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A Chronology of Crime in the Keystone State.
ahappening-photographs:
http://www.squareamerica.com/mugshots/
A slideshow of 20 mugshots of hapless criminals from the town of New Castle, PA. from the 1930s through the 1960s. Expect drunks, larcenists, and even a peeping tom!
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in... →
The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 4,742 blacks between 1882 and 1968. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909. Through all this terror and carnage, someone- many times a professional photographer- carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into...
December 2009
83 posts
“I want my pictures to SCREAM. I want my pictures to punch the viewer in the...”
– Charles Gatewood, Badlands.
