Newcastle City Gaol and House of Correction Collection 1742 – 1878. Particulars of criminals convicted of a crime specified in section 20 of the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 and reported to the Secretary of State [Home Secretary] as being imprisoned in Newcastle Gaol, numbers 1079-1303. All the prisoners photographed here spent time in Newcastle [...]
The College of Medicine University of Baghdad, formerly known as the Iraqi Royal Medical College, was established in 1927. The first Dean and its founder was Sir Harry Sinderson (Pasha), a British physician who was the physician of the Iraqi Royal Family. The College was established near a hospital (al Majeedi Hospital) near to Tigris river. It was one of the first medical schools in [...]
These FSA/OWI pictures, taken by photographer Jack Delano, depict life in Puerto Rico with a focus on rural areas and farm labor during the Great Depression. By Executive Order on May 28, 1935, the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (P.R.R.A.), the agency through which Federal work relief and emergency funds were made available for Puerto Rico, [...]
This set of photographs, documenting a number of Cas psychiatriques (psychiatric cases) were taken by influential French photographer and medical researcher, Albert Londe at some point in the late 19th Century. A photographer by profession, Londe worked at a Paris hospital (La Saltpetriere) in the neurological department using photography to study epileptic seizures. Londe designed and [...]
Up until the 1870s squatters washed their sheep in nearby creeks prior to shearing. Later some expensive hot water installations were constructed on some of the largerstations for the washing. Sheep washing in Australia was influenced by the Saxony sheep breeders in Germany who washed their sheep and by the Spanish practice of washing the wool after shearing. There were three main [...]
At the time the Florida East Coast Railway constructed this bridge it was acclaimed as the longest bridge in the world, an engineering marvel. It was the most costly of all Flagler’s bridges in the Key West Extension. Since the beginning it has served as the one and only vital link between Miami and Key [...]
On July 25, 1934, Austrian Nazi partisans attacked the chancellery in Vienna, hoping to force the government to resign and install a regime favourable to Hitler’s Germany. The coup failed but (Austrian Chancellor Engelbert) Dollfuß was shot and killed. Until now, the action was seen as a local initiative by Austrian Nazis…but based on journal entries by close [...]
The bridge spans a small canal which was put through the thin but long sand spit named Minnesota Point (commonly referred to as Park Point by locals) in 1870–71. The natural mouth of the St. Louis River is about seven miles (11 km) farther southeast, and is split between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Creating this gap in the tiny peninsula meant that residents who lived on the new island needed to have [...]
Located in Orleans County, Albany was granted township by the Vermont legislature in 1782. Orignally called Lutterloh, after Colonel Henry Lutterloh, the name was officially changed to Albany in 1815. (Photographs courtesy of the Library of Congress/Tehrkot Media)
On Memorial Day, 1921, four unknowns were exhumed from four World War I American cemeteries in France. U.S. Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger, who was wounded in combat, highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Medal in “The Great War, the war to end all wars,” selected the Unknown Soldier of World War [...]
In the 23rd Psalm in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the writer, David, describes God as his Shepherd. Jewish tradition ascribes authorship of the psalm to King David, said in the Hebrew Scriptures to have been a field shepherd himself as a youth. Psalm 23 is traditionally sung by Jews at the third Shabbat meal on Saturday afternoon. It is also sung during the Yizkor service. Sephardic and some Hassidic Jews also sing during Friday afternoon [...]
The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 10, 1898, and following days; it is considered a turning point in North Carolina politics following Reconstruction. Originally labeled a race riot, it is now also termed a [...]
The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Boston’s largest urban fire, and still ranks as one of the most costly fire-related property losses in American history. The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on November 9, 1872, in the basement of a commercial warehouse at 83—87 Summer Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The fire was finally contained 12 hours later, after it had consumed about 65 acres [...]
Abdullah I bin al-Hussein, Emir of Transjordan and King of Jordan (February 1882 – 20 July 1951) عبد الله الأول بن الحسين was born in Mecca, the second of three sons of Sherif Hussein bin Ali, Sharif and Emir of Mecca and his first wife. From 1909 to 1914, Abdullah sat in the Ottoman legislature, as deputy for Mecca, but allied [...]
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The old Spanish custom of burial in Cuba is to rent a lot in a cemetery, not buy it outright, as is the procedure in America. When the rental is not paid, the body is removed, placed in quicklime to take off all the flesh, and the skeleton thrown into an enclosure. As a result [...]
The first half of the 20th century is generally regarded as the Golden Age of railroading (becoming very specialized with comfort and luxury) with several famous passenger trains, stations/terminals, and other landmark feats occurring within the industry during that time (roughly 1900 until 1950). This was also the time that the industry saw an all-time high of track [...]
