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firsttimeuser: The Boys at Play
firsttimeuser: Unloading a ship.. Beirut, Lebanon. 1900s
firsttimeuser: A man walking his children near the Brandenburg Gate. Germany, Berlin, 1947 photo by David Seymour
tytusjaneta: Přemysl Koblic  (1892 – 1955) Ráno ve Vlašimi
m3zzaluna: eating hot dogs in black tie — the cultural dichotomy of los angeles, 1961 photo by william claxton, from los angeles: portrait of a city by jim heimann, kevin starr; p. 438
iconoclassst: Charles Ebbets shooting his famous “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” shot on the 69th floor of the GE Building, 1932
collectivehistory: Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, England, 1945. 
theweekmagazine: On this day in 1865, in one of the greatest inaugural addresses in American history, Abraham Lincoln, beginning his second term as president, spoke at a time of triumph: The Civil War was winding down and slavery receding into the history books. Yet Lincoln, filled with sadness and reflection, spoke not of victory, but of the damage that had been done to the country. He reminded both victor and vanquished that both sides had erred in going to war, despite their bitter disagreement over the war’s central issue, slavery. “With malice toward none; with charity for all,” Lincoln said, “let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds.” The address is inscribed, along with his Gettysburg Address, in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. In 2012 Peter Hitchens described the address as “one of the most overwhelming pieces of political prose ever crafted in any language.” Lincoln had no way of knowing, of course, that in the crowd that day was the actor John Wilkes Booth — who would assassinate the president just six weeks later. Here’s what else happened on this day in history
calumet412: Porch Alley, 1947, Chicago. Wayne F. Miller One of my all time favorites…
nypl: Hello, Can you hear me? Can you hear me at all? Gotta get the operator and make a telephone call! To think in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell would invent something that today we couldn’t imagine being without: our telephones. We found this precious gem in our Digital Gallery of Bell opening a phone line from New York to Chicago…wow how times have changed. Now, within seconds we can send a message across the world and back again.  So, this week’s Mustache Monday goes to Mr. Bell, who on March 7, 1876 received a patent for the telephone. Without him, we would not be completely absorbed in the smartphone phenomenon. Siri would not tell us how to get places, apps would not entertain us as we sit in meetings all day, and most importantly it would not allow us to communicate—without actually communicating!  (**bonus points for those who understand the 1980s reference above)