It's a Hike

None of these guys look super excited to be out there, but I like their colorful backpacks.

rfulton

Houston Rodeo

Action shot!

Houston, TX - Texas State Archives

Shore Leave

It kind of kills me that I'll never know what they were watching.

Nova Scotia Archives

From One Viking To Another

Wagner's got a lot to answer for.

1960s - petethepunk1

Civilian Conservation Corps Map

The best thing about this map - and there is much to be praised - has to be the two CCC guys holding the shield. We need to reintroduce art to public works.

Schenectady, NY - 1937 - Grems-Doolittle Library Connection

Death to worlds' imperialism

Have I posted this before? Imperialism is one ugly beast, y'all.

USSR - 1919 - Dmitry Moor - Soviet Posters

Gurning

I don't know what they're eating, but I don't want any.

Hawaii - 1940s- San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

Diversion

The guy on the right is extra anatomical.

Vietnam - 1969 - @ 687 Landclearing Company

Steak Chop Fish

If she hadn't been named Betty, they'd have called her Betty anyway.

Oscoda Air Base - Michigan - 1946-1949 - @ Random Finds

Clown Attack

This is not okay with me.

Seattle, WA - 1975 - @ Great Beyond

Woolworth Strike

8 hours work, 8 hours sleep, 8 hours freedom. Thank you, strikers. 

New York City, NY - 1937 - @ Library of Congress

To Serve and Protect

And once more the police were on the wrong side of justice. 

Clarksdale, Miss 

1963, photographer Danny Lyon 

@ TIME

Action

Amused by the guy, mystified by the doll cake.

Tampa, FL

1950s, photographer Bobby Smith

from USF Libraries

(I almost never double up on a source

so quickly, but I was really taken

by this collection.)

danger zone

Just so you get the scope here, those guys are about 6 and a half miles from the explosion. Still, I have to believe that ain't safe. 

Nevada Proving Grounds

1953

from OSUL

don't mind if I do

He may be a hairy gent, but he's light on his feet.

Yosemite National Park

1920

from NPS

boom

Know what that is? A mountain of confiscated moonshine. Think of all the labor that went into making all that liquor. Think of the dry times without it. But most of all, think of the blaze when they lit it up.

(Actually, check the comments for updated info.) 

1924

from la boite verte

Welcome

If you look closely, she's got her eyes open. I wonder if she knew him or if this was just a quick kiss for a wounded soldier. She certainly looks to be offering more than a kiss, doesn't she?

Sydney, NSW

1919

from The Australian War Memorial

To the glory of Communism

Russian communism may have worked out badly, but you just can't touch their propaganda. This is beautiful. The open hands, throwing rocket victoriously into space. The look on his face, proud but good natured and human. The limitless reaches of space, waiting to be explored. Is it any wonder it's so primarily the Russians keeping the ISS stocked and manned?

USSR

from RussiaTrek

I don't know.

I just don't know.

German soldiers

1917

from drakegoodman's flickr stream

Astronaut Training

Okay, now, that's just fucking cool looking. I intend to appropriate this graphic at the next opportunity.

San Diego

from the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives