Historic Photo Sets # 75

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...

A young black man, in an act of resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, riding a bus restricted to whites only, in Durban, South Africa, 1986.

Child during the Holy Friday procession. Zamora. The Kingdom of Spain - 1957.

When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their sacks.

After the liberation on Aug 26, 1944, Parisian women with their children run for cover as remaining German snipers open fire from the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Adolf Hitler as a young child, ca 1890.

A mother and daughter, pre civil rights movement.

Watching the construction of the Berlin Wall, West Berlin, 1962. 

An East German guard passes a flower through a gap in the Berlin Wall on the morning it was torn down - November 10th 1989.

Children check their ID tags while they wait to be evacuated from urban areas of England during the Battle of Britain 1940.

President Ronald Reagan wearing sweatpants aboard Air Force One.

Over 2 million people gathered in Times Square, NY to celebrate the end of World War II, 1945.

Rare photo of an 8 year-old Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan. Taken in 1888, It was lost for 120 years, only rediscovered in March 2008.

The child of a KKK member approaches black state troopers at a rally in Georgia - Photo by Todd Robertson 1992.

Installing the first neon sign on the Las Vegas Strip. El Rancho Vegas sign by YESCO - 1941.

Central Park in 1930 a year after the start of the Great Depression.

An English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home, 1940.

Coca-Cola advertisement via birdseed in Saint Mark’s Square in Venice, 1960s.

“Operation Babylift” with airlifted orphans from Vietnam to the US. April 12, 1975.

Son runs to say goodbye to his father, who is going to fight in the II World War.

A milkman still doing his morning rounds in the ruined streets of London during the Blitz - Circa 1940.

The zeppelin Hindenburg flies over Manhattan hours before bursting into flames during landing - May 6, 1937.

The last public execution in the USA, Rainey Bethea killed in Owensboro, KY 1936.

Blackie & Brownie begging for Milk at Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm October 15, 1954.

Young boy attending Martin Luther King’s speech, 1968.

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...

Historic Photo Sets # 74

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...

German soldiers on outpost duty near Antwerp, sharing their food with Belgian orphans, published in 1915.

Dr. Jonas Salk and a nurse administer the polio vaccine to a small girl, Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA, Circa 1955.

Vancouver B.C. forest fire prevention sign - Circa 1950s.

University of Michigan football team, 1917.

A HUP Retriever pulls Ensign E.H. Barry of an AF Guardian from the waters of the Atlantic, escort carrier Block Island in BG August 12, 1953.

Joseph Goebbels congratulating a 16yr old winner of the Iron Cross, Wehrmacht member Wilhelm Hubner. March 9, 1945.

Evangelist Billy Graham delivers a sermon to 1.1 million Koreans at Yeoido Park in Seoul / June 3, 1973.

Nelson Mandela and fellow ANC activist Walter Sisulu in the prison yard on Robben Island, 1966.

Hillary Diane Rodham at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts in her final year, 1969.

Douglas Fairbanks holds up Charlie Chaplin in front of a huge crowd to promote Liberty Bonds on Wall Street in New York City, 1918.

Soviet tank and protestor clash in the streets of Vilnius, Lithuania: January 1991.

In 1974, Daniel Sorine photographed mimes in NYC... 35 years later, he realized one was the then unknown Robin Williams.

Father Alec Reid administers the last rites to Corporal David Howes, one of two soldiers executed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast - 1988.

Heinz Meixner defects from East Germany by driving through Checkpoint Charlie after removing his windshield and letting air out of his tires. May 5th, 1963.

 Nelson Mandela giving a speech with Fidel Castro, 1990’s.

 A house in San Francisco is relocated using literal horsepower - 1908.  

Two men in a pillory and one on a whipping post in prison in Delaware - 1907.

The Goebbels children, dead by cyanide that was administered by their parents in the Führerbunker, photographed after being discovered by the Soviets - 1945.

John Griffin showing the newspaper story about someone hanging him in effigy for posing as black man while preparing for his book, “Black Like Me” / March 2, 1960.

Norma Jean, New York, June 1, 1949.

 Construction progress of the Eiffel Tower in 1887.

Massed Detroit-made Army ambulances parked at the Ordnance Depot, Fort Wayne, Indiana, ready to be shipped to Europe for D-Day, March 1944.

 People watch San Francisco burn after the great earthquake of 1906.

Two Jewish boys are playing the violin for German soldiers who have just seized their village as part of the September 1939 invasion of Poland.

A family takes inventory within their nuclear fallout shelter, Circa 1950.  

Woman strikes a pose at cliff's edge in the Yosemite Valley, California 1902.   

Girl poses with her cat in photo portrait / Date Unknown.

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...