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Thirsty wallaby on a Queensland property, ca. 1910

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A wallaby being given milk straight from the cow. Queensland, Australia. Photographer: W. Matthewson.

Life guards, Los Angeles (LOC)

The Library of Congress posted a photo:

Life guards, Los Angeles (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Life guards, Los Angeles

[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
L.A., Calif.

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://1.usa.gov/1D9d3AE

General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://1.usa.gov/1HWc8Jc

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://1.usa.gov/1VsWxFc

Call Number: LC-B2- 4488-8

Refugees at Alexandropol (LOC)

The Library of Congress posted a photo:

Refugees at Alexandropol (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Refugees at Alexandropol

[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Photo shows refugees at Gyumri, Armenia.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://1.usa.gov/1D9d3AE

General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://1.usa.gov/1HWc8Jc

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://1.usa.gov/1SWYz31

Call Number: LC-B2- 4490-3

Rare Color Photographs of The Nazi Regime Isolate and Eventually Destroy the German Gypsy Population from 1938-1940

In 1939, 30,000–35,000 people known as Gypsies lived in Germany and Austria, which was incorporated into Germany in March 1938.

Gypsies are believed to have arrived in Europe from northern India in the 1400s. They were called Gypsies because Europeans thought they came from Egypt. This ethnic minority is made up of distinct groups called “tribes” or “nations.” Most of the Gypsies in German-occupied Europe belonged to the Sinti and Roma tribes. The Sinti generally predominated in Germany and western Europe, and the Roma in Austria, eastern Europe, and the Balkans. The Sinti and Roma spoke dialects of a common language called Romani, based in Sanskrit, the classical language of India.

The research of racial scientist Dr. Robert Ritter and his associates served both as instrument and justification for the Nazi regime to isolate and eventually destroy the German Gypsy population.

By studying Gypsies, Ritter, who was a psychiatrist, hoped to determine the links between heredity and criminality. With funding from the German Association for Scientific Research and access to police records, Ritter began in 1937 to systematically interview all the Gypsies residing in Germany.

To do so, he traveled to Gypsy encampments and, after the deportation and internment of Gypsies began, to the concentration camps. Ritter developed detailed genealogies—family histories to distinguish “pure” Gypsies from those of “mixed blood” and to root out assimilated Gypsies from the general German population.

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1938. A Roma woman and child in a camp during an investigation by the Racial Hygiene Research Center at the Reich Bureau for Health.

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1938. Eva Justin interviews a Roma woman about her family and ancestry.

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1938. Dr. Robert Ritter conducts an interview with a Roma woman.

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1938. Dr. Ritter takes a blood sample from a Roma woman.

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1938. Sophie Ehrhardt of the Racial Hygiene Research Center conducts an interview with an elderly Roma woman.

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“I knew a girl in high school that always complained about…

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“I knew a girl in high school that always complained about having anxiety. I used to make fun of her a little bit. It looked like nothing to me. So I assumed it was nothing. And I dealt with it by trying to convince her that it was nothing. I called her recently to apologize. I’ve had really bad anxiety ever since my father died. And it’s definitely not nothing. It’s the indescribable fear of nothing.”

The Last Empress Consort of the Nguyen Dynasty – Rare Vintage Photos of Beautiful Empress Nam Phuong from 1920s-40s

Empress Nam Phương (1914-1963), later Imperial Princess Nam Phương, was the first and primary wife of Bảo Đại, the last emperor of Vietnam, from 1934 until her death. She was also the second and last empress consort of the Nguyễn Dynasty.

Here is an amazing collection of rare pictures captured beautiful Empress Nam Phuong from 1920s-40s.

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