Packing Heat!
New York City detective Mary Agnes Shanley pulls a pistol out of her handbag. Shanley shows what awaits a pickpocket. She had more than a thousand career arrests. From the New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, 1937.
(via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive :: Detective Shanley: 1937)
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Seventeenth journey. The balloon Jean-Bart falling on an apple tree, at Montireau.
A. Tissandier, From Histoire de mes ascensions (Story of my balloon ascents), by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1880.
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