Hartford

Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1907. Young Men's Christian Association building, Pearl and Jewell Sts. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. (Shorpy)

Bad Dog

Los Angeles, 1971

Photograph: Gary Krueger

Vintage gelatin silver print

Magpie

Magpie, Pica pica, around Vaxholm, Sweden

Photograph: Bengt Nyman, 20 April 2016

There are references dating back to Old English in which the bird is called a "pie", derived from Latin pica; this term has fallen out of use. There was a tendency in previous centuries to give birds common names, such as Robin Redbreast (which now is called the robin), Jenny Wren, etc. It is thought likely that the magpie was originally variously Maggie Pie and Mag Pie. The term "pica" for some pregnant women's craving to eat non-foods is related to the tendency of the magpie (Pica pica) to feed on miscellaneous things. (Wikipedia)

Boot-Blacks

A Group of Boot-Blacks in Bowdoin Square

Boston, Massachusetts, October 1909

Photograph: Lewis Wickes Hine

Portobello

Promenade in Portobello, London, 1954

Photograph: Ken Russell

J.H.

J.H. 2020

by Alex Kanevsky

Oil on panel - 36 x 36 inches

Ada Lovelace

Watercolor portrait of Ada Lovelace by Alfred Edward Chalon, ca.1838

Ada Lovelace was a renowned British scientist and mathematician (and daughter of the poet Lord Byron). She is widely considered one of the world’s first computer programmers.

Lobo

Lobo #1 by Simon Bisley

Cover Original Art (DC, 1990)

Ten Cents

Fractional Currency, Ten Cents, Series of 1874

France 1944

A member of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) poses with his Bren gun at Châteaudun. 1944, United States Army Signal Corps photograph. 

Members of the Maquis in La Trésorerie (a hamlet part of Wimille, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France). 14 September 1944, Donald I. Grant, Department of National Defence.

Two Girls

Two Girls Waffle House, Anchorage, Alaska, ca.1910

Forms part of Frank and Frances Carpenter collection

(Library of Congress)

If The Noose Fits

Dime Detective, February 1950

Artwork by Norman Saunders

Dime Detective Magazine, July 1950

Artwork by Norman Saunders

William Burroughs

William S. Burroughs, Paris, 1961

Photograph: Harold Chapman

Portraits

Portrait of a young couple

Germany, ca.1905

Portrait of a young man, n/d

Powerhouse Museum Sydney, AU

Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga for Polish Vogue

Polish-born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga is interested in the history of ideas — from modernism and futurism to communism and fascism. She takes concepts that could be dry or abstract and makes them relevant. Sometimes frighteningly so. Ranging from collages to plays and to humanoid robots, Macuga works across different media, often challenging the notion of authorship by collaborating with other artists or by acting as collector/curator and displaying others’ work.

Goshka Macuga

Photograph: Kasia Bobula

George Leslie Hunter

Lobster on a Blue Plate, 1928

by George Leslie Hunter

Oil on canvas, 14 by 16in

Young Nietzsche

Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1861

Photograph: Louis Held

Raymonde de Laroche

Raymonde de Laroche. Mme. Delaroche Laroche, a French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an airplane pilot's license. She was born Elise Raymonde Deroche. (Photograph: Library of Congress)

On 18 July 1919, de Laroche, who was a talented engineer, went to the airfield at Le Crotoy as part of her plan to become the first female test pilot. She co-piloted an experimental aircraft (whether she flew this is not known); on its landing approach the aeroplane went into a dive and crashed, killing both de Laroche and the co-pilot. (Wikipedia)

£10

An Irish £10 Banknote, 1929

Don Keene

Playing Scramble

by Don Keene - 2015

Oil on canvas, 30x36 in