@sk-76
"suburban kid, got no name" etc. I mostly post random images that I find in digital archives. No theme or purpose, but topics include Chicago, Ireland, London, UK, USA, music, social history, street photography, et al. Not a bot. Contae Chill Mhantáin
Woman at podium speaks to a large crowd in front of a large building.
Jane Fonda speaks at a protest against fuel prices, Chicago (1979)
Photo: © Chicago Sun-Times Media
Candid portrait of woman in a leopard print coat, perhaps in a dressing room or cloak room with other coats hanging on hooks behind her.
Jane Fonda [date unknown]
Photo: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, NYPL
Photograph shows Cassius Clay seated at a lunch counter and Malcolm X photographing him from behind it as a crowd of mostly men surrounds them.
Malcolm X taking Muhammad Ali's [then Cassius Clay] picture, Miami (1964)
Photo: Bob Gomel / Library of Congress
Wide city street with tram tracks and horse drawn vehicles on it, with elevated train tracks on each side. People crowd the sidewalks below them and next to the six-plus story buildings on both sides.
"Manhattan: view looking north up Bowery from Grand Street," (1903)
Photo: Geo. P. Hall & Son / DCMNY
Two young women in house dresses posing for the camera outdoors with the sea and hills on the shore behind them.
Two young women, Blasket Islands, Co. Kerry (1924)
Photo: Carl W. von Sydow / National Folklore Collection, UCD
Small family pose for the camera in a living room. From source: Mar’i (standing), Mayce (sitting left), and Teghrid are pictured in Marquette Park, Illinois. Palestinians Mar’i and Teghrid came to the US in 1971. Mar’i, born in Jenin, a West Bank city fled the 1967 War. Born in Kuwait, Teghrid had parents from Beitunia, a West Bank village. Their daughter Mayce is a native Chicagoan. Mayce and Teghrid wear traditional Palestinian hand embroidered dresses called a thobe.
Aljazara Family, Marquette Park, Illinois (1971)
Photo: James Newberry / Chicago History Museum "Changing Chicago" series
Palestinian immigrants Mar'j and Teghrid with their daughter Mayce, a native Chicagoan
10 persian rugs laid out on the side of a sun bleached, sandy hill. Other rugs are seen rolled up as people including children walk by.
Recently washed carpets drying on a hillside at Cheshmeh Ali in Tehran (1967)
Photo: Harrison Forman / U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Small town main street with green hills and blue sky in the distance.
Market Street and the Market Street Bridge, Williamsport, Pennsylvania (ca. 1950s-1960s)
Photo: Joe Kast / James V. Brown Library - Lycoming County Digital Photo Archive
From source: Color halftone postcard showing young women at a lake at Camp Fern, near Marshall, Texas. On the shore in the foreground are five canoes turned upside down with two young women leaning against them. A wooden pier with a diving board at one end extends from the shore. One person is on the diving board and five others are standing or sitting on the pier. A floating platform is further out on the lake. Trees are in the background. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed on the back at the end of the image caption: "Ektachrome by Helen O'Brien. Printed at the bottom of the message section: "Pub by Eastex Photo Supply, Marshall, Texas. 380-D-6, 63187. Printed between the message and address sections: "Dextone, Made Direct from Kodachrome and Ansco Color By Dexter Press, Pearl River, N.Y."
"Postcard of Young Women Standing by Canoes and Swimming at Camp Fern near Marshall, Texas" (ca. 1950s)
Image: Helen O'Brien / University of North Texas Libraries
Torn wire service printed page with photo of young people standing on the side of an institutional building and climbing in and out of windows. Typed text next to the image says "New York: Students occupying Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library climb in and out the windows of the office of Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of the university, during sit-in demonstration 4/24. Students also barricaded themselves in another campus building, Hamilton hall, where three university officials were being held by the demonstrators. Among the main targets of the protest is the construction of Columbia gymnasium in a Harlem park and the school’s involvement in research for the Defense Department. "
Students occupying Columbia University buildings, New York (1968)
Image: United Press International / Boston Public Library
Captcha picture with three elephants, three giraffes, and a butterfly.
I cannot solve this Captcha. I don't know what they want me to do.
Also, bigger makes no sense with three species.
A woman sitting at a table in a cafe with her back to her companion, a man looking the other way. A wine glass can be seen on the table and a large mirror behind them, partially reflecting the scene.
