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Friday, September 30, 2016

Historic Photos / Set # 84

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...


Actress Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer “Ip” in Beverly Hills, CA, 1958.



U.S. Army veteran Shawn Timothy Nelson drives a M60A3 Patton tank on a slow paced police chase through San Diego, California May 17, 1995.



In April 1947, people stand in a twisting line waiting to be inoculated against smallpox at the Morrisania Hospital in New York.



American pressure suit, designed by Republic Aviation, for extended operations on the moon’s surface.
 



Bunkered British children cautiously watching aerial dogfight overhead, 1940.



"Star Drug, businesson Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, New York. Interior to rear. Jose A. Fernandez, client." Jergens Lotion, just 79 cents a (glass) bottle. Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. Jan. 16, 1946.



Polio patients on boards at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, Texas - Circa 1950.



The day after his execution, revolutionary Che Guevara’s corpse is put on display in Bolivia for the world press on October 10, 1967.



Men Carrying Tea Bricks on the Ancient Tea Horse Road in Sichuan China, Photo by Ernest Henry Wilson - 1908.



GI takes a picture of Nixon during his first visit to Vietnam as President, July 30, 1969.



Crowd watching RFK’s funeral train pass by from a station platform as it transports his casket from New York to Washington, June 8 1968.



August 1939. "Marion County, Oregon, near West Stayton. Father and children came from Albany, Oregon, for a season's work in the beans." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration.



Cincinnati, Ohio / carnival ride "The Tickler" in Chester Park 1909.



Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Viet Nam. June 14, 1966.



Targa the elephant disembarks from the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey train in the Bronx April 1, 1963.



President Reagan waves to media and crowd just seconds before he is shot by John Hinkley Jr. March 30th, 1981.



A man attempts to rebuild a destroyed wall within Warsaw during World War II. 



People pose in windows and in front of shops on a sign covered street in New York City, Circa 1865.



Young farmers in Westerwald, Germany, 1914. Photo by August Sander.



All quiet at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, Photo by Thomas Nebbia - 1961.



Confederate soldier Andrew Chandler poses with his slave, Silas Chandler, who worked as his servant during the Civil War, Circa 1861.



The ice covered burnt out shell of the Equitable Life Assurance Building of New York City following a fire in subzero temperatures.



Washington, D.C., 1919. "Walter Reed boys at Shubert Garrick Theatre." National Photo Company Collection.



Vietnam War protesters release balloons in New York Central Park, Nov 14, 1969.



Julius Erving AKA: Dr. J. of the Philadelphia 76ers goes in for the dunk - 1977.



Four members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots leave the Pistol Packin’ Mama in Lockbourne AAF, Ohio during flight training to ferry B-17s during WWII, date unknown.



"Marmon Touring Car at Yosemite." Wyland Stanley Collection - California, Circa 1919.  


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, May 30, 2016

Historic Photos / Set # 81

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...


German soldier trying to dig himself out after being buried after an Allied bombardment, Normandy - 1944.



The world before head phones - Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in speaker listening booths, 1955.



A Wounded Russian Soldier drifts past a 152mm Howitzer battery firing during the Belorussian Offensive Operation, 1944.



Children in London celebrate Christmas in an underground bomb shelter, December 25, 1940.



 Stevie Wonder visiting a children’s school for the blind in London - 1970.



Walt Disney filming on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, 1941.



Slave Wilson Chinn was a 60 year old slave who was branded with the initials V.B.M. on his forehead to show proof of ownership of Volsey B. Marmillion, a sugar planter about 45 miles north of New Orleans.  Photo by Charles Paxson Wilson, 1863.



Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev looks at Lincoln, 1959.



Richard Nixon’s resignation lunch: pineapple slices, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk. Photo by Robert L. Knudsen, August 8, 1974.



57,000 German POWs are marched through Moscow to display the Red Army’s dominance - July 17 1944.



Meeting of the Minds... Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, President Harding and Harvey Firestone - 1921.



 A mother and her children, exposed to winter's chill, make their way up a slush covered street in the coal town of Consumers, Utah during the Great Depression.  Photo by Dorothea Lange 1936 for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).



A very serious Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Winston Churchill, on his way to the Houses of Parliament, London, 1905.



Caroline Kennedy and six week old brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., Photo by Richard Avedon January 3, 1961.



 Lineups at a gas station during the 1973 fuel shortage.



Princess Elizabeth Windsor of the United Kingdom hugging her Corgi, Circa - 1930.



 Woman tending a Walgreens Drug Store counter in Boise, Idaho, 1958.



A photo of Anne Frank and her friends who are celebrating Anne’s 10th birthday . Anne is pictured second to the left in a dark colored dress - June 1939.



Three-year-old Eileen Dunne, a victim of the London Blitz, recovering in a hospital, 1940. Photo by Cecil Beaton.



Claude Monet seated with some paintings as his career was winding down and his eyesight was failing, Circa - 1925.



Ronald Reagan poses for a sculpture class at USC as an example of “ideal male physique”, 1940.



 Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney at the racetrack - 1939.



 Jim Henson playing with the ‘Bert’ puppet, 1971.



The top gun turret of a Serbian M-84 tank gets lollipopped during the 87-day siege of the Battle of Vukovar, 1991.



Segregated seating at a college football game - The Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, 1955.



Visitors climb on the Great Sphynx of Giza, Egypt, Circa 1850.



Jacqueline Kennedy backstage watching her husband during the first televised debate against Richard Nixon - 1960.


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...