An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
Job Hunting In 1930’s
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
Hidden, or disappearing, fore-edge painting is a technique that dates back to the mid 17th century, when London bookbinders began decorating not the flat edge of a text block, but rather the gently fanned edge. Doing so caused the image to appear and vanish depending on how the pages were held. In some cases, as with the views of Boston and Philadelphia above, two different scenes were painted on either side of the fore-edge, so that only the gilt edge is visible until the pages are fanned in one direction or the other.
There’s more about these fore-edge paintings on theFrom the Stacksblog!
Fore-edge painting of York
Cathedral. Thomas and Katharine Macquoid. About Yorkshire. 1894. New-York Historical Society.
Double fore-edge painting
of oval views of Hull and Olney, with decorative surrounds. John Scott. The Life of the Rev. Thomas
Scott, Rector of Aston Sandford, Bucks. 1836. New-York Historical Society.
Double-fore edge paintings
of Boston and Philadelphia. Washington Irving. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey
Crayon, Gent. 1864. New-York Historical Society.
Fore-edge painting of Eton
from Windsor Castle. Thomas Gray. Poems and Letters. 1867. New-York Historical
Society.
Look at these Central American kids brandishing handguns on the front
page of Drudge Report. Thank goodness Trump and Sessions are caging
these menaces to America!
The only thing is, the photo was taken in 2012, the guns are toys,
and the photo was taken in Syria. These are inconsequential trivialities
for Drudge’s lie-loving readers, though.
Four young Syrian boys with toy guns are posing in front of my camera
during my visit to Azaz, Syria. Most people I met were giving the peace
sign. This little city was taken by the Free Syrian Army in the summer
of 2012 during the Battle of Azaz.
