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Visit to a farm, Muldersdrift, South Africa, 1952 -

by Jürgen Schadeberg (1931 - 2020), German/South African

On the corner of Brushfield Street and Gun St, 1967, by Philip Marriage.

#london history #east london #spitalfields #city of london

A treasured part of London life for more than a century, the Hampstead Heath funfairs delighted generations with thrilling rides, games, candyfloss and family fun.

These wonderful photographs by Henry Grant, taken in the 1950s and 1960s, capture both the excitement of the crowds and the hard work of the travelling fairground families behind the scenes.

©️ Henry Grant

#london history #1950’s #funfair #vintage picture #london #traveller #vintage photography

Ph: Frances Bruchez

The Making of the Album Cover for Pink Floyd's Animals, 1977.

The cover of Animals was inspired by Roger Waters and photographed at Battersea Power Station in London using a giant inflatable pig. On the first day of the shoot, technical problems prevented the pig from fully inflating. The following day, the pig broke free from its restraints and drifted into the sky, even entering the flight path of planes approaching Heathrow Airport before eventually landing on a farm in Kent. After being recovered and repaired, the pig was successfully photographed on the third day, floating between the power station's towers. The final album cover combined the inflatable pig photographed on the third day with the dramatic sky captured on the first day, creating one of the most recognizable and iconic album covers in rock music history.

Billy the Kid.

Billy the Kid is one of the most famous outlaws in American history, but surprisingly little is known about what he actually looked like. Born Henry McCarty, later known as William H. Bonney, he became involved in the Lincoln County War before being shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881 at just 21 years old. His reputation has grown far beyond his lifetime, yet only a few photographs are believed to genuinely show him. The most well-known is the famous tintype of Billy holding a rifle and revolver, which has become one of the most recognizable images from the Old West. Because there are so few confirmed photographs of Billy the Kid, any new image that might include him attracts a great deal of attention.

One of the most remarkable discoveries came in 2010 when a man bought an old tintype at a California thrift store for just $2. After years of research, some historians and experts believed it showed Billy the Kid playing croquet with members of the Regulators, though others remain skeptical. Even with the debate, the photograph became an incredible historical find and was later insured for $5 million, showing just how valuable and fascinating these rare glimpses into the Old West can be.

Le Men from Vanuatu, ca. 1890-1893.

Photographed by Dr. André-Alexandre Jollet.

Source: Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle,

Laboratoire d'Anthropologie; former Musée de l'Homme (Photothèque).

The historic Gun Tavern and Hotel in Wapping was a prominent riverside public house located on the corner of Wapping High Street and Dundee Set in the dense maritime and industrial hub of East London alongside the River Thames, serving local dockworkers, lightermen, and sailors.

Photo credit : London inheritance.

Groton School, MA - June 1940

Young school boys ready in the library during school in Groton, Massachusetts.

(Photo by Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

Images).

Crawford Barton (June 2, 1943 - June 12, 1993) was an American photographer. His work is known for documenting the blooming of the culture in San Francisco from the late 1960s into the 1980s.

Many of Barton's images documenting long-haired freaks dancing in the street, love-ins in the park, "dykes on bikes, cross-dressers in the Castro, and leather men prowling at night have become classics of the gay world. He photographed some of the first Gay Pride parades and protests; Harvey Milk campaigning in San Francisco; and celebrities including poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and actors Sal Mineo and Paul Winfield. It was his circle of friends and acquaintances that inspired his most intimate erotic photography, especially his lover, Larry Lara. Barton described Lara as the "perfect specimen, as crazy and wonderful and spontaneous and free as Kerouac, so I'm never bored and never tired of looking at him." Considered as a single body of work, his photographs of Lara dancing in the hallway of their flat on Dorland Street, a bearded hippie in the door of a cabin in Marin, a sensual nude in the hills of Land's End, suggest the fullness, richness and complexity of the man he loved most.

In addition to his fine art photography, Barton worked on assignment for The Advocate and the Bay Area Reporter, as well as The Examiner, Newsday', and the Los Angeles Times.

Before sunrise, Billingsgate Market roared awake beneath a ceiling of smoke, fog and shouting. Along the Thames, boats unloaded their gleaming cargo while porters staggered through the mud beneath baskets of cod, haddock, salmon and eels. The stones ran wet with melted ice, fish scales and river filth, and the air was thick with salt, sweat, tobacco and the sour breath of London. Traders bellowed prices across the market, their voices harsh enough to cut through the clatter of carts and wooden crates. Arguments flared quickly. Insults flew faster than coins, giving rise to the word “Billingsgate” as a description of coarse and abusive language. It was no place for the delicate. Men worked with frozen hands, aching backs and little rest, feeding a vast city that rarely considered the labour behind its meals.

In 1877, the grand market building designed by Horace Jones brought ironwork, stone and order to the ancient riverside trade, but its rough spirit remained unchanged. Billingsgate was London stripped bare: noisy, brutal and alive. Beneath its arches, fortunes were bargained over dead fish while the black Thames rolled past, carrying the stink, struggle and survival of the Victorian city.

Gary, Leicester Square, 1982.

Ph: Derek Ridgers

#skinheads #youth #youth culture

Lucette Desmoulins, colorized,

Ph: Biederer Brothers (Jacques and Charles Biederer.) c.1928.

A photograph taken in the 1890s

by Frans Gustaf Klemming (1859–1922), a well-known Swedish photographer from Stockholm.

#fishermen

Ph: Crawford Barton

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