Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[S Landreth]

^ Nice pic but I wish some would provide a little back story to the less obvious pics.

For example:

Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were African American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana, after being taken from jail and beaten by a mob. They had been arrested that night as suspects in a robbery, murder and rape case. A third African American suspect, 16-year-old James Cameron, had also been arrested and narrowly escaped being killed by the mob; he was helped by the intervention of an unknown woman and returned to jail. He was later convicted and sentenced as an accessory before the fact. After dedicating his life to civil rights activism, in 1991 he was pardoned by the state of Indiana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchi...nd_Abram_Smith

The night of the lynching, studio photographer Lawrence Beitler took a photograph of the crowd by the bodies of the men hanging from a tree. He sold thousands of copies over the next 10 days, and it has become an iconic image of a lynching.

In 1937 Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from New York and the adoptive father of the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, saw a copy of Beitler's 1930 photograph. Meeropol later said that the photograph "haunted me for days" and inspired his poem "Bitter Fruit". It was published in the New York Teacher in 1937 and later in the magazine New Masses, in both cases under the pseudonym Lewis Allan. Meeropol set his poem to music, renaming it "Strange Fruit". He performed it at a labor meeting in Madison Square Garden. In 1939 it was performed, recorded and popularized by American singer Billie Holiday.[5] The song reached 16th place on the charts in July 1939, and has since been recorded by numerous artists, continuing into the 21st century.

Because it’s a black and white thread,…

Abel Meeropol

from The Blues thread here at TD (a Billie Holiday cover),…….

Little about the lyrics/poem in the last video,......

The lyrics are under copyright but have been republished in full in an academic journal, with permission. In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at lynching's. He had seen Lawrence Beitler's photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. He published the poem under the title "Bitter Fruit" in 1937 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine. Though Meeropol had often asked others (notably Earl Robinson) to set his poems to music, he set "Strange Fruit" to music himself and the piece gained a certain success as a protest song in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden.

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The big bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the leafs to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

The picture that moved Meeropol to write the poem: https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...ange_Fruit.jpg

I didn’t post the picture (but the link is there) because I thought it was a bit disturbing.

[Boon Mee]

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Disturbing?

Helmet and Rifle mark the spot in a ditch by road where two Infantrymen gave their lives, during a new drive by Seventh Army which opened on a front of fifty miles from Saarbrücken to the Rhine.

[Sumbitch]

Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were African American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana, after being taken from jail and beaten by a mob. They had been arrested that night as suspects in a robbery, murder and rape case. A third African American suspect, 16-year-old James Cameron, had also been arrested and narrowly escaped being killed by the mob; he was helped by the intervention of an unknown woman and returned to jail. He was later convicted and sentenced as an accessory before the fact. After dedicating his life to civil rights activism, in 1991 he was pardoned by the state of Indiana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchi...nd_Abram_Smith

The night of the lynching, studio photographer Lawrence Beitler took a photograph of the crowd by the bodies of the men hanging from a tree. He sold thousands of copies over the next 10 days, and it has become an iconic image of a lynching.

In 1937 Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from New York and the adoptive father of the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, saw a copy of Beitler's 1930 photograph. Meeropol later said that the photograph "haunted me for days" and inspired his poem "Bitter Fruit". It was published in the New York Teacher in 1937 and later in the magazine New Masses, in both cases under the pseudonym Lewis Allan. Meeropol set his poem to music, renaming it "Strange Fruit". He performed it at a labor meeting in Madison Square Garden. In 1939 it was performed, recorded and popularized by American singer Billie Holiday.[5] The song reached 16th place on the charts in July 1939, and has since been recorded by numerous artists, continuing into the 21st century.

Yes it is an interesting pic, when tied to the story. Thanks for doing the research.

Just noticed it was Bobo's pic so green coming your way for doing his research.

