Historic Photos / Set # 85

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 14 year old Albert Einstein, 1893.

A woman is photographed by police after being arrested for serving alcohol illegally from her “bootlegger’s life preserver”.

 Searchlights watching for enemy planes on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942.

Squadron Leader Eugeniusz ‘Dziubek’ Horbaczewski transferring his kills to his newly delivered P-51 Mustang on August 3, 1944.  He was killed in action 15 days later.

A couple supporting Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign in San Diego, CA.

Winston Churchill as a child, age six - 1881.

Civil War veteran Samuel Decker built his own prosthetics after losing his arms in combat - Date unknown.

The first child to integrate a public school, Ruby Bridges, 6, required three U.S. Marshals to escort her. New Orleans, 1960.

Grant Park parking lot in Chicago, 1934.

A Messerschmidt KR175, Germany - 1954.

Future gold medal Olympic Champion Jesse Owens working at a gas station one year before the games in Cleveland, Ohio, 1935.

Cambridge undergraduates in plus four trousers, 1926.

Rape of the Great Plains: A pile of collected bison/buffalo skulls previously killed by buffalo hunters, waiting to be ground into fertilizer, Circa, 1870.

Completing the transcontinental phone line in Wendover, Utah 1915.

 Anna Fisher, “the first mother in space” 1984.

 Tuskegee Airmen in Ramitelli, Italy - March 1945.

A British/Commonwealth soldier falls victim to poisonous gasses during a battle of the First World War - Circa 1917.

Rally for a Jewish Palestine, organized by The American Zionist Emergency Council, Madison Square Garden. September 30, 1945.

Martin Luther King being arrested for “loitering,” in Montgomery, Alabama - September 3, 1958.

Margaret Thatcher looks on as Diana Spencer walks down the aisle, accompanied by Lord Spencer, on July 29, 1981.

R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket) When he was an actual drill instructor for the Marines, Circa 1966.

When both sides of the channel tunnel between France and England first met, 1990.

Young girl gazing through her frost covered window which reflects the image of barbed wire fencing that tops the nearby Berlin wall - Berlin, Dec 1962 (Life Magazine)

Aerial photo of Oklahoma City bombing site, April 27, 1995.

A woman taking a "selfie" using a mirror, 1900.

Gym aboard the steam ship Titanic, Promotional Photo 1912.

The Airship, “La Republique” passing the Eiffel tower in Paris - Circa 1908.

Additional References___________________________________ 

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Historic Photos / Set # 81

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...

German soldier trying to dig himself out after being buried after an Allied bombardment, Normandy - 1944.

The world before head phones - Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in speaker listening booths, 1955.

A Wounded Russian Soldier drifts past a 152mm Howitzer battery firing during the Belorussian Offensive Operation, 1944.

Children in London celebrate Christmas in an underground bomb shelter, December 25, 1940.

 Stevie Wonder visiting a children’s school for the blind in London - 1970.

Walt Disney filming on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, 1941.

Slave Wilson Chinn was a 60 year old slave who was branded with the initials V.B.M. on his forehead to show proof of ownership of Volsey B. Marmillion, a sugar planter about 45 miles north of New Orleans.  Photo by Charles Paxson Wilson, 1863.

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev looks at Lincoln, 1959.

Richard Nixon’s resignation lunch: pineapple slices, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk. Photo by Robert L. Knudsen, August 8, 1974.

57,000 German POWs are marched through Moscow to display the Red Army’s dominance - July 17 1944.

Meeting of the Minds... Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, President Harding and Harvey Firestone - 1921.

 A mother and her children, exposed to winter's chill, make their way up a slush covered street in the coal town of Consumers, Utah during the Great Depression.  Photo by Dorothea Lange 1936 for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).

A very serious Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Winston Churchill, on his way to the Houses of Parliament, London, 1905.

Caroline Kennedy and six week old brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., Photo by Richard Avedon January 3, 1961.

 Lineups at a gas station during the 1973 fuel shortage.

Princess Elizabeth Windsor of the United Kingdom hugging her Corgi, Circa - 1930.

 Woman tending a Walgreens Drug Store counter in Boise, Idaho, 1958.

A photo of Anne Frank and her friends who are celebrating Anne’s 10th birthday . Anne is pictured second to the left in a dark colored dress - June 1939.

Three-year-old Eileen Dunne, a victim of the London Blitz, recovering in a hospital, 1940. Photo by Cecil Beaton.

Claude Monet seated with some paintings as his career was winding down and his eyesight was failing, Circa - 1925.

Ronald Reagan poses for a sculpture class at USC as an example of “ideal male physique”, 1940.

 Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney at the racetrack - 1939.

 Jim Henson playing with the ‘Bert’ puppet, 1971.

The top gun turret of a Serbian M-84 tank gets lollipopped during the 87-day siege of the Battle of Vukovar, 1991.

Segregated seating at a college football game - The Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, 1955.

Visitors climb on the Great Sphynx of Giza, Egypt, Circa 1850.

Jacqueline Kennedy backstage watching her husband during the first televised debate against Richard Nixon - 1960.

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...