt. The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious presents a wonderfully idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: in each image, the gaze of the subject is averted, the face obscured or the eyes firmly closed.

Mickey with a pile of children’s letters, circa 1930.

When children were ordered to be evacuated from urban areas in Great Britain, 100 or so under the age of 5 were sent to Waddesdon Manor. Here, they are seen playing on the lawn of the mansion.