re: Pictures from days gone by....

Soviet film posters designed by the great Stenberg brothers (1920s)

Violette Szabo was a French/British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed, age 23.

The Big Game Disaster of 1900

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In 1900, the same factors that conspired in the near-miss disaster three years earlier—an overflow crowd at Big Game, eager, unsupervised kids and unprepared authorities—again combined for a Thanksgiving Day debacle. And this time the carnage would stagger belief—more than 20 dead, most of them children, some perishing in grisly, horrible ways. "A veritable hell of anguish," one reporter wrote.

More than a century after it happened, the catastrophe remains the deadliest sporting disaster in American history, yet one almost utterly forgotten...

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Wonder Stories, May 1931

Years ago I saw an exhibit at SF MOMA of forensic photographs from around the 1920s, showing how artistic the photographers were shooting crime scenes. I found an Imgur gallery of crime scene photos from the 1910s-1920s, but I thought maybe they were too grisly to post here. The exhibit also showed fatal car accident photos from the first half of the 20th century. I found some similar car accident photos online, but again, perhaps they are too grisly to post here. Well, I have to post some picture, so here's one with some local flavor.

Jayne Mansfield, Highway 90, Slidell, Louisiana. Mariska Hargitay was in the back seat of this car.

Out of that came the “Mansfield Bar.” Her daughter is a terrible actress. I guess nepotism has a long reach.

ETA: I guess Jane didn’t have too much of a resume than Playboy?