Long Faces

People living in miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. August 1936 by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

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* “Fetching in the Lines” The fishergirl holding the ?long line’ is Lizzie Alice Hawksfield. The girls and fishermens" wives collected the mussels which were used as bait, often walking up to six miles each way to do so. The payment for ?Mucking’ (cleaning the line and hooks of old bait and other debris), ?Skaning’ (removing the mussels from their shells) and baiting a ?long line’ was 9p. These operations could take upwards of two hours. No extra payment was received for gathering the…

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

Mostly turn-of-the-century random images from my collection.

Milk Maid and the Farm Hand, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England - Late 1800s

Mexico 1915 National Geographic Hugo Brehme

from Britain at War (1941) by Monroe Wheeler (ed.) "A shopping centre familiar to all American visitors to London." - p. 73. "At 2.55am on 11 September 1940, a high explosive bomb struck close to Burlington Gardens, badly damaging the Arcade's northern end. No casualties were reported but the Arcade was not fully restored until 1954." - www.westendatwar.org.uk/page_id__16_path__0p4p.aspx Full story here - www.westendatwar.org.uk/page_id__202_path__0p2p.aspx Lee Miller Archives…

World War I. French soldiers in a trench during the winter in Alsace . In January 1916.

Whitby Fisher People

* “Fetching in the Lines” The fishergirl holding the ?long line’ is Lizzie Alice Hawksfield. The girls and fishermens" wives collected the mussels which were used as bait, often walking up to six miles each way to do so. The payment for ?Mucking’ (cleaning the line and hooks of old bait and other debris), ?Skaning’ (removing the mussels from their shells) and baiting a ?long line’ was 9p. These operations could take upwards of two hours. No extra payment was received for gathering the…

Another great series of Portraits of Tibetan people taken by Steve McCurry.

Tom Storr places a protective arm around his great nephew - Robert ''Dandy'' Storr - Whitby - North Yorkshire - England - 1884