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Jack Delano’s photograph of pickets outside a textile mill in Greensboro, Georgia, 1941

City Light display, Seattle, 1940 www.flickr.com/photos/seatt...

Egg map of the US, showing at a glance relative egg production of each state, 1931

Muffin man, London, c1910

Dora Carrington’s Farm At Watendlath, 1921 www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

Ivon Hitchens’ Curved Barn, 1922 pallant.org.uk/whats-on/ivo...

Ida Husøy’s photograph of Liverpool in the fog, 2013. Taken on a iPhone 4S jmu-journalism.org.uk/idas-foggy-p...

Disused Shop, Greenwich High Road, near Deptford Bridge Photo Matt Haynes

0813 hours and Sunday has already peaked.

Goodnight. André Kertész's Self Portrait, Paris, 1927

Iain Mackenzie’s Ticket Office, Glasgow Subway www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

WH Smith shop in the high street at Fareham, Hampshire, 1937

Earl’s Court underground station, London c 1937

What's the future of #storytelling? Find out at #TheCulturalFuturesConference with @lazaruscorporation.co.uk @helenerwin.bsky.social and @johnreppion.bsky.social. Last few tickets! More info: buff.ly/3Qhl70c Free tickets: buff.ly/3COVz7A

Margaret Hamilton, 1972

William Powell and Myrna Loy overlook San Francisco Bay for "After The Thin Man" - 1936

Charleton Heston presents the Screen Actor's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award to Stan Laurel - 1963

National Cat Day. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

Starting on the walk to market

Goodnight.

Just heard the news that @paulfricker.bsky.social has never played Gangbusters!

Toshiko Akiyoshi, a Japanese–American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader, with husband, saxaphonist Charles Mariano, at Birdland recording, NY. Photo by Ben Martin, 1956 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko...

American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist Eskew Reeder aka Esquerita, 1958 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquerita

Illustrations from Goethe's Faust by Jean-Paul Laurens, 1887

'A woman is shown footwear exhibited at Berlin's International Weather Show by "Puss in Boots", 1930s'

Man Ray with photograph of Lee Miller’s lips. Loomis Dean for Life Magazine.

“According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’.” George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937