Historic Photos / Set # 76

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...

A nervous little girl waits with her dolls and her luggage before being evacuated to the countryside during World War II, London, May 1940.

A mother and her two young children who survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-Boat, after they were rescued in Queenstown, Ireland - May 1915.

Portrait of a Young Winston Churchill in 1895.

Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1856.

Powder monkey on a Union vessel during the American Civil War. Cutlasses are visible in the background. Circa 1861-1865.

3,000 men who helped build the 810 feet high Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City stand in the window spaces of the building near the end of the construction, August 1964.

The predecessor to the urban parking garage, the vertical parking lot in Chicago, 1932.

Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963.

A six year old Paper Boy, 1915.

John F Kennedy visits Mexico as President, June 1962.

Some of the 600 children that survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp show their tattooed identification numbers.

Mounted German soldier in a gas mask and carrying a lance during WWI - Circa 1917.

Children playing with weapons left in the streets of Berlin, 1945.

 President Abraham Lincoln’s hearse, 1865.

"People shelter and sleep on the platform and on the train tracks, in Aldwych Underground Station, London, after sirens sounded to warn of German bombing raids, on October 8, 1940."

Construction of the Hoover Dam, February 1934.

Soviet Soldiers toss the banners of the defeated Third Reich onto the ground in front of Lenin’s tomb, as Stalin looks down from the balcony. Victory parade June 24th 1945.

Close-up of a pyramid of captured German Pickelhaube helmets created for the Victory Loan Drive, New York City, Circa - 1919.

Spectators trying to catch a glimpse of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919.

Two year-old John F. Kennedy and his brother Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. -Brookline, Massachusetts - Circa 1919.

A soldier inspects Nazi looted art found in a church in Ellingen, Germany. April 24, 1945.

An East German soldier ignores orders to let no one pass and helps a boy, who was found on the opposite side from his family, cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall’- 1961.

American sailors shield their eyes during a nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, July 1946.

The remaining shells of the former buildings of Dresden, Germany after bombing by Allied Forces. ~ 1945.

Kniefall von Warschau - a gesture of humility and penance by Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 

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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____________________________________ 

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