Historic Photos / Set # 34

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...

 Judy Garland with her daughter Liza Minnelli, London, 1951.

Winner of the 1950 ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ beauty pageant wearing a mushroom cloud crown.

Sports car in front of the Old Executive Office Building, Washington D.C. 1922.   

David Vetter known as ’The Boy in The Bubble’ in the sterilized plastic environment that was his home from his birth until his death 12 years later. Texas Children’s Hospital. Houston, Texas 1978. 

Physicists Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, and James Franck - December 9, 1951, Stockholm, Sweden.

Farmer's Wife with Horses, Whitney Point, New York 1907.

B-25’s being assembled at the North American Aviation plant in Kansas City, Missouri 1942.

The original “Star Spangled Banner” that appeared in the dawn’s early light over Fort McHenry 200 years ago today, photographed in the Boston Naval Yard, 1873.

A French pilot makes a forced landing after a failed attack on a German Zeppelin over Brussels, 1915.

The city of Nürnberg, Germany in ruins and covered in ash following allied bombing, Colorized Photo - June 1945.

A female arc welder, Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Photo by Arthur Siegel, 1943.

Recent women immigrants to the United States learning how to vote in elections, 1936.

Watching the World Change – New Yorkers with eyes on the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001.

Hawk missiles at the ready along the beach in the Florida Keys during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962.

Japanese War Tubas – crude acoustic sound detectors used to locate approaching enemy planes prior to the invention of radar, Circa 1930.

Walt Disney and Salvador Dali, photographed during the production of the short cartoon “Destino” in 1945-46. The project was abandoned for financial reasons, eventually to be revived by Disney Studios France and released in 2003.

Men on an observation deck of the Empire State Building on the lookout for planes during an air defense drill, New York City, January 21, 1941. 

South Vietnamese soldiers ride elephants across a river in the Ba Don area, about 20 miles from the Cambodian border, during a patrol in search of Viet Cong guerrillas in June, 1964.

Morning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Corner of Sutter and Kearny Street, San Francisco, California - December 8, 1941.

View of Midtown Manhattan, Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1939.

Al Capone mug shots, April 1930, after being arrested on vagrancy charges when visiting his Miami Beach property when the Florida governor ordered sheriffs to run him out of the state.

Muslim members of the Waffen-SS 13th Division stop to pray, Circa 1942.  This unit was created in Croatia and served alongside Nazi German regiments but were never officially integrated into the army of the Third Reich.

Oil well fire, Southern California, Photo by Dick Whittington, 1931.

US transport plane crashes after being hit by friendly artillery after it crossed a firing zone when trying to land.  All three crew members were killed. Vietnam 1967.

Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces with gas masks and rubber gloves during a chemical attack, Battle of Shanghai, 1937.

A US soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child, Saipan, 1944.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono buying hot dogs from a street vendor in New York City, 1972.

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Historic Photos / Set # 33

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...

Kroger grocery store, Lexington Kentucky, 1947 - Photo by Lafayette Studio.

Child Labor in a New England - Young spinners in a Cotton Mill, 1911.

Two American tourists trying out an electrical headache relief machine at a spa in Sochi, Soviet Union, Circa 1970.

Women use compact mirrors in a packed crowd attempting to catch sight of Queen Elizabeth II - London, England - 1966.

"The Neck Brush", designed to clean a child's neck while they play.  Invented by the Los Angeles Brush Corp, 1950.

On Fox Street in the Bronx, an abandoned Plymouth Savoy becomes a jungle gym for kids to play on in the summer of 1966.

Battle of Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland - a three-day riot in the Bogside district between the RUC and the Nationalist / Catholic residents, 1969.

French girl vents anger by kicking at a passing German prisoner of war on his way to confinement after being captured. September 26, 1944.

Portrait of English cricketer W. G. Grace who helped develop the sport of cricket and participated in 44 seasons (1965-1908) Photo by Herbert Rose Barraud, Circa 1880.

A human skull keeps watch over US soldiers encamped in the jungle during the Vietnam War, October 25, 1968.

"On the Beach" Atlantic City, Colorized Photo - Circa 1905.

Adolf Hitler informs Czech President Emil Hácha of the imminent German invasion of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939 in Berlin. Hácha suffered a heart attack during the meeting, and had to be kept awake by medical staff, eventually giving in and accepting Hitler’s surrender terms.

A Corporal from the Royal Canadian Regiment leads members of the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Club in training, 1928.

Jim Morrison, who later became the lead singer of the Doors, mug shot when arrested for drunken misconduct at age 20 after a football game in Tallahassee, Florida. Sept. 28, 1963.

Portrait of Isaac Jefferson (Granger), Circa 1845 – Salve owned by Thomas Jefferson who was a metal worker at Monticello.  Jefferson originally gave Isaac and his family to his daughter Maria as a wedding present in 1797 but later gained his freedom in 1822.

Photo from the deck of the ocean liner SS Vestris as it is sinking off Hampton Roads.  Passengers reach for life jackets as the ship lists sharply. The event resulted in the loss of 112 people, November 11, 1928.

KKK takes to the air to drop propaganda leaflets, 1924.

Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton in France standing in front of a Renault FT tank, summer of 1918.

George Metesky, known as the “Mad Bomber”, peers through the bars of his cell at the Waterbury, Conn., Police Station. From 1940 Metesky terrorized New York City by planting 32 pipe bombs in public areas until his arrest 16 years later in January 1957.

A member of the Achille Serre Ladies Fire Brigade in London, 1926.

A very happy Mussolini during Hitler’s visit in Florence, Italy – 1938.

During the era of racial segregation in the south, this sign at the entrance to the Memphis Public Zoo meant that it was Tuesday - the only day black people were allowed to go to the zoo. On the other six days of the week, the sign excluded black people from entering. Photo by Ernest C Withers 1959.

Young boy tending a freshly stocked fruit and vegetable stand at a city market, 1915.

Ernest Hemingway as a war correspondant at age 19, photo taken in Milan, Italy, 1918.

Cartographers arrange hundreds of aerial photos in preparation for a new map at Print Layout Section Number 1, Rockcliffe Airbase, 1945.

Welcome to Bangkok, Drink Coca-Cola, Photo by Dmitri Kessel 1950.

Italian Mother and Child, Ellis Island, New York, 1905, Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Additional References____________________________________ 
Special thanks to the following additional online collection sources and archives... Tumblr, Pinterest, Shorpy, Life Magazine, Historical Times, Reddit,  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...