George McClellan kept the Necco Wafers under his saddle when he wasn't in battle - which he never was.
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Yours Truly, Zachary Snellenberger.
Streetstyle: Kim Sunghee and Park Jihye.
ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Federal infantryman enjoying a meal]
I am 100-percent happy. When I was at Baylor, I wasn’t fully happy because I couldn’t be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.Brittney Griner - Owning The Middle, ESPN
The photography in this article is almost as great as the reporting.
The Tiger Cub and the Cat
Ye olde San Francisco, 1855 or ‘56.
Six-part Panorama of San Francisco (+ details, including view down Stockton Street and Telegraph Hill and view of harbor with ships) from San Francisco Album: Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco, 1855–56, attributed to Carleton Watkins, photographer, and G. R. Fardon, printer. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.53.a–.f
Answering a question on our Facebook page: What’s the oldest photo of the Western hemisphere in the collection? Cataloguer Miriam Katz:
The oldest Western Hemisphere photograph in the Getty Museum’s collection is a daguerreotype of Washington Square, New York, taken in 1839. We also have a pair of salted paper print portraits taken by O.B. DeMorat of Philadelphia in the 1850s, and several landscape views of San Francisco around 1855–56. Our oldest South American photographs are daguerreotypes from Chile and Peru from roughly 1850–55.
galasai: Japanese youth photographed by Michael Rougier, 1964
And here is a tiny low-res photo of Stanley Milgram signing Philip Zimbardo’s high school yearbook, because Philip Zimbardo has an incredibly elaborate photo gallery available online.
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