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Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Historic Photos / Set # 90

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...



Filming of the famous MGM film ending screen credits, Hollywood, 1928.



Edwardian superstar Lily Elise with her friend Roy Sambourne at the beach - 1906



U.S. chess prodigy, Bobby Fisher, playing 50 opponents simultaneously at his Hollywood hotel on 12, April 1964. He won 47, lost 1 and 2 ended in a stalemate.



An English nanny driving a motorized pram, London -1922.



Chechnya, under attack, mid-90s.



The funeral procession for Elvis Presley makes it way toward Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee where the rock and roll legend was laid to rest next to his mother.  An estimated 80,000 people witnessed the motorcade - August 1977.



Anti-Hitler demonstration parade, New York City 1933.



The haunting gaze of a child laborer - Photo by Lewis Wikes Hine, 1918.



Ski Jumping at Chicago’s Soldier Field, 1937.





A paratrooper from Company A, 101 First Airborn guides a medical helicopter through the dense jungle foliage to wounded men during a five day patrol of an area southwest of Hue, South Vietnam - April 1968.




Women operators in Richmond, Virginia, 1884.




Chicago Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett greets gangster Al Capone at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois - September 9th, 1931.




Portrait of homesteaders of the Great Smokey Mountains, the last two surviving members of the Walker Family pose before their simple log home, where they lived their entire lives.  Margaret Jane Walker (seated) died a few months after this picture was taken.  Her sister, Louisa Susan Walker died two years later. Photo by Jack E. Boucher - 1962.




Three young playmates in rural Nebraska - Circa 1910 / Photo by Frederick Blaine Humphrey.



Seven bathing beauties at Potomac Bathing Beach near the Tidal Basin; Washington, D.C. - 1920



Women workers at a gun factory test fire the military weapons they built for the war effort - Circa, 1943.



Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore recording the music of a Blackfoot chief onto a phonograph for history - 1916.



A U.S. Army captain removes leeches from his forearm using a cigarette in Vietnam - Photo by Larry Burrows for Life Magazine.



Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test in the Nevada desert near the city of Las Vegas, 1953.



German POW Heinz Pelschner is reunited with his wife, following his release from an Allied detention center / June 1945.




Building the first Ferris Wheel for the Chicago Worlds's Fair - 1893. 




A high school football game continues as one of the home team’s school buildings burns in western Massachusetts. November 1965.




Portrait of Survival, liberated survivors of the Holocaust pose with their tattooed identification numbers placed on their forearms by their Nazi captors.




Lost in the music of Woodstock - 1970.




School students are transported to high school aboard an early school bus - 1914.




Girl sitting on windowsill in Appalachia - Kentucky, Photo by William Gedney - 1964.




Farm girl washing turnips, harvested from a collective farm, in the local river.  Photo by Paul Schutzer, Romania - 1963. 


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...

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Historic Photos / Set # 82

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...


John F. Kennedy, Caroline, and Raggedy Ann on a walk, ca. 1962.



Two children in straw sunhats watch with interest as a freight train approaches in the city of Edmonton, Alberta Province, Canada.



Two Polish women stand in shock near the covered corpse of a third as they survey the bomb damage to their neighborhood following a German Luftwaffe aerial assault on Warsaw during the German Invasion of Poland - September, 1939.



The city of New Orleans is underwater following Hurricane Katrina, a rare category 5 storm, which caused the deaths of over 1800 people and $100 billion in structural damage, 2005.



Aerial view of Woodstock Music Festival, New York - 1969.



Fans in the crowded stands of the 1912 World Series.



Rare photo of Mick Jagger, William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol sharing dinner - 1980.



Women workers of the locomotive round house on lunch break at the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943 - Reproduction from color slide, Photo by Jack Delano.



Aerial view of Armstrong Flooring Plant Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Photo: Armstrong World Industries, 1936.



Children swim near the ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany 1945.



The first waves of the Indian Tsumani of 2004 takes people by surprise.  The tidal wave caused by an earthquake off shore, killed over 200,000 people.



Helen Keller is introduced to Charlie Chaplin through touch, 1919.



Women sit along a wall in an insane asylum in Youngstown, Ohio. Photo by Jerry Cooke for Life Magazine, 1946.



Bette Davis and her stand-in film double, Sally Sage, knitting together in August 1940.


Driver education training class in Brooklyn, New York - 1955.



Soviet soldiers survey the damage to Große Frankfurter Straße (now, Karl-Marx-Allee) during the final days of the Battle of Berlin. May 1, 1945.



Robert Peraza neals on the World Trade Center Memorial to mourn the death of his son ten years earlier during the 9-11 attacks - 2011.



The 3rd Ave elevated train around 57th Street New York City – Photo by Vivian Maier 1952.



Mrs. Mary Couchman, a 24-year-old warden of a small Kentish Village, shields three little children, among them her son, as bombs fall during an air attack on October 18, 1940.



"Hats in the Garment District," Photo by Margaret Bourke-White - New York, 1930.



Women flock to a large well with empty containers to fetch their daily drinking water in Natwarghad, India - 2003.



Construction begins on the Berlin Wall. GDR-FRG. August 1961.



A man jumps out of the burning Tae Yun Kak hotel with a mattress to cushion his fall, Seoul, South Korea, December 25, 1971. He died on impact along with 163 others who perished in the fire.



British suffragette Charlotte Despard addresses the crowd in Trafalgar Square during a Communist rally, June 11, 1933.



Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by John Vachon - The Denver Post.



Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson slides into home against the NY Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, 1955 World Series.



A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “Home” while living in a residence for disturbed children in Poland, 1948.


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...