Historic Photos / Set # 89

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...

Relocating the face of one of the Abu Simbel temples . The temples were moved to higher ground in anticipation of the construction of the Aswan High Dam project in Egypt which would have flooded the temples.

 A wrecked Chevrolet 490 in Washington, D.C., 1923.

Four Pilots of the Women Air Service Pilots. United States, 1943-44.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower greets President-elect John F. Kennedy at the North Portico of the White House, Washington D.C., December, 1960.

An Elephant stops a tram on Gray’s Inn Road, London, to eat an apple from the driver - December 1936.

A female musher participates in a dog sled race through Nome, Alaska, March 1919.

High School principal R. Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the KKK after he left a board meeting where he proposed the school district honor Martin Luther King, Jr. A student took this photo of Brownlee when he returned to the school for help. Michigan - April 3, 1971.

 Ferrying South Vietnamese rangers, American helicopters from the 199th Light Infantry Brigade swooped into a landing zone on the fringe of a pineapple plantation. August 1967.

Professor Stephen Hawking heads for home in the rain in his mechanized wheelchair through the Cambridge University grounds, Photo by Ian Berry - 1986.

The competitors of a stilt race, 1892.

Aftermath of Operation Dragoon in Saint Raphael, France - August 1944.

Aerial View of beach accident on Coney Island, 1951.

Elvis Presley is laid to rest in Memphis, Tennessee.  Approximately 80,000 people lined the processional route to Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley was buried next to his mother - August 18, 1977.

"I Am A Man", Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, March 28, 1968.

The Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) flies on its own for the fist time when it separates from a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Photo: Space Frontiers / Getty - August 12, 1977.

Two South Vietnamese children gaze at an American paratrooper holding an M79 grenade launcher as they cling to their mothers who huddle against a canal bank for protection from sniper fire in the Bao Trai area, Vietnam, 1966.

The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - August 15, 1939.

A crew member is rescued from the French fishing trawler Jeanne Gougy which ran aground at Lands End. 12 men, including the Skipper lost their lives. Cornwall - November 3rd, 1962.

  Adolph Hitler greets a young girl - Circa 1935.

Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan pose with a map of the Pacific, showing the route of their last flight - Photo undated.

U.S. ammo dump exploding, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968.

Freighter loading Ford cars, which were shipped in wooden boxes at that time, 1926.

Grace Kelly waiting to meet Prince Rainier for the first time, Photo by Edward Quinn - 1955.

Wreckage litters the streets of Brooklyn after two airliners collide above the borough, December 1960.

Packard-Bell TV and radiogram advertisement - 1959.

 First Class passengers arriving at Ellis Island - 1907.

 Charles Ponzi, businessman, con artist and source name of the "Ponzi Scheme," Boston 1920.

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Historic Photos / Set # 31

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...

Willie Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's son who died in the White House at age 11 of typhoid fever on Feburary 20, 1962.

Amelia Earhart as her Lockheed Electra is refueled at Caripito Airport, Venezuela, 1937.

Mother and child in Hiroshima, Japan following the atomic bomb in December 1945. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

The winding line queue on the opening day of the first McDonald’s in Moscow, 1990.

The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio bursts into flames due to its high content of industrial waste in 1952.  The Cuyahoga River was one of the most polluted rivers in the United States, catching on fire 13 times and helping spawn the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Co-conspirators of Lincoln’s Assasination: Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt – Execution platform Washington Arsenal at Fort McNair July 7, 1865. Mary Surratt was the first woman in history to be executed by the United States Government.

British actor Rex Harrison and actress Samantha Eggar, with chimpanzee Chee-Chee, sit down to watch the Football World Cup final between England and West Germany during filming of “Doctor Dolittle” at Castle Coombe, Dorset, on July 30, 1966.

Hiroshima, Japan - August 6, 1945 - Atomic cloud over Hiroshima, taken from the plane “Enola Gay” after dropping the bomb and flying over Matsuyama, Shikoku.

Vulcanologist David Johnston smiles for the camera while taking notes from his camp on what is now Johnston Ridge the evening before he would be killed following the eruption of Mt St. Helens, May 17, 1980.

A Heinkel He111 bomber over the London Docks, taken from another German bomber at the beginning of the London Blitz, 7th September 1940.

Three Confederate soldiers captured after the battle of Gettysburg- July 15th, 1863.

John F Kennedy and Jackie on their wedding day, September 12, 1953.

The simple entrance to Disneyland in 1965.

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man holding a book with another man moving into frame behind him, c. 1840’s. One of the earliest examples of photobombing.

Worker stands besides a shell in an ammunition factory, Great Britain, 1916.

August 13, 1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins celebrate their return from the moon with a ticker tape parade in New York City. AP Photo

Microsoft's CEO Bill Gates in a visual demonstration of the high capacity of data storage, "This CD-ROM can hold more information than all the paper that’s here below me"1994.

Promotional photo for the opening of the Film: The Wizard of Oz on August 25, 1939. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A photographer braves construction I-beams over 5th St. for a picture in New York, 1905.

 Adolf Hitler stares at the camera aboard an airplane on his birthday, 1932.

Donovan and Joan Baez perform together at the Newport Folk Festival Newport, Rhode Island - July 1965 / Photo: David Gahr

Portrait of Princess Diana five months before her death in a car accident in a tunnel in Paris with companion Dodi Fayed who also died, August 31, 1997 – Photo by Mario Testino.

 August 15, 1969: The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York Photo: a group of friends have a picnic near the festival grounds.

Lauren Bacall (age 9) at Highland Manor private girls’ school in Tarrytown, New York. Photo by Photo: Natalie Perske 1933.

Officer Mark Benton helps rescue three month old Ishmael Sullivan from a school rooftop after he and his mother were trapped with dozens of others to escape high water during Hurricane Katrina - August 30, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by Mario Tama.

Austin police carry a wounded fellow officer to safety after being shot by sniper 25 year-old Charles Whitman, an engineering student and former U.S. Marine who climbed atop the 300-foot tower at the University of Texas and shoots 46 people, killing 14 on August 1, 1966.

 Photo: Lady Diana with her father Earl Spencer entering St. Paul’s cathedral in London on her wedding Day… There were 2,650 wedding guests and nearly one billion people who tuned in to watch the televised ceremony. (Popperfoto/Getty)

Picture of sisters Margot and Ann Frank shortly before their capture in Amsterdam on August 4, 1944. (Frans Dupont/Anne Frank Fonds - Basel/Getty)

Additional References____________________________________ 
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