Det kan vel ikke bare være jeg som har en egen mappe for gamle, kule og historiske bilder på datamaskinen?
Hva med Martin Sheen i "Apokalypse nå", med Seiko 6105 på armen?
Selv kommer jeg stadig vekk over fantastiske historiske bilder under mine mange meningsløse dypdykk i internett. Noen av de er så fascinerende at jeg høyreklikker og velger "lagre som..."
Derfor tenker jeg at det kunne være interessant å dele noen av dem her. Forhåpentligvis er det ikke bare jeg som gjør dette – slik at vi kan gjøre en tråd ut av det.
Bildene kan være av alt fra månelandingen til den lyseblå trikken i Oslo... Altså ikke nødvendigvis relatert til klokker og ur – så lenge de forholder seg til Tidssonens forumregler selvsagt. Legg gjerne ved en bildetekst og noe info om hvor du eventuelt fant bildet.
"This photograph of the 1848 revolution is a precious document; it was taken during one of the four days in June which left several thousand dead among the insurgents and the government forces in Paris. Its exact date and the name of the photographer are known (an amateur photographer who lived in the Popincourt district?) from the engraving published in L'Illustration of 1-8 July 1848 and in the special issue of the magazine Journées illustrées de la révolution de 1848, published in August 1848." "Along with another image by the same photographer, dated 25 June 1848, this scene is regarded as the first photograph used to illustrate a newspaper story."
"The Barricade in rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt before the attack by General Lamoricière's troops, Sunday 25 June 1848"
"Thibault (active in Paris circa 1848)The Barricade in rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt after the attack by General Lamoricière's troops, Monday 26 June 1848"
Colonel Valdimir Komarov, the man who fell from space. 1967.
"The problem was Gagarin. Already a Soviet hero, the first man ever in space, he and some senior technicians had inspected the Soyuz 1 and had found 203 structural problems — serious problems that would make this machine dangerous to navigate in space. The mission, Gagarin suggested, should be postponed.
He'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him.
Komarov talking about Gagarin
The question was: Who would tell Brezhnev? Gagarin wrote a 10-page memo and gave it to his best friend in the KGB, Venyamin Russayev, but nobody dared send it up the chain of command. Everyone who saw that memo, including Russayev, was demoted, fired or sent to diplomatic Siberia. With less than a month to go before the launch, Komarov realized postponement was not an option. He met with Russayev, the now-demoted KGB agent, and said, "I'm not going to make it back from this flight."
"Russayev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura," the book quotes him saying, "and he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears."
Dette ser ut som et studiobilde, men minner om Lewis Hine sine bilder av barnearbeid i USA fra 1908-12:
Miners: A young driver in the Brown Mine. Has been driving one year. Works 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Brown, West Virginia.
Seafood Workers: Manuel the young shrimp picker, age 5, and a mountain of child labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Biloxi, Mississippi.
The Mill: The overseer said apologetically, "She just happened in." She was working steadily. The mills seem full of youngsters who "just happened in" or "are helping sister." Newberry, South Carolina.
Ellers finnes det jo en uendelighet av kule bilder der ute. Jeg har ikke vært så flink til å lagre dem når jeg ser dem, men et par favoritter fant jeg på harddisken:
