Historic Photos / Set # 58

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...

Adolf Hitler on a walk with Helga Goebbels, 1936.

The surrender of the German 6th Army en masse at Liezen, Austria - 1945.

Albert Einstein enjoys a laugh at a Princeton Luncheon, Photo by Ruth Orkin, 1953.

 Bombs rain down over Paris, 1943.

The dawn of television, entertainment at home – 1951.

A burial at sea funeral ceremony aboard the USS Lexington in 1944.  

Ginger Rodgers and Fred Astaire, Circa 1940s.

A shop owned by an individual of German origin is attacked by a mob in London’s East End, 1915.

Men eating bread and soup in a breadline during the Great Depression.

Some GIs liberating wine from French civilians after liberating the village – 1945.

Portrait Set of Anne Frank 

The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin ca. 1928 / National Portrait Gallery.

A watch in Hiroshima, destroyed during the atomic bombing of the city.  Its time marks the moment when the bomb exploded; 8:16 AM

A child in Amsterdam during WWII during the Dutch Famine (Hongerwinter) 1944 – Photo by Kryn Taconis.

Skeleton of German Soldier at Beaumont Hamel, France – 1917. 

Having a cold one, old school / Colorized Photo – Circa 1950s.

An American C-54 lands with food supplies during the Russian enforced Berlin Blockade as Berliners watch with eager anticipation, 1948.

Winston Churchill in uniform, 1895.

Clashes between police and protesters spread across the cities of Turkey - Spring 2013.

Inflatable decoy tank used by the U.S. Army to confuse German Armor Divisions, WWII. 

Passengers who had escaped the sinking Titanic on lifeboats are picked up by the Carpathia, the first ship to arrive on the disaster scene following the distress call –1912.

A vacationing couple from Spain act indifferent to the lifeless body of a drowned man who has washed up on the beach, the victim of an off shore shipwreck of immigrant laborers from Africa. Photo by Javier Bauluz - Zahara Beach, Spain – 2000.

Metropolitan Museum, NYC, 1988 - Elliott Erwitt/Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery.

New war time technology just prior to WWI - Pigeons outfitted with cameras to take aerial photos of enemy positions, 1900.

The trio of the Kennedy brothers (John, Bobby and Teddy), in full adolescence, Circa 1930s.

Child Labor of Great Britain / Young Chimney Sweep, London / Date Unknown.

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Historic Photos / Set # 57

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...

Three Hitlerjugen “soldiers” captured by American forces in Germany, April 1945.

Racing Driver Lewis Strang Examines The Proposed Layout for the New Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 1909.

A woman who survived the Nagasaki atomic bombing, 1945.

Colorized Photo of an early Cadillac Dealership - Begg Motor Co. Showroom, Vancouver, 1921 (from Vancouver City Archives)

WWII — German long-range heavy bomber “Messerschmitt Me 264” . Capable of bombing New York City and returning to Europe. The “Amerika Bomber” project was ultimately cancelled.

 New York City's East Side Jewish Street Market 1900.

Berlin in ruins after WW2, May 1945.

U.S. space shuttle “Atlantis” docked to Russian space station “Mir”

New York City / The South Bronx, 1970.

German Soldiers Father and Son Pose for the Camera in Berlin 1914.

Pedestrians walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on opening day, May 27th, 1937.

Wormwood Street in the City of London after the IRA detonated a truck bomb on 24 April, 1993.

“The first Girl Scout,” Daisy Gordon Lawrence , with a young Scout in 1948.

Women window cleaners working in London, ca. 1917.

Easter service at St Patrick’s Chapel in Westminster Cathedral. London 1961 / Photo by Peter Hall.

The eyes of children during the Great Depression. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

 

A street car conductor denies a passenger access to a street car in Seattle in 1918, because he has no mask during the Flu pandemic of 1918-1919.

Neil Power: April 1913. Rome, Georgia. Neil Power, 10 years old. Said "turns stockings in Rome Hosiery Mill." "Hain't been to school much." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

A young woman picketing segregated lunch counters at Neisner's McCrory's, F.W. Woolworth's, Walgreen's and Sears stores in Tallahassee, Florida - December 1960.

Leipzigs Deputy Mayor and Municipal Treasurer Dr. Lisso, at desk, his wife Renate, in chair, and their 20 year old daughter Regina Lisso, after committing suicide by cyanide in the Leipzig New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) to avoid capture by American soldiers of the 69th Infantry and 9th Armored Divisions as they closed in on the city. Regina Lisso wears the armband of the German Red Cross. (Photo description by Amikam Salant)

A happy summer day in the suburbs of 1950's America.

 Teens perform "The Twist" during the 1950's.

1910 Portrait of Quentin Roosevelt, the son of President Theodore Roosevelt.  He later died in combat during World War I.

Children fill the streets shortly after the liberation of Paris, 1945.

Father and Son George H.W. and George W. Bush sporting Yale sweaters before they were presidents.

An exhausted Partisan fighter surrenders to the Greek Army during the Greek Civil War - 1948.

Walking Away on the Streets of New York City - 1946 / Photo by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine.

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...