Mary hanging from a 100-ton derrick in Erwin, Tennessee.

On September 13, 1916, the town of Erwin, Tennessee, hung 'Murderous Mary' the elephant after she mauled one of her keepers to death the day before.

Mary was a five-ton Asian elephant, also known as Murderous Mary, who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing a trainer in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in 1916. Her death is sometimes interpreted as a cautionary tale of circus animal abuse during the early 20th century.

Mary’s talents included picking out 25 tunes on musical horns, which she tooted with her trunk. She was also the champion pitcher on the circus’s baseball team.
But on that tragic day, she had been stripped of her red-and-gold saddle and head-dress of artificial blue feathers and stood tethered in disgrace outside the tent.

On September 12, 1916, a hobo named Walter Eldridge, nicknamed Red because of his rusty-colored hair, was hired as an assistant elephant trainer by the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. A drifter who had been with the circus only a day, he had no experience of handling elephants, but the only qualification required was the ability to wield an ‘elephant stick’ — a rod with a sharp spear at one end. Eldridge led the elephant parade riding on the top of Mary’s back; Mary was the star of the show, riding at the front. There have been several accounts of his death. One, recounted by W.H. Coleman who claimed to be a witness, is that he prodded her behind the ear with a hook after she reached down to nibble on a watermelon rind. She went into a rage, snatched Eldridge with her trunk, threw him against a drink stand and stepped on his head, crushing it.

As the terrified spectators screamed and fled, a local blacksmith shot Mary with a pistol, unloading five rounds of ammunition into her thick hide to little effect. She stood still, suddenly calm again and seemingly oblivious both to the bullets and the commotion as the townsfolk encircled her with chants of “Kill the elephant, kill the elephant!”.

The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, reluctantly decided that the only way to quickly resolve the potentially ruinous situation was to kill the elephant in public. It was decided to hang the elephant by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane. On the following day, a foggy and rainy September 13, 1916, Mary was transported by rail to Unicoi County, Tennessee, where a crowd of over 2,500 people (including most of the town’s children) assembled in the Clinchfield Railroad yard.

Between 1882 and 1930, there were 214 victims of lynchings in Tennessee. Most were black men, summarily found guilty of such crimes as ‘fighting a white man’ and having ‘bad character’.
But soon their tragic ranks would be joined by Mary, surely the only elephant in history ever to have been hanged.

And it seems particularly pertinent to remember her in the week that Prince Charles hosted a much-heralded international conference to address the illegal trade in wildlife parts.

On the following day, a foggy and rainy September 13, 1916, Mary was transported by rail to Unicoi County, Tennessee, where a crowd of over 2,500 people (including most of the town’s children) assembled in the Clinchfield Railroad yard.

Elephants were among the species highlighted as most at risk, but the supposedly enlightened Western world has not always been so concerned about the welfare of these majestic creatures, as we are reminded by the barbarity of Mary’s death.

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Hitler Birthday Celebrating

People "celebrating" Hitler's birthday by hanging a doll that looks like him, New York 1942.

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Child Laborer 1910

After the Civil War, the availability of natural resources, new inventions, and a receptive market combined to fuel an industrial boom. The demand for labor grew, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries many children were drawn into the labor force. Factory wages were so low that children often had to work to help support their families. The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.

Please check other photograph take by Lewis Hine

Bowling Pin Boys 1910

Richard Pierce 14 Years of Age

Tipple boy - The Mining Industry Employed Thousands of Children

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İnsan Hayvanat Bahçesi

1880 yılında Almanya'da bulunan bir hayvanat bahçesi. Ama burada hayvanların yerine, Kanada'dan getirilmiş olan Amerikan yerlileri sergileniyor.

İngilizce Human Zoo olarak adlandırılan bu yerlerin Türkçe tam karşılığı İnsan Hayvanat Bahçesi gibi kulağa saçma gelsede, Avrupa'da ve Amerika'da 1800'lerin sonuna kadar yaygın olan bu hayvanat bahçelerinde, dünyanın birçok yerinden kaçırılmış insanlar müşterilere gösterilmek için zorla tutulurdu.

