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Cities are better with cars. I love seeing old images of places I know. This is taken from Preston Circus looking north.
(Source: hurakan)
A panorama of the British Fleet anchored in Torbay. 1914.
Officers of the 69th Infantry New York, at Fort Corcoran, Virginia, with Col. Michael Corcoran. (Mathew Brady/NARA) (via The Civil War, Part 1: The Places - In Focus - The Atlantic)
Love the way the image quality falls off at the edge of the image. Depth off field lush in the this image.
This September 1862 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Allan Pinkerton on horseback during the Battle of Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Before the outbreak of war, he had founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. In 1861, he famously foiled an alleged plot to assassinate president-elect Lincoln, and later served as the head of the Union Intelligence Service — the forerunner of the U.S. Secret Service. (AP Photo/Library of Congress, Alexander Gardner) (via The Civil War, Part 1: The Places - In Focus - The Atlantic)
A boy stands amidst the evening rush on the main road. Due to the close-by Azadpur Mandi, India’s largest vegetable and fruit wholesale market, the area is an ideal ground for any kind of legal and illegal trafficking. (via Photos: Death for 50 Rupees | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post)
Boy Jumping into Hudson River, 1948
(via The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League - LightBox)
