Historical images - Images that made history

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StanleyYelnats said:
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The last moments of Diana, her companion, Dodi Al-Fayed, chauffeur Henri Paul, and sole survivor and bodyguard, Trevor-Reese Jones. On the left.
At 12:19 am after diner, plan was to go Dodi’s apartment and elude paparazzi, using a decoy car. But it didn’t work.
An ill fated attempt to ditch the paparazzi. They began, fleeing down through the Pont de I’Alma tunnel. At 65mph, their WI40 Mercedes Benz hit a Fiat, then proceeded into a concrete pillar.
Three photographers Jacques Langevin, Christian Martinez ,and Frabrice Chassery were convicted of invasion of privacy.
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Don't understand how people still think Paul wasn't drunk and he was framed when he looks blitzed out of his damn mind in this picture.
 
Pages from the Voynich Manuscript:

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An old but special fan piece on The Smiths’ own Morrissey that showed his favorite books, songs, films and influences that helped shape him as an artist
 
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My wife is a dealer at the local antiques mall. She's packaging some ephemerals to take in later and came across this that was among a ton of other military photos.
There is no date. The photo is original. No names. The other various photos were part of an album--some with Eisenhower visiting a base and other random shots taken in random places.

My guess is... Korean war? One other photo we have shows a woman at a photo booth. The moon runes appeared Chinese, but the woman, and about two other photos of women from the same time, I presume, are in Hanbok.
 
Constellationzero said:
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My wife is a dealer at the local antiques mall. She's packaging some ephemerals to take in later and came across this that was among a ton of other military photos.
There is no date. The photo is original. No names. The other various photos were part of an album--some with Eisenhower visiting a base and other random shots taken in random places.

My guess is... Korean war? One other photo we have shows a woman at a photo booth. The moon runes appeared Chinese, but the woman, and about two other photos of women from the same time, I presume, are in Hanbok.
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That's definitely Japanese in that particular photo. The part the man is blocking has katakana, which is exclusive to Japanese. The big part says "[...]kinko" and the smaller text is "[...]sa Maato" (i.e. the English word "Mart," like it says cut off at the top). I don't know nearly enough about Japanese to say whether one could infer what the sign says, let alone make such an inference myself.

The bigger sign is definitely legible, but i know basically zero kanji. I do see "マート"/"Mart" written in there again, so I can at least tell that's still Japanese and not Chinese or something.

E: it's "chinko" not "kinko." Might be something about pachinko at this particular Mart? Unless this is "chinko" as in penis and this is, in fact, the Penis Mart.
 
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The world’s largest cheese of the time was manufactured in Wisconsin on January 22, 1964. A crew of 25 men were on duty working in shifts around the clock for 43 hours. Included were four Wisconsin cheese makers who have won the famed World’s Champion Cheddar Cheesemaking award.

Using 170,000 quarts of milk from 16,000 cows, the Wisconsin Cheese Foundation made a block of cheddar cheese 6.5 feet wide, 5.5 feet high and 14.5 feet long. It weighed 34,591 pounds (17.3 tons). Following the pouring of the curd into the giant hoop and pressing to eliminate the whey, two walls were built and joined to two existing walls of the room where the hoop was located, to form a 14 by 20 refrigerated room to cool the big cheese down to 34 degrees. After 35 days in the cooler the sides of the huge hoop were removed and the cheese dried for a week, following which it was paraffined by a transparent wax.

On April 14, 1964, the big cheese was loaded into a special glass sided trailer and transported by diesel tractor directly to the New York World’s Fair Wisconsin exhibition area.

The huge cheese, mounted on its special “Cheese-Mobile” 45 foot tractor-trailer, was a featured attraction at the State of Wisconsin area. It was situated at the southwest corner of the 50,000 square foot site, on the Avenue of the United Nations, Grand Central Parkway, and at the foot of a pedestrian overpass over the Parkway. The 12 story stainless steel “Unisphere”, the major attraction at the Fair, was just a few steps away from the Wisconsin area.

It is estimated that the big cheese, which is the largest single piece of cheese ever made in the history of mankind, will be seen by 12,000,000 people during the two years of the Fair.

After appearing at the Fair from April to mid-October 1964, the Cheese-Mobile toured the United States, stopping at major cities, various expositions, fairs and shopping centers, carrying the story of Wisconsin cheese to the nation.

In April 1965, the Cheese-Mobile returned to New York to be at the Fair until it closes permanently in October 1965. A tour of cities not reached on the first trip is planned after October 1965, following which the cheese will be delivered to The Borden Company.
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Moral Decay said:
That's definitely Japanese in that particular photo. The part the man is blocking has katakana, which is exclusive to Japanese. The big part says "[...]kinko" and the smaller text is "[...]sa Maato" (i.e. the English word "Mart," like it says cut off at the top). I don't know nearly enough about Japanese to say whether one could infer what the sign says, let alone make such an inference myself.

The bigger sign is definitely legible, but i know basically zero kanji. I do see "マート"/"Mart" written in there again, so I can at least tell that's still Japanese and not Chinese or something.

E: it's "chinko" not "kinko." Might be something about pachinko at this particular Mart? Unless this is "chinko" as in penis and this is, in fact, the Penis Mart.
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Penis Mart...
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Constellationzero said:
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My wife is a dealer at the local antiques mall. She's packaging some ephemerals to take in later and came across this that was among a ton of other military photos.
There is no date. The photo is original. No names. The other various photos were part of an album--some with Eisenhower visiting a base and other random shots taken in random places.

My guess is... Korean war? One other photo we have shows a woman at a photo booth. The moon runes appeared Chinese, but the woman, and about two other photos of women from the same time, I presume, are in Hanbok.
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That's shortly after WWII in Japan. What you're looking at is a victorious occupant of a recently conquered nation.
 
I sadly forgot to label this, but it's a color photograph of the New York City harbor. Circa 1910, iirc. Might be Photochrom or Autochrom, or might've been colored with AI more recently, I just can't remember.

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Rare photo of ManBearPig attacking enviromentalists' truck. Pacific Northwest, circa 1979. Set of early Jaws-knockoff film, "Prophecy".
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British 14 to 16 year old (American Jr. High to early Highschool equivalently aged) students in the late 1950's.

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They look like a group of little professors. It is both adorable and impressive. Now contrast this with what you see in your head when you imagine a modern ""educational environment"".

It's disappointing and sad.
 
WhiskeyJack said:
I sadly forgot to label this, but it's a color photograph of the New York City harbor. Circa 1910, iirc. Might be Photochrom or Autochrom, or might've been colored with AI more recently, I just can't remember.

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Road Work Ahead said:
Today in 1917, the French ship, the SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian Ship, the SS Imo. The Mont-Blanc was heavily laden with mutations
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holy shit. Did they board the other ship and attack the crew with stone rebar hammers or was it more of a terrapin-based, ninjitsu-style affair?

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ok sorry about the Retardery. I don't even have an image to pay the tax with, either. What a disgrace...a horrible, terrible, awful kiwifarms user am I.
 
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