Historic Photos / Set # 78

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...

General Douglas MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.

Helen Keller, 73, who is blind and deaf, guides her hand over U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower’s face as her companion Polly Thomson communicates the President’s comments by sign language on Keller’s palm, November 3, 1953.

Medical evacuation on a Curtiss C-46 Commando from Manila during WW2, Circa - 1945.

 Director Alfred Hitchcock - November 8, 1956.

During the Vietnam War an AP photographer captures a napalm strike near U.S. Troops on patrol in South Vietnam in 1966.

RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives. May 1st 1915 - Photo Quest.

Newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming.

The Kennedy family departs a private chapel at the residence of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., in Palm Beach, Florida, following Easter Sunday service / April 1962.

V-E Day celebration in Doncaster, England - May 8, 1945. (Photo Ian Evans)

Photo session for U.S. television show “The Partridge Family”, Los Angeles, May 22, 1972.

Boeing XB-15 wing strength demonstration, 1939.

Recruits with their mattresses tied to them to serve as life preservers. Newport Naval Station - Rhode Island, 1917.

An American soldier keeps his weapon dry while crossing a river in Vietnam, 1968.

May 12, 1959: Elizabeth Taylor marries her fourth husband Eddie Fisher in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Rolls Press/Popperfoto.

Soldiers of the 369th Regiment, “Harlem Hellfighters”, standing in line on the Western Front Circa - 1917. X-post from /r/WWI.

Fans of rock group Kiss await the arrival of the group on stage at Cobo Hall in Detroit during the concert recording of the bands’ album “Alive!” - May 16, 1975.

Crew of USS Yorktown and Hellcat fighters during WWII Pacific operations, August 31, 1943.

Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, marries photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television, and attracted viewing figures of 300 million worldwide. May 6, 1960: Fox Photos/Getty.

"A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier".
 Photograph by Paul Thompson. Somewhere on the Western Front. Circa - 1917.

Easter service at St Patrick’s Chapel in Westminster Cathedral - Photo by Peter Hall, London 1961.

US Marines in action in the dense forest on Guadalcanal, August, 1942.

Two aerialists, Roland Schmidt and Francine Pary are married on a tightrope between the two towers of La Rochelle Harbour, France - March 22, 1959.

Two Civil War veterans from opposing sides shake hands at Gettysburg fifty years after the battle - 1913.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their week-long “Bed-In”. Married five days earlier, the couple decided to spend their honeymoon in bed for a week, and invited the world’s press to join them in their Amsterdam hotel room to talk about world peace everyday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. / March 1969.

Harley Davidson with a mounted machine gun, WWI Circa - 1917.

St Patrick’s Day Parade - Chicago, Illinois, 1975 - Photo: Paul Sequeira.

Friday the 13th - Denver, Colorado 10/13/2000 - Photo: John Leyba for The Denver Post.

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Historic Photos / Set # 47

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...

East Room of the White House in 1910, Washington D.C.

Hovering US Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops as they attack a Vietcong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, in March 1965.

Germans launch the first gas attacks in history on enemy soldiers during WWI - April 22nd, 1915.

“Price, Birch & Co, Dealers in Slaves”, 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 1861-65.

Once a Beatle: When Ringo was ill with tonsillitis, he substituted on drums for 8 concerts & lived a superstar’s life for 10 days. But Ringo has returned… Now Jimmie Nicol sits alone in the Melbourne airport, waiting for the plane that will take him back to obscurity.

WWII — U.S. bomber crew Robert Hite blindfolded by Japanese soldiers. His B-25 bomber participated in the “DooLittle Raid” against mainland Japan. The aircraft ran out of fuel and ditched in China in Japanese-held territory. He was imprisoned, but survived.

 Un-cropped original Loch Ness monster photo - April 19, 1934.

Soldiers demonstrate their flamethrowers at the New Orleans Army War Show, 1942.

Hillary Clinton Playing a Nintendo Game Boy aboard a plane in 1993.

Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of Auschwitz, trying to avoid the noose, before being hanged on the grounds of Auschwitz / Polish Press Agency - 1947.

American soldiers attend Mass in the bombed cathedral of Cologne, Germany.

The 30th Tour de France - Stage 1 in a downpour, Paris / July 7th 1936.

Black Children watching as white children play in a whites only park - 1956.

Roman galley discovered during the construction of County Hall - London, England 1910.

The “factory”, where William Harley and Arthur Davidson assembled their first motorcycle, a 10×15 ft shed in the Davidson family backyard, 1903.

The sinking of the Japanese destroyer Yamakaze, as seen through the periscope of the USS Nautilus , on 25 June 1942.

Parisians watch the Eclipse on the Embankment Place de la Bastille towards the Rue St. Antoine April 17, 1912.

“President Ronald Reagan is joined by former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.”, 1981.

 “A dazed, hooded Marine clutches a can of food during his outfit’s retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War”, by David Douglas Duncan, December - 1950.

A wounded sailor is being transferred form the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, after it had been severely damaged by a Kamikaze attack. May, 1945.

The missile magazine of the HMS Antelope explodes as a result of an Argentine aircraft attack, Falklands War, 1982.

President Lyndon Johnson meets with former President Dwight Eisenhower, October 1965.

Young men burn their draft cards in NYC during one of the earliest public protests against the Vietnam War.

Tuberculosis Hospital - Clinton Prison, Dannemora NY - Early-20th Century.

Female Soviet Sniper training a Partisan Fighter on the Eastern Front. WW2. 

Children scramble on Van Brunt and Sackett streets to scoop up wine from the gutters after it is dumped by prohibition agents. New York. ca 1920.

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur 1908.

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