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Millennials Make Up Almost Half of Latino Eligible Voters in 2016

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Hispanic millennials will account for 44% of the Hispanic electorate. The coming of age of youth and naturalizations will drive the number of Latino eligible voters to a record 27.3 million this year.

20 Beautiful Portraits of Women During the Later 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.

The Pictorialist perspective was born in the late 1860s and held sway through the first decade of the 20th century. It approached the camera as a tool that, like the paintbrush and chisel, could be used to make an artistic statement. Thus photographs could have aesthetic value and be linked to the world of art expression.

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Constant Puyo, 1903

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Constant Puyo, Apparition, 1910

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Constant Puyo, 1896

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Constant Puyo, 1896

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Constant Puyo, 1896

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Happy 8th Birthday, Flickr Commons! (LOC)”

The Library of Congress posted a photo:

Happy 8th Birthday, Flickr Commons! (LOC)”

Make your wish on this bridge with “birthday candles!

The Commons has connected us all so well to a bounty of historic photo collections that we’ve selected glorious pictures of bridges to count down to the Jan. 16th official anniversary. Please celebrate with us and explore the infinite possibilities of the Commons. Pick your 8 favorite photos and tag them “Happy Birthday Flickr Commons.” Or, make a gallery and share the link here.

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
Lion Bridge, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida
[1936 or 1937].
1 negative : safety film ; 8 x 10 in.

Notes
Title from photographer’s inventory.
Building/structure dates: 1927.
Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-55-F.
Forms part of: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Bridges
United States–Florida–St. Johns County–St. Augustine.
Format: Safety film 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
More information about the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South is available at http://1.usa.gov/1ZDTGzt
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ csas.00448
Call Number: LC-J7-FLA- 1094

Beautiful Vintage Portraits of European Girls from the Miss Europe 1930

Miss Europe 1930 was the second annual Miss Europe competition. Miss Greece won and 19 girls from Europe competed in the pageant. Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Miss Turkey participated for the first time and one candidacy, that of Switzerland, was withdrawn.

Delegates:

  • Austria – Ingeborg von Grinberger
  • Belgium – Jenny Vanparays
  • Bulgaria – Konika Tchobanova
  • Czechoslovakia – Milada Dostálová
  • Denmark – Esther Petersen
  • England – Marjorie Ross
  • France – Yvette Labrousse
  • Germany – Dorit Nitykowski
  • Greece – Aliki Diplarakou
  • Holland – Rie Van der Rest
  • Hungary – Maria Papst
  • Ireland – Vera Curran
  • Italy – Mafalda Morittino
  • Poland – Zofia Batycka
  • Romania – Zoica Dona
  • Russia – Irene Wentzel
  • Spain – Elena Plá Mompó
  • Turkey – Mubedjel Namik
  • Yugoslavia – Stephanie “Caca” Drobujak

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Criminals during the First World War – 35 Vintage Mugshots of North Shields in the 1910s

Here is a vintage mugshot collection of 35 prisoner photographs in North Shields, England during the First World War.

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Charles S. Jones, arrested for stealing from clothes lines, 15 September 1914

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Christina Austin, arrested for stealing dresses, 11 July 1916

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Christina Haggerty, arrested for stealing money, 9 February 1916

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Frederick Ellwood, fireman, arrested for breaking and entering, 4 August 1914

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George Bamlett, grocer, arrested for assault, 19 October 1914

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