Historic Photos / Set # 24

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 Human U.S. Shield formed by 30,000 soldiers at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan 1918.

With vast numbers of horses being sent to the Western Front during World War One, some farmers and tradesmen at home turned to elephants to help them with their work.

A six year old paperboy "newsie" on the city streets of Saint Louis, Missouri - 1910.

View of the hole in the Empire State Building after a B-25 bomber accidentally crashed into it on July 28, 1945.

Crowd in Times Square, New York celebrating the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945.

An injured survivor of the Hindenburg disaster calmly smokes a cigarette as he is moved to a hospital from the field at Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937.

The immediate aftermath of the Wall Street Bombing, New York City - September 16th, 1920.

October 7, 1921. "School in Session. Sunset School, Marey, West Virginia. Pocahontas County." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan communicate through their interpreters, during their first official meeting, Geneva, Switzerland November 21, 1985.

Marine relaxing on the wing of a F4U-1 of Marine squadron VMF-222, Bougainville 1944.

"Row houses in Washington, D.C." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative - 1935.

November 1942. Lititz, Pennsylvania. "Mennonite farmer and wife at the farmer's market." Photo by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information.

Horse Drinking from Water Fountain Reserved for Horses – Market Street Harrisburg, PA Detroit Publishing collection at the Library of Congress – 1916.

July 1939. "Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, with his wife and part of his family.  Wake County, North Carolina. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange.

July 1956. Greenville, North Carolina. "Segregationist tobacco sharecropper Marshall Joyner and family bowing heads in prayer before dinner." Color transparency by Margaret Bourke-White, Life photo archive.

January 1939. "Negro sharecropper mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home. Transylvania, Louisiana." Medium-format nitrate negative by Russell Lee - Resettlement Administer.

1964. The Super Giant supermarket in Rockville, Maryland. Color transparency by John Dominis, Life magazine photo archive.

January 1941. "Street in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania." Medium format safety negative by Jack Delano. Office of War Information.

American GI capturing a German officer in Ill, France - September, 1944.

"East Side Free School for Crippled Children" New York circa 1908. (Special Education School for Physically and Mentally Impaired Children) George Grantham Bain Collection. Original Photo Caption: "Feeble-minded in Cripple School, Henry St."

Swimming in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, Washington, DC, July 16, 1926.

Two East German builders add broken glass shards to the top of the freshly built Berlin Wall to prevent East Berliners from escaping. 22 August 1961.

After a night of German bombing over London, a store keeper opens up despite the damage to his store front the next morning.  He created a sign "Business as Usual" to notify the public he was open. London – Circa 1940's.

"Majestic Building from Detroit Opera House." With "ServSelf Lunch in Basement." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. / 1909.

Remains of Hiroshima Fire Department / West Side Main Fire Station – 1945.

A young girl gazes out over the rubble of the remains of Warsaw, Poland – 1945.

Jonathan the Tortoise in year 1900 and today, in 2015… He is believed to be the oldest living reptile on earth (Island of Saint Helena) at an estimated age of 183 years old. 

 George H.W. Bush poses in his baseball uniform at Yale, 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 # 23

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 smallest shop in London, England - a shoe salesman with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900.

Albert Göring, brother of notorious Nazi leader Hermann Göring, opposed Nazism and personally intervened to help Jews and dissidents, including by forging his brother’s signature; later when he got caught, he used his brother’s influence to get released, only to once again help more of the regime’s victims. Portrait - 1936.

Man and woman towing a cargo-boat through a ship-canal, The Netherlands,1931.

 Life goes on in Post War Germany as people go for a recreational swim next to war grave markers, 1946.

A United States Navy River Patrol Boat deploying napalm during the Vietnam War - Circa 1970.

Crowd gather to celebrate New Year's Even in the Big Apple on Times Square - 1938.

 Girls in Holland being publicly humiliated in the streets after the end of WWII for having a suspected romantic relationship with a German soldier - Circa 1945.

An American Family of the KKK, Tennessee, 1989 - Photo by Leonard Freed.

Violinist Isaac Stern performing to an audience in Jerusalem wering gas masks during heightened fears of an Iraqi Missile Attack, Gulf War - 1991.

Two African men walk past a warning sign common in apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa - Circa 1956.

Colin Powell, who later becomes famous as a four star general in the United States Army and the the 65th Secretary of State, takes a selfie, Circa 1950. 

A female mason works to repair a chimney in Berlin, as women go to work during the industrialization of Germany, 1910.

Gerald Ford and his golden retriever Liberty in the Oval Office of the White House on November 7th 1974.

A soda jerk tosses a scoop of ice cream into a metal mixing cup before blending a malted shake, Texas 1939.

Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the kidnapped infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Flemington, New Jersey. (Photo by Martin McEvilly / NY Daily News)

A British Army chaplain holds a service over a massed grave before it is filled in at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp - 1945.

Classic Hollywood Actress Bette Davis Fashion - Circa 1920's.

 An aerial view of more than 10,000 German POWs that had been surrounded by allied forces in the Falaise Pocket during the Battle of Normandy, France where 60,000 of 100,000 total German soldiers were killed or captured in August of 1944.

A Japanese soldier gives water to wounded horse during WWII.

High Fashion of the 1950's - Feathered Hat, White Gloves, Diamond Broach.

A fashionable couple and their dog in Washington D.C. - Circa 1915. 

 Happy Christmas in the Streets of London, England - 1915.

Snowy Times Square, New York City, 1947.

Abandoned Mark Twain Branch of the Detroit Public Library within the bankrupt city of Detroit, Michigan - Circa 2008.

The Baltimore City Social Security Office - Photo by Henri Dauman 1965.

Vincenz Czerny with Dr. Levi Cooper Lane in a surgical amphitheater at Cooper Medical College - Photo by Stanford Medical History Center, 1901.

 The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, breaks into a smile as he is formally inspected by his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II - December 15, 2006.

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...