Historic Photos / Set # 83

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...

Concorde flying over Djibouti, escorted by French fighter jets to protect passenger President François Mitterrand.

The destruction of Los Angeles streetcars, in favor of buses, automobiles, and freeways - 1956.

“Coffins containing American soldiers who died in the Philippine-American War.” - 1906.

 Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, Lybia – October 14, 1941.

Before refrigeration, animals were transported live to cities to provide fresh meat on demand. Chicago Stockyards, 1947.

New York commuters aboard a train car reading of President Kennedy’s assassination in November, 1963.

Sergeant Major Tom Gledhill, riding a standard BSA A50 twin motorcycle, leaps over 20 members of the Royal Artillery Motor Bike display team, at 45mph, 1966.

The Beatles walking back the other way across Abbey Road, Photo by Iain Macmillan -1969.

Just over a week after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, Allen Troup, 16, gives fifteen-year-old Heidi Havens a kiss as he prepares to board a Spokane City bus - May 1980.

 Kids reading “Mighty Mouse,” the first 3D comic book, 1953 -

Children of Berlin watch U.S. Planes above deliver care packages during the Berlin Airlift, after the Soviets blocked road routes into the capital - June 1948.

Spent artillery shell casings on the roadside near the front lines, WWI.

The National Space Invaders Championship held by Atari in 1980.

Complex network of early telephone wires over a New York City street – Circa 1900's.

Prince Maurice of Battenberg and his cat. The Prince was the youngest grandson of Queen Victoria of England.  He died in the First Battle of Ypres in WWI.

South side boys on Easter morning, South Side Chicago Illinois, 1941.

Spectators watch the Priscilla Nuclear Test detonation during Operation Plumbbob. One of a series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957.

Gilmore Self Service Gas Station, Los Angeles 1948. Save 5 cents a gallon by pumping your own gas, the women stationed by the pumps distribute change.

Parked automobiles crowd Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts for a Fourth of July weekend in the 1920s.

 Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park, New York City, 1918.

John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagen, photographed outside Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated - 1981.

 Daytona Beach 1957.

Pitcher Bob Feller winds up on the mound - 1938.

 Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940.

Anti- Aircraft FLAK fire fills the night sky as the city of Brest, France attempts to ward off enemy RAF bombing raids during World War II - 1941.

Defiance: Himmler and a prisoner locked in a defiant gaze in the Shirokaya Street POW camp in Minsk, USSR - August 1941.

A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome - 1944.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan ride the Ferris Wheel at the carnival in Canon City, Colorado - 1925. Photo by Rolfe

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Historic Photos / Set # 65

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...

Klamath Indian chief praying to the spirits at Crater Lake, Oregon, 1923 – Colorized Photo.

Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched and christened by Queen Mary in Clydebank, Scotland. She was retired in 1967 and sold to the city of Long Beach, California, where she remains permanently moored as a hotel/restaurant. Photo: September 26, 1934 - Planet News Archive/SSLP/Getty.

Female Indian telephone switchboard operator, Helen of Many Glacier Hotel, June 1925.

A KKK member seeks protection from a black police officer from aggressive protestors in Austin, Texas 1993.

Claus von Stauffenberg shaking hands with Hitler, 5 days before trying to assassinate him in a conference with a bomb in his briefcase. 15 July 1944.

Meet Simon, the world’s first smartphone. Released in 1994 by IBM, Simon had a touch screen, had apps loaded via external memory drive, and could predict your next characters as you typed. Simon cost $899 and IBM sold over 50,000 units in 1995.

Facing Death: The different expressions of six civilians moments before being shot to death by a German firing squad in the streets of Bydgoszcz, Poland 1939. 

George Sisler, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb at the first game of the World Series, Washington DC, 1924.

Telephone switchboard operators at work - Circa 1930.

Tour de France riders using single speed bikes and taking a rolling a smoke break, 1920s.

British Invasion / The Beatles Arrive in New York, February 7, 1964 - Photo by Harry Benson.

 A British Hawker Typhoon’s rockets raining down on a tug caught in the Scheldt estuary, September 1944.

Rocky Marciano, 29, slugs the World Heavyweight Champion, 38-year-old Jersey Joe Walcott, in Philadelphia on September 23, 1952.

Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, Colorized Photo - 1931.

Anti-Communists protest at the ruined Reichstag Building, Berlin - September 9, 1948.

Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later discovered to be male when arrested on a train accused of cross dressing.  Charged with fraud, he was later released from custody  when agreeing to cease participation in athletic events.

One of the first photographs ever taken underwater, which required a 30 minute exposure. Photo by Louis Bouton 1893. 

Vietnamese and US troops rest after a tense night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush near the village of Binh Gia.  Photo by Horst Faas, January 1965.

Humility and Humanity of the People in War - German soldier giving bread to an orphaned Russian boy.  Photo Caption: Just because they perceived each other as the “enemy” doesn’t mean either of them were more or less good than than the other. At the end of the day, everyone is still human.  Volkhov, 1942.

A Navy lieutenant aims his flaming arrow at a hut across the river that conceals a Viet Cong bunker - December 1967.

The Eiffel Tower in France during the Nazi occupation, displays a "V" and accompanying banner "Germany is Victorious on all Fronts" to flaunt their military dominance. 1940.

Behind the scenes of the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe standing on the subway grate. On location in NYC, filming of Seven Year Itch, 1954.

 American Soldiers on Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968.

Damaged while on a run over Cologne, Germany, this B-17 made it back despite heavy damage to its nose. Circa, 1945.

Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin at the premiere of the movie “City Lights”. Hollywood, California 1931.

 D-Day -  Colorized photo of American soldiers in WWII. Heading to Tare Green Sector, Utah Beach, Normandy, June 6th 1944.

A woman returns to camp after a day of picking peas in Kern County, California. She traveled 70 miles for the opportunity to work and earned $1.25 for her labor.  Photo by Dorothea Lange April 1940.

Additional References____________________________________

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