Historic Photos Blog Post Archive

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Historic Photos / Set # 19

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...

Norman Rockwell Entering his Stockbridge Studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1966. Photograph by Louie Lamone.



Delectables at the Edward Neumann Grocery in Detroit's Broadway Market, circa 1910. Note the artfully arranged pickle slices in the big apothecary jar to the left. Colorized Photo, Detroit Publishing - 1910.



Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri.  Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California, 1936. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Admin.



Ultra Rare 1965 Ford Mustang Station Wagon. Location / Photographer Unknown.



Circa 1902, location not specified. "A happy family." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.



Actor Charlie Chaplin "Out of Character" at the Age of 26 – Colorized Photo by Reddit 1916.



Two Women Delivering Ice 1918 - Photograph by National Archives: War Department.



Two veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg reminisce at the 50th Anniversary Reunion in July 1913 – Library of Congress.



Ronald Reagan shares a laugh with Marilyn Monroe in Los Angeles in this 1959 photo.



Louis Armstrong Practicing in his Dressing Room Circa 1946.  Photograph by William Gottlieb (LOB)



A farmer's daughter near rural Wapato, Washington in the Yakima Valley – August 1939. Photo by Dorothea Lange for Farm Security Administration / Library of Congress.



July 1943. Greenville, South Carolina. "Air Service Command. Men of the Quartermaster Truck Company of the 25th Service Group having a card game in one of the barracks." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.



Theodore Roosevelt in his Rough Rider Uniform Circa 1898 / Photo by Rockwood HMS - Colorized by Zuzzah.



Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family revisiting the attic they spent the war in, 3 May 1960 / Photo by Arnold Newman.



The Flying Wedge Formation of the 1904 Carlisle Indians was soon banned due to the high level of injuries it caused on opposing teams - Cumberland County Historical Society. 



Last Public Execution by Guillotine 1939 – Eugen Weidmann on June 17th, 1939. France continued to use the device for executions behind prison walls until 1977, when capital punishment was abolished by law.  Photo Credit by Roge –Viollet.



The sun sets on the horizon of the planet Mars in 2005.  The photo was taken by the rover Spirit, over the rim of Gusev Crater - Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell.



The atomic bomb explosion 20 minutes after impact on the city of Nagasaki, Japan.  The bomb dubbed "Fat Man" killed approx. 40,000 people outright and then thousands more from radiation poisoning.  Three people are seen standing on the right, bearing witness to horrific destruction.  Photo credit: Hiromichi Matsuda 1945.



Gas Light Alley - Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1920. "Street scene with horse and wagon." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. 



The "Father of Tattooing" Cap Coleman works on a sailor from the US Navy in his tattoo parlor in Norfolk Virginia (Colorized Photo) Paul L. Pryor, National Geographic.



"Seeing Chicago. Auto at Monroe Street near State." Tourists sightseeing the Windy City / Circa 1908.  Photo by Hans Behm.



Vietnam War - American Soldiers explore the enemy's Cu Chi Tunnels - Unknown Date.



A stewardess tends to sleeping passengers in first class circa, 1950's.



First Country School in Tripp County South Dakota.  Six children standing in a row, with older man in back, in front of a sod building. The roof appears to be of lumber covered in tar paper.  Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection.



Ernest Hemingway tells a story in a bar called Floridita in Havana, Cuba unknown date.



James Dean and his “Little Bastard” Silver Porsche 550 Spyder. Supposedly taken just hours before his fatal crash in 1955.



"Ghost Child" A Young Child living in the Oklahoma City Shacktown. August 1936. Farm Security Administration photograph by Dorothea Lange.


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... 

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Historic Photos / Set # 18

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...

Two severely burnt British soldiers whose tank had been hit by a German shell shortly after the Normandy landings, 1944 -



An Iraqi boy selling oranges in a Baghdad during the Gulf War, circa 1991.



 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife emerging from the Sarajevo Town Hall to board their car, a few minutes before the assassination June 28, 1914.



Troops of the Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade land with their bicycles on Juno Beach on D-Day, 6th June 1944, Normandy.



Children learn to swim in the schoolyard in England in the early 1920s.



 The city gates of St. Augustine, Florida, 1865.



German Friedrichshafen seaplane crashed into a building in Germany 1918.



 Worker on the Empire State Building by Lewis W. Hine 1930.



Eric Lomax, a British soldier tortured by the Japanese during WW2, photographed on his reunion with a remorseful Takashi Nagase, one of his interrogators, in Thailand, 1993.



Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with his first cousin King George V of England, Colorized Photo 1915 -



Two soldiers at Victoria Station about to leave for the front, 1914 -



Midnight At the Glassworks. Photo taken at an Indiana glass and bottle factory in 1908. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke - Library of Congress.



American and United Nations troops enjoy a Jack Benny performance at a USO show in Korea, July, 1951. Photo Michael Rougier, Time & Life Pictures.



President John F. Kennedy looks over a Gemini space capsule with Astronaut John Young on board during a September 1962 visit to McDonnell Aircraft.



The body of Volkssturm BataillonsfĂĽhrer Walter Doenicke, who killed himself shortly before the arrival of allied troops in Leipzig, lies next to a portrait of Adolf Hitler with his face torn out, April 1945.



Three unidentified boys at Manzanar Relocation Internment Camp, Owens Valley, California - 1943.



American and Soviet troops meet at the River Elbe near Torgau, Germany on April 25th 1945.



Medical attendants remove the body of Marilyn Monroe from her home following her fatal overdose of sleeping pills, 9th August 1962.



A woman from Ukraine sends a blunt message to President Putin of Russia - 2014.



Traffic warden Hugh ­Duncan cradles injured child in the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Belfast, 1972.



Huts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer St., Manhattan, by Berenice Abbott, 25th October 1935.



Jewish children of the Warsaw ghetto during German occupation, Summer 1941.



This 1971 photo from David Hume Kennerly shows an American GI, his weapon drawn, cautiously moving over a devastated hill near Firebase Gladiator during the Vietnam War.



Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme sits in an interrogation room September 5, 1975, just after her assassination attempt on Gerald R. Ford.



 John F. Kennedy catches a bunch of bananas thrown to him by an admirer during the 1960 campaign.



Queen Elizabeth II during the throws of World War II, 1944.



 Japanese plane shot down during the battle of Saipan 1944.



Burt Ward and Adam West photographed by Yale Joel on the set of the Batman movie, 1966.


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...