Historic Photos / Set # 15

Please Note: The art of photography has the ability to expose brutality and provide evidence of the utter failure of humanity.  Some Images may be disturbing...

The game goes on while firefighters battle a smoky blaze at a building on 101st Street at First Avenue in East Harlem on Feb. 3, 1975 Photo by Paul Hosefros.

Imperial Aircraft Amagi after she capsized from air attacks on July 29, 1945 Kure Naval Base.

Secretariat's record win at Belmont, winner of the Triple Crown - June 7, 1973.

 President Lincoln in his White House office, 1864.

Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. May 27, 1937.

 Wounded British POWs crammed into a makeshift first aid station in a church during the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

A matador poses in full regalia with an embroidered cape in Colombia, Colorized Photo-1939.

The desolation of World War I, Poilcapelle, Belgium, 1917.

Jerry Seinfeld getting ready to make an entrance onto the set of his show "Seinfeld".

An experimental version of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first jet aircraft, sits on an Allied airfield after its test pilot defected.

A Bosnian woman rushes down an empty sidewalk past war-destroyed shops in one of the worst sections of the so-called ‘Sniper Alley. April 8, 1993 in Sarajevo.

Summer of 1941 LIFE Magazine photo spread for Rita Hayworth, Photo by Bob Landry.

Dutch anti-aircraft motorcycle in action during the German invasion, may 1940.

President John F. Kennedy and daughter Caroline in a mask strike a pose in Hyannisport - 1962.

Mickey Mantle flings his batting helmet in disgust after a lousy at-bat, Yankee Stadium, 1965.

Vintage treadmills, circa 1920.

South Vietnamese UH-1 pushed overboard from USS Midway to make space during the evacuation of the DAO compound and Saigon , April 29, 1975.

Observers record the detonation of the nuclear device air-dropped at a Nevada Test Site on March 29 1955.

Future leader-dictator of Lybia, a young Mummar Al-Gaddafi in uniform, 1971.

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Arnold Schwarzenegger shows his muscles to some little old ladies – circa 1970s.

Like milk bottles in a dairy, these heavy shells await delivery to the British Army Woolwich, London 1917.

Four Marines recover the body of Marine fire team leader Leland Hammond as their company comes under fire near Hill 484.

Two childhood friends meet during a demonstration. One is a striker, the other one, a policeman. Saint-Brieuc, France, 1972. 

 Future Presidents Bill Clinton and George HW Bush at a BBQ with Governor George Wallace.

Traffic passes by the French liner SS Normandie after she caught fire and capsized. Pier 88 NYC, 1942.

Wedding rings collected from WW II concentration camps. Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple - 1945.

Additional References____________________________________ 
Special thanks to the following additional online collection sources and archives... Tumblr, Pinterest, Shorpy, Life Magazine, Historical Times,  Histoire-fanatique, Getty Images, Harris & Ewing, The Nifty Fifties, Farm Security Administration, Classicland, History Wars, Historic Photo, Houk Gallery, Mundovigilia, Those Old Times, The Story in Pictures, National Photo Company, Office of War Information, United States Armed Forces, NASA, Detroit Publishing Company... 

Historic Photos / Set # 14

Please Note: The art of photography has the ability to expose brutality and provide evidence of the utter failure of humanity.  Some Images may be disturbing...

Ned Parfett: newsboy, soldier and photographic icon, died in World War I combat at the age of 22, six and a half years after this photo was taken in London, April, 1912.

Civil War veteran Samuel Decker built his own prosthetics after losing both his arms in combat. Date unknown.

 Princeton students pose for a portrait after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight - 1893.

Actress Phyllis Gordon and her Pet Cheetah, 1939 London.

Colorized photo of Babe Ruth playing for the Boston Red Sox, 1919.

A London policeman gives tea to a homeless man after a V1 attack that killed his wife, and destroyed his home, 1944.

John Burns sits on a rocking chair after the Battle of Gettysburg. A veteran of the war of 1812, the 70 year old Burns picked up his rifle and joined a Union unit as a sharpshooter and was wounded several times. Photo taken in 1863.

Ronald Reagan and Emperor Hirohito, Tokyo, 1983.

Train wreck at Montparnasse Station - Paris, France - 1895.

People walking on the chairs at the Maisons-Laffitte racecourse to escape the River Seine during a flood - Paris, 1924.

A graveyard detail is coming ashore from the hospital ship USS Solace with the coffins of troops who died of their wounds aboard the ship. Okinawa, Japan, July 31, 1945.

Baby Prince William and Prince Charles playing during their tour of New Zealand in 1983.

Fourth of July weekend. Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, in the 1920’s.

The Beatles at Shea Stadium NY in front of over 55,000 fans, kicking off the era of large stadium concerts, August 15th, 1965.

Adolf Hitler signing his autograph for a young boy.

A French civilian pours some tea for a British soldier guarding an intersection, August 1944.

The President and Mrs. Reagan Chat with STS-4 Astronauts in the Shadow of Space Shuttle Columbia, July 4th, 1982.

A Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp on the Ca Mau Peninsula – Vietnam War, 1970.

Group of Breaker boys, Pittston, Pennsylvania on January, 1911. Department of Commerce and Labor. Children's Bureau.

JFK Views Liberty Bell at Independence Hall, 4 July 1962 (Colorized Photo) 

A little boy on a tricycle in Norway, 1940.

A Lockheed Constellation airliner over New York City, Circa - 1950s.

Marine combat cameraman Norman Hatch feeds a kitten he found underneath a Japanese tank on Tarawa Atoll, WWII, November, 1943.

It’s been over 10 years since the Cassini spacecraft flew by one of Saturn’s most intriguing moons: Phoebe. On June 11, 2004, Cassini flew within about 1,285 miles of the dark moon.

French soldier, whose face was mutilated in WWI, being fitted with a mask made at the Red Cross studio of Anna Coleman Ladd. July 1918.

Lighting strikes light up the valley of the Grand Canyon - Photo by Zheng Yang.

"Human” map of the United States, ca. 1925. An amazing use of people, perspective, and careful planning.

Additional References____________________________________ 
Special thanks to the following additional online collection sources and archives... Tumblr, Pinterest, Shorpy, Life Magazine, Historical Times,  Histoire-fanatique, Getty Images, Harris & Ewing, The Nifty Fifties, Farm Security Administration, Classicland, History Wars, Historic Photo, Houk Gallery, Mundovigilia, Those Old Times, The Story in Pictures, National Photo Company, Office of War Information, United States Armed Forces, NASA, Detroit Publishing Company...