What are some Mind Blowing historic photos?

 

• Building the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1876.

• The Statue of Liberty as seen from the torch.

• Workers building the Empire State building, in 1930s.

• Henry Ford in the first car he ever built, 1896.

• The absolutely massive chain for the Titanic’s anchor, in 1909.

• A photo by Berenice Abbot of a woman wiring an IBM computer, 1948.

• A man repairs the antenna on the World Trade Center, NYC, 1979.

• Bottling ketchup at the Heinz factory, Pittsburgh, 1897.

• A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, California, in 1930.

• The intact seal on Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922. It went untouched for 3,424 years.

• A woman is ticketed for wearing a bikini, 1957.

• Vietnamese soldier, in 1965.

• Painting the Eiffel tower, 1932.

• Wojtek the bear, who fought in WW2.

• Loggers pose with a massive redwood, 1892.

• Collecting golf balls, 1920s.

• A baby cage, initially named a “health cage”, was essentially a bed encased in wire, dangling from the windows of city apartments.

• This photo from 1902 shows French knife grinders. They would work on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day.

• The old Cincinnati library before it was demolished.

• Gerald Ford plays Soccer with Pele, 1975.

• The Twin Towers from a wheat field in Manhattan.

• Niagara Falls frozen over, 1911.

Thank You!

This is a 1762 illustration of a woman warding off the devil with her genitalia

 This is a 1762 illustration of a woman warding off the devil with her genitalia.

The illustration was used to accompany the poem, “The Devil of Pope Fig Island,” written by a 17th century French poet by the name of Jean de la Fontaine.

The poem is pretty long, so I’ll just give you the gist of the story.

One day a devil randomly shows up to a small village on Pope Fig Island and starts causing a ruckus and terrorizing the villagers. The devil then approaches a farmer named Phil and demands that he give him half his crops. 

Phil complies and gives the devil half of his crops, but he only gives him the leaves and stems and not the actual vegetables. The devil is embarrassed and annoyed at being outwitted by a lowly farmer and threatens to punish Phil and take his portion of the vegetables within a week’s time.

Frightened, Phil runs home and tells his wife, Perretta, what had happened. She tells him to not worry and that she’ll take care of the devil.

When the devil returns, Phil jumps into a tub of holy water for protection. Perretta greets the devil with tears and disheveled hair. She tells the devil that Phil is a terrifying man who beats her mercilessly and even gave her a deep gash with his claws.

This is when Perretta lifts her skirt to show the devil her genitalia. The devil is horrified and runs away, never to return.

Here’s the passage from the poem that describes the exact event of the illustration:

“For God’s sake try, my lord, to get away;

Just now I heard the savage fellow say,

He’d with his claws your lordship tear and slash:

See, only see, my lord, he made this gash;

On which she showed:—what you will guess, no doubt,

And put the demon presently to rout,

Who crossed himself and trembled with affright:

He’d never seen nor heard of such a sight,

Where scratch from claws or nails had so appeared;

His fears prevailed, and off he quickly steered…”