PUBLIC SCHOOL

Protect and Serve

In the late 1970′s and early 1980′s the British government decided to inform the general public about how to survive nuclear attack. The campaign was called Protect and Serve and the films from it are eerily mundane.

The Last Of The Kodachrome

I’ll avoid the obligatory Paul Simon reference and tell you to head over to Steve McCurry’s blog to see a few frames from the last roll of Kodachrome that will (likely) ever be developed was ever produced (correction Thanks Chris!). When Kodak stopped producing it, they gave the last roll to him. He shot some beautiful photographs with it, had Dwayne’s Photo in Kansas develop it, and has now posted selections for your enjoyment. It is a beautiful end to a beautiful era.

Thanks for the heads up Michael.

UPDATED: Monuments Under Construction

Great things don’t come easily, which is something to keep in mind as we all try to tackle our New Years resolutions. This holds especially true for some of America’s greatest icons. Mount Rushmore, The Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty all took time to build. Check out a those and a few other American icons midway through their construction, a state most people aren’t familiar with, after the jump.

A Day of Infamy

On Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor pulling the United States in to a war that had already been raging elsewhere throughout the world. Following the attack, then President FDR declared it as a day that would live in infamy. Much of the country had fresh memories of WWI and didn’t want to engage in another long drawn out war. Despite this sentiment, following the attack, there was overwhelming support to get retribution.

Civil War Faces

Yesterday while waiting on some images to upload to a client I stumbled across The Long Recall: An Aggregator of the Civil War. An aggregator of civil war news, it is written in a manner similar to the blogs we read today, but gives a daily account of what led to the War as if it were happening today.

After reading that, I was excited when I read that the Library of Congress had finished uploading over 700 portraits of Union and Confederate Soldiers in their Civil War Faces gallery. There are too many to show here but I pulled some that had beautiful painted backdrops, interesting groups portraits or some of the rare photographs of African American Union soldiers. There are plenty after the jump.