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 # 44

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...

 

 

President Theodore Roosevelt on horseback jumping over a stonewall. May 29th 1907. 

The patriotic interior décor of Grand Central Station, New York City, during World War II.

A female member of the IRA with assault rifle Circa – 1970.

Titanic promotional photo of the 1st Class promenade deck (White Star Line) Liverpool, United Kingdom – 1912.

Harry Houdini steps into a crate at New York Harbor as part of an escape stunt, July 7, 1912.

A lone Italian sentry stands guard in the opening of a Rock Bunker in the Alps, 1918.

The Cunningham Sanitarium, a hyperbaric chamber intended to treat diabetes and cancer, Circa 1928.

Blast furnaces from the Northside Steel Works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Circa - 1950’s. 

Elvis Presley waits for his breakfast order at a segregated lunch counter in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, while a woman who is not permitted to sit, waits for her sandwich – 1956. Photograph by Alfred Wertheimer.

Photo of the USS Saratoga taking the first of five kamikaze hits, February 21, 1945.

The busy streets of center city Atlanta, Georgia – Circa 1928.

Snow Tractor Train used to transport goods in Canada during the winter of 1928/29.

Divers work to recover the body of Mary Joe Kopechne who drown in Ted Kennedy’s car after he drove it off a bridge and into the Chappaquiddick Tidal Channel – 1969.

Young boy joins guerilla movement in Nuristan, Afghanistan during the Herat Uprising – 1979. (Photo by Steve McCurry)

The child voices behind the Peanuts characters in animated short films, Circa – 1960s.

Baseball season opener group portrait with players from both opposing teams, New York and Boston 1886.

Young men registering for military conscription in New York City, June 5, 1917.

Five years after the city of Dresden was bombed heavily by allied air raids, Germans lay wreaths in a part of the city where they still haven’t searched for bodies yet. February – 1950.

Nimoy, Kelley, and Shatner record their voices for Star Trek: The Animated Series, April 24, 1973.

A School Portrait of a Chinese Kindergarten Class in Los Angeles, California Circa – 1920.

University of Maryland Girls’ Rifle Team Photo, 1925.

Julie Andrews is doused with water during filming of The Sound of Music. Salzburg, Austria, 1964.

Janet Waldo, the voice behind popular animated characters of Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop, and Josie from Josie and the Pussycats, 1960s-1980s.

U.S. Air Force photo of Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll. July 25, 1946.

Ryan O’Neal and his daughter, Tatum O’Neal in a scene from the film Paper Moon directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Tatum O’Neal won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in the film at the young age of 10. She remains the youngest person to win an Academy Award in competition. Photo: Paramount Pictures.

The Peoples Power Revolution: In the face of mass demonstrations against his 20 year rule, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his entourage are airlifted from the presidential palace in Manila by U.S. helicopters and sent into exile in Hawaii - February 25, 1986.

 A German orphan tries to sell his father’s Iron Cross in exchange for cigarettes. December 1, 1945.

Additional References____________________________________ 

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