Uncredited Photographer, Central Park, New York City, c.1900.

Via Ratak Monodosico.

An Irish Guards machine-gun team in 1914. Not a single one of these men pictured here survived the war.

Via Fred Lapides.

Via Ratak Monodosico.

January 1940. “Long stairway in mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.” Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA

From Shorpy via Madame Scherzo.

Photo: Minneapolis Star/Tribune

Via Gwynnie.

Tank Crushing Car, November 11, 1918, University Avenue, Toronto

Via Ratak Monodosico.

Jeremy Meeks, a blue-eyed 30-year-old ex-convict got arrested in Stockton, California last Wednesday during a weapons sweep, when police found a .45 pistol in the trunk of his car. Mr. Meeks previously served two years for grand theft, and has tattoos implying that he is affiliated with the Crips gang and has previously killed someone.

The Stockton police make a practice of posting their most recent mug shots on-line, and the arrest photo of Jeremy Meeks immediately went viral on the Internet, causing women (and Andrew Sullivan) to swoon over the convict’s ethnically-diverse good looks.

The story of the excitement over the photo even gained international coverage by British newspapers like the Daily Mail. And Meeks’ mugshot has also become the object of the latest Photoshop humor meme. Buzzfeed

The original source seems to be a Russian collection of photographs of sleeping critters.

Via Madame Scherzo.

Jacob Riis, Bandits’ Roost — 59 1/2 Mulberry Street, 1888.

I wouldn’t go in there, if I were you.