Panopticon Prison: Inmates standing in their cells, Cuba, 1926 - In this eerie photograph of a Cuban prison, inmate after inmate stands silhouetted in a semicircle of stacked cells. They are posed there, backlit, perhaps to demonstrate the building’s utilitarian design. First conceived by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century, the so-called panopticon prison design allows a single guard to keep watch on hundreds of confined men while staying in an armored perch, out of the prisoner’s sight. The cells in the prison pictured here also do not have doors, though presumably armed guards would have been a deterrent against any escape attempt. Many prisons, including Alcatraz, were designed to remove a convict’s privacy in favor of control, but full incorporation’s of Bentham’s idea are a rarer find.
Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly, records at a Capitol Records studio, 1950s
Jack and Bobby, 1960
by Hank Walker
Boy crying. NYC, 1942.
Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn in 1955.
New York City, 1955
Irish Free State passport issued 22 Aug 1927
I recently found my great-grandfather’s Irish Free State passport!
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President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this chair at Ford’s Theater when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
Moments later, Dr. Charles Leale rushed into the private box to help treat the wounded President. He recorded the events of the evening in a 21-page report that was filed away and forgotten.
But Helena Iles Papaioannou,a researcher for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project, was going through a box of documents in the National Archives when she found the report written by Dr. Leale, which provides new eyewitness details to the events of Lincoln’s wounding, care, and death.
Read the full story here.
[Image: Ford’s Theatre, chair in which President Lincoln was sitting when shot. ARC 526238]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m593109O8X1r5j9hco1_500.gif)
President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this chair at Ford’s Theater when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
Moments later, Dr. Charles Leale rushed into the private box to help treat the wounded President. He recorded the events of the evening in a 21-page report that was filed away and forgotten.
But Helena Iles Papaioannou,a researcher for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project, was going through a box of documents in the National Archives when she found the report written by Dr. Leale, which provides new eyewitness details to the events of Lincoln’s wounding, care, and death.
Read the full story here.
[Image: Ford’s Theatre, chair in which President Lincoln was sitting when shot. ARC 526238]
