r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
How very blue candle burns!, 1709. The making of candles in the home was also forbidden unless you held a licence. As a result an alternative form of lighting known as rush lighting was used as this was exempt. Rushes were dipped in animal fat then left to harden
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
Prison tattoos of a Russian prisoner, second half of 20th c.
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
Jack Smith, 42, a disabled miner in is wheeled down the street by his daughter, Donna, 16, to the beer joint he operates, Rhodell, West Virginia, 1974
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
Illustration for The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror, 1890s
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
BTK selfie photo in shallow grave with some dirt thrown in.
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
Castle Bravo nuclear test The Shrimp device in its shot cab, 1950s
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
A crew member of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru having his hair cut for examination at the University of Tokyo Hospital, March 1954.
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 1d ago
Gustaf Tenggren, Wicked Queen and Magic Mirror, 20th c.
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 2d ago
Bentendori in Yokohama was the most popular shopping street, 1908. In 1923 it was destroyed during the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 2d ago
Jack Corn, Anxious youngsters begin the chase in a greased pig contest at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 1974. "Oh this is me favorite event. Catch the Greased-Up Deaf Guy"
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 2d ago
Sven-Erik Sjöberg, Three thousand people in Belo Horizonte live on the garbage heap, where children compete with vultures for scraps of meat, Brazil 1972.
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 2d ago
Vincent Mentzel, Mongolian women soldiers during a training to fight potential enemies on the steppe of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region within the People's Republic of China, 1977.
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r/dragonutopia • u/myrmekochoria • 2d ago
Charred body of a boy aged 4 or 5, pointing toward heaven 360m from the hypocenter Above the bank at the Western Drill Ground Moto-machi August 9, 1945. Drawn by Masato Yamashita age 20 at the time of the bombing
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