Historic Photos Blog Post Archive

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Historic Photos / Set # 105

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...

Stewardesses of Finnair pose for a promotional photo showing off their new uniforms - 1969.



J. Robert Oppenheimer, Professor of Theoretical Physics - Director of Advanced Studies Princeton University / Father of the Atomic Bomb, Manhattan Project / Portrait Photo - 1945.



 Miner with his dog panning gold, Alaska 1916.



 Chalk Games, New York City, 1950.



Recovering the Apollo 13 Command Module shortly after splashdown, 1970.



During the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy Consults Eisenhower - 1962.



“Hi Mom, Guess What!” sign at the first gay pride rally in Philadelphia, in June of 1972.



Officials inspect the damaged reactor core from above, following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the worst nuclear accident in history - 1986.




Female National Park Service Uniform, 1970.



The Fifth Solvay Conference - perhaps the most intelligent picture ever taken of the worlds leading physicists / Brussels, Belgium - 1927.



Execution of a German Communist (Possibly a staged Photo) in Munich - 1919.



A starving Chinese woman, too weak to stand, with blades of grass protruding from her lips in a desperate attempt to find nourishment during the Henan famine occurring within the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War. 2 to 3 million people died of starvation or disease, November 1942.




Kennedy tours Kennedy Space Center, 1962.



Grace Toya with bicycle at the Tule Lake internment camp, 1945.



The Hell of Serra Pelada Mine, a large gold mine near the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil where crews numbering up to 100,000 people dug and moved massive amounts of ore by hand - 



The Night Prohibition Ended / December 5, 1933.



Times Square welcomes Mikhail Gorbachev to New York City, the last leader of the Soviet Union, 1988.



Head on interurban wreck on the South Shore Electric Railroad, Porter, Indiana. 12 died and 25 injured. June 19, 1909.




Little girl by the directional signpost at Bodö Airport, Norway, 1968.



Ruth Taylor, actress of Paramount Pictures, reveals the newly restyled New Mexico state license plate - 1929 / Palace of the Governors Photo Archives.




President John F. Kennedy, his wife, Jackie, and their son John Jr. on his Christening day, Dec. 8, 1960.



The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga departs after a port call in New York City, 1958.



Film and stage actress Claudette Colbert, 1933.



President Nixon toasts with Premier Zhou Enlai in China - 1972.



U.S. A-20 Havoc of the 89th Squadron, 3rd Attack Group, at the moment it clears a Japanese merchant ship following a successful skip bombing attack. Wewak, New Guinea, March 1944.



After getting hit by an enemy sniper, 21 year old Raymond J. Bowman lies dead on a balcony in Leipzig, Germany on April 18th, 1945. This picture was printed in “Life Magazine” and he became known as the “Last Man to Die”. 



The World Trade Center photographed on a morning in one year before completion, 1972.


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... 

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