which platform?
a very young passenger asks a station attendant for directions, on the railway platform at bristol, england, 1936. photo by george w. hales.
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A grouper is examined by three kittens at Marineland in Florida, 1938.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Children cool off from summer heat outside a Connecticut firehouse, April 1935.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Rough riders, University of Chicago, 1940, Chicago
London Underground, which opened 150 years ago this week.
During the Blitz in 1940 many tube stations were used as air raid shelters.
Two miles of the Central Line were even converted into a giant aircraft factory, something which was an official state secret until the 1980s.
London Underground, which opened 150 years ago this week.
When the Circle line was opened in 1884, The Times described it as “a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it”.
life:
On this day in 1870 construction on the Brooklyn Bridge officially began. Here’s a look at the magnificent neo-Gothic marvel through the lens of the great Andreas Feininger.
“A saddle-horse and a pack-horse are sufficient for the Icelander to cross wide tracts of barren country.” - Iceland, 1938.
Primrose Hill, London, 1940s.
Air raid wardens demo a trio of spooky elephantine gas masks, designed for the elderly, during a simulated gas attack in 1941 London.
A man sits on a park bench in London, reading a book, 1940; a moored “barrage balloon” is visible in the background, while a second one soars high in the distance.
Norma Jeane photographed by Andre de Dienes, 1945
(Source: julipinup, via watchtheskyexplodinghigh)
Footage from a 1938 category 3 hurricane which hit New England and flooded Manhattan.
(Source: io9.com)
Pilgrim State Psychiatric Hospital, Brentwood, NY, 1938.
Hyde Park, 1944.