"Lovers' quarrel, Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe," Paris (ca.1932)
Photo: Brassaï / Howard Greenberg Gallery
A man sits uncomfortably in a chair with a man standing on each side of him. All three are wearing three-piece suits and bowler/derby hats (one of which is quite large.).
Thomas Millikan (Milliken?), presumably in custody.
Small family pose for the camera in a living room. From source: Mar’i (standing), Mayce (sitting left), and Teghrid are pictured in Marquette Park, Illinois. Palestinians Mar’i and Teghrid came to the US in 1971. Mar’i, born in Jenin, a West Bank city fled the 1967 War. Born in Kuwait, Teghrid had parents from Beitunia, a West Bank village. Their daughter Mayce is a native Chicagoan. Mayce and Teghrid wear traditional Palestinian hand embroidered dresses called a thobe.
Aljazara Family, Marquette Park, Illinois (1971)
Photo: James Newberry / Chicago History Museum "Changing Chicago" series
Palestinian immigrants Mar'j and Teghrid with their daughter Mayce, a native Chicagoan
10 persian rugs laid out on the side of a sun bleached, sandy hill. Other rugs are seen rolled up as people including children walk by.
Recently washed carpets drying on a hillside at Cheshmeh Ali in Tehran (1967)
Photo: Harrison Forman / U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
From source: Color halftone postcard showing young women at a lake at Camp Fern, near Marshall, Texas. On the shore in the foreground are five canoes turned upside down with two young women leaning against them. A wooden pier with a diving board at one end extends from the shore. One person is on the diving board and five others are standing or sitting on the pier. A floating platform is further out on the lake. Trees are in the background. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed on the back at the end of the image caption: "Ektachrome by Helen O'Brien. Printed at the bottom of the message section: "Pub by Eastex Photo Supply, Marshall, Texas. 380-D-6, 63187. Printed between the message and address sections: "Dextone, Made Direct from Kodachrome and Ansco Color By Dexter Press, Pearl River, N.Y."
"Postcard of Young Women Standing by Canoes and Swimming at Camp Fern near Marshall, Texas" (ca. 1950s)
Image: Helen O'Brien / University of North Texas Libraries
News clipping with details of the case and a picture of Ida Raymond standing and wearing a hat and coat.
Thomas Millikan took money off the women through promises of theatrical employment, something he had been in trouble for doing before.
Pretty sure General Patton also wore jodhpurs
Portrait of a young woman in Edwardian dress, likely taken in a police station in 1905.
Ida Raymond, one of "half a hundred" victims of a man who promised them work as chorus and show girls, and who helped cops by luring him in to a sting. (1905)
Photo: Chicago Daily News
Vintage US TV station ID says WOW-TV, CHANNEL SIX OMAHA, with a numeral 6 in the background.
WOW-TV station ID (ca. 1950s)
Jack Kerouac 1957
Jack Kerouac
1957
Sent to me by Won K.
#MenWithCats
A teenager standing next to a car.
Johnny Carson, Norfolk, Nebraska (ca. 1940)
From source: Rufus Thomas watching a teenager dance while other children and teens look on in the Library Read & Study Center.
A teenager showing singer and disc jockey Rufus Thomas how to dance at the library, Memphis, Tennessee (ca. 1970)
Photo: Memphis Public Library
Postcard style landscape image showing three hills with a level glen on one of them, surrounded by trees.
Glen of the Downs, Delgany, Co. Wicklow (ca. 1865-1914)
Photo: Robert French / National Library of Ireland
Rotterdam (March 2026)
Buncha Irish lads my age wearing Rory Gallagher Legend t-shirts on this flight.
Woodcut print of abstract image of Rotterdam docklands with buildings, ships, cranes and bridges in grey and white against red sky and black and red water.
Rotterdam (no. 195) woodcut by Werner Drewes (1968)
Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum
they should make the microsoft lads try to find a document they’ve saved to sharepoint next time they all get on stage to announce something new
Promo photo with scene from a film where a woman in a white fur top looks through a door or window as a man in a tuxedo looks at her with a look of concern.
Ann Sheridan "Letter of Introduction" Film Promo (1938)
Photo: University of North Texas Libraries
From source: Elevated view of pedestrians walking and automobiles and streetcars driving on Halsted Street at 79th Street in the Auburn Gresham community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sign for the Auburn Park Trust and Savings Bank is visible on left and for a cut-rate drug store on the right in the foreground. Marquees for that read Madrid and Capitol are visible on the left in the background. A water tower is visible in the distance.
Halsted Street at 79th Street, Chicago (1926)
Photo: Chicago Daily News
