Historic Photos / Set # 29

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...

Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur holding a riding crop at a French chateau, Sept. 19, 1918.

African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration." Photo by Thomas J. O’Halloran, 1958.

German forces surrendering in Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive Normandy 21 August 1944.

Walt Disney’s extensive National Geographic collection - Photo 1963.

June 1937. "Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle." Photo by Dorothea Lange.

President Franklin Roosevelt’s conference in Hawaii with General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Admiral William Leahy. September, 1944.

Arnold Schwarzeneggers first time in New York City, 1968.

May 1937. "Post Office. Finlay, Texas." Magazine, caffeine, nicotine -- all your basic needs, as well as potted cacti. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

Inventor Hugo Gernsback is Demonstrating His Television Goggles in 1963.

The Beatles celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th birthday in April 1964.

Thousands of American troops march down the Champs Élysées to the Place de la Concorde during America’s liberation parade through Paris, Aug 31, 1944.

Patrons line up out the door at Dock's Oyster House in Atlantic City, New Jersey - Better Living Magazine, August 1953.

A new 19 inch color TV draws a crowd in Shantou, China – 1983.

Artist Salvador Dali stands on the deck of the S.S. Normandie as it docks in New York City, December 7, 1936.

A well stocked supermarket dairy case Circa 1950 - Photo by John Debold.

Border guards face off as a young German girl crouches in safety just after barely crossing the border from East Berlin into West Berlin in 1955.

Little Italy - New York circa 1905. "Mulberry Street. Italian neighborhood with street market." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

USAAF bombers flying over Mount Vesuvius, Italy 1944.

"Rex Theater for Colored People" Leland, Mississippi, in the Delta area, June 1937. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

28 year old Hugh Hefner in his Chicago Playboy Office 1954.

US Capitol Building covered with a red protective rust inhibiting coating during restoration work, 1959-60.

"Horrors of War in Wax" End of World War II, London – 1945 Photo by Wolfgang Suschitzky.

US sailors at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station standing behind rolled out sea bags and awaiting inspection, Photo by Bernard Hoffman, 1940. (Life Magazine)

Babe Ruth paying final respects to Lou Gehrig at Christ Episcopal
Church of Riverdale, New York - June 1941.

Customers waiting in line at a butcher’s counter during wartime rationing, Washington Market, New York Circa 1941-44. Photo by Roman Vishniac.

Hanging off the Brooklyn Bridge, October 7, 1914 / AP Photo New York City Municipal Archives – Dept. of Bridges Plant and Structures / Photo by Eugene de Salignac.

Chaplain John McNamara makes the sign of the cross as he administers the last rites to female photographer Dickey Chapelle in South Vietnam November 4, 1965. Chapelle was covering a U.S. Marine unit on a combat operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer when she was seriously wounded, along with four Marines, by an exploding mine. She died in a helicopter en route to a hospital. She became the first female war correspondent to be killed in Vietnam, as well as the first American female reporter ever to be killed in action. Photo by Henri Huet.

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Historic Photos / Set # 28

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...

American Author Mark Twain visits the Houses of Parliament in London – July 2, 1907.

Family of "camp followers" with the Pennsylvania infantry during the American Civil War, Circa – 1861.

Carving the faces of Mount Rushmore National Monument in Keystone, South Dakota / Progress Photo, Circa - 1930s.

Nineteen year old East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann, was the first to cross from East to West Berlin in August 1961, two days after the start of construction of the wall, by Peter Leibing.

"French soldier walking in a World War I trench in devastated terrain of the Somme.", 1916.  

 Miss New Zealand faints during the 1957 Miss Universe Pageant.

A B-24 Liberator named “The Sandman” emerges from a pall of smoke after a low-level attack on the Astra Romana Oil Refinery Photo by Jerry J. Joswick.

In the 1800s, Horse Drawn Rollers were often used to pack down the snow on country roads, rather than plow them – Circa 1900.

Representative John F. Kennedy inspects a Naval Aircraft at Anacostia Naval Air Station, Washington, DC, 1947.

Secret Service agents walk on both sides of President Theodore Roosevelt’s carriage during his inauguration on March 4, 1905 - He was the first President to be provided Secret Service Protection.

A messenger pigeon being released from a tank in WWI Circa – 1917.

Eruption of Mt Sakurajima, Japan - January 11, 1914.

Bomb Damage from German war planes in London, England – September 1940.

Soviet soldiers with liberated Auschwitz prisoners in January, 1945.

A steelworker looks out over the night sky above New York City – Date Unknown.

In a textile mill, “Our baby doffer” they called him. When asked his age, he hesitated, then said, “I’m twelve”. Another young boy said, “He can’t work unless he’s twelve”, Birmingham, Alabama - Photo by Lewis Hine 1910.

A member of the French Résistance interior force at Châteaudun in 1944.

Ernie Banks crosses home plate after hitting his 500th home run. May 12, 1970.

Paula Hitler, younger sister of Adolf, arrested and interrogated by US intelligence officers in Germany – July 12, 1945.

President John F. Kennedy observes the firing of a Polaris missile by the submerged nuclear submarine Andrew Jackson, off the coast of Florida on November 16, 1963 - He was assassinated six days later.

One of the first canned beer machines being tested out in London, England -  Photo by Harry Todd, 1937.

American P51-D Mustangs captured and repurposed by the Germans in flight – Circa 1944.

Discoverer of the polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas E. Salk posing for a picture, Photo by Al Fenn, 1955.

SMS Blücher capsizes after receiving multiple hits from British warships during the Battle of Dogger Bank, at least 750 sailors drown Jan 24, 1915.

Condemned Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess, lone prisoner of Spandau Prison in West Berlin, walks in the prison garden at the age of 93, shortly before his suicide, Circa – 1986.

German soldiers gather around a crashed British plane and the dead body of its pilot during WWI, somewhere on the Western Front, 1917.

Future Hollywood actress Meryl Streep as a High School Cheerleader, Bernardsville, New Jersey, Circa – 1966. 

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...