Ok, I may I have a history of vehemently disliking history. I'm not sure what it is, but the subject was just never particularly interesting to me. However, the stories it tells are incredible. It can be difficult to truly engage with them however. We have a tendency to become apathetic when we are not directly affected. Photographs make the narratives immediately impacting. Being able to visualize an occurrence, whether though metaphor or an actual image, elicits grand emotions. Please take the time to research even one of the events surrounding these images. I know I will.
bombed home, London, 1940
Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
Annette Kellerman, arrested for indecency, 1907
Battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
Bookstore ruined by air raid, London, 1940
hotel owner pouring acid in pool, ca. 1964
106 yr old Armenian woman guards home, 1990
gas-resistant pram, England, 1938
Evelyn McHale's suicide, 1947
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