23.8.13

1943

‘Salty,’ mascot aboard a Coast Guard-manned Destroyer Escort, is all slicked up for shore liberty at an undisclosed port in the European war theater. ‘Salty’ wears the rate of ship’s cook third class. It should be cook watcher first class.

22.8.13

George W. Hales, Bristol, England, 1936

A very young passenger asks a station attendant for directions, on the railway platform at bristol.


21.8.13

London, St James’s Park, 4 May 1964

Douglas Miller - A policeman at Buckingham Palace holds the gate open so that a duck and her ducklings, from nearby St James’s Park, can leave the palace forecourt.

20.8.13

París, October 19, 1901

Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont, on a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower. 

Michigan, 1950

A drum major for the University of Michigan marching band leads a line of children in Ann Arbor.

6.8.13

The Tsar reading the newspaper while sitting in his wife’s Boudoir in the famous corner wing-
back chair.