Historic Photos / Set # 96

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 woman cleaning a 15 inch howitzer rifle gun barrel built at the Coventry Ordnance Works, Great Britain for the British Army during the Great War - 1914.

Portrait of British musician and songwriter John Lennon of The Beatles as a young boy in a school uniform and cap, Circa - 1948.

The heavily polluted Cuyahoga River outside Cleveland, Ohio on fire.  The river caught fire at least 13 times, causing millions of dollars in damages and helped spawn the environmental movement - 1969.

Austro-Hungarian army executes Serbian civilians, September- 1914.

“Nannies” are blown away by special effects “wind” on the Cherry Tree Lane set built in the Disney Studio’s Stage 4 during the production of Mary Poppins - 1964.

NYC Fire Department fire engine at 12th Avenue and 56th Street. turn of the century - Circa 1900.

World’s smallest man, Henry Behrens, dancing with his cat - 1956.

The staff of the Heilongjiang Daily, a Chinese Newspaper, accuse an official of ‘following the capitalist line’ during the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976.  His dunce cap announces his crimes.

The Green Line of demarcation, separating the Muslims and Christian sides of the Lebanese Civil War - Beirut, Lebanon 1982.

Woman on a litter sedan chair with the two slaves who carry her as transportation laborers.  Bahia, Brazil, 1860.

Bedouin mother and child on the Arabian Peninsula, Photo by Ilo Battigelli - 1948.

Robo-vac. This image is from a Whirlpool “Miracle Kitchen of the Future” display at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.

“Council of War”. General Ulysses S. Grant , Gen. George G. Meade, Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana, and numerous staff officers meet at Massaponax Church, in Virginia on May 21, 1864.

The destruction of the conference room at the Wolf's Lair following the “July 20th Plot” bomb to assassinate Adolph Hitler.  The attack by a military led coup d'état against the Nazi government failed and Hitler miraculously survived - 1944.

Pabst Beer Wagons ready for Milwaukee deliveries, 1900.

Students at Loretto Indian School designed to assimilate Native American children to accept white culture - Bernalillo, New Mexico 1886.

Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California / Photo taken on March 28, 1928.

National Woman’s Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the NWP Ratification Flag, representing another state’s ratification of the 19th Amendment, 1919.

British Soldiers departing for Egypt from Feltham Station, London lean out of their windows to kiss their loved ones goodbye.

German soldiers on a train headed towards the front lines at the beginning of World War I - 1914. 

A U.S. Army MP holds a young German girl on his knee during the Allied occupation of Germany, Munich, Germany, October 1945.

A baby cries at a bombed train station in Shanghai, 1937.

American GIs inspect an overturned German tank, after it toppled into a crater made by a bomb dropped right in front of it by an Allied plane, December 1944.

A small Maltese boy smokes a cigarette while his dinner cooks on an improvised stove, 4th December 1942.

 

Te-Low-A-Lut-La-Sha , a Pawnee chief, Photo in 1868 by William Henry Jackson.

Mannequins and other objects are installed at the atomic testing grounds for “Operation Teapot” in 1955.

Packed with day-trippers excursion steamers ‘Tashmoo’ and 'Idlewild’ lie alongside Detroit River Wharf - 1901.

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Historic Photos / Set # 95

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...

Station agent J.L. Akers waves on an eastbound Norfolk and Western passenger train as it leaves Rural Retreat, VA December 24, 1957.

The Beatles and their wives with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India,1968.




 

 Nazi Party Rally before center bonfire is set ablaze - 1933.

Eiffel Tower under construction, second phase, May 15th, 1888.

Immigrants from a smallpox ship held for observation on Hoffman Island in the Lower New York Bay, off South Beach, Staten Island -1901.

The Microsoft staff in 1978 and then again, at their reunion thirty years later in 2008.

Baseball team of young Indiana glass workers - 1908.

Communists infiltrated our churches, now it integrates our schools” — segregationists protest the beginning of school integration in Nashville, Tennessee, 1957.

Students gather around the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, killed along with three others by the Ohio National Guard during anti-war protests at Kent State University. May 4, 1970.  (Opposite view-point of more common Pulitzer Prize winning photo)

Black man accused of raping a white woman, escorted to his trial. Arkansas, 1941.

 The first picture taken of Machu Picchu, 1911.

Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet at anchor in the Firth of Forth / Photographed from Royal Navy Airship R9 - 1916.

 Paparazzi surrounding Socks, Bill Clinton’s cat, 1992.

Paul G. Hallett, 25, wears a sign stating his situation and qualifications as he looks for a job in Spokane, WA. December, 1937.

Rally of the Communist Party in Madison Square Garden, New York, during the Great Depression, 1931.

Recently released POW John McCain meets President Nixon, 1973.

Ice skating in Rockefeller Center in New York City during the early 1930s.

Government officials celebrate the installation of the first public ashtray on NYC streets.

U.S. Marines & cargo aboard an LST for the landing at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. 24 December, 1943.

Marine Corporal Leonard Hayworth sheds a tear of desperation after finding out he is left with only two men and out of ammunition, Korea, August, 1950.

Viet Cong soldiers carrying a wounded American soldier to prisoner swap, 1972.

American women making Browning machine guns during WWI - General view of polishing shop, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Connecticut / 1918-1919.

Lady Bird Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, Harry Truman, Bess Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower at Eleanor Roosevelt’s funeral, November 10, 1962.

Construction workers take a morning smoke break during the building of the Rockefeller Center Building, New York - 1932.

Outside of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong - 1987.

Amelia Earhart getting her last haircut / 1937.

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, 1974.

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...