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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

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.


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...


Monday, April 25, 2016

Historic Photos / Set # 78

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...


General Douglas MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.



Helen Keller, 73, who is blind and deaf, guides her hand over U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower’s face as her companion Polly Thomson communicates the President’s comments by sign language on Keller’s palm, November 3, 1953.



Medical evacuation on a Curtiss C-46 Commando from Manila during WW2, Circa - 1945.



 Director Alfred Hitchcock - November 8, 1956.



During the Vietnam War an AP photographer captures a napalm strike near U.S. Troops on patrol in South Vietnam in 1966.



RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives. May 1st 1915 - Photo Quest.



Newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming.



The Kennedy family departs a private chapel at the residence of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., in Palm Beach, Florida, following Easter Sunday service / April 1962.



V-E Day celebration in Doncaster, England - May 8, 1945. (Photo Ian Evans)



Photo session for U.S. television show “The Partridge Family”, Los Angeles, May 22, 1972.



Boeing XB-15 wing strength demonstration, 1939.



Recruits with their mattresses tied to them to serve as life preservers. Newport Naval Station - Rhode Island, 1917.



An American soldier keeps his weapon dry while crossing a river in Vietnam, 1968.



May 12, 1959: Elizabeth Taylor marries her fourth husband Eddie Fisher in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Rolls Press/Popperfoto.



Soldiers of the 369th Regiment, “Harlem Hellfighters”, standing in line on the Western Front Circa - 1917. X-post from /r/WWI.



Fans of rock group Kiss await the arrival of the group on stage at Cobo Hall in Detroit during the concert recording of the bands’ album “Alive!” - May 16, 1975.



Crew of USS Yorktown and Hellcat fighters during WWII Pacific operations, August 31, 1943.



Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, marries photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television, and attracted viewing figures of 300 million worldwide. May 6, 1960: Fox Photos/Getty.



"A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier".
 Photograph by Paul Thompson. Somewhere on the Western Front. Circa - 1917.



Easter service at St Patrick’s Chapel in Westminster Cathedral - Photo by Peter Hall, London 1961.



US Marines in action in the dense forest on Guadalcanal, August, 1942.



Two aerialists, Roland Schmidt and Francine Pary are married on a tightrope between the two towers of La Rochelle Harbour, France - March 22, 1959.



Two Civil War veterans from opposing sides shake hands at Gettysburg fifty years after the battle - 1913.



John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their week-long “Bed-In”. Married five days earlier, the couple decided to spend their honeymoon in bed for a week, and invited the world’s press to join them in their Amsterdam hotel room to talk about world peace everyday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. / March 1969.



Harley Davidson with a mounted machine gun, WWI Circa - 1917.



St Patrick’s Day Parade - Chicago, Illinois, 1975 - Photo: Paul Sequeira.



Friday the 13th - Denver, Colorado 10/13/2000 - Photo: John Leyba for The Denver Post.


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...