[bobo746]

A cabaret dancer wearing a fantastic butterfly costume at the Folies Bergere theatre, Paris Circa 1910

[bobo746]

Young women learn how to charge an enemy with rifles and bayonets at their high school in Tokyo, February 18, 1937. Japan trained women and girls for auxiliary army units

[bobo746]

Artist Vik Muniz is known for his gigantic composite installations and sculptures created from thousands of individual objects. In this new collaboration with artist and MIT researcher Marcelo Coelho, Muniz takes the opposite approach and explores the microscopic with a new series of sandcastles etched onto individual grains of sand.
The process of getting a sandcastle onto a speck of rock was anything but straightforward and involved over four years of trial and error utilizing both antiquated and highly technical methods. Muniz first drew each castle using a camera lucida, a 19th century optical tool that relies on a prism to project a reflection of whatever is in front of you onto paper where it can be traced. The drawings were then sent to Coelho who worked with a number of microscopic drawing processes for several years before deciding to use a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) which has the capability of creating a line only 50 nanometers wide (a human hair is about 50,000 nanometers wide).

[rebbu]

^ Wow, a sandcastle on a grain of sand, amazing pictures thanks.

[Boon Mee]

Wild man



On December 28, 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first person to resign as Vice President of the United States.

Calhoun had served as Vice President under Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. He and Jackson had strong disagreements about states’ rights and nullification, leading to Calhoun deciding in 1832 to run for the Senate instead of continuing in his current office.

[Boon Mee]

[bobo746]

In this vintage Tour de France photo from 1934 we see Federico Ezquerra (Spain) who was the first to reach the top of the Télégraphe and the Galibier in this stage. Comments on Flickr suggest the photo was taken at ‘Granges du Galibier’, which means the photo was taken during Stage 7, from Aix-Les-Bains to Grenoble, a whopping 142 miles (228 km)!
If all is true, it means the photo was taken on 10 July 1934. What an awesome shot!

[bobo746]

Seen here are Northern Ireland’s famous ‘Dark Hedges‘, a breathtaking avenue of beech trees that were planted over 200 years ago by the Stuart family. According to Ballymoney Tourism, “it was intended as a compelling landscape feature to impress visitors as they approached the entrance to their home, Gracehill House. Two centuries later, the trees remain a magnificent sight and have become known as the Dark Hedges.”
The trees can be found along a section of Bregagh Road, about 50 miles from Belfast off Antrim Coastal Road. You can see it on Google Maps street view here. You may also recognize the Dark Hedges from a scene on Game of Thrones where it doubled as the King’s Road.

[Cujo]

Wild man



On December 28, 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first person to resign as Vice President of the United States.

Calhoun had served as Vice President under Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. He and Jackson had strong disagreements about states’ rights and nullification, leading to Calhoun deciding in 1832 to run for the Senate instead of continuing in his current office.

So that's what Doc Emmett got up to.

[bobo746]

Iguazu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentina province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. For most of its course, the river flows through Brazil, however, most of the falls are on the Argentine side. The falls may be reached from two main towns, with one on either side of the falls: Puerto Iguazú in Argentina and Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil. [source]
Iguazu is often compared with Victoria Falls in Southern Africa which separates Zambia and Zimbabwe. Iguazu is wider, but because it is split into approximately 275 discrete falls and large islands, Victoria has the largest curtain of water in the world, at more than 1,600 m (5,249 ft) wide and over 100 m (328 ft) in height. [source]
Number of drops: 275
Longest drop: 82 metres (269 ft)
Total width: 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi)

[birding]

[bobo746]

Ulster volunteers, the Ulster Unionist paramilitary force, in training.1914

[Boon Mee]

Brigitte Helm cooling off on the set of Metropolis, 1927

Fritz Lang's masterpiece

[bobo746]

"Cold Harbor, Virginia. Collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle."

[bobo746]

A tower of alcohol barrels to be destroyed during the prohibition era, 1924

[bobo746]

This is the first photograph ever taken of Earth from space,

[bobo746]

Martin Luther King Jr. removing a burned cross from his front yard

[palexxxx]

A tower of alcohol barrels to be destroyed during the prohibition era, 1924

I'm scratching my head wondering how they stacked em up that high.

[BaitongBoy]

I'm wondering why?...

[Sumbitch]

I'm wondering why bobo can't find a pic of the burning barrels. It would beat the burned cross.

[bobo746]

The heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over the fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. The bout lasted only one minute into the first round.

[bobo746]

An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is paraded on Moscow's Red Square during a parade May 9, 1965, marking Victory in Europe day