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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...

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Historic Photo Sets # 75

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 young black man, in an act of resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, riding a bus restricted to whites only, in Durban, South Africa, 1986.



Child during the Holy Friday procession. Zamora. The Kingdom of Spain - 1957.



When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their sacks.



After the liberation on Aug 26, 1944, Parisian women with their children run for cover as remaining German snipers open fire from the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral.



Adolf Hitler as a young child, ca 1890.



A mother and daughter, pre civil rights movement.



Watching the construction of the Berlin Wall, West Berlin, 1962. 



An East German guard passes a flower through a gap in the Berlin Wall on the morning it was torn down - November 10th 1989.



Children check their ID tags while they wait to be evacuated from urban areas of England during the Battle of Britain 1940.



President Ronald Reagan wearing sweatpants aboard Air Force One.



Over 2 million people gathered in Times Square, NY to celebrate the end of World War II, 1945.



Rare photo of an 8 year-old Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan. Taken in 1888, It was lost for 120 years, only rediscovered in March 2008.



The child of a KKK member approaches black state troopers at a rally in Georgia - Photo by Todd Robertson 1992.



Installing the first neon sign on the Las Vegas Strip. El Rancho Vegas sign by YESCO - 1941.



Central Park in 1930 a year after the start of the Great Depression.



An English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home, 1940.



Coca-Cola advertisement via birdseed in Saint Mark’s Square in Venice, 1960s.



“Operation Babylift” with airlifted orphans from Vietnam to the US. April 12, 1975.



Son runs to say goodbye to his father, who is going to fight in the II World War.



A milkman still doing his morning rounds in the ruined streets of London during the Blitz - Circa 1940.



The zeppelin Hindenburg flies over Manhattan hours before bursting into flames during landing - May 6, 1937.



The last public execution in the USA, Rainey Bethea killed in Owensboro, KY 1936.



Blackie & Brownie begging for Milk at Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm October 15, 1954.



Young boy attending Martin Luther King’s speech, 1968.


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...