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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Historic Photos / Set # 91

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...


Fidel Castro with Ernest Hemingway at the Hemingway Fishing Contest, Cuba, 1960.




The largest Nazi rally in history outside of Germany, Over 15,000 Argentinians celebrating the annexation of Austria, 1938.



Sunlight fills the waiting room of Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, 1943, Photo by Jack Delano.



Toffs and Toughs - The photo that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain - 1937.



Albert Einstein Looking Fabulous in Shorts, Circa 1930s.



Dr, James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, practices with his wife Maude in 1928.



Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871.



Margaret Hamilton, head software developer for the Apollo 11's guidance computer, standing beside the program manuals of loaded original code, 1969.



Loggers in California with the felled giant ‘Mark Twain Redwood’, 1892.



Battle of Caporetto WWI - Dead Italian troops litter a hillside, victims of a German gas attack, Heights of Tolmein - 1917.



A young Charles M. Shultz looking a lot like Charlie Brown – Circa 1930.



A crowd gathers to hear the latest news read aloud on Wall Street as the stock market crashes - October 24, 1929.



"Child of white migrant worker ironing in tent camp near Harlingen, Texas", 1939.



Salvage crews examine the torpedo damaged hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma, during recovery operations following the attack on Pearl Harbor.  429 men died when the ship capsized.  The ship could not be repaired and was later scrapped - 1946.



A Coca-Cola company delivery truck in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1909.



Citizens crowd the capital during the Liberation of Paris / World War II - August 25, 1944.



Baby Play Cage on a high-rise apartment building, 1937. These cages mounted to windows and were believed to be a good way for small children who lived in the city to get fresh air.




A group of convicted Mormons in the Utah Penitentiary for practicing polygamy. 





A player is injured during the Red Sox versus Tigers baseball game in Boston, 1910.



A two by four found penetrated through the middle of a palm tree's trunk during the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in Florida - Photo by Bertho Bowman August 25, 1992.



Building biplanes in the Farman Aircraft Factory in Billancourt, Paris, 1917. Colorized Photo by Léon Gimpel.



The American Painting Factory, where artists hired by the Federal Art Project churn out painting of America's war heroes during World War II - Life Magazine, August 1942.



A policeman questions a saddened young boy who intended to fish in the fountain on Trafalgar Square, London, 1892.



President Ronald Reagan gives Muhammad Ali a "jab" during his visit to the White House, 1983.



Anne Frank pokes her head out of the window of the family’s flat at Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, 1942.



The two youngest sons of FDR, Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and John Roosevelt posing with surfing pioneer Duke Kahanamoku in Waikiki, Hawaii - August, 1934.



The ‘L’ train in Chicago, 1967. 


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...


Monday, May 30, 2016

Historic Photos / Set # 81

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...


German soldier trying to dig himself out after being buried after an Allied bombardment, Normandy - 1944.



The world before head phones - Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in speaker listening booths, 1955.



A Wounded Russian Soldier drifts past a 152mm Howitzer battery firing during the Belorussian Offensive Operation, 1944.



Children in London celebrate Christmas in an underground bomb shelter, December 25, 1940.



 Stevie Wonder visiting a children’s school for the blind in London - 1970.



Walt Disney filming on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, 1941.



Slave Wilson Chinn was a 60 year old slave who was branded with the initials V.B.M. on his forehead to show proof of ownership of Volsey B. Marmillion, a sugar planter about 45 miles north of New Orleans.  Photo by Charles Paxson Wilson, 1863.



Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev looks at Lincoln, 1959.



Richard Nixon’s resignation lunch: pineapple slices, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk. Photo by Robert L. Knudsen, August 8, 1974.



57,000 German POWs are marched through Moscow to display the Red Army’s dominance - July 17 1944.



Meeting of the Minds... Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, President Harding and Harvey Firestone - 1921.



 A mother and her children, exposed to winter's chill, make their way up a slush covered street in the coal town of Consumers, Utah during the Great Depression.  Photo by Dorothea Lange 1936 for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).



A very serious Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Winston Churchill, on his way to the Houses of Parliament, London, 1905.



Caroline Kennedy and six week old brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., Photo by Richard Avedon January 3, 1961.



 Lineups at a gas station during the 1973 fuel shortage.



Princess Elizabeth Windsor of the United Kingdom hugging her Corgi, Circa - 1930.



 Woman tending a Walgreens Drug Store counter in Boise, Idaho, 1958.



A photo of Anne Frank and her friends who are celebrating Anne’s 10th birthday . Anne is pictured second to the left in a dark colored dress - June 1939.



Three-year-old Eileen Dunne, a victim of the London Blitz, recovering in a hospital, 1940. Photo by Cecil Beaton.



Claude Monet seated with some paintings as his career was winding down and his eyesight was failing, Circa - 1925.



Ronald Reagan poses for a sculpture class at USC as an example of “ideal male physique”, 1940.



 Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney at the racetrack - 1939.



 Jim Henson playing with the ‘Bert’ puppet, 1971.



The top gun turret of a Serbian M-84 tank gets lollipopped during the 87-day siege of the Battle of Vukovar, 1991.



Segregated seating at a college football game - The Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, 1955.



Visitors climb on the Great Sphynx of Giza, Egypt, Circa 1850.



Jacqueline Kennedy backstage watching her husband during the first televised debate against Richard Nixon - 1960.


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...