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compendium-of-beasts:

Westinghouse - Mechanical Man and Dog (Elektro and Sparko), New York World’s Fair, 1939-40

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nprradiopictures:

In the 1960s, a young nurse from rural California decided to pack up, move to a newly independent Nigeria on a Christian mission and work with leprosy patients. She met a Nigerian preacher and married him, and they had kids. To an outsider looking at her life in photos decades later, it all seems pretty exceptional.

But to her son, designer Senongo Akpem, it was regular family life. “It’s always hard to describe your parents as exceptional,” he says. “To me she was just Mom.”

Growing up in Nigeria, Akpem had obviously heard stories from his parents about their early days. But it wasn’t until very recently that he could see them. His father found some old film slides, a family friend scanned them, and Akpem has been culling through them from New York, where he’s now based.

First, he’s focusing on his mother’s story and has posted a few mini-chapters of her life to his website, Lost Nigeria. It’s a poignant filmstrip of personal, daily life — but the photos also expose a chapter of Nigerian history you don’t often see.

Lost Nigeria:The Founds Photos Of A Nurse With Wanderlust

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Senongo Akpem

theonion:

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life:

We are sad to report that Cal Whipple, a former LIFE correspondent, died on March 17th at the age of 94. Whipple played a huge role in getting this groundbreaking photograph of three dead American soldiers published in LIFE magazine — a fight he took all the way to the White House.

The New York Times writes:

Mr. Whipple and his colleagues at Life believed that Mr. Strock’s photograph would provide a badly needed dose of reality for those on the home front who were growing complacent about the war effort. “I went from Army captain to major to colonel to general,” he recalled in a memoir written for his family, “until I wound up in the office of an assistant secretary of the Air Corps, who decided, ‘This has to go to the White House.’ ”

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(George Strock—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

guardian:

An extraordinary picture of a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China. An elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their house to be demolished. They say that compensation offered is not enough to cover rebuilding costs. This and all the best news images from Thursday here: Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

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guardian:

News that the UK has apparently manufactured its last typewriter brings to mind some of its most glorious moments - summed up here in an illustrated guide & thanks

Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

humansofnewyork:

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todaysdocument:

The 5 Sullivan Brothers - lost aboard the USS Juneau 70 years ago today during the naval Battle of Guadalcanal:

“Five Sullivan Brothers - They Did Their Part”

The five Sullivan brothers (Albert, Francis, George, Joseph, and Madison) served together as shipmates aboard the cruiser USS Juneau after requesting special permission from the Secretary of the Navy. The Juneau was sunk on November 13, 1942, off the island of Guadalcanal by Japanese submarine I-26.

life:

Robert F. Kennedy with Japanese children, 1962. See more here.