Historic Photos / Set # 82

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...

John F. Kennedy, Caroline, and Raggedy Ann on a walk, ca. 1962.

Two children in straw sunhats watch with interest as a freight train approaches in the city of Edmonton, Alberta Province, Canada.

Two Polish women stand in shock near the covered corpse of a third as they survey the bomb damage to their neighborhood following a German Luftwaffe aerial assault on Warsaw during the German Invasion of Poland - September, 1939.

The city of New Orleans is underwater following Hurricane Katrina, a rare category 5 storm, which caused the deaths of over 1800 people and $100 billion in structural damage, 2005.

Aerial view of Woodstock Music Festival, New York - 1969.

Fans in the crowded stands of the 1912 World Series.

Rare photo of Mick Jagger, William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol sharing dinner - 1980.

Women workers of the locomotive round house on lunch break at the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943 - Reproduction from color slide, Photo by Jack Delano.

Aerial view of Armstrong Flooring Plant Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Photo: Armstrong World Industries, 1936.

Children swim near the ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany 1945.

The first waves of the Indian Tsumani of 2004 takes people by surprise.  The tidal wave caused by an earthquake off shore, killed over 200,000 people.

Helen Keller is introduced to Charlie Chaplin through touch, 1919.

Women sit along a wall in an insane asylum in Youngstown, Ohio. Photo by Jerry Cooke for Life Magazine, 1946.

Bette Davis and her stand-in film double, Sally Sage, knitting together in August 1940.

Driver education training class in Brooklyn, New York - 1955.

Soviet soldiers survey the damage to Große Frankfurter Straße (now, Karl-Marx-Allee) during the final days of the Battle of Berlin. May 1, 1945.

Robert Peraza neals on the World Trade Center Memorial to mourn the death of his son ten years earlier during the 9-11 attacks - 2011.

The 3rd Ave elevated train around 57th Street New York City – Photo by Vivian Maier 1952.

Mrs. Mary Couchman, a 24-year-old warden of a small Kentish Village, shields three little children, among them her son, as bombs fall during an air attack on October 18, 1940.

"Hats in the Garment District," Photo by Margaret Bourke-White - New York, 1930.

Women flock to a large well with empty containers to fetch their daily drinking water in Natwarghad, India - 2003.

Construction begins on the Berlin Wall. GDR-FRG. August 1961.

A man jumps out of the burning Tae Yun Kak hotel with a mattress to cushion his fall, Seoul, South Korea, December 25, 1971. He died on impact along with 163 others who perished in the fire.

British suffragette Charlotte Despard addresses the crowd in Trafalgar Square during a Communist rally, June 11, 1933.

Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by John Vachon - The Denver Post.

Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson slides into home against the NY Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, 1955 World Series.

A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “Home” while living in a residence for disturbed children in Poland, 1948.

Additional References___________________________________ 

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Historic Photos / Set # 59

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...

Charlotte Darehshori shields herself from Texas University Tower sniper, Charles Whitman. Darehshori was trying to help wounded students when she came under fire. She hid behind the flag pole for one and half hours until Whitman was killed by police. August 1, 1966.

Australian gunners on a duckboard track in Château Wood during the Battle of Passchendaele, October 29, 1917.

"Funeral of Wilford Woodruff, the fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.", Photo by Charles Roscoe Savage, 1898.

American Navajo Indians from the Southwest United States, members of the 158th U.S. Infantry, are seen on a beach in the Solomon Islands. They are in their traditional dress for a tribal ceremony at Christmas. December, 1943.

Christmas packages for WWII servicemen reported missing or killed in action pile up in a New York City post office. 1943.

Street Scene - Elevated Train Platform, New York City 1953.  Photo by Vivian Maier.

The Apollo 1 prime crew members for the first manned Apollo Mission enter their space-craft inside the altitude chamber at the Kennedy Space Center – October 18th, 1966.

Escape Artist Harry Houdini in Handcuffs, 1918.

German and Russian troops dance on the front following the announcement of the WWI ceasefire, 1918.

700-foot-long floating raft of logs makes 1,200-mile trip from Oregon to San Diego, 1914.

New York citizens waiting for a May day parade at Union Square. Photo by Jerome Liebling 1947.

U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy stands with his 20 year old son John F. Kennedy in New York City - January 5, 1938.

Japanese Sailors Parading in Vladivostok, Russia as Part of An Allied Force, 1918.

Kobanê under attack, Syria, October 2014 (Bulent Kilic, AFP)

Adolf Hitler visits the tomb of Napoleon within the rotunda at Les Invalides, Paris France. Hitler had been planning to build a mausoleum for himself that would incorporate a sarcophagus
similar to Napoleon's tomb.

Michel and Edmond Navratil who were dubbed the “Titanic orphans”, after their father who was fleeing to America with them after separating from his wife put them in the last lifeboat successfully launched from the Titanic, before going down with the ship, 1912.

United States Marine Raiders on Cape Totkins on Bougainville Soloman Islands, 1943.

Germans use laundry baskets to collect their bulky pay packets during the Weimar Republic, Berlin, 1923.

A man and dogs on a rail cart trip from Shelton to Nome, Alaska – July, 1912.

An aerial view of the concrete filled HMS Intrepid and HMS Iphigenia blocking the entry canal to the the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge, after they were deliberately sunk by the Royal Navy during the Zeebrugge Raid on April 23, 1918.

President Lyndon B. Johnson driving his amphibious car, which he used for playing pranks on friends and dignitaries visiting his Texas ranch, April 10, 1965.

A Transit Police K-9 Officer and his German Shepard partner riding a NYC Subway Train - 1970’s.

Foggy night in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1941 Photo by Jack Delano.

A young girl enjoys a cup of tea courtesy of the advancing Allied armies in a sector of Europe now cleared of Hitler’s troops, 1944.

Girls swinging on a lamppost”, Manchester, England. Photo by Shirley Baker 1965.

A serious President Roosevelt broadcasts to the nation on the war in Europe Sept. 3, 1939.

The military would use Betty Grable’s pin up’s to teach soldiers how to read maps using latitude and longitude during WWII – 1942.

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...