Historic Photos Blog Post Archive

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Historic Photos / Set # 107

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...


Child Soldier in the Soviet Union, 1943.



Bailey Electric Vehicle that competed in a 1,000-mile endurance run using Edison storage batteries - 1910.



This last known picture of Hitler, taken approximately two days prior to his death as he stands outside his Berlin bunker entrance surveying the devastating bomb damage of the city - April 1945.



American B17 Drops food over Schiphol Airport during operation Chow Hound, 1945.



Jimi Hendrix in his kitchen at 34 Montagu Square, London,1967.



The entire British Concorde fleet in one picture at London’s Heathrow Airport; January 21, 1986.



Rabbit hunting on the Otago Central Railway on the South Island of New Zealand, ca. 1900.



Future first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, as a young man - Date Unknown.



Atari’s National Space Invaders Championship in 1980.



Stereo-graph view of a tornado as it passed just northwest of Garnett, near Central City in Anderson County, Kansas. This image is believed to be the first ever photo of a tornado - Photo by A. A. Adams - 1884.



Canadian Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan is hit by a milk jug thrown by angry Québec farmers after the cabinet refused to approve subsidies to compensate farmers in a collapsed world market - 1976.



Strongman Paul Anderson back-lifting 6,270 pounds, the greatest weight ever raised by a human being - 1957.



A race organizer attempts to stop Kathrine Switzer from competing in the Boston Marathon. She became the first female to finish the race - 1967. 



Manmade Corium Lava “The Elephants Foot” Spilling From Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant April 26, 1986.



Netherlands liberation! A soldier shares his food with two Dutch children - 1945.



Construction photo during the construction of Glomfjord power plant in northern Norway - 1918.



Robert F. Kennedy campaigns with former prizefighter Tony Zale and 3 members of the “Fearsome Foursome” of the Los Angeles Rams football team in Indianapolis, 1936.



Portrait of Sorrow - Australian Private Walter Henry Chibnall of the10th Light Trench Mortar Battery and his son William Beresford Chibnall in 1916. Walter was killed in action at Passchendaele, 1917. His son would enlist during WWII and die in Japanese captivity in 1942.



Free French Foreign Legionnaires assaulting an enemy strong point at Bir Hakeim. North Africa, 1942.



Christening of the Zeppelin “Los Angeles” at Bolling Field, Washington D.C. / 1924.



A German policeman points to the pit in the garden of the Reich Chancellery where the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were cremated by their staff, 1947.



Ford Model T Assembly Line, 1924.



The last day of Checkpoint Charlie, gateway between East and West Berlin, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1st July 1990.



A fake tree used as an observation post during WWI, circa 1917.



Italian soldier on the Eastern Front points to the spot where a bullet or ricochet hit his helmet, 1942.



Window washer on the Empire State Building, 1936.



Elvis and Priscilla Presley in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, 1971.

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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