Historic Photos / Set # 15

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 game goes on while firefighters battle a smoky blaze at a building on 101st Street at First Avenue in East Harlem on Feb. 3, 1975 Photo by Paul Hosefros.

Imperial Aircraft Amagi after she capsized from air attacks on July 29, 1945 Kure Naval Base.

Secretariat's record win at Belmont, winner of the Triple Crown - June 7, 1973.

 President Lincoln in his White House office, 1864.

Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. May 27, 1937.

 Wounded British POWs crammed into a makeshift first aid station in a church during the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

A matador poses in full regalia with an embroidered cape in Colombia, Colorized Photo-1939.

The desolation of World War I, Poilcapelle, Belgium, 1917.

Jerry Seinfeld getting ready to make an entrance onto the set of his show "Seinfeld".

An experimental version of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first jet aircraft, sits on an Allied airfield after its test pilot defected.

A Bosnian woman rushes down an empty sidewalk past war-destroyed shops in one of the worst sections of the so-called ‘Sniper Alley. April 8, 1993 in Sarajevo.

Summer of 1941 LIFE Magazine photo spread for Rita Hayworth, Photo by Bob Landry.

Dutch anti-aircraft motorcycle in action during the German invasion, may 1940.

President John F. Kennedy and daughter Caroline in a mask strike a pose in Hyannisport - 1962.

Mickey Mantle flings his batting helmet in disgust after a lousy at-bat, Yankee Stadium, 1965.

Vintage treadmills, circa 1920.

South Vietnamese UH-1 pushed overboard from USS Midway to make space during the evacuation of the DAO compound and Saigon , April 29, 1975.

Observers record the detonation of the nuclear device air-dropped at a Nevada Test Site on March 29 1955.

Future leader-dictator of Lybia, a young Mummar Al-Gaddafi in uniform, 1971.

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Arnold Schwarzenegger shows his muscles to some little old ladies – circa 1970s.

Like milk bottles in a dairy, these heavy shells await delivery to the British Army Woolwich, London 1917.

Four Marines recover the body of Marine fire team leader Leland Hammond as their company comes under fire near Hill 484.

Two childhood friends meet during a demonstration. One is a striker, the other one, a policeman. Saint-Brieuc, France, 1972. 

 Future Presidents Bill Clinton and George HW Bush at a BBQ with Governor George Wallace.

Traffic passes by the French liner SS Normandie after she caught fire and capsized. Pier 88 NYC, 1942.

Wedding rings collected from WW II concentration camps. Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple - 1945.

Additional References____________________________________ 
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Historic Photos / Set # 11

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...

May 1940. "Young boy and calf at Granger Homesteads, Iowa" by John Vachon for the FSA.

Saturday Matinee 1925 - Sidney Lust's Leader Theater at 507 Ninth Street NW in Washington, D.C. Now playing: "The Air Mail," starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and an "Our Gang" short. National Photo Company glass negative.

March 1943. Rochester, New York. "The Babcocks, an American family, tuning in for war news."Photo by Ralph Amdursky, Office of War Information.

August 1939. Three of the four Arnold children outside their farmhouse at Michigan Hill. The oldest boy earned the money to buy his bicycle. Thurston County, western Washington. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.

The Christmas Kid / Christmas 1958 Somewhere in Pennsylvania. Source Unknown

December 1936. "Mrs. Charles Benning and baby in their shack home at Shantytown." Spencer, Iowa - 35mm negative by Russell Lee.

 Office Workers in the Stamp Division of the National Post Office - Washington, 1923. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.

 Actor Major Mite December 7, 1922. Washington, D.C. At age nine, who appeared in "Our Gang" short films and played one of the Munchkin in "The Wizard of Oz." Standing next to camera - National Photo Co.

Night view of the Washington Street produce market, New York City, 1952. Photograph by Walter Albertin for the World Telegram & Sun.

 December 1940. "Window display for Christmas sale. Providence, Rhode Island." "Billy the Monkey" now just 89 cents! 35mm nitrate negative by Jack Delano.

New York circa 1916. "Fresh opossums hanging up on display outside a butcher shop." Photo by George Grantham - The Bain Collection, Library of Congress.

Cypress Gardens, Fla. Promotional Photo for Theme Park and Botanical Gardens, April 5, 1957.

March 1936. "Mother and baby of family of nine living in a field on U.S. Route 70 near the Tennessee River." 35mm negative by Carl Mydans for the Farm Security Administration.

Detroit circa 1901. "Steamer Tashmoo leaving wharf." Another look at the popular excursion steamer with a capacity crowd of day trippers sightseeing tour. Detroit Publishing Company.

April 24, 1973. "Interview with Lt. Commander John S. McCain, Vietnam prisoner of war." Medium format negative by Thomas J. O'Halloran.

December 1941. City Diner - Washington, D.C. "Hot Shoppe Restaurant." Photo by John Collier.

May 1940. "Young Negro farm laborer. Stem, North Carolina." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.

President Kennedy on that dark yet sunny day in Dallas, minutes before he was assassinated. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.

June 1942. Washington, D.C. “Young boy standing in the doorway of his home on Seaton Road in the Northwest section. His leg was cut off by a streetcar while he was playing in the street.” Photo by Gordon Parks.

27 Cents a Gallon / The Caskey/Smith Texaco Service Station in 1963, located in the Lakewood area of Dallas, Texas.

Halloween 1958 – Class Costume Party – Photo taken by a school teacher of her class in Michigan 1958. Collection of Joe Geronimo.

Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "Red Cross volunteers at Walter Reed Hospital." Nurses distribute cigarettes for the wounded back from the trenches of Europe. Harris & Ewing.

 "October 3, 1924. Washington, D.C. Waiting in line for tickets for the opening game of the World Series. Picture snapped at 10 p.m. October 3rd, twenty-four hours before the tickets will be placed on sale."  Photographer / Source Unknown.

New York circa 1908. "Cortlandt Street." Future site of the World Trade Center and current location of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum – Photo by Detroit Publishing Company.

Photo of the Private Ambulance reserved for clients of the "W.W. Chambers Funeral Home" It was often customary for the local funeral home to also offer ambulance service, especially in small towns where the local funeral director often also served as the local coroner.  Photo by National Photo - Washington, D.C., circa 1927. Comments by Alex Doomchek.

New York circa 1901. "South Street and Brooklyn Bridge." Detroit Publishing Company. South Street Seaport was once an actual seaport.  Today the site is a destination for visiting tourists with shops and restaurants and the South Street Shopping Mall.

Off to School – October 1964, Pamrapo Avenue in Jersey City, NJ.

Additional References____________________________________ 
Special thanks to the following additional online collection sources and archives... Tumblr, Pinterest, Shorpy, Life Magazine, Historical Times,  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...