Historic Photos Blog Post Archive

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Historic Photos / Set # 60

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...


Actor Robert Mitchum, center right, and actress Lila Leeds, left, are sentenced to 60 days in jail on charges of conspiracy to possess marijuana cigarettes in Los Angles, February 9, 1949.



An American tank rolls over a Nazi banner laid out in the street after its crew helped take the town of Lembach/spring 1945.



Fidel Castro plays baseball for the Los Barbudos, the “Bearded Ones”, a few months after he overthrew the Batista regime in Havana, 1959.



Dwight D. Eisenhower walking past a destroyed German Tiger Tank after the Battle of Chambois, France 1944.



A young Barack Obama riding a tricycle, Circa 1965.



A disabled German veteran, decorated with the Iron Cross, begs for money in the street, 1923.



Captain Avraham Adan raises a handmade Israeli “Ink Flag” at Eilat, signifying the end of the 1948, Arab-Israeli War.



Having a computer delivered during the 1950s.



German Nazi Leader of the SS Heinrich Himmler’s corpse after he committed suicide using a hidden capsule of cyanid under British Custody. May 23, 1945.



American scientist James Stuckey and volunteer Judy Creeden demonstrate the human body’s ability to function as a conductor of electricity during a lecture in New York sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, 1966.



A captured American pilot in North Vietnam. Photo by Thomas Billhardt.



Two homeless men squat in the shadow of the recently completed World Trade Center, which was mostly unoccupied due to the fact the city was on the verge of bankruptcy.October 1975.



Hollywood film cutter Gladys Baker shares a happy moment at the beach with her 3 year-old daughter Norma Jeane, the future Marilyn Monroe, in 1929.



Opening addresses are given in the Palace of the Republic’s central hall at the start of East Germany’s 11th Party Congress, 1986.



Boeing receptionists Joyce Howe and Susan Heidreich walking over the roof of the camouflaged Boeing plant Number 2 during World War II.  The plant was covered in camouflage netting and made to look like a suburban setting to protect it from attack from enemy war planes.



Buccleuch Avon, considered to be the ancestor of all modern Labrador Retrievers, Circa – 1890.



Emperor Hirohito, Japan’s longest reigning monarch and one of the Axis Leaders during WWII, waving a small Japanese flag as a toddler. 1902.



Russian soldiers teaching German POW’s The Cossack’s Dance on the Eastern Front, 1915.



Workmen install a generator within the powerhouse of the Norris Dam in Tennessee, Circa 1935.



The first and final launch of the Soviet CCCP Buran space shuttle, November, 1988.



Rare photo of The Beatles playing to a small group of 18 people in Aldershot, England. December 1961.



Indigo Plantation, Allahabad, India - 1877, Photo by French photographer Oscar Mallitte.



German factory workers watch President Kennedy’s motorcade make its way through Frankfurt, Germany - June 1963.



CERN scientist on the phone in a control room, Geneva, Switzerland. Date Unknown.



Finnish fighter pilot, Captain Karhunen with his plane, WWII.



Easter Sunday, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City – 1913.



Photo identity sequence of prisoner Czeslawa Kwoka, age 14, upon her arrival at Auschwitz with her mother in December of 1942. Both women were dead within three months.  Photo by Prisoner Wilhelm Brasse - Auschwitz Photography Department.


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...

Sunday, December 6, 2015

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...