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Bob Adelman (1931–2016), volunteered as a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the early 1960s and photographed the events and the now well-known people active in the civil rights movement at the time. James H. Barker, documented civil rights movement activity in Selma in the early 1960s.
A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching —a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred —intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .
The images were produced between the 1840s and the 1920s using a variety of techniques. They include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes (which use the wet plate collodion process), tintypes and albumen prints. The first picture that prompted the collection was a 5×4 centimetre tintype described on eBay as "funny baby with hidden mother".
“It’s a collage of moments,” says 63-year-old British painter Peter Spens about his art. While photographers manage to produce hundreds, if not thousands, of photos over numerous days of ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement . [ s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [ s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.
Jack-in-the-box. Two boys playing with a jack-in-the-box in an 1863 illustration. Jack-in-the-box after Paul Gavarni. A jack-in-the-box is a children's toy that outwardly consists of a music box with a crank. [1] When the crank is turned, a music box mechanism in the toy plays a melody. After the crank has been turned a sufficient number of ...
August 8, 2024 at 10:37 AM. [Getty Images] A Texas school district, facing backlash after one of its middle schools banned black clothes, has said the dress code change was "prematurely ...