Historic Photos / Set # 50

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...

Serena and Venus Williams posing for a picture with former President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in 1990.

The Luftwaffe Heinkel He111 was the first Nazi plane shot down over Britain during Second World War.

Sniper fire sends French citizens sprawling or fleeing in the Place de la Concorde on August 26, 1944.

Indian pilots who flew Birmingham built Spitfires during The Battle of Britain in World War II 

Milk drop coronet, the first photo ever taken of a droplet landing in liquid. Photo by Harold Edgerton – 1957.

Yankee Stadium on opening game day against the Boston Red Sox, April 18, 1923.

Chase Manhattan bank hostage, Shirley Ball collects a stack of pizza’s ordered by hostage taker, John Wojtowicz. Wojtowicz threw thousands of dollars out of the door to pay for the pizza. Gravesend, Brooklyn. August 22, 1972.

Newspaper boys taking a smoke break, Saint Louis, Missouri - Photo by Lewis Hine Circa – 1910.

The future races the past - Parallel roadway and railway in rural Wyoming – Photo by Elliott Erwitt, 1954.

The writers of the Simpsons, the longest running animated television show in history, at work in the early days, 1992.

Klu Klux Klan member and mayor of Denver, Colorado Ben Stapleton, marches with the KKK through downtown Denver, 1920s.

 Interior of The Arcade in downtown Cleveland, looking south, 1966. 

An East German woman stands crying after she passed a young boy to a man in West Berlin, over a barbed wire fence separating East and West Berlin, 1961. 

Colorized Photo of busy street in Manhattan’s Little Italy, Lower East Side, Circa 1900.

Super Bowl I – Green Bay Packers versus Kansas City Chiefs - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, January 15th 1967.

A garrison of Canadian soldiers march past Stonehenge in Britain during World War I – 1914.

People witness the Priscilla Nuclear Test, Nevada desert 1952.

American troops ready to return home from the Korean War on a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II Seoul, Korea, 1953.

A Secret Service agent brandishes a submachine gun while other agents and police subdue gunman John Hinckley, Jr behind him. Hinckley shot President Reagan in Washington on March 30, 1981.

Boeing B-29A-45-BN Superfortress Incendiary Journey mission to Osaka, Japan – June 1, 1945.

Five United States Presidents attend the funeral of President Richard Nixon, April 27, 1994.

A German mother shields the eyes of her son as they walk past a row of exhumed bodies, 57 Russians killed by SS troops and dumped in a mass grave outside Suttrop, Germany. Before final reburial, all German civilians in the vicinity were ordered to view the victims by the US Army, May 1945.

Construction of the glass pyramid entrance in the courtyard of the Louvre, 1980s.

French citizens thank American soldiers for their service during World War I – Circa 1917.

American servicemen pause on a downtown Saigon street to read a local newspaper account of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, Vietnam, July 21, 1969.

The bodies of seven railwaymen still on public display three days after their execution. They were hanged after a partisan unit derailed a German train. Płaszów, Kraków, Occupied Poland – June 29, 1942.

A portrait of a group of buffalo hunters in Boulder, Colorado – Circa Late 1800s.

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Historic Photos / Set # 38

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...

 

U.S. soldiers care for a Filipino infant who had suffered from bayonet wounds to the face by retreating Japanese forces during the Battle of Leyte. Southern Leyte Province, Leyte Island, Philippines. November 1944.

Portrait of Katherine Hepburn / Woman of the Year, Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1942.

Frederick C. Branch, the first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps, returns from war. November, 1945.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, crashes in the Andes mountains. Sixteen people survived for 77 days by resorting to cannibalism until they were rescued, Dec. 1972.

 Bill Gates in his office at Microsoft, 1983.

Apollo 11 astronauts, still in their quarantine van, are greeted by their wives upon arrival at Ellington Air Force Base, July 27, 1969.

Queen Elizabeth II coronation photo, 1953.  Portrait Photo by Cecil Beaton.

German prisoners, captured during the fall of Aachen, marching through the ruined streets, October, 1944.

Thomas Edison takes a nap under a tree while camping with President Harding in the Blue Ridge Mountains, July, 1921.

 Model wearing an ensemble with a fur muff for Vogue, 1956.

Polish State Railways used MiG-15 airplanes to clear snow off of and to de-ice railroad tracks during the 1960’s.

People read at a street library in Hong Kong, where for a very small payment, books were available for reading on the sop during the 1930s.

WWI British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, with a friend, Circa, 1925.  

Rooms filled with the collected shoes of Holocaust victims killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1945.

Actress Janet Leigh with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis - Los Angeles 1967.

 Newspaper boys and girl in NYC, 1910.

Teddy Roosevelt Becomes the First US President to Fly in an Airplane, 1910.

East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989.

 Burt Reynolds’ yearbook photo from Florida State University, 1954.

The USS Cole being carried by the MV Blue Marlin after the Al-Qaeda attack on October 12, 2000, Picture taken on October 31, 2000.

President Kennedy leaves the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, the day he was assassinated, November 22, 1963.

A young boy adjusts his friend’s Adolf Hitler mask during a game on a street in King’s Cross, London, 1938.

Dog named Pal, who played Lassie, star of the television series of the same name pictured with cast member Tommy Rettig who played Lassie's owner Jeff Miller, 1954. The show ran for 19 seasons. All dogs playing Lassie were related to Pal, including those dogs used today.

Steel worker Carl Russell sits at 1,222 feet on top of a steel beam casually waving to the cameraman, who risks his life climbing into a crane to be able to make this photo. Empire State Building, 18 September, 1930.

A very young Soviet soldier, severely injured, crawls towards his German captors after surrendering during the Battle of Kursk. Kursk Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. July 1943. 

Attorney General Robert Kennedy is comforted by two of his children on the lawn of his home, after he had been notified of the assassination of his brother, November 22, 1963.

A pilot is thrown from his downed aircraft Near Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1943.

Additional References____________________________________ 
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