Historic Photos / Set # 45

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...

Photo entitled The Homecoming, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Lt. Col. Bob Moore hugs his daughter upon returning home to Iowa in 1943. An officer in the National Guard, Moore was one of the first American soldiers to see action in World War II. Photo by Earle L. Bunker/The World-Herald –1944.

Chinese troops standing to attention during President Richard Nixon’s arrival in China with Airforce One in the background. Photo by John Dominis - Time Life

Two women in bathing suits are among the crowd viewing the body of John Dillinger at the Cook County Morgue in the city of Chicago. Dillinger’s body was put up for display after he was gunned down by federal agents on July 22, 1934.

United States Union Army Engineer Battalion - Company B, Petersburg, Virginia, 1864.

Full city Parking Lot due to the gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C. During World War II – Photo by Albert Freeman for the Office of War Information, 1942.

A young Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, October, 1917.

Sabena Flight 548 en route from New York CIty to Brussels, crashes in Belgium, killing 73 people aboard, including the entire U.S. figure skating team who were en route to the world championships in Prague. Photo - February 15, 1961.

Alan Shepard being recovered from the Freedom 7 capsule after the first American human spaceflight, May 5, 1961.

"New York. School victory garden on First Avenue between 35th & 36th streets." Photo by Edward Meyer, Office of War Information - June 1944.

A woman serves a customer from an Italian food stand on the streets of the Harlem section of New York City – Circa 1955.

A boy and his dog sit in the rubble left behind by the Great Tri-State Tornado that tore through three states in the U.S. on March 18, 1925. 

Soccer Great Pele signing autographs outside of Goodison Park during the 1966 World Cup.

A puppy named "Feller" a cocker spaniel that was sent as an unsolicited Christmas gift to President Harry Truman in 1947. Truman decided not to accept the gift and gave the dog away to his physician, angering dog lovers around the country.

African American entertainer Josephine Baker received the Croix de Guerre, the Rosette de la Résistance, and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, for her underground resistance work against the Germans during World War II – 1945.

 B-57B observing a nuclear test during Operation Redwing, Bikini Atoll, July 12, 1958.

A large family of thirteen children pile into a convertible, Boston Massachusetts, 1925.

Natives admiring an American Air Force F4-U “Corsair” plane somewhere in the South Pacific during WWII. It was said, when the native people first met the Americans they thought they were from the heavens and briefly treated them as gods.

 President John F. Kennedy takes a draw from one of his valued cigars – Photo by Howell Conant, 1963.

12-year old Sarah Jean Collins who survived the 16th Street Baptist Birmingham Church Bombing which killed her sister, recuperating in the hospital.  The bomb killed 4 young girls and injured 22 others.  Collins survived but lost and eye and had extensive facial scars – 1963.

 Kindergarten teacher, Helen Hulick, who was a witness to a burglary, was given a five-day sentence and sent to jail for contempt for wearing pants to give her courtroom testimony rather than a traditional skirt or dress.  Los Angeles, 1938.

 Groups of adults riding down toboggan slides. Beebe Lake, Cornell University - New York, 1904.

A sunny day along the famous Las Vegas Strip, Nevada 1959.

 The very first Miss America Pageant 1921. The winner was crowned Miss Washington D.C.

A British soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a quick hot bath in Tobruk, Libya – February 17, 1942.

The Waffen-SS is warmly received by Ukrainians and presented with refreshments and food.  A short time later, the people were rounded up and deported for slave labor where many died – 1941.

The Best Deal in Town "J.A. Herzog Pontiac, 17th & Valencia Streets, San Francisco." Labor standing on the left and management on the right with a car and a world between them - Wyland Stanley collection - June 3, 1936.

Two Dutch civilians after liberation from a Japanese internment camp, Dutch East indies, 1945. 

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Historic Photos / Set # 40

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...

Successful landing of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey airfield in May 1936, roughly a year before the disaster of 1937.

Keedoozle, the first fully automated coin operated grocery store, Memphis, Tenn., 1948. Photo by Francis Miller, Life Magazine.

An Arkansas family living in poverty during the recession of 1980.

A boy and his dog go fishing in rural Iowa, 1945. Photo by Myron Davis, Life Magazine.

Roy Rodgers checks out his fan mail, 1948.

An amateur  pilot from Germany named Mathias Rust illegally lands his Cessna 172 in Moscow's Red Square as a stunt on May 28, 1987.  He was escorted in the air by Russian fighter jets who never received permission to fire.

 Portrait of a Southern Chain Gang, Circa 1905.

Singer Johnny Cash, Los Angeles, California in June 1961. Photo by Leigh Wiener.

Howard Clifford running off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge during collapse, Tacoma, Washington, November 7, 1940.

Boys pray at the start of the day in a Christian missionary sponsored school in Colonia El Breal, Bolivia.  Photo by Jordi Busque.

Striped stockings are worn by all the members of a girl's club at the Austin High School in Chicago, 1948.  Photo by Lisa Larsen, Life Magazine.

Ice covered telephone wires over New York City during the Winter of 1887.

Finishing construction on the Tower Bridge in London, Circa 1893.

Livraria Lello (Lello Bookstore) in central Porto, Portugal 1906.

Alan Shepard waits to become the first American in space, Cape Canaveral, 1961, Photograph by NASA.

A mother and her child take refuge in a bomb shelter in the Petrovisky District of Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine during artillery shelling by Pro-Russian Rebels.  Photo by Mstislav Chernov Associated Press - September 1, 2014.

Commuters cram aboard a crowded subway car, Manhattan, New York City, 1970. Photo by Ralph Crane—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images.

 Paving 28th St in Manhattan, New York by hand, October 1930.

Sailing ships tied up at North Quay, Drogheda, Louth, Ireland: Circa 1860.

Charles Conrad reflected in Alan Bean’s visor during Apollo 12 lunar landing, 1969. NASA Archives.

German Soldiers Pose With Horse Mounted With a Captured Russian Maxim M1910 Machine Gun.

Bell Telephone Acoustics Lab, 1947.“Bell Telephone engineer in a research room designed to eliminate 99% of all outside sound” Photo by Eric Schaal.

Heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis lies on the canvas at (the old, original) Madison Square Garden in New York after being floored by contender Jersey Joe Walcott in a December 1947 title match. Louis came back to win by a controversial decision. Photo by Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images.

In the middle of the election campaign, the Führer discusses the travel route with his airplane captain, while wearing an aviator's cap.  Photo by Barbara Harris, Circa 1933.

Elementary school students take part in an earthquake drill as part of national anti-disaster drills annually practiced on the anniversary of the 1923 Tokyo earthquake that killed 140,000. Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno—AFP/Getty Images, September 1, 2014.

Muhammad Ali leans out of the window on the ninth floor of a high-rise building in Los Angeles, to convince a man who was threatening to kill himself to come back inside. The two men later walked out of the building together, 1981.

Sandwiched between blackened sand and sky, camels search for untainted shrubs and water in the burning oil fields of southern Kuwait. Their desperate foraging reflects the environmental plight of a region ravaged by the gulf war - 1991.

A good tempered football crowd at West Ham, London pass a young boy over their heads to the front so that he can see the game better, 1st March 1930.

Gadget, the first Atomic Bomb—detonated in the Trinity nuclear test as part of the Manhattan Project. July 16, 1945.

Rudolf Höss, the German Commandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, is prepared for his execution (Death by Hanging) next to the crematorium of the camp on April 16, 1947.

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...