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10 persian rugs laid out on the side of a sun bleached, sandy hill. Other rugs are seen rolled up as people including children walk by.

Recently washed carpets drying on a hillside at Cheshmeh Ali in Tehran (1967)
Photo: Harrison Forman / U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Small town main street with green hills and blue sky in the distance.

Market Street and the Market Street Bridge, Williamsport, Pennsylvania (ca. 1950s-1960s)
Photo: Joe Kast / James V. Brown Library - Lycoming County Digital Photo Archive

From source: Color halftone postcard showing young women at a lake at Camp Fern, near Marshall, Texas. On the shore in the foreground are five canoes turned upside down with two young women leaning against them. A wooden pier with a diving board at one end extends from the shore. One person is on the diving board and five others are standing or sitting on the pier. A floating platform is further out on the lake. Trees are in the background. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed on the back at the end of the image caption: "Ektachrome by Helen O'Brien. Printed at the bottom of the message section: "Pub by Eastex Photo Supply, Marshall, Texas. 380-D-6, 63187. Printed between the message and address sections: "Dextone, Made Direct from Kodachrome and Ansco Color By Dexter Press, Pearl River, N.Y."

"Postcard of Young Women Standing by Canoes and Swimming at Camp Fern near Marshall, Texas" (ca. 1950s)
Image: Helen O'Brien / University of North Texas Libraries

Torn wire service printed page with photo of young people standing on the side of an institutional building and climbing in and out of windows. Typed text next to the image says "New York: Students occupying Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library climb in and out the windows of the office of Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of the university, during sit-in demonstration 4/24. Students also barricaded themselves in another campus building, Hamilton hall, where three university officials were being held by the demonstrators. Among the main targets of the protest is the construction of Columbia gymnasium in a Harlem park and the school’s involvement in research for the Defense Department. "

Students occupying Columbia University buildings, New York (1968)
Image: United Press International / Boston Public Library

Captcha picture with three elephants, three giraffes, and a butterfly.

I cannot solve this Captcha. I don't know what they want me to do.

Also, bigger makes no sense with three species.

A woman sitting at a table in a cafe with her back to her companion, a man looking the other way. A wine glass can be seen on the table and a large mirror behind them, partially reflecting the scene.

"Lovers' quarrel, Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe," Paris (ca.1932)
Photo: Brassaï / Howard Greenberg Gallery

A man sits uncomfortably in a chair with a man standing on each side of him. All three are wearing three-piece suits and bowler/derby hats (one of which is quite large.).

Thomas Millikan (Milliken?), presumably in custody.

Rotterdam (March 2026)

Small family pose for the camera in a living room. From source: Mar’i (standing), Mayce (sitting left), and Teghrid are pictured in Marquette Park, Illinois. Palestinians Mar’i and Teghrid came to the US in 1971. Mar’i, born in Jenin, a West Bank city fled the 1967 War. Born in Kuwait, Teghrid had parents from Beitunia, a West Bank village. Their daughter Mayce is a native Chicagoan. Mayce and Teghrid wear traditional Palestinian hand embroidered dresses called a thobe.

Aljazara Family, Marquette Park, Illinois (1971)
Photo: James Newberry / Chicago History Museum "Changing Chicago" series

Palestinian immigrants Mar'j and Teghrid with their daughter Mayce, a native Chicagoan

10 persian rugs laid out on the side of a sun bleached, sandy hill. Other rugs are seen rolled up as people including children walk by.

Recently washed carpets drying on a hillside at Cheshmeh Ali in Tehran (1967)
Photo: Harrison Forman / U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

From source: Color halftone postcard showing young women at a lake at Camp Fern, near Marshall, Texas. On the shore in the foreground are five canoes turned upside down with two young women leaning against them. A wooden pier with a diving board at one end extends from the shore. One person is on the diving board and five others are standing or sitting on the pier. A floating platform is further out on the lake. Trees are in the background. There is no postmark or message on the back of the card. Printed on the back at the end of the image caption: "Ektachrome by Helen O'Brien. Printed at the bottom of the message section: "Pub by Eastex Photo Supply, Marshall, Texas. 380-D-6, 63187. Printed between the message and address sections: "Dextone, Made Direct from Kodachrome and Ansco Color By Dexter Press, Pearl River, N.Y."

