Historic Photos / Set # 39

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...

American model Jean Pachett helps define 1950's fashion with her reserved style of conservative elegance.  Photo for Vogue Magazine by Erwin Blumenfeld 1950.

Actress Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning home aboard the USS Monticello 1945.

Extreme snowfall in Jamestown, North Dakota 1966. Photo by Bill Koch.

Newspaper cameramen photograph Fala, Roosevelt’s pet Scotty, who accompanied the President to the Quebec conference on August 20, 1943.

Queen Elizabeth II inspects troops at age 16 after her father made her Colonel of the Grenadier Guards - 1942.

Graf Zeppelin makes an extremely low pass over the stands at Wembley Stadium, England during the 1930 FA Cup Final, won 2-0 by Arsenal over Huddersfield.

Children looking longingly at a collection of toy soldiers in a shop window. United States, Circa 1950. 

Casualties of the German mustard and chlorine gas attacks at the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, World War I - May 1915.

Young German soldiers known as "Place Fillers" are held captive during World War I  by the French.  Place Fillers were boys between the ages of 14-18 that were recruited to take the place of fallen or captured older soldiers in their mid 20s.  Photo - Leslie's Weekly.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and her children John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy riding a horse and pony, November 19, 1962. Photo: JFK Library.

Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in 1937. On the left is Oliver Law, the first African-American to command white troops.

Young church folk from Sunnyvale protest against John Lennon’s remark that the Beatles are “more popular than Jesus” outside Candlestick Park in San Francisco where the Beatles are holding a concert, August 29, 1966.

The “shadow” of a Hiroshima victim, permanently etched into stone steps, after the atomic bomb – 1945.

Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across the US in 1909. The trip was designed as publicity for the Maxwell-Briscoe carmaker and covered 3,600 miles, only 152 miles of which were over paved roads.

In this April 2, 1967 photo, a wounded U.S. soldier is given water on a battlefield in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Street in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania – Winter of 1941 Photo by Jack Delano.

Chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky at age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in a simultaneous exhibition in 1921.

Mao Zedong, AKA: Mao Tse-tung, the founding father and communist leader of the People's Republic of China playing ping pong in 1963.

The four Romanov sisters of Russia, Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana, 1910 / Colorized Photo by Dana Keller.

A tiny puppy sleeping comfortably between Russian soldiers. (1945)

US 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery pose for a group photo in Grenzhausen, Germany at the close of WWI - August 1918.

Young men climb about wreckage after the Great Flood of 1899. Heavy rainfall caused a massive failure of the South Fork Dam, releasing a torrent of water upon the small city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing over 2,200 residents and causing $500 million in damages. The Johnstown Flood remains the single event causing the largest loss of life in Pennsylvania.

Two little boys running arm in arm to the shops to pick up the family entitlement of cod liver oil, orange juice and dried milk in the slum area of Glasgow in the East End of London. Photo by Bert Hardy for the Picture Post, 1948.

The Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers 1957 - Macfadden Publications.

A couple enjoys an old fashioned zip line on a weekend afternoon. (1923).

An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s)

Spanish woman fighting for the Republican Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. She is armed with a British Lee-Enfield rifle. Circa 1936.

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Historic Photos / Set # 38

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...

 

U.S. soldiers care for a Filipino infant who had suffered from bayonet wounds to the face by retreating Japanese forces during the Battle of Leyte. Southern Leyte Province, Leyte Island, Philippines. November 1944.

Portrait of Katherine Hepburn / Woman of the Year, Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1942.

Frederick C. Branch, the first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps, returns from war. November, 1945.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, crashes in the Andes mountains. Sixteen people survived for 77 days by resorting to cannibalism until they were rescued, Dec. 1972.

 Bill Gates in his office at Microsoft, 1983.

Apollo 11 astronauts, still in their quarantine van, are greeted by their wives upon arrival at Ellington Air Force Base, July 27, 1969.

Queen Elizabeth II coronation photo, 1953.  Portrait Photo by Cecil Beaton.

German prisoners, captured during the fall of Aachen, marching through the ruined streets, October, 1944.

Thomas Edison takes a nap under a tree while camping with President Harding in the Blue Ridge Mountains, July, 1921.

 Model wearing an ensemble with a fur muff for Vogue, 1956.

Polish State Railways used MiG-15 airplanes to clear snow off of and to de-ice railroad tracks during the 1960’s.

People read at a street library in Hong Kong, where for a very small payment, books were available for reading on the sop during the 1930s.

WWI British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, with a friend, Circa, 1925.  

Rooms filled with the collected shoes of Holocaust victims killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1945.

Actress Janet Leigh with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis - Los Angeles 1967.

 Newspaper boys and girl in NYC, 1910.

Teddy Roosevelt Becomes the First US President to Fly in an Airplane, 1910.

East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989.

 Burt Reynolds’ yearbook photo from Florida State University, 1954.

The USS Cole being carried by the MV Blue Marlin after the Al-Qaeda attack on October 12, 2000, Picture taken on October 31, 2000.

President Kennedy leaves the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, the day he was assassinated, November 22, 1963.

A young boy adjusts his friend’s Adolf Hitler mask during a game on a street in King’s Cross, London, 1938.

Dog named Pal, who played Lassie, star of the television series of the same name pictured with cast member Tommy Rettig who played Lassie's owner Jeff Miller, 1954. The show ran for 19 seasons. All dogs playing Lassie were related to Pal, including those dogs used today.

Steel worker Carl Russell sits at 1,222 feet on top of a steel beam casually waving to the cameraman, who risks his life climbing into a crane to be able to make this photo. Empire State Building, 18 September, 1930.

A very young Soviet soldier, severely injured, crawls towards his German captors after surrendering during the Battle of Kursk. Kursk Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. July 1943. 

Attorney General Robert Kennedy is comforted by two of his children on the lawn of his home, after he had been notified of the assassination of his brother, November 22, 1963.

A pilot is thrown from his downed aircraft Near Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1943.

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