Marie Doucet feeding the cows at her farm

Quick, write a novel about this woman's life.

1950 - Nova Scotia Archives

Cracked

There's nothing playful about this. It's serious business.

CAMARA DEMOCRATICA

Cokey Snake-Proof Boots

Jobs I am glad I have not got.

Rattlesnake Milking Demonstration at Ross Allen's Reptile Institute

Silver Spring, FL - 1964 - Ipernity

Except Her Heart

Man, that gal is in motion.

Strip Tease Queen - 1964 - Vintage Sleaze

Plenty more like this, inside.

Childhood is really such a recent invention.

Morgantown, West Virginia - 1908 - @ The Library of Congress

Smuggler Caves!

"In the 18th century it was popular with smugglers given its sheltered location and the secluded caves that can be seen in this photograph." I just found out I want to live in a crooked house atop some smuggler caves.

Prussia Cove, Cornwall - 1927 - @ The National Maritime Museum

Marine Drive

I can't make the perspective work. My brain just wants them all to be tiny little guys working on a storm drain.

Scarborough - @ Old Scarborough Photo Archive

Vitamin D

I'm pretty sure that guy in the briefs can see us.

no information available - @ android gunslinger

Private Slaughterhouse

I feel like this is the single most straightforward business card I have ever seen. Need a butcher? Here. Butchers.

Montreal, Canada - 1906 - @ Andre Vandal

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

Fixing a Zeppelin, high above the South Atlantic on the way to Rio. Some adventures are more adventuresome than others.

S. Atlantic - 1933 - @ La Boite Verte

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

Alfred and Willie

That's hard work. I wouldn't want to fight them. 

Bayou La Batre, AL - 1911 - Lewis Hine - @ The National Archives

Woolworth Strike

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

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

A Fresh Meal

This is dedication to fine food.

Hot Spring Cone, Yellowstone Lake

Photographer F. Jay Haynes

from Antiquephotographics

Good for a Laugh

This is what I picture when I imagine hi-jinks at the Smithsonian. That's "a seventeen and one half foot long beard found in a North Dakota attic," in case you were curious.


Washington, DC
1967
from  The Smithsonian Institute Archives

Swing Dance

When the music plays, sometimes you just gotta dance.

Out West

1908 - 1912, photographer 

Erwin E. Smith

from Amon Carter Museum

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

Small Business

What kind of perspective must this man have had? All day he looked at shoes, all day he fixed shoes. Was he barefoot in there?

London, England

from ADiamondFellFromTheSky

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

what's mine is yours

You know he did this every day for that 'munk to be so friendly.

Oregon

from OSU Special Collections and Archives