Rights walk. Brooklyn to DC, August 28, 1963. “I have a dream today!”

Besides coming out to hear Dr. King preach about civil rights, many Brooklynites were direct participants in the movement. For example, several members of the Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) took the August 28, 1963 call to “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” literally by walking from Brooklyn to DC, thereby publicizing local civil rights concerns.

1. March on Washington flier
2. Telegram announcing Brooklyn CORE members walk to Washington

via Brooklyn Historical Society
care of SmallEquals

Retired scientist Galen Frysinger has traveled the world and seven seas.
(172 independent countries plus 91 dependencies) Get lost in his intricate
and dense photo archives. Wow.
above: Greenland, Brazil, Greenland, Libya, Easter Island, Nauru
via Galen Frysinger

Paper Moon. 1973 Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Starring Tatum O’Neal and Ryan O’Neal.
Tatum O’Neal won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at age 10.

Look for : roaming farmlands of Kansas and Missouri, Addy’s plaids & overalls, soft depression-era bedding. Most important, Addy’s black laced hat.

Mongolian burial tower.

Thysville Africa

Dancing men in the jungle between Bumba and Aketi (Route Royale).

Imam Reza.

Turkestan. Bazaar: carpets from Daulatabad.

““Hazrat Ali” – tomb of the 2nd prophet.

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, traveler and photographer. In July 1939 she and ethnologist Ella Maillart drove from Switzerland to Afganistan via Istanbul in a small Ford car. An extremely organized website complied by the Swiss Literary Archive recount her travels through India, Africa, Afganistan and the American South.

via Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s travel pictures from three continents
I discovered Annemarie Schwarzenbach via Mary Manning

side note : I dressed as Annemarie Schwarzenbach for last nights – Dead Writer Party. I, too, love to drive Fords around the country and take black and white landscape photographs.

The National Parks of the western United States are some of my favorite spaces to roam. Through my internet travels I discovered the National Parks Service has a massive digital image archive. Aside from sharing thousands of images the photographs are high res and often wonderfully discolored! From the top: Death Valley, Canyonlands, Devil’s Tower, Dinosaur, Yellowstone and Joshua Tree.

Free Store.

Free Store.

The Diggers were one of the legendary groups in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers who had promulgated a vision of society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of two Radical traditions that thrived in the SF Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement.

“Do Your Own Thing.” Words of wisdom from the Diggers.

via The Digger Archives