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~ Saturday, May 18 ~
~ Friday, April 26 ~
~ Friday, April 12 ~
Army medic George Lott, wounded in both arms in November, 1944, grimaces as doctors mold a cast to his body. When Lott embarked on a 4,500-mile, seven-hospital journey of recovery, photographer Ralph Morse – astonished by the high level of medical care wounded troops received both at the front and behind the lines – traveled with him, and chronicled Lott’s odyssey in a revelatory cover story for LIFE.
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~ Friday, March 1 ~
~ Wednesday, February 27 ~
~ Friday, February 15 ~
Crimean War
Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper.
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~ Tuesday, February 5 ~
~ Monday, January 14 ~
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier - African Venus, 1851
Cordier submitted a plaster cast of the bust of an African visitor to Paris to the Salon of 1848, and two years later he again entered it as a bronze. A young African woman served as the model for this companion piece in 1851. Regarded as powerful expressions of nobility and dignity, these sculptures proved to be highly popular: casts were acquired by the Museum of National History in Paris and also by Queen Victoria. The Walters’ pair were cast by the Paris foundry Eck and Durand in 1852. These bronzes were esteemed by 19th-century viewers as expressions of human pride and dignity in the face of grave injustice.
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~ Friday, December 7 ~
Albert Kahn collection. Beaugency, France. 20 August 1915.
A French soldier being treated for an eight-month-old injury to the humerus.
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~ Friday, November 23 ~
Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note Social Security number tattooed on his arm, August, 1939.
(Source: shorpy.com)
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~ Wednesday, November 14 ~
~ Wednesday, October 31 ~
Big Chief root beer stand, 1930s.
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~ Tuesday, October 23 ~
~ Sunday, October 21 ~
Samuel Gottsegen heals after bear attack in Alaska.
(Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com)
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~ Sunday, October 14 ~