"Postcard of Young Women Standing by Canoes and Swimming at Camp Fern near Marshall, Texas" (ca. 1950s)
Image: Helen O'Brien / University of North Texas Libraries

News clipping with details of the case and a picture of Ida Raymond standing and wearing a hat and coat.

Thomas Millikan took money off the women through promises of theatrical employment, something he had been in trouble for doing before.

Pretty sure General Patton also wore jodhpurs

Portrait of a young woman in Edwardian dress, likely taken in a police station in 1905.

Ida Raymond, one of "half a hundred" victims of a man who promised them work as chorus and show girls, and who helped cops by luring him in to a sting. (1905)
Photo: Chicago Daily News

Vintage US TV station ID says WOW-TV, CHANNEL SIX OMAHA, with a numeral 6 in the background.

WOW-TV station ID (ca. 1950s)

Jack Kerouac 1957

Jack Kerouac
1957

Sent to me by Won K.

#MenWithCats

A teenager standing next to a car.

Johnny Carson, Norfolk, Nebraska (ca. 1940)

From source: Rufus Thomas watching a teenager dance while other children and teens look on in the Library Read & Study Center.

A teenager showing singer and disc jockey Rufus Thomas how to dance at the library, Memphis, Tennessee (ca. 1970)
Photo: Memphis Public Library

Postcard style landscape image showing three hills with a level glen on one of them, surrounded by trees.

Glen of the Downs, Delgany, Co. Wicklow (ca. 1865-1914)
Photo: Robert French / National Library of Ireland

Rotterdam (March 2026)

Buncha Irish lads my age wearing Rory Gallagher Legend t-shirts on this flight.

Woodcut print of abstract image of Rotterdam docklands with buildings, ships, cranes and bridges in grey and white against red sky and black and red water.

Rotterdam (no. 195) woodcut by Werner Drewes (1968)
Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum

they should make the microsoft lads try to find a document they’ve saved to sharepoint next time they all get on stage to announce something new

Promo photo with scene from a film where a woman in a white fur top looks through a door or window as a man in a tuxedo looks at her with a look of concern.

Ann Sheridan "Letter of Introduction" Film Promo (1938)
Photo: University of North Texas Libraries

From source: Elevated view of pedestrians walking and automobiles and streetcars driving on Halsted Street at 79th Street in the Auburn Gresham community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sign for the Auburn Park Trust and Savings Bank is visible on left and for a cut-rate drug store on the right in the foreground. Marquees for that read Madrid and Capitol are visible on the left in the background. A water tower is visible in the distance.

Halsted Street at 79th Street, Chicago (1926)
Photo: Chicago Daily News

Blue, gold, and white shoe, shown from side and above. From source: Gilded wire embroidered velvet covered leather upper, leather lining, multi layered leather sole.

Ladies mules-'Cherbil', Tangiers, Morocco (ca. 1900-1930)
Image: SONS Museum (Shoes or No Shoes)

A news clipping which says Lee has been designated "The Typical American Girl" by the Rembrandt Club, an association of artists. And that, "when Miss Lee was playing in Paris", she was voted a typical English girl.

The "Typical American Girl" and a "typical English girl", depending on who's looking...

Publicity shot for Broadway actress Laura Lee, showing her from the waist up with her hands near her head.

Actress Laura Lee, New York (ca. 1928)
I like her hat.
Photo: Billy Rose Theatre Collection / NYPL

Plus a few other acts with women members (Pogues, Pylon, Tricky, Brigandage, The Fall, Lankum, Gang of Four, Fur Bible, Grateful Dead).

But I'm ashamed I haven't seen more standalone women artists/bands.

*forgot Avril Lavigne (with my daughter who was there for openers the Jonas Brothers)

11 women in music that I've seen live. Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay

Amy Rigby (w/ Wreckless Eric)
Luscious Jackson
Heart (reviewing for college paper)
Shop Assistants
June Carter (w/ Johnny Cash)
Shillelagh Sisters
Dolly Parton
Poison Ivy (w/ The Cramps)
Exene Cervenka (w/ X)
Koko Taylor