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July 15, 2008
Turn of the century
[Bob Burman, race car driver] (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.
Kicking around on Flickr, I came across thousands of photos uploaded by the Library of Congress. Many of them are of baseball players, politicians, and simple every day people. I personally like this one of race car driver Bob Burman. It's how I look when I drive. Yes indeedy.
Looking at old photographs always freaks me out a little bit. The people in them are now almost always long deceased. (According to Wikipedia, Mr. Burman here died in a racing accident 92 years ago.)
When that moment of time was captured, their lives were laid out before them. They didn't know what was to happen, nor what the future would hold. There are thousands of people in this picture of the Polo Grounds during the 1912 World Series. Who among them lived to a ripe old age? Who would die five years later in World War I?
It's mind-boggling, really. It's even more mind-boggling that a hundred years from now, somebody might be looking at pictures of me, thinking the same thing. At the very least, I hope there's a good story to go with my name.
entry no. 1184
Posted at July 15, 2008 05:16 PM