Army Corps of Engineers Cause Largest Manmade Blast Before Hiroshima, In New York City, 1885

Dahlstrom Collection
Photographer Mr. Albee and wife setting up equipment at the foot of 88th St. in preparation for shooting the Flood Rock reef explosion; the Army Corps of Engineers are blowing it up because it is a navigation hazard (the explosion is reputed to be the largest prior to the atomic bomb)
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: October 10, 1885
Photographer: Wallace G. Levison
Size: 1280 x 1011 pixels (17.8 x 14.0 inches)
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Zenia Fedova, Actress, Photo By Apeda Studio, New York circa 1907

[Zenia Fedova]
Contributors Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Description Portrait of performer Zenia Fedova wearing bobbed hair, a sad expression, and an off-the-shoulder dress. Inscription on print, lower right: To Bert Humler from Zenia Fedova. Location of photo studio: New York (N.Y.)
Subject Portraits
Portrait photographs
Actresses
Women
People Pictured Fedova, Zenia
Date Original 1900 - 1919
Object Type Gelatin silver printing-out paper prints
Photographic prints
Source 35.5 x 27.8 cm. b&w photographic print. Item no. ULPA 1980.20.1132 in the Macauley's Theatre Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
Collection Macauley's Theatre Collection
Collection Website http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/macauley/
Digital Publisher University of Louisville Photographic Archives

University Of Louisville Photographic Archive

Photographer John Shearer On Assignment, Attica Uprising, New York, 1971

Photographer John Shearer on assignment outside Attica prison during a prisoner riot and uprising.
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 843 x 1280 pixels (11.7 x 17.8 inches)

Narratives From The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, and further: Attica Revisited.

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"Cabinets" For Bodies "Identified" As "John Doe" From The Riots At Attica, September 1971

Closeup of cabinets for bodies and labels which indentify them as "John Doe".
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 1280 x 841 pixels (17.8 x 11.7 inches)

I was pretty young when this happened, but I remember that the Attica Uprising lingered in the collective consciousness for a long time, and was only later forgotten as a tragedy and injustice. More information, here.

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