Yaklaşık 35.000 kişinin hayvanat bahçelerinde müşterilere gösterildiği bu iş, dönemin en güzel ve karlı işleri arasında geliyordu. Mesela 1889 yılında Paris'te düzenlenen ve 32 milyon ziyaretçinin katıldığı Dünya Fuarı'nda, 400 Yerli fuara gelen ziyaretçilerin sadece dikkatini çekmesi için sergilendi.

Native American Indians from Labrador, Canada sit in a special Human Zoo in Germany in 1880. Human Zoos existed in Europe and the US throughout the late 1800s, with basically kidnapped people from around the world told to live normally in forced enclosures for paid patrons to watch. It is believed some 35,000 people were forced into these zoos, usually tricked under false pretenses. It was big business. For example, the 1889 World Fair which had 32 million people attend displayed 400 indigenous people from around the world as one of its key major attractions.

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Henry Ford 1938

Daha önceki gönderilerimizde, Adidas ve Hugo Boss firmalarının Nazi'lerle olan yakın ilişkilerini anlatmıştık. Peki ya Ford?

1938 yılına ait bu fotoğrafta, Hitlerin ve Nazilerin yükselişte olduğu dönemde Henry Ford, Alman Kartallı Büyük Haçı yetkililerden alıyor.

Amerika Michigan'da gerçekleştirilen bu törende Ford, 75. yaş döneminde bu ödülle onurlandırılıyor. Henry Ford, bu ödülü alan ilk Amerikan vatandaşıdır.

Alman Kartallı Haç ödülü, bir yabancıya verilecek en üst seviyede bir ödüldür. Ödülü 1937 yılında Hitler yapmış ve Henry Ford'a olan kişisel hayranlığı ve minnettarlığı sebebiyle yollamıştır.

Fotoğrafta ödülü Ford'a veren kişiler Detroit Alman konsolosluğu görevlileri Karl Kapp ve Fritz Heller.

Hitlerin özel korumalığını yapan SS birliklerinin başında bulunan Himmler, 1924 yılında yazdığı bir mektupta Henry Ford'u en önemli ve değerli savaşçılarından biri olarak nitelendirdi.

Hitler kitabı Mein Kampf ( Kavgam ) 'da, Henry Ford'tan olumlu birisi olarak bahseder. Hatta Kavgam kitabında Hitler'in övdüğü tek Amerikan Henry Ford'tur.

Peki Hitler'in, Henry Ford'a olan bu hayranlığı nereden geliyor dersiniz? Bunun cevabı aslında Henry Ford'un yazdığı kitapta saklı. Kitabın ismi " Dünyanın En önemli sorunu, Uluslararası (Beynelmilel) Yahudiler " Bu kitap sonrasında Henry Ford, Amerikada politik antisemitizmi(Yahudi düşmanlığı) ilk organize eden adam oldu. Dünyadaki antisemitlerin de bir kahramanı haline geldi.

Bu kitap Nazi'ler tarafından propaganda amaçlı kullanılmış ve Nazi partisi fikirlerine sıcak bakanların el kitabı haline gelmiştir.

İşte bu kitaptan en çok etkilenenlerden birisi de Adolf Hitler'di. ( Cengizhan KILIÇOĞLU )

Link gösterilmeden paylaşılması yasaktır.

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Iranian Carpets

Iranians welcoming the American president with Persian carpets lined on the road, 1960 (Tehran, Iran)

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A couple of warriors holding hands, Vietnam, 1971

This picture is a demonstration of the soldier as a human. They’re using WWII era Russian equipment: Mosin Nagants and a helmet. They’re not part of the People’s Army of Vietnam judging by their civilian clothing.

Photo taken by German photojournalist Thomas Billhardt. Looking further into Billhardt’s photograph.

The U.S. government viewed American involvement in the war as a way to prevent a Communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of a wider containment strategy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism. According to the U.S. domino theory, if one state went Communist, other states in the region would follow, and U.S. policy thus held that accommodation to the spread of Communist rule across all of Vietnam was unacceptable. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against forces from France and then America, as France was backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state.

