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As summer approaches and the urge to hit the highways — and the byways, and the back roads — begins to take hold, LIFE offers a series of pictures from Nebraska and Wyoming made seven long decades ago…
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Here, LIFE.com presents a series of color photos of freight cars shot for Fortune in 1957 by the great Walker Evans — pictures that (like so much of Evans’s work) not only evoke a specific time, but capture something elemental about specific things. Evans was a master at finding the ideal way to present the physicality of a given object: a dilapidated house, a famous bridge, a roadside garage or, in the case of the pictures here, a freight car…
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http://time.com/3876943/walker-evans-in-color-the-grit-and-grandeur-of-freight-cars/
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On February 9, 1874, six men left an encampment near Montrose, Colorado hoping to find their fortune in the Rocky Mountains. They had purchased supplies and were heading towards Gunnison, where there had been reports of gold.
Yet, in April, Alfred Packer, a civil war veteran, who was mustered out because of epilepsy, marched into the Los Pinos Indian agency near Gunnison, where he made an most astonishing admission.
Forced by hunger, he and his travelling companions began eating each other. Yet despite his proclaimed reluctance to resort to cannibalism, he once admitted: ‘The breasts of man…are the sweetest meat I ever tasted.’
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Holy Buckminster Fuller! Is that a dome on the surface of Mars? A photograph taken by the Opportunity Rover shows what appears to be a dome or dome-topped structure on the Martian surface. Is it real? What is it made of? Does this mean Martians have a football team?
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http://artbell.com/rover-finds-mysterious-dome-on-mars/
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