Historic Photos / Set # 80

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 toll of a Presidency: The first & last portrait photos of Lincoln as President: May 1860 & Feb 1865.

Players trying to keep warm at the 1945 NFL Championship Game.

A Photographer uses a backdrop to mask the city’s war-torn remains. Warsaw, Poland - 1946.

These illuminated tires were developed by Goodyear in 1961 / Photo by Douglas Miller.

Acrobats at the top of the Empire State Building, possibly to commemorate the opening of the finished building on May 1, 1931.

A German soldier returns home only to find his home and family no longer there - Frankfurt, Germany 1946.

The human components inside Star Wars star droids R2D2 and C3PO, 1982.

This is believed to be the earliest photograph taken of NYC at Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets, May 1850.

Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side of the wall, 1961.

The first light of the Trinity Test, the first atomic bomb detonation, burns through film emulsion. New Mexico, July 16th, 1945.

Abandoned ships in San Francisco Harbor (1849-1850) Over 600 ships arrived with the 49ers who were joined by crew members who deserted ship to look for gold.  The ships could not find crew to sail them home.  Most were towed to shore and recycled for scrap.

  Portrait of a young Leo Tolstoy, Age 20, 1848.

January 28, 1986 - The space shuttle Challenger falls to Earth. 

The assassination of President Anwar Sadat, Cairo as he watched a military parade – October 6, 1981.

 The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, NYC 1931.

 88-year-old Mrs. Sally Fickland, a former slave, looking at the Emancipation Proclamation in 1947, which was signed when she was 3 years old.

Oscar statuettes in 1970 being plated with layers of copper, nickel and gold by Dodge Trophies Inc. of Los Angeles.

John F. Kennedy, a face in the crowd at a college football game in Miami, Florida, 1961.

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in Giza, Egypt 1961.

Woman, wearing a barrel, advertising for clothing drive, walks down the middle of Times Square, New York, 1944.

Casting call for black cats. Los Angeles, 1961.

A mother searches for her son as former prisoners of war return to Vienna, 1947. 

Al Capone fishing on his yacht shortly after his 10 month stint in a Philadelphia jail for carrying concealed weapons, 1931.

Over 500,000 People Assemble to Watch the Landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia at Edwards Air Force Base, July 4th, 1982.

Olympic Torch Relay before the Third Reich - Berlin, Germany August 1, 1936.

A couple sharing an umbrella, New York City - 1970.

Young German soldier who was taken prisoner by US troops near Forbach, Germany - March 1945.

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Historic Photos / Set # 53

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...

St Paul’s Cathedral, London during the German bombing campaign called the Blitz by Daily Mail photographer Herbert Mason December 29, 1940.

 

A group of people having a Christmas party aboard a LMS (London, Midland, Scottish Railway) train car in 1935.

 Slum dwellings in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter, 1925.

The Kennedy Family - Summer at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts – 1963.

French girl engaged to German soldier follows him into prison compound after his capture near Orleans by U.S. forces, August 1944. 

Freedom Riders Julia Aaron and David Dennis sit aboard an interstate bus as they and 25 other civil rights activists are escorted by Mississippi National Guardsmen on a violence-marred trip between Montgomery, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi. June 2, 1961.

Future American President Gerald Ford at age five. 1918.

USAF F-82G Twin Mustang over Korea - Circa 1950.

Japanese envoys leave the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan after signing surrender papers, September 2, 1945.

President Ronald Reagan and his staff watch a video of the Challenger disaster. January 28, 1986.

Macy’s department store detectives posing for a photograph with their backs turned so as not to reveal their identity. New York City – 1948.

Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the horse races, 1968.

Northwestern University girl students in a Home Guard rifle drill - Oak Park, Illinois on January 11, 1942.

  

Medic Callahan giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying soldier in Vietnam 1967.

Pope John Paul II talking with his assassin, Ali Agca, in his prison cell – 1983.

Homeless man sleeping on a park bench on Christmas Eve at Stureplan in Stockholm, Sweden, 1917.

Frances “Poppy” Northcutt, who at 25 help designed the return-to-Earth trajectory that the Apollo 8 crew took from the moon, back to Earth, she also help design the and built the descent engine for the Apollo lunar lander.

Theodore Roosevelt in a 1910 Mitchell Model S with Connecticut plate, 1914-1918.

View of USS ARIZONA taken from Manhattan Bridge on the East River in New York City on its way back from sea trials – 1916.

A crowd of teenagers and children observe the slumped body of a young Armed Forces of Liberia soldier accused of looting and murder, who has just been executed by firing squad, November 21, 1992.

Homer Peel kisses his 12-year-old bride Geneva on the courthouse steps following their wedding ceremony. Madinsonville, Tennessee. June 25, 1937. 

Elton John does a handstand on his piano, London, England - Photo by Terry O’Neill 1972.

Browning gun store in Ogden, Utah in the 1880s.

A women with what possessions she has left after the Bayless Pulp and Paper Company Dam gave way on September 30, 1911 in Austin, Pennsylvania.

Austrian girls celebrate the Anschluss with a German soldier in Salzburg, Austria, March 12, 1938.

A technician stands and adjusts the wiring at the rear of a large computer designed to monitor water depth and soil quality in Phoenix, Arizona, 1965.

Boys swarm around peep-shows in a penny arcade at an outdoor carnival in Granville, West Virginia, September, 1938.

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...