Historic Photos / Set # 17

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...

Alfred Hitchcock photographed for Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, 1962.

 The day Sweden changed over from left-hand driving to right. 1967.

Girl labelling bottles at the Heinz Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, 1901.  (PA State Archives)

Workers carrying the seated wax figure of Neville Chamberlain past the standing wax models of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, and Benito Mussolini at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London, 1935.

Martin Luther King Jr. Police Mug Shot, April 12th 1963.  Photo - Montgomery County, Alabama, Sheriff's Department. 

 "Man Whittling a Stick," The ‘wily Yankee’ was a popular mid-nineteenth-century stage
character from American regional theater which became the visual prototype for Uncle Sam,
Circ, 1850.

A mother and her three children are caught up in the middle of rioting political factions on the streets of Ulster in Northern Ireland, 1971. Photograph by Clive Limpkin.

On 31 July 1964 the all-nuclear task force comprised of US Navy warships USS Long Beach (CGN 9), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), and USS Bainbridge (DLGN 25) left Norfolk, VA to begin Operation Sea Orbit, circumnavigating the globe without refueling. In this photo taken prior to departure,  members of Enterprise's crew are in a flight deck formation spelling out Albert Einstein's equation for nuclear energy.

A happy Babe Ruth, 1920.

 A British officer is carried in a shaded hammock by four natives using their heads, Sierra Leone, c. 1920.

Autochrome of Mark Twain reading in bed, by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1908.

Japanese POW’s at Guam, with bowed heads after hearing Emperor Hirohito make the announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender.” August 15, 1945.

Ruby Bridges, first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the South, William Frantz Elementary School, 1960.

Artist Salvador Dali in Paris – 1980.

Construction of the Pentagon 1942-1943.

Boy reports to the commander of the 11th squad 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade G.V. Gvozdev about the location the Germans, 1943.

May 25, 1965 Muhammad Ali screaming for Sonny Liston to get up and fight Central Maine Youth Center in Lewiston, Maine.  Photo: Getty Images.

A British soldier ‘shakes hands’ with a kitten on a snowy bank, Neulette, 1917.

Empire State Building after having a B-25 crash into the side. July 28, 1945.

Clyde Champion Barrow's (Future Bonnie & Clyde Fame) first mug shot at age 16 in 1932.

Ford’s first moving assembly line, 1913.

 In the wake of the utter defeat of allied bombing raids, Glockengasse, Cologne, Germany, 1946. Photo by Hermann Claasen.

A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano. Chechnya, 1994.

Soldiers of the 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. (Public Domain License)

 Screen test of Judy Garland’s hair and costume in Wizard of Oz, with a blonde hairstyle that was not used in the movie - 1938.

Pop Artists Debbie Harry and David Bowie, Circa 1980.

With war on the horizon, artistic treasures such as the Mona Lisa were packed with care,and taken from the capital of Paris to be hidden in the countryside, far from strategic targets. "The Mona Lisa leaves the Louvre" September 3, 1939. 

Additional References____________________________________ 
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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____________________________________ 
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...