Photograph: “The Three Polar Stars”: Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) and Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), recipients of the National Geographic Society’s Gold Medal, 1913. Shot in Philadelphia, PA, 1913
No. This isn’t L.A, we have hefty fines for littering and dedicated cops who make sure to fine people as much as they can. They are professional finers
You might skip to the 12 min mark if you don’t care about Aki’s sob story. It’s the taxi driver, Mika, who sets the record straight on what a damn sad story is.
Photograph: Charlie Long, born in Spitalfields, 1892, and youngest of eight. By Horace Warner ca. 1900
Kind of wonder who the young Mr. Long would become later in life… did he go to war? Got a good job, a wife, a family of his own? Was a good person, or turned sour and mean? Neither his pants, shirt or even the hat are his size, and he doesn’t haves any shoes. But he’s not beaten and is gonna put up a fight.
I did a little digging around and found out that when this picture was taken he was employed as a knife sharpener. That only half of his seven other siblings lived to adulthood. That his mother died of exhaustion. Which is shorthand for many causes contributing to what was likely a stroke or heart failure.
However he and a brother were killed in WW1.. On 9 October 1917
He died in France..
burial
Tyne Cot Memorial
CWGC Cemetery/Memorial
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium