Historic Photos / Set # 88

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...

A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began – 1920.

‘Mark’, a dog ammunition carrier, delivers 'ammo’ to a Bren gun team, Eastern Command, 20 August - 1941.

A woman driving an autoped in 1916.

Soldiers working on a locomotive, Chicago - 1945.

 A marine in Vietnam carries children out of danger, 1968.

76-year-old Catholic anarchist Dorothy Day on a picket line shortly before being arrested, California - 1973.

Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, emancipated mixed-race slave children
from New Orleans, 1863.

New York Central Railroad’s jet-powered car during a test run between Butler, Indiana and Stryker, Ohio - 1966.

 Amelia Earhart at the Indianapolis 500, 1935.

Two Jewish pupils in a German school are humiliated before their classmates. The inscription on the blackboard reads “The Jew is our greatest enemy, beware of the Jew.”

Robert F. Kennedy sleeps on the floor of a plane during his 1968 presidential campaign.

Three girls skate home from school, past blocks of houses destroyed by Allied air raids, Essen, Germany, February 14, 1949.

President Truman bowling in the White House. The two-lane alley was built as a birthday present, April 1947.

Max & Miriam Yasgur, owners of the farm where Woodstock was held, the day after the festival ended - White Lake, New York - 1969.

French school children watching a puppet show, 1960 - Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Diablo Dam powerhouse construction / Seattle, Washington 1935.

Books float in the street after a library on Rue Jacob, Paris is flooded during the Great Parisian Flood of 1910.

Washington, DC, immigrant naturalization school 1920s.

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy embrace during their first dance at their wedding in Newport, Rhode Island. September 12, 1953.

Ukrainian immigrants in the United States offer free borscht to celebrate Stalin’s death - 1953.

GI Santa Claus giving away corn pipes to troops in Guadalcanal, December 1942.

Life Before Chainsaws - Date Unknown.

The USS New Jersey opens fire on Shi'ite and Druze positions off the coast of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, the only time 16-inch shells would be used in combat since Vietnam - 1984.

Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the South.

The ruins of Richmond, Virginia - Civil War 1865.

Baseball team composed mostly of child workers from a glass factory, 1908.

The ruins and smoke after the San Francisco Earthquake – May, 1906. 

Additional References___________________________________ 

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Historic Photos / Set # 57

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...

Three Hitlerjugen “soldiers” captured by American forces in Germany, April 1945.

Racing Driver Lewis Strang Examines The Proposed Layout for the New Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 1909.

A woman who survived the Nagasaki atomic bombing, 1945.

Colorized Photo of an early Cadillac Dealership - Begg Motor Co. Showroom, Vancouver, 1921 (from Vancouver City Archives)

WWII — German long-range heavy bomber “Messerschmitt Me 264” . Capable of bombing New York City and returning to Europe. The “Amerika Bomber” project was ultimately cancelled.

 New York City's East Side Jewish Street Market 1900.

Berlin in ruins after WW2, May 1945.

U.S. space shuttle “Atlantis” docked to Russian space station “Mir”

New York City / The South Bronx, 1970.

German Soldiers Father and Son Pose for the Camera in Berlin 1914.

Pedestrians walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on opening day, May 27th, 1937.

Wormwood Street in the City of London after the IRA detonated a truck bomb on 24 April, 1993.

“The first Girl Scout,” Daisy Gordon Lawrence , with a young Scout in 1948.

Women window cleaners working in London, ca. 1917.

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

The eyes of children during the Great Depression. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

 

A street car conductor denies a passenger access to a street car in Seattle in 1918, because he has no mask during the Flu pandemic of 1918-1919.

Neil Power: April 1913. Rome, Georgia. Neil Power, 10 years old. Said "turns stockings in Rome Hosiery Mill." "Hain't been to school much." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

A young woman picketing segregated lunch counters at Neisner's McCrory's, F.W. Woolworth's, Walgreen's and Sears stores in Tallahassee, Florida - December 1960.

Leipzigs Deputy Mayor and Municipal Treasurer Dr. Lisso, at desk, his wife Renate, in chair, and their 20 year old daughter Regina Lisso, after committing suicide by cyanide in the Leipzig New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) to avoid capture by American soldiers of the 69th Infantry and 9th Armored Divisions as they closed in on the city. Regina Lisso wears the armband of the German Red Cross. (Photo description by Amikam Salant)

A happy summer day in the suburbs of 1950's America.

 Teens perform "The Twist" during the 1950's.

1910 Portrait of Quentin Roosevelt, the son of President Theodore Roosevelt.  He later died in combat during World War I.

Children fill the streets shortly after the liberation of Paris, 1945.

Father and Son George H.W. and George W. Bush sporting Yale sweaters before they were presidents.

An exhausted Partisan fighter surrenders to the Greek Army during the Greek Civil War - 1948.

Walking Away on the Streets of New York City - 1946 / Photo by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine.

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...