Captain Harry S Truman, c1918. Truman's eyesight was too poor for him to join up, so he memorised the eyechart and reapplied.
Original B&W photo.
Monday, 7 October 2013
Harry S Truman
Captain Harry S Truman, c1918. Truman's eyesight was too poor for him to join up, so he memorised the eyechart and reapplied.
Original B&W photo.
Sunday, 6 October 2013
John Brown
John Brown, the abolitionist who, some people think, sparked the American Civil War, here in 1856.
Original daguerreotype.
Joan Collins
Joan Collins in a publicity shot for one of the first British films to get an X certificate, "Cosh Boy", in 1953. It was considered to be too close to the Derek Bentley case, in the same year, for the film viewing public to see.
Original B&W photo.
Northrop HL-10
Air Force Major Jerauld R. Gentry, Air Force test pilot Peter Hoag, and NASA pilots John A. Manke and Bill Dana, the four principal pilots of the Northrop HL-10, in 1969.
Original B&W photo.
Friday, 4 October 2013
Charles Peace
Charles Peace was a Victorian criminal so notorious that he merited a mention by name in a Sherlock Holmes short story, "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client".As far as I can tell, this photo is from around 1858 when Peace would have been about 26, and near the start of his criminal career, which ended with his execution in 1879. Most of his crimes involved burglary, but he murdered two people along the way, including a policeman.
Original B&W photo.
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. I'm not sure about the date of this photo, but I suspect that it may have been taken around 1922, after his aquittal in one of three trials for rape and manslaughter.
Original B&W photo.
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