Saturday, April 21, 2012

Central America in the early 1980s

PRESS CARD ISSUED BY REPORTERS IN EL SALVADOR

GIRL WITH BLIND EYE AND BABY, SALVADORAN REFUGEES IN HONDURAS, 1980
ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO ABOUT A FEW WEEKS BEFORE HIS MURDER




HOMEMADE HO CHI MINH AND SANDINO PLACARDS AT SANDINISTA RALLY, 1980





WASHING CLOTHES NEAR DOWNED BRIDGE IN MORAZAN, CERCA 1982


CHILDREN PLAYING OXEN AND DRIVER, EL SALVADOR, CERCA 1981

SALVADORAN SOLDIER AND GIRL IN MORAZAN, 1982



WITH GUATEMALAN SOLDIERS IN SANTA CRUZ DEL QUICHE, JANUARY 1982. OTHER JOURNALISTS ARE BOB NICKELSBERG AND DIAL TORGERSON

BENEDICTO LUCAS GARCIA, CHIEF OF STAFF OF GUATEMALAN ARMED FORCES, 1982
EL SALVADOR DEATH SQUAD LIST, FULL OF MISSPELLINGS. DICKEY IS NO. 14: CRIST DICKINSON ...


CONTRAS POSING FOR THE CAMERA NEAR NICARAGUAN BORDER, 1983
CONTRAS RESTING ON THE MARCH, NUEVA SEGOVIA, NICARAGUA, 1983
CHRISTOPHER DICKEY RESTING ON THE MARCH WITH THE CONTRAS, 1983
MOTHER AND CHILD IN CAMP FOR DISPLACED SALVADORANS NEAR THE CAPITAL, 1982

Thursday, April 19, 2012




GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator - view more at http://stereo.nypl.org/gallery/index


"Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A." published 1896

A Web site set up by the New York Public Library allows you to turn their antique stereo cards into GIF animations, or watch them with glasses on your computer screen. Quite extraordinary stuff.
GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator

Monday, January 16, 2012

Around Washington D.C., January 2012
Black squirrel in front of The White House

Metro Center on a Sunday

To be as chic as it is, Georgetown sure can look seedy

19th century history for sale at the L'Enfant Gallery in Georgetown

Sunset at Wisconsin Avenue and M Street

A service station on M Street welcomes King Abdullah of Jordan