Re:A duo who documented the birth of NYC’s subway
by dhathorn on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:44PM
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It's a chinese flag, the old republic of china flag. Also known as the five races flag.
Re:A duo who documented the birth of NYC’s subway
by mxuribe on Sunday March 08, 2020 @03:00PM
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Ah-ha, weird, after immediately seeing the flag, I went to Wikipedia...but on the Chinese flags page they didn't list the flag that you found...which does answer the mystery for me! Thanks!
Re:A duo who documented the birth of NYC’s subway
by rolltiide on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:39PM
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It's like a precursor to the "one country two systems" moniker, which is really one country five systems if you actually count.
Re:A duo who documented the birth of NYC’s subway
by ta1234567890 on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:32PM
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> Also, is this a German flag (alongside the U.S. flag) at the top of a "Chop Suey" sign (lower-left section of the photo)?? If so, why a German flag???
Maybe it's a Dutch flag: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands#/med...
New York was originally Dutch, and before being called New York, it was part of what was called New Amsterdam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
Also, is this a German flag (alongside the U.S. flag) at the top of a "Chop Suey" sign (lower-left section of the photo)?? If so, why a German flag??? https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/lg/73195/imag...
Finally...
> "...A lot of the people in these photographs, we’ll never know their names... "
My hope with facial recognition technology - and in my opinion one of the very, very few acceptable/responsible uses of this tech. - is when descendants of these workers can pair their own family photos with these publicly-available photos to learn more about their own families, but also - if they so choose - to share the names of these anonymous workers with the world (to give them the credit that they so richly deserve for building our essential infrastructure).