Historic Photos / Set # 98

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...

Large Anti-Hitler demonstration at the Berlin Sportpalast on December 2, 1931, organized by the Republican Reichsbanner, an organization whose goal was to defend parliamentary democracy against internal subversion and extremism from the left and right.

Parachute pioneer Franz Reichelt just before his fatal test jump from the Eiffel Tower on February 4th, 1912.

Ice harvesting at Kissena Lake, New York - 1890.

A woman surrounded by her children cries after the refugees on the SS St Louis were denied landing in Cuba, June 7, 1939. The more than 900 German Jews had already been denied refuge in the US and now would be returning to Europe.

A prototype of a space suit designed in at UCLA - Los Angeles, CA - 1961.

Sailors in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii listen to radio and cheer as Tokyo radio states Japan has accepted the Potsdam surrender terms on August 15, 1945.

At Fordham University in New York, Catholic nuns demand federal action after protesters were attacked by state police in Selma, Alabama, the “Bloody Sunday” of 1965.

A woman watches as robed Ku Klux Klansmen walk in downtown Montgomery, Alabama prior to a cross burning rally scheduled for that night - November 24th 1956.

Super Bowl VII, January 14, 1973. Dolphins defeats the Redskins 14-7 to become the first and last team to finish an NFL season undefeated.

The industrial city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania works through the night - 1907.

Newspaper man after death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, - Photo by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine 1945.

The scarred and disfigured back of a survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear explosion - August 6, 1945.

A woman falls to the beach surf after being attacked by white women segregationists, for attempting a wade-in with several black and white demonstrators protesting against the segregation at St. Augustine Beach, Florida. June 23, 1964.

The Last of the Horse Drawn Carriages riding alongside a ‘Modern Electric Car’, New York 1917.

Inmates dancing and singing in the Greene County jail in Georgia, 1941.

Ronald Reagan getting a haircut in the West Wing Barber Shop by Milton Pitts on January 23rd, 1981. Pitts was the barber for Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.

Mailman N. Sorenson poses with his heavy Christmas deliveries in Chicago - 1929.

Mug Shot of Clyde Champion Barrow at age 17, Dallas, 1926.  Barrow would later go on to become an outlaw legend with partner Bonnie Parker. 

League of German Girls dancing during the Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany - 1938.

 Boxer Muhammad Ali poses with a million dollars - 1963.

A Greek soldier tells his mother goodbye before leaving to fight the Italian invaders, 1940.

Fingerprinting at the National Guard Amory, Fingerprinting Division, 92nd street, Washington,1945.

International pupils participating at an outdoor physical education class at the English-Scandinavian Summer School in Kent - 1935.

Pieces of the Marine Corps War Memorial are assembled before being placed at Arlington National Cemetery in 1954. The famous monument is based on Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of six Marines raising a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi during World War II.

One of six sentenced to death by a military court for being German collaborators, a young Frenchman is tied to a stake before being shot by a firing squad in Grenoble, France on September 4, 1944.

Anarchist political rally in Barcelona, Spain attended by an estimated 300,000 people - 1977.

“Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you note for the Jap skull he sent her.” LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Week,” May 22, 1944.

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Historic Photos / Set # 97

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...

Belgian women tearfully wave goodbye to husbands and sons leaving for the front line as the threat of a German invasion hung heavily over their homeland. May 11, 1940.

Associated Press photographer Huỳnh Thành Mỹ in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, one month before his death on October 10, 1965.  He was the older brother of Nick Ut, himself known for the iconic photo of naked Vietnamese children fleeing napalm bombing during the war.

“He had courageously fought to the last using his gun with deadly effect against the advancing Australian troops.” Hargicourt, in France on September 19th, 1918.

The leveling of the hills to make room for the new city of Seattle, Washington - 1910.

FDR and Ibn Saud sit on the USS Quincy, discussing what would turn into the “Quincy Pact” where Saudi Arabia gave the US an oil exploration / development monopoly in exchange for protection - 1945.

American suffragists, including Miss Maud Roosevelt at center, the niece of President Roosevelt - 1911.

“Rows of finished jeeps churned out in mass production for war effort as WWII allies plan for inevitable invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.”, Photo by Dmitri Kessel, Life Magazine - 1942. 

Billy Stanley, 8-year-old third-grader, the only white pupil at St. Philip the Apostle’s school in Albany, New York, studies with his black friends. Billy said he likes school, and that the other pupils “treat me good.” September, 1961.

A young Polish boy at Eisenach concentration camp enjoying his first meal of US Army rations following the camp’s liberation by American forces. Eisenach was a slave labor camp where inmates made military equipment for BMW, 9 April 1945.

Team photograph of the Maryland Aggies football team, 1892.

Racing Driver Stan Fox’s Horrific Crash on the first lap of the Indy 500 - May 28, 1995.  Fox survived but suffered a severe head injury, which he eventually recovered from but never raced again.

One of New York Central’s “Mercury” engines in Chicago, 1936.

Future news journalist Diane Sawyer, at age 17, takes snapshots of New York’s skyline when she was America’s Junior Miss of 1963.

“Truant hanging around boats in the harbor during school hours.” Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine in Boston, Massachusetts - October 1909.

Ellis Island’s Rooftop Garden. A playground for the children of immigrants, who could be on the island for months without space to play. The Tribune reported that here “the future young Americans recover from the effects of their voyage and learn their first lessons in liberty.” Photo 1913.

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne - Portrait 1987.

Photo of ‘Endurance’ lit by flares at night. The ship became trapped in ice and was slowly crushed until it disappeared below the surface. Photo by Frank Hurley during Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition - 1914.  

A man in his tenement living quarters in New York City, 1891. 

“Robert McGee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, showing effects of being scalped as a child by Sioux Chief Little Turtle in 1864.

A burning U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider from Attack Squadron VA-55 “Torpcats” aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex, 1954.

“Cautiously advancing through the jungle, while on patrol in Japanese territory off the Numa-Numa Trail, this member of the 93rd Infantry Division is among the first Negro foot soldiers to go into action in the South Pacific theater.”, 05/01/1944.

Inside a general store with merchandise meticulously displayed with ceiling skylight - Undocumented Photo.

Building were in short supply after bombings wiped out most Japanese urban centers. Here disabled buses are used as homes in Tokyo October 2, 1946.

A looter wheels a shopping cart full of diapers past a burning market during the Los Angeles Riots, 1992.

Rusting cars on the sides of the road leading to the abandoned mining town of Madrid, New Mexico - 1974.

Astronomer Edwin Hubble peers though the eyepiece of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at California’s Mt. Wilson Observatory - 1937.
 

Princess Elizabeth of York shakes hands with an old soldier in London / Circa 1929.


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...