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Showing posts with label Pearl Harbor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pearl Harbor. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Historic Photos / Set # 91

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...


Fidel Castro with Ernest Hemingway at the Hemingway Fishing Contest, Cuba, 1960.




The largest Nazi rally in history outside of Germany, Over 15,000 Argentinians celebrating the annexation of Austria, 1938.



Sunlight fills the waiting room of Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, 1943, Photo by Jack Delano.



Toffs and Toughs - The photo that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain - 1937.



Albert Einstein Looking Fabulous in Shorts, Circa 1930s.



Dr, James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, practices with his wife Maude in 1928.



Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871.



Margaret Hamilton, head software developer for the Apollo 11's guidance computer, standing beside the program manuals of loaded original code, 1969.



Loggers in California with the felled giant ‘Mark Twain Redwood’, 1892.



Battle of Caporetto WWI - Dead Italian troops litter a hillside, victims of a German gas attack, Heights of Tolmein - 1917.



A young Charles M. Shultz looking a lot like Charlie Brown – Circa 1930.



A crowd gathers to hear the latest news read aloud on Wall Street as the stock market crashes - October 24, 1929.



"Child of white migrant worker ironing in tent camp near Harlingen, Texas", 1939.



Salvage crews examine the torpedo damaged hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma, during recovery operations following the attack on Pearl Harbor.  429 men died when the ship capsized.  The ship could not be repaired and was later scrapped - 1946.



A Coca-Cola company delivery truck in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1909.



Citizens crowd the capital during the Liberation of Paris / World War II - August 25, 1944.



Baby Play Cage on a high-rise apartment building, 1937. These cages mounted to windows and were believed to be a good way for small children who lived in the city to get fresh air.




A group of convicted Mormons in the Utah Penitentiary for practicing polygamy. 





A player is injured during the Red Sox versus Tigers baseball game in Boston, 1910.



A two by four found penetrated through the middle of a palm tree's trunk during the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in Florida - Photo by Bertho Bowman August 25, 1992.



Building biplanes in the Farman Aircraft Factory in Billancourt, Paris, 1917. Colorized Photo by Léon Gimpel.



The American Painting Factory, where artists hired by the Federal Art Project churn out painting of America's war heroes during World War II - Life Magazine, August 1942.



A policeman questions a saddened young boy who intended to fish in the fountain on Trafalgar Square, London, 1892.



President Ronald Reagan gives Muhammad Ali a "jab" during his visit to the White House, 1983.



Anne Frank pokes her head out of the window of the family’s flat at Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, 1942.



The two youngest sons of FDR, Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and John Roosevelt posing with surfing pioneer Duke Kahanamoku in Waikiki, Hawaii - August, 1934.



The ‘L’ train in Chicago, 1967. 


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...


Friday, October 23, 2015

Historic Photos / Set # 54

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...


Photo Bomb - A meter maid crashes a fashion show staged by fashion designer Ossie Clark on the streets of London, drawing the attention of press photographers gathered there, Fulham Road, London 1967.



Standing Guard, Korea, Photo by Harold Feinstein 1951.



German troops prepare for victory parade after the invasion of Poland – 1939.



Emperor Hirohito addresses a crowd at Hiroshima, December 7th, 1947.  



Ernest Hemingway poses with a Cape Buffalo he shot in 1953.



Final dress rehearsal practice maneuvers for the “D-Day” Invasion - April 25th 1944.



The Shah and the Queen of Iran are sharing a ride with Walt Disney during their visit of Disneyland, 1962.



Crowd listens outside radio shop at Greenwich and Dey Streets for news on President Kennedy's condition - November 22nd 1963.



German pilot Matthias Rust’s Cessna after flying from Finland and landing in Moscow’s Red Square, 28 May 1987.



A Texas Blues family plays outside a store in San Antonio, Texas / Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson – 1947.



Australian soldiers from the 7th Field Company of Australian Engineers posing at the entrance of a bunker system under Hill 63 known as the Catacombs in the Messines sector, Belgium, January 22, 1918. 



Hitler poses with 10 of his best military commanders during World War II - 



People congregate to watch the first television in Gozo, Sister Island of Malta, 1958.



A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, just as the USS Shaw exploded - December 7, 1941.



Leaping the Chasm - Ashley Bennett, son of photographer H.H. Bennett, jumping to Stand Rock – 1886. Wisconsin Historical Society.



A humble Robert F. Kennedy on the campaign trail, Buffalo, New York - Photo by Cornell Capa - 1964.



German soldiers captured at the Battle of Bastogne, Belgium - December 1944.



Girls waiting for The Beatles’s lunchtime session, at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, United Kingdom - Circa 1961.



Dissecting room, Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia – 1902.



A 17 year old Marcus Serjeant shoots six blank rounds from a starting pistol at the Queen Elizabeth II during a parade in London – 1981.  Quickly subdued and arrested he shouted…"I wanted to be famous, I wanted to be a somebody"  He was charged with treason and sentenced to five years of prison.  Upon release he changed his name and started his life over.



Whittier, California Fire Department in 1904.



A woman in the neighborhood of Dobrinja, Sarajevo crosses the street under Serb sniper fire, December 1992.



The superintendent and one of the spinners, Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, North Carolina. Others smaller still. Ten boys and girls this size and smaller out of a force of 40 employees. Photo by Lewis Wikes Hine – 1908.



Geronimo and his warriors. One of the only known photos of Indian combatants still in the field who had not yet surrendered to the United States Photo by  C. S. Fly, March 1886.



Thousands of North Korean refugees climb over the skeleton of a bridge on the Taedong River that runs through the city of Pyongyang, North Korea by Max Desfor December 4, 1950. 



British Troops leave Dublin for the last time after Ireland being declared a free state 1922.



Fanny Duberly who travelled along with British troops throughout the Crimean War, is seen here with her husband Captain Henry Duberly in Crimea, 1885. 


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...