Historic Photos / Set # 86

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...

The Apollo 17 crew collects samples at Shorty Crater on its 12-day mission between December 7th and December 19th, 1972.

A movie theater in 1921 – The only sound comes from the piano player under the screen.

Hit by Viet Cong air defenses, a CH-46 trails smoke and fire before crashing and exploding in “Helicopter Valley” — the fifth CH-46 lost in the valley that day - July 15, 1966.

Playing Auto Polo, Circa 1900.

The skyline of Los Angeles showing plumes of smoke from the numerous building fires in the cityduring the Rodney King Riots, April 30, 1992.

Annie Edson Taylor: the first person to survive going over the Niagara Falls in a barrel; she did it on her 63rd birthday in 1901.

Seven foot tall Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian design student and one-time actor, wearing his costume from the now classic sci-fi thriller, Alien - 1978.

A German couple goes back to the ruins of their house following the end of World War II, Koln, Germany - 1945.

 Premier of the Wizard of Oz in New York City - August, 1939.

Jackie and John Kennedy, 1963.

 A stonemason carving eye on Mount Rushmore - Circa, 1930s.

A boy named William L. Sherman, Jr., saluting troops from a parade in honor of the World War II Heroes at Fort Sam Houston, Texas - July 1, 1942.

“The Serbian Trail of Tears:” Ethnic Serb Civilians Fleeing Croatia using farm tractors and wagons to haul their belongings, after Operation Storm in August, 1995.

The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali in 5th Street Gym, Miami Beach during their tour of America.

A photographer in West Berlin kicks a policeman standing across the border marked by a white line in East Berlin during demonstrations at Checkpoint Charlie - August 13, 1986.

 "Man working at analog computer," 1968.

Cathedral of Light during the Nuremberg Rallies of 1937.

Inmates playing chess from their prison cells, by Cornell Capa, 1972.

Beauty Pageant in the flapper style - Circa, 1920s.

Encouragement of not spreading sensitive information during WWII - Camp Hood, Texas 1943.

The complex pressure valve system seen within the control room of the UB-110 German submarine, 1918.

Mark Twain smoking a cigar and relaxing on the porch, 1905.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the first all-black regiment, 54th Massachusetts, killed leading his men at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner at the age of 25, photo by John Adams Whipple - 1863.

The Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris, Circa - 1880.

American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, wins the 100 meter dash at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 

A member of the Royal Signals demonstrating a leap through fire on a motorcycle during a display at the Strathallan Highland Games at Bridge of Allan in Stirlingshire. August 8, 1951 - Photo: Chris Ware/Keystone/Getty.

John Lennon - August, 1965 / Photo by Robert Whitaker.

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Historic Photos / Set # 46

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 model Jean Pachett helps define 1950's fashion with her reserved style of conservative elegance.  Photo for Vogue Magazine by Erwin Blumenfeld 1950.

Actress Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning home aboard the USS Monticello 1945.

Extreme snowfall in Jamestown, North Dakota 1966. Photo by Bill Koch.

Newspaper cameramen photograph Fala, Roosevelt’s pet Scotty, who accompanied the President to the Quebec conference on August 20, 1943.

Queen Elizabeth II inspects troops at age 16 after her father made her Colonel of the Grenadier Guards - 1942.

Graf Zeppelin makes an extremely low pass over the stands at Wembley Stadium, England during the 1930 FA Cup Final, won 2-0 by Arsenal over Huddersfield.

Children looking longingly at a collection of toy soldiers in a shop window. United States, Circa 1950.

Casualties of the German mustard and chlorine gas attacks at the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, World War I - May 1915.

Young German soldiers known as "Place Fillers" are held captive during World War I  by the French.  Place Fillers were boys between the ages of 14-18 that were recruited to take the place of fallen or captured older soldiers in their mid 20s.  Photo - Leslie's Weekly.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and her children John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy riding a horse and pony, November 19, 1962. Photo: JFK Library.

Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in 1937. On the left is Oliver Law, the first African-American to command white troops.

Young church folk from Sunnyvale protest against John Lennon’s remark that the Beatles are “more popular than Jesus” outside Candlestick Park in San Francisco where the Beatles are holding a concert, August 29, 1966.

The “shadow” of a Hiroshima victim, permanently etched into stone steps, after the atomic bomb – 1945.

Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across the US in 1909. The trip was designed as publicity for the Maxwell-Briscoe carmaker and covered 3,600 miles, only 152 miles of which were over paved roads.

In this April 2, 1967 photo, a wounded U.S. soldier is given water on a battlefield in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Street in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania – Winter of 1941 Photo by Jack Delano.

Chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky at age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in a simultaneous exhibition in 1921.

Mao Zedong, AKA: Mao Tse-tung, the founding father and communist leader of the People's Republic of China playing ping pong in 1963.

The four Romanov sisters of Russia, Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana, 1910 / Colorized Photo by Dana Keller.

A tiny puppy sleeping comfortably between Russian soldiers. (1945)

US 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery pose for a group photo in Grenzhausen, Germany at the close of WWI - August 1918.

Young men climb about wreckage after the Great Flood of 1899. Heavy rainfall caused a massive failure of the South Fork Dam, releasing a torrent of water upon the small city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing over 2,200 residents and causing $500 million in damages. The Johnstown Flood remains the single event causing the largest loss of life in Pennsylvania.

Two little boys running arm in arm to the shops to pick up the family entitlement of cod liver oil, orange juice and dried milk in the slum area of Glasgow in the East End of London. Photo by Bert Hardy for the Picture Post, 1948.

The Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers 1957 - Macfadden Publications.

A couple enjoys an old fashioned zip line on a weekend afternoon. (1923).

An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s)

Spanish woman fighting for the Republican Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. She is armed with a British Lee-Enfield rifle. Circa 1936.

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