The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Zombie_61]

Table celery?

As opposed to "soup celery". Apparently, there are different types of celery that each serve a specific culinary purpose. Who knew?

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Civilians entertain Union soldiers with a cock fight at the headquarters of General Orlando B. Willcox at the Siege of Petersburg VA, Aug 1864. Casualties for both sides would total 23,000 men. Civilians watched the battle from a nearby hillside.

Gen Willcox

Gen Grant "relaxes" before the Siege begins.

 

[Bamaboots]

Downtown Huntsville, late 50’s

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Downtown Huntsville, late 50’s
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If I read the marquee correctly, The Incredible Shrinking Man came out in 1957, so late 50's absolutely works.

 

[steur]

From the City Archives of Amsterdam. No other information available. Not everyone is singing along.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

In 1904 Solomon Sivils was convicted of introducing liquor into Indian territory & was sentenced to 18 months in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary plus a $10 fine. Upon entry the prison doctor found him to be "tubercular and extremely emaciated from morphine addiction. Unfit for manual labor."

In 1905 Charles H. Miller was convicted of embezzlement and fraud, & sentenced to 3 yrs at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Upon arrival he was immediately admitted to the prison hospital for suffering from tertiary syphilis, numbness of the left leg & foot from above the knee down, stiffness of left knee, syphilitic ulcerations on the tongue and in the throat, & severe disease of the heart. The prison doctor asked that he be released so as not to infect anyone else but was denied.

In 1910 Charles Arm, a Sioux Indian was convicted of larceny & sentenced to two yrs in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. After serving just four months he died of tuberculosis in the prison hospital.

These guys probably went to prison for the free healthcare.

 

[Redfokker]

From the City Archives of Amsterdam. No other information available. Not everyone is singing along.
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Love this image! A real time capsule into hat style history. I notice the crease clip on the homburg in the center. Lots of side pinches. I wonder what they were singing? Has a early 1930s feel.

 

[steur]

Love this image! A real time capsule into hat style history. I notice the crease clip on the homburg in the center. Lots of side pinches. I wonder what they were singing? Has a early 1930s feel.

You can spot a few more hats that seem to be clipped, Mike. Given the number of men I'm thinking this was at a football match and they were singing a (new?) club song.

 

[Frunobulax]

Given a few of the guys are sporting a brush-stash, pre-WWII, likely.

 

[Redfokker]

Given a few of the guys are sporting a brush-stash, pre-WWII, likely.

Yeah, Adolf kind of ruined that one for everyone.

 

[Frunobulax]

Yeah, Adolf kind of ruined that one for everyone.

I've only seen two guys pull it off in my lifetime, John Waters and the lead singer from a new wave band called Sparks.

 

[steur]

I've only seen two guys pull it off in my lifetime, John Waters and the lead singer from a new wave band called Sparks.

Ah yes, Ron Mael. He was playing with the likeness. Sparks made some great music. They still perform I believe.

 

[Cornelius]

Ah yes, Ron Mael. He was playing with the likeness. Sparks made some great music. They still perform I believe.

They do. The last I heard, Sparks were slated to score a film by French Director Leos Carax called "Annette," which is still in production.

 

[Frunobulax]

They do. The last I heard, Sparks were slated to score a film by French Director Leos Carax called "Annette," which is still in production.

I thought of them as a novelty when I first heard of them. I revisited about 20 years ago and was pleasantly surprised at how good they really were.

 

[Cornelius]

I thought of them as a novelty when I first heard of them. I revisited about 20 years ago and was pleasantly surprised at how good they really were.

The short-lived music magazine "Arthur" had a very thorough piece on the band about 12 yrs ago

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Best Dressed Burgler & Professional Burglery Tool Maker of the 1870's/1880's

Daniel Watson
Alias: Daniel Kane, Dutch Dan

Some of Watson's customers:

Burglar Dennis Carroll
Alias: Dennis Thompson, Big Slim

Burglar & Bank Sneak William Coleman
Alias: Billy Coleman

 

[Zombie_61]

...These guys probably went to prison for the free healthcare.

Judging by the looks of 'em, I'd guess it didn't help.

 

[Cornelius]

Judging by the looks of 'em, I'd guess it didn't help.

Never underestimate the radical improvements in human health wrought by both vitamins & condoms

 

[Zombie_61]

Never underestimate the radical improvements in human health wrought by both vitamins & condoms

That, and a chair wired to deliver 2,000 volts.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

In 1903 F. M. Houck was sentenced to 13 months in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for having an intimate affair with a married woman.

In 1908 Charles J. Keesee was sentenced to 18 months in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for mailing obscene letters. He was repeatedly written up for slacking off his prison work & hindering other prisoners from doing their work.

Instead of mailing obscene letters he should have waited a hundred yrs until Sexting was invented.

In 1911 Joseph Wirth was sent to the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary upon being convicted of violating the Oleomargarine Act of August 2, 1886. He would serve more than 3 yrs before being released.

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!