light station on stilts

This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I want to live there. I want to survive storms in that home.

Key West, FL

1949

from The Florida Memory Project,

seen at Florida Fresh and Other Slices

I don't know.

I just don't know.

German soldiers

1917

from drakegoodman's flickr stream

Rescue Attempt

Do you guess this was a real rescue or a photo of a man taking a posed picture for some reason?

Foster Glacier near Skagway, Alaska

1898, photographer Eric A. Hegg

from the University of Washington

A Nightcap

one hangs a hat upon her tit

one carves a cross on her behind

they do not give a shit for wit

the boys i mean are not refined

[e.e. cummings]

photographer Caulder Wilson

sent to me by his dad

at my mom's suggestion

Amazement

Every picture of the stage looks the same, but the crowd is always new.

Granville, West Virginia

1938, Marion Post Wolcott

from the Library of Congress

have your Head Read

If I saw a phrenology booth, I would stop in. I want to know what my head lumps say about me.

London, Ohio

1938, photographer Ben Shahn

from the Library of Congress

a cheerful fellow

I'm no expert in these things, but shouldn't there be more snow around to build a snowman like that?

no information available

from La boite verte

Mount

Someday we'll carve the face of the Moon.

Mt. Rushmore

1935

from Stephen Feeney's flickr

Charm

I want to read a book of short stories by different authors about this one kid. I feel like he could go anywhere from here. Charming scamp? Total brat? Adored, abused, in on the joke? Or did he grow up, move to Paris, and become a major fashion designer?

no information available

from lennyd120's flickr stream

Даёшь ясли!

No one ever looks at, say, a modern car ad and thinks, "Man, I really want to study graphic design."

Russian Poster

1920s

from Duke University

If she smokes, she pokes.

Reece Witherspoon, have you been time traveling again?

no information available

from Jalopy Journal

Dive Deep

When I see photos like this, I try to imagine what it looked like under the water, peering out of a tiny porthole while you walked on the bottom of the ocean dragging your air with you.

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from National Marine Fisheries Service

I was not prepared for a shark.

Wait a cotton pickin minute, what happened to that shark's teeth? And why is it still terrifying?

Vancouver, Canada

from The Dependent Magazine

Freedomites

Nudity as protest. Simple, cheap, and it attracts plenty of attention. Plus, you get to take your pants off.

Doukhobors in Grand Fork, BC

1923

from Canadian Mysteries

Disguised

Tell me this story in one sentence.

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from Cindy B's flickr stream