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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...


Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Historic Photos / Set # 52

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 city of Cleveland - 1.5 million balloons being released in a United Way publicity stunt, 1986.



 Girls Night Out - Washington Hot Shoppe Restaurant – Washington D.C. - December 1941 / Photo by John Collier.



German soldier giving another solider a light with his flamethrower, WWII. 



Elvis Presley signs autographs for fans in Germany while out riding a bike, Circa 1959.



Color photograph of the original black-and-white Addams Family television set.



Concerns over the Beetles comments on race relations caused several local DJs with support of the KKK to begin publicly burning Beatles records in protest throughout the American South / Photo - Georgia, 1966.



Susan Atkins leaves the grand jury room after testifying against accused murderer Charles Manson, Los Angeles, California, December 1969. Photo: Ralph Crane.



Two Policeman on Trafalgar Square during Christmas in London, 1948 – Getty Images.



Charles Lindbergh landing the Spirit of St. Louis at the Croydon Aerodome in London May 29, 1927.



Stonehenge’s gardener mowing the grass. Circa 1955.



A young girl selling black market cigarettes to café patrons in Naples, Italy, 1948.



American actress Susan Peters. Discovered by Hollywood when she was 18, paralyzed after a hunting accident at 24, and dead by 31 from pneumonia complicated by anorexia. 1943.



Times Square, New York City, December 30, 1935 - Photo: NY Daily Times.



December 26, 1947:  Heavy snow blankets the Northeast U.S., buries NYC under 25+” of snow in 16 hrs - Photo: Art Whittaker / NY Daily News.



Boys watch the Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8 astronauts in space. Virginia, December 24, 1968. Photo: Bruce Dale / National Geographic.



An instructor signals through a porthole to a seaman at the bottom of a 15 foot tank, during submarine crew training at the DSEA Instructional Centre at Portsmouth in 1939. 



'Solitude' John F. Kennedy at Coos Bay, Oregon – Photo by Jacues Lowe 1959.



Wartime Farewell, Pennsylvania Station in New York City: 1944.







British soldiers at play" by H.D. Girdwood. France, c. 1915 via The British Library.



Children play in the yard of Ruston home, while a Tacoma smelter stack showers the area with arsenic and lead residue. Ruston, Washington, August 1972.



Russian actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer Tamara Geva photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston c. 1927.



Big and Small / Circus Elephant Photo, Date Unknown Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum.



Surf Sirens, 1946 - Photo by Ray Leighton via The National Library of Australia.



London Street Scene, 1920s.



Dakota Ice Skating, Central Park in view of the Dakota Apartment House in the 1880s / Source - Untapped Cities.



"Cheering crowds greet British troops in Paris, 26 August 1944." Imperial War Museum.


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...