![Loomis Dean
Louvre at Night, 1958
[From the LIFE magazine Photo Archive]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0xyk03MND1qzhl9eo1_500.jpg)
Louvre at Night, 1958
[From the LIFE magazine Photo Archive]
![Otto Umbehr [Umbo]
[via Fantomatik]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1x3wilI6l1qzhl9eo1_500.jpg)
A brief general note…
I’ll be traveling for a week starting tomorrow. However my queue is practically overflowing with prepared posts. So, provided Tumblr behaves itself and keeps its capricious gremlins in check, you shouldn’t be able to tell the difference between me sitting here across from you now and me watching the world go by from the window of a train with a book in my lap and a glass of wine in my hand. I’ll pop in if/when I can and look forward to catching up with you upon my return. And remember, if you can’t be good, be careful. And if you can’t be careful, please don’t name it after me. :)
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You’re very welcome. Thank you for the promising words and for choosing to follow my blog in the first place. I hope the feeling persists if/as you delve deeper.
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Under the Sun
Santorini, 1937
From The Essential Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1972
![Brassaï
Enseigne [Sign]
Paris, 1931-1932
From Brassaï, Paris](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8tva2BaqU1qzhl9eo1_500.jpg)
Hand wound
World War II, Pacific Theatre, 1942-45
From Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958
Captain Jonathan W. Walker’s Branded Hand
Daguerreotype, 1845
“A Florida seamen originally from Cape Cod, Captain Jonathan Walker was sympathetic to the plight of the slaves. In 1844 he made an unsuccessful attempt to aid a group of seven to freedom by sailing them to the West Indies. Walker paid for his part in the venture with a year in solitary confinement, a $600.00 fine, and the branded letters “s.s.” for “slave stealer” on his right palm. The incident would probably have passed unnoticed had not Walker loyally pursued his beliefs as an effective anti-slavery lecturer after his release. Southworth & Hawes closeup recording of the Captain’s palm leaves us wondering what Walker himself might have looked like.”
From The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes
![“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
[Radiograph of left hand with ring, date unknown, from the Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzg7if1kTH1qzhl9eo1_500.jpg)
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
[Radiograph of left hand with ring, date unknown, from the Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln]
