Historic Photos / Set # 63

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...

An Austrian boy rejoices after receiving a pair of new shoes -World War II Era. 

Norwegian civilians celebrate the arrival of an Allied military mission in Oslo to deliver the conditions for capitulation to the Germans and arrange for their surrender which would take place at midnight. Oslo, Østlandet, Norway. 8 May 1945.

One of the 1.5 million citizens tagged, documented, and executed by the Khmer Rouge for the crime of “being educated,” Cambodia, 1978.

Portrait of a teenage German soldier of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment Der Führer after being taken as a POW by the U.S. 3rd Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Near St. Vith, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. 23 December 1944.

Sophie Kurys, star player for the Rancine Belles on the All American Girls Professional Baseball league from 1943-1950.

A woman walks through the lonely ruins of her city, past a sign that reads "Hitler's Work" Berlin, 1945.

A boy works in a shoe repair shop in Moscow, Russia 1925.

A motorcycle policeman stops to chat with two toddler boys. Garden City, New York - Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1947.

A dramatic photo of a Red Army soldier praying during the Battle of Kursk, Russia 1943.

High School Classroom, Iowa - Circa 1948 for Life Magazine.

Father and daughter share a moment, Circa 1918.

Russian children having a meal of molasses bread and coffee in a Displaced Persons Camp, Germany, Photo by William Vandivert - April 1945.

The US National Team at the first FIFA World Cup, July 26, 1930.

A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike. Photographer Unknown.

Seven year old named Ferris selling newspapers on a street corner. He is likely a homeless orphan, as thousands of other “newsies” were at the turn of the 20th century. Mobile, Alabama, 1914.

A German soldier shakes hands with a Jewish child during the German occupation of Poland during World War I.  A disturbing picture considering the change of attitude 20 years later when the occupation was repeated with horrific consequences.

A Charles University official in ceremonial robes presents a diploma to a graduate; Note the Auschwitz tattoo number on her arm.  Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1947.

Trick or Treaters - October 31, 1969 - Photo: Steve Larson / The Denver Post.

Men take notice of the first miniskirts coming into fashion in Latvia, 1965.

Desert Storm Victory Parade in New York City, 1992.

Three East German guards goose-stepping as they march in front of the War Memorial, East Berlin, Photo by Ralph Crane, 1967.

A game of cricket on the streets of London, April 25, 1930.

Friends John Lennon and Paul McCartney pose on the streets of Liverpool in the summer of 1961.

Carrying a guitar and a M16 rifle, a Marine waits at a landing strip for a flight out of Khe Sanh, February 25th, 1968.

A French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914.

A formation of Spitfires on intercept patrol over De Djerba Island, off Gabes, on their way to the Mareth Line area, Tunisia 1943.

A disabled veteran soldier comes home to Vienna, Photo by Ernst Haas, Circa 1946.

Additional References___________________________________ 

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Historic Photos / Set # 62

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 Eisenhower reacts to the news that General MacArthur has been fired by President Truman - 1951.

 Bob Dylan in the recording studio for ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ 1965.

 Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, April 4,1944.

Caltech invited Albert Einstein to spend some time on their campus to try and recruit him. On the train ride back across the country, he visited the Hopi House, near the Grand Canyon, where he posed for a picture with members of the Hopi tribe -1931.

Serbian Warlord Arkan with his Paramilitaries, the “Tigers.” Croatia, 1991.

 President John F. Kennedy presents the National Geographic Society’s Gold Medal to Captain Jacques Cousteau, Washington, D.C., 1961.

Sophia Loren serving pizza to promote the film The Gold of Naples, directed by Vittorio DeSica in which she plays the role of an unfaithful wife of a pizza maker. Milan,1954.

 Pablo Picasso in front of Le Bateau-Lavoir, Montmartre, Paris, circa 1904.

Loggers in a Great Smoky Mountain chestnut tree forest. Over three billion trees like this existed in eastern North America, comprising 25-30% of all trees in the Appalachian Mountains. They were completely decimated in the early 1900s by blight from an Asian fungus.

 An American soldier stands before the alter of a church destroyed by war during World War II.

A woman lies on the ground after fainting as Princess Elizabeth inspects the Women’s Royal Army Corps Honor Guard at the Royal Agricultural Society’s show in Shrewsbury, England - 1949.

 French weightlifter and 1920s Olympic champion Ernest Cadine, 1923.

OJ Simpson tells the jury that the gloves used to murder Nicole Brown “don’t fit” - June 15, 1995.

 Little girl and her pet toad at a pet show, Venice Beach, California, 1936.

WWII — Japanese aircraft in flames, struck by anti-aircraft fire from USS Hornet, circa 1944.

Soldier volunteer tire workers line up with some of the huge bomber tires made at the U.S. Rubber Company plant in Los Angeles, Calif., Feb 24, 1945.

British stage actress Zena Dare models some sort of acoustic headset, ca. 1900s.

USS Missouri during the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, Tokyo Bay, by Ted H. Lambert 1945.

Film crew working a scene during the filming of Apocalypse Now - 1978.

Old School fun... Kids jump from a 2nd story window onto a pile of old mattresses; Newcastle; 1979.

Portrait of a soldier... A Canadian UN soldier in Korea with a U.S. made M-1 Carbine and British Mills bomb grenades during the Korean conflict, location unknown, Circa 1950.

The Savage Skulls Street Gang, The Bronx, 1979.

 Police photo of the items found in serial killer Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen after his capture Utah, 1975.

Some of the sixty-six coffins of RMS Lusitania victims buried in one of the huge graves at the churchyard in Queenstown, Ireland, May 23, 1915.

 Astronaut Dale A. Gardner holds up a “For Sale” sign referring to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6, that he helped retrieve from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules failed to fire.

U.S. nurses walk along a beach in Normandy, France on July 4, 1944, after they had waded through the surf from their landing craft. They are on their way to field hospitals to care for the wounded allied soldiers.

 Wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Military Hospital, December1950.

Additional References____________________________________ 

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