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Büyük Buhran 1930

Büyük buhran zamanında iş arayan bir işsiz. Amerika, 1930.

3 Meslek biliyorum,
3 Dil biliyorum,
3 yıldır mücadele ediyorum,
3 çocuğum var,
3 aydır işsizim
ve tek istediğim 1 iş.

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Gordonton 1939

July 1939. Gordonton, N.C. "Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway.

Gordonton 1989 colorized

Gordonton 2007

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Hitler name delete from Berlin

The denazification program in Germany mandated the elimination of Nazi names from public squares, city streets, and other venues. US, Soviet, and British soldiers enthusiastically removed Nazi emblems and renamed public spaces. Krefeld, Germany, March 9, 1945.

Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.

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French Taste Cola

Parisians bar patrons try Coca Cola for the first time as it makes its way to France, 1950.

Coca-Cola (often referred to simply as Coke) is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company. Originally intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton and was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century. The drink's name refers to two of its original ingredients, which were kola nuts (a source of caffeine) and coca leaves. The current formula of Coca-Cola remains a trade secret, although a variety of reported recipes and experimental recreations have been published.

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Pin Boys 1910

 April 1910. "1 a.m. Pin boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., every night. Three smaller boys were kept out of the photo by Boss." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

In bowling, a pinsetter, or pinspotter, was originally a person who manually reset bowling pins to their correct position, cleared fallen pins, and returned bowling balls to players. Probably due to the nature of the work (low-paid, often part-time, manual labor that most frequently took place evenings), many pinsetters were teenage boys, and thus pinboy is another name used to describe the job. In 1936 Gottfried Schmidt invented the mechanical pinsetter while with the AMF firm, which largely did away with pinsetting as a manual profession, although a small number of bowling alleys still use human pinsetters. While humans usually no longer set the pins, a pinchaser, or in slang 'pin monkey', often is stationed near the equipment to ensure that it is clean and working properly, and to clear minor jams.

These boys – called “pin boys” – set up the bowling pins before the automatic system was invented.

Pin Boys 1914

Many pinsetters are integrated with electronic scoring systems of varying sophistication. While many pinsetters have a manual reset button to use in case the pinsetter does not automatically activate at the correct time, other types have no automatic tracking of the state of the game – especially for the candlepin and duckpin bowling sports which use smaller balls – and are almost always manually activated.

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M3 Grease Gun Shoot Around Corners 1953

An American soldier demonstrates an M3 'Grease Gun' that can shoot around corners 1953

The M3 was an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted for U.S. Army service on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. The M3 was chambered for the same .45 round fired by the Thompson submachine gun, but was cheaper to produce, and lighter, although, contrary to popular belief, it was far less accurate. This myth stems from a US army training film portraying the M3 as more accurate than its counterparts. The M3 was commonly referred to as the "Grease Gun" or simply "the Greaser," owing to its visual similarity to the mechanic's tool.

Intended as a replacement for the .45-caliber Thompson series of submachine guns, the M3 began to replace the Thompson in first-line service in mid-1944. Due to delays caused by production issues and approved specification changes, the M3 saw limited combat use in World War II and the M3A1 none. The M3A1 was used in the Korean War and later conflicts.( wiki )

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Before and After Hirosima August 6, 1945

Source of the photo is National Archives.

Aerial views of the city of Hiroshima before and after the atomic bomb was dropped.

The ground crew of the B-29 Enola Gay

Enola Gay .. is the name of the plane that took the atomic bomb to Japan and left it.
The plane poses with the crew and captain before the plane takes off to throw the atomic bomb.

The pilot of the plane, Paul Tibbets, is standing in the middle with a cigarette in his mouth. The name given to the plane is the name of the Enola Gay pilot's mother.

The ground crew of the B-29 Enola Gay pose for a photo with the aircraft at their base in Tinian, Mariana Islands. Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, is smoking a pipe in the centre of the group.

