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09/01/2024

A grocery store clerk in Tallahassee, Florida, 1962

09/01/2024

A Native American girl with a baby at a train station, 1929.

09/01/2024

Food Truck, 1919.

09/01/2024

Mary Smith, a “knocker-upper” who earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at windows to wake people for work (East London, 1930s)

09/01/2024

23 year old Picasso in Montmartre, Paris, France, 1904

09/01/2024

Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli in London, ca 1964

08/25/2024

Fake Tree Observation Post of WW1 -

Because the front was constantly watched by the enemy, one just couldn’t erect a new tree, because any new tree appearing out of nowhere would have instantly drawn attraction and fire. The fake tree had to replace an existing tree.

A dead tree, blasted by a bomb, located ideally near the trenches was chosen. The tree was then photographed and extensively studied, measurements taken and sketches made. A hollow, steel replica was then made in the workshop far behind the lines. At night, under the cover of darkness and artillery fire, the real tree was felled and the fake one installed in its place. The artillery fire also drowned out the noise of the work.

08/25/2024

May, 1865 in City Point Virginia.

08/25/2024

Princess Diana in Barbuda, 1997

08/25/2024

When a catty newspaper columnist supposedly said Marilyn Monroe would be better off wearing a potato sack, she did just that, 1951

08/25/2024

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore in Malibu, California. Photo by Annie Leibovitz (1991)

08/25/2024

People run from a wave of thick smoke from the collapse of one of the Twin Towers, September 11, 2001.

08/25/2024

Norman Rockwell and the model for Rosie the Riveter, his neighbor and a telephone operator, Mary Doyle Keefe around (1950)

08/25/2024

Residents of West Berlin show their children to their grandparents living in East Berlin, 1961

08/25/2024

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean) in the snow, 1945

08/20/2024

A Liverpool policeman in the winter of 1963! 🇬🇧

08/20/2024

On August 15, 1962, JFK met with members of the American Indian Chicago Conference, who had created the Declaration of Indian Purpose the year before.

08/20/2024

A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, February 1940

08/20/2024

The Remarkable Story of Brazen Bill Brazelton -- The Man Who Didn’t Swallow a Wagon Wheel!

Today in Old-West History -- On today’s date 146 years ago, Monday, August 19, 1878, notorious Old-West outlaw gunslinger & masked stagecoach robber William Whitney “Brazen Bill” Brazelton (unknown-1878), known as “The man who didn’t swallow a wagon wheel,” met his earthly demise when he was shot to death by a posse of lawmen near the town of Tucson in Pima County of Arizona Territory.

Brazen Bill Brazelton, who has been described as “the most successful single-handed highway robber of his era, was a large man at slightly over six feet tall & weighing a bit over 200 pounds. There are no known records of Brazen Bill’s place & date of birth, although he claimed to have been born in Missouri. He grew up an orphan on San Francisco’s Barbary Coast where he lived in an old boiler whilst he attended public school. By the age of fifteen, Brazelton had already killed his first man. For a time, he worked as a strongman in a San Francisco beer garden. So great was his physical strength that Brazelton delighted in inviting groups of men to climb up onto his back before throwing them collectively to the floor.

According to an 1878 article in the “Arizona Miner” newspaper, it was probably the devilish Brazelton who showed up outside the Courthouse in Prescott, claiming that he could swallow an entire wagon wheel, amongst other spectacular feats. After taking bets, Brazelton absquatulated with the ill-gotten lucre after stating his intention to round up the other members of his traveling troupe in order to commence the show. “He never returned,” wrote “The Arizona Miner,” “neither did his troupe, & now comes a dispatch to the Governor saying Wm. Brazelton is killed... He is in all probability the same man who didn’t swallow the wagon wheel.”

During his career as a highway robber, Brazen Bill, who was known to be a dexterous deadly shot, single-handedly robbed nine stagecoaches in the Territories of Arizona & New Mexico.

In August of 1878, Pima county sheriff Charles A. Shibell (1841-1908), along with his posse, set up a trap for Brazen Bill near Tucson. When Bill showed up for a prearranged meeting with a confidant, the posse quickly opened fire, killing Brazen Bill on the spot. His body was taken back to Tucson where it was put on display propped up in a chair to be photographed. Best accounts are that he was buried in the Old Tucson Cemetery downtown & then later moved to a mass grave in Evergreen Cemetery, but the location of his grave has been lost to history.

It seems that Brazelton’s long-lost grave was not the end of the trail for him, as even in the present day, late-night travelers passing the spot where Brazen Bill met his fate along the Old Coach Road continue to report the appearance of a ghostly figure lurking in the shadows -- perhaps waiting for the next stagecoach to come along.

Twenty-five years after Brazelton’s death, W. C. Davis of Tucson spoke on the topic of Brazen Bill Brazelton at San Jose, California, as reported in the “San Jose Evening News.” The following paragraph is an extract from Davis’s speech.

“The Indians & Méxicans, particularly the old people of the latter race, will never go past a place after dark where any tragedy has ever been committed, or which has been given the reputation of being q***r when it has been given out that any one has seen things... There is a place not far from Tucson where it is said they will not pass after dark, even if they have to make a journey of a mile to go around it.

The incident which put a hoodoo on the spot occurred some twenty-five years ago... The spot where the highwayman met a tragic death was avoided after night fall by the Indians & Méxicans & even now some of the old-timers, who remember the affair, will not go past the place in the dark, & will recite stories of how a phantom highwayman is seen standing in the road, just as Brazelton was halted on the night of his death.”

The 1878 post-mortem photograph depicts the co**se of Brazen Bill Brazelton in one of a set of two photographs taken by pioneering Tucson photographer Henry Buehman (1851-1912). The other photograph in the series shows Brazelton with his mask on. This picture was taken immediately after Ika Brokaw, a member of Pima Co. Sheriff’s Posse that had killed him, loaded Brazelton’s body into a wagon & propped him up in a chair against a wall of the Pima County Courthouse.

08/20/2024

I’m wondering if he had a driving licence!

08/17/2024

Princess Diana, last photoshoot by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair, 1997 🖤

08/17/2024

Elizabeth L. Gardner, WASP pilot during WWII, Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas

08/17/2024

Did you have a bath in one of these baths?

What night was bath night?... Mine was always a Sunday around the fire...with towels covering the clotheshorse and used as a screen.
What are your memories?

08/17/2024

Charitable Chinese Man Feeding A Criminal In A Cangue. Ca. 1905

08/17/2024

A device for smoking a whole pack of ci******es, 1950s.

08/17/2024

Marilyn Monroe - Age 36 (1962)

08/15/2024

Fred Astaire with his daughter Ava sitting at Fouquet’s on the Champs-Elysées, Paris, (1961)

08/15/2024

An old Italian woman shows her gratitude to one of the American soldiers following the liberation of Italy, 1945.

08/15/2024

First Day Of First Grade And Last Day Of High School 😍

Credit - original owner

08/14/2024

A police officer and his dog riding a motorcycle in 1930.🇬🇧

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