My dad had a book full of photos of train crashes that I would sometimes look through when I was a kid. They fascinated me, as did any kind of wrecks or ruins or run down, abandoned places. This photo was taken during the time span of purposely crashing trains into each other for fun and profit, sort of the godfather of demolition derbies.

Photo Source: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/10/historical-photos-of-when-trains-were-purposely-crashed-into-each-other/

There have been countless people executed by almost countless methods, and this way seems to have been created to make a very vivid point to anyone who would witness this particular punishment, or even hear of it as a threat.

For more information visit the source at: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/execution-cannon-1890s/

One of these photos is the unpacking of the head of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) and the other is of Elvis (The Pelvis) in the army. The resemblance is eerie, eh?

“Otto Umbehr began his studies at the Weimar Bauhaus in Johannes Itten’s preliminary course in 1921. Two years later he moved to Berlin, where he worked on Walter Ruttmann’s innovative film “Berlin, Symphony of a Great City” (1926). He began to experiment with photography, making expressionistic portraits of friends and eventually teaching at Itten’s private art school for two years. In addition, Umbo worked as a photojournalist for the Berlin picture agency DEPHOT from 1924 until its dissolution in 1933.
Umbo’s work has an uncanny, surreal edge that pushes it beyond simple documentation, less the result of experimental darkroom practices than of his exploration of the psychological parameters of photographic description. This photograph of Salzburg at night was taken with a long exposure from a high vantage point. The solid, volumetric mass of an apartment block is compressed into a flattened silhouette, while the path of a solitary car, delineated by the parallel tracings of its headlights, is etched into the street below. The mood is one of impenetrable darkness and impending doom, strongly expressionistic in its vertiginous projection of a nightmare.”

Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/283293

Have you ever heard of a stump house? After the clearing of old growth forests in the U.S. during the 1800’s some settlers would come through and turn the massive stumps into houses

This happy young couple could be enjoying New Years Eve in this photo, or any other joyful occasion. The photo is titled “Dean and Deni 1966” and their full names are Robert Dean Jacobi and Denise Stone Jacobi. My parents.

This photo is titled “The Human Liberty Bell” By Mole and Thomas. It is over 100 years old and is comprised of 25,000 military men. For more information check out https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-living-photographs-of-mole-and-thomas/