Back In The Good Old Days

Continuing on from the previous picture, the international community forced the Serbians to allow a BBC news crew onto the site to examine if human rights violations were occurring. What they found were people who suffered from malnutrition and often starving nearly to death. They also were specifically ethnic prisoners, all Muslims, with many seemingly showing no signs of being in any military or militia. They also found the guards would torture the prisoners often. Inmate stories and records would show that the Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were interned here, split up based on sex, with many of the women being raped, and thousands being shot and killed at this concentration camp. This was worldwide headlines on most papers and stations when it was released. A doctor on site also smuggled more incriminating photos of what happened at this site to help expose it.

Camille Clifford posing for photographer Charles Gibson after winning a contest held by Gibson as he looked for the perfect bodied woman in 1901. She won the event at the age of just 16. She is around 18-20 in this picture. Her ridiculous curves landed her $2000 US from the contest, and a few modeling shoots with Gibson and even films in England and the US the next few years. The Belgian born beauty quit as quickly as she began to settle down in 1906 at the age of 21. Her first husband would die in WWI, and she made a brief comeback after the war in film before settling down again for good.

This picture shows the aftermath of a bomb that exploded outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia in 1978. The attack was completely unexpected and Australia was not know for such acts against them. This was the nation's first recorded terrorist attack, and it was actually aimed at the visiting Indian Prime Minister. The blast would kill 3 people, wounding numerous more.

Children playing on an early version of roller skates in Paris, France in 1941. Pictures like these were actually taken by either Germans or hired French photographers to use as propaganda showing a happy French capitol under Nazi occupation.

Former confederate soldiers and their families gather in Huntsville, Alabama US for a reunion in 1928. The 2 black men on the right were also former confederate soldiers. A handful of blacks actually fought in the Civil War for the South, usually under false pretenses or forced as slaves to do so. Rarely were they armed, and that debate on whether to armed them as the need for more soldiers arose during the war was a major issue in the Confederate government. It would take until the last month of the war for the Confederates to officially allow black soldiers to be armed, but many still served and in a few cases were armed and fought for the South.

2 African Tribesmen pretending to be their colonial brethren playing pool in a town near what was the Zulu Empire in South Africa in 1903. Notice the eye piece and fake collars? There is a number of these pictures of the tribesmen and women doing everyday European and colonial activities.

Adding to the previous picture, here is another picture from that genre. This is a picture of a Zulu couple in a Zulu Motor Cab in 1903. I found most of these pictures pretty cool, but some had nudity, which was normal for the tribeswomen of the time, but also prevents me from sharing some of the other really cool pictures. But look up Zulu Land and check them out.

A crowd gathers to laugh at Jews who are forced to clean the pavement in Vienna, Austria in 1938. This would be the beginning of forceful manual labor, constant abuse, deportation and death for every Jew in this image.

Zhan Shichai touring somewhere in the US in 1868. Known as Chang the Giant, this Chinese man was believed to be over 8 feet tall, and possibly was the tallest man to be photographed, but was never verified for his exact height. He left China in 1865, touring Europe, the US, and Australia. He retired in 1878 and died in 1892 at age 52.

Women imported from Thailand pose for a picture at an exhibition in what would be know as a Human Zoo in Paris, France in 1889. Human Zoos had people from Africa, Asia, certain islands, even American negro communities. These Zoos were very prevalent in Europe and the US for patrons to go see the exhibitions of people "in their natural habitat". It got worse, certain women from some areas especially Africa were imported just for their figures, and would walk around naked so the paying customers could see their unique curves. It was a humiliated and degrading display that lasted from around the 1850s all the way up until the last one closed in Belgium in 1958.

College girls hang out in California, US in 1969. This picture is terrific in showing many of the different fashions of the time period for women. From bell bottoms, to miniskirts, to the artsy look of the girl in the back, all common across America during this time.

A boardman photographed in London, England in 1877. This was part of a series called "Street Life in London" by photographer John Thomson. Men such as these were often quite poor, and sometimes were even trampled by carriages on busy streets as they were forced by police to stay off the sidewalk. The series itself has a bunch of really good high quality pictures.

A boardman photographed in London, England in 1877. This was part of a series called "Street Life in London" by photographer John Thomson. Men such as these were often quite poor, and sometimes were even trampled by carriages on busy streets as they were forced by police to stay off the sidewalk. The series itself has a bunch of really good high quality pictures.

People take to the streets in Washinton D.C., US to protest against any aggression that could lead to war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The Soviets wanted to put nuclear missiles in Cuba for first strike capabilities against the US in the event of war. Cuba, having gone communist with Castro rising to power, would be blockaded, and a 13 day standoff took place. Interesting note, the US saw the missiles well before they could be fired, and chose not to destroy them. This was a decision John F Kennedy made, against the wishes of virtually every military advisor he had. This allowed the missiles to become operational and also the possibility of half the East Coast to be destroyed. War was averted at the last minute through back door channels that had both countries disarm and remove missiles in key locations (Cuba for the USSR and Turkey for the US).

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