Atomic bomb little boy

The atomic bomb that America threw into Japan on August 6, 1945. The name they gave to the bomb "Little Boy"

The name of the bomb launched in Nagasaki after 3 days is "Fat Man".

Crew members of the Enola Gay

April 12, 1946 Crew members of the Enola Gay proudly parade through New York on a Jeep in the first Army Day Parade since the end of the war. ( source of Image is Getty )

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P40 Fling Tigers

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945.

The USA helped China against Japan with their aircraft P-40 Flying Tigers.

Soldier guards a row of Curtiss P-40 'Warhawks' flown by the 'Flying Tigers' of the American Volunteer Group (AVG). July, 1942.

Source of the picture- National Archives and Records Administration - 535531. Colorized by Tom Thounaojam from India)

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P-40 Warhawk Flying Tigers in China 1942

The picture was taken by AVG pilot Robert T. Smith in China in 1942.

The P-40 Warhawk model is nicknamed as  The Flying Tigers.

These airplanes, which were used in 1942, could go very slowly, like in a movie shoot.

At the time of drawing, all Flying Tigers came to the same line. All pilots looked at the same cameraman who took the picture.

The group of these aircraft used by the United States against Japan was collected by Colonel Claire Chennault under the name "American Volunteer Group" (AVG). (American Volunteer Group). There were a maximum of 100 airplanes together and most of them were decorated with a dogfish mouth as pictured.

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Easter Eggs for Hitler 1945

These two black American soldiers  prepare a special gift of “Easter Eggs” for Adolf Hitler and the German Army. ( Colorized by Johhny Sirlande from Belgium )

The name of the soldiers are Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private First Class Joseph Jackson.

Easter eggs for hitler

Photo has taken in 10th of March 1945 during the Battle of Remagen. Scrawling such messages on artillery shells in World War II was one way in which artillery soldiers could humorously express their dislike of the enemy. Easter Saturday, March the 10th 1945, during the Battle of Remagen.

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Ku Klux Klan Members on a Ferris Wheel 1926

The Ku Klux Clan (KKK) is an extreme fascist secret organization against black that was founded in Tennessee on December 24, 1865 in the United States. Founders; Nathan Bedford Forrest, known as the Great Wizard, is Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, and Frank O. McCord.

Among the knitting participants, the multiplicity of the members of the secret society "Knights of the Golden Circle", which was established before the civil war, is noteworthy.

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Ku Klux Klan Ceremony

The Ku Klux Clan (KKK) is an extreme fascist secret organization against black that was founded in Tennessee on December 24, 1865 in the United States. Founders; Nathan Bedford Forrest, known as the Great Wizard, is Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, and Frank O. McCord.

Among the knitting participants, the multiplicity of the members of the secret society "Knights of the Golden Circle", which was established before the civil war, is noteworthy.

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Richard Pierce 14 Years of Age

This picture has taken by Lewis Hine in 1910.

Richard Pierce - 14 years of age, works as a Western Union Telegraph Messenger. with nine months of service. He works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes. Visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Delaware, ca. May 1910

Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 - November 3, 1940) is an American photographer. A photographer known for his photographs of industrial workers and immigrants.

In 1874 he was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. After his father had died, he had to work at the age of 18 and save money for his studies. Hine trained at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and New York University as sociology students. He then taught at the Ethical Culture School in New York. In 1905 he visited Ellis Island in New York and photographed thousands of immigrants.

In 1908, Hine became a photographer of the National Committee of Children's Workers and was tasked with studying the situation of children's work in the United States. He portrayed the working and living conditions of the child-aged children who were still working with photographs, and prepared a detailed report on their rights.

Towards the end of World War I, he worked in Europe with the Kiosk organization. He especially took pictures of children in the Balkans. After returning to New York, he documented the construction of the Empire State Building. To be able to take photographs, Henry struggled to take the best photographs in dangerous positions, hung up on the iron and steel scaffolding of the building.

In the rest of his life he worked on the government's projects and lost his life in New York in 1940 at the age of 66.

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