Historic Photos / Set # 5

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...

American troops advance on St. Vith, Belgium in the Ardennes, January 1945, Battle of the Bulge.

The massive propellers of the RMS Titanic during the ship's construction in May of 1911.

Norway celebrates the first bananas ever arriving into the country, 1905.

The average age of an RAF pilot in 1940 was 20. The strain they were under is clearly written on the face of Squadron Leader Brian “Sandy” Lane pictured here aged 23, He was killed in combat 2 years later.

Flag flown at NAACP office, Harlem, New York, 1938.

Hank Williams with band performing on WSM radio’s “Grand Ole Opry.” Nashville, Tennessee, 1951.

A night view of burning Toyama, Japan on August 1, 1945, after 173 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on the city. Formerly a big producer of aluminum, the city was 95.6% demolished according to military estimates.

"South Avenue -- Rochester, New York." Detroit Publishing Company, Circa 1906.

An observer in the tail tip of the English airship R33 in Selby, England, 1919 -

Students from a women’s business school perform military drills under the supervision of a Chinese officer in Taipei City, Taiwan - April, 1972.

February 1956. "Domestic worker fixing girl's hair." From Photos by Bern Keating for the Look Magazine article "The South vs. the Supreme Court: What Is a South­erner?" Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection.

 Man on Motorbike jumps his comrades during the interwar years.

Aerial view of Woodstock Music Festival in New York State, 1969.

Detroit circa 1901. "Excursion steamers Tashmoo and Idlewild at the wharf." Detroit Publishing.

"House at 604 H Street N.W., at which the plot to assassinate Lincoln was hatched." The building is currently a Chinese Restaurant called Wok and Roll. National Photo Company, Circa 1925.

Street Gang on corner Springfield, Massachusetts – Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1916.

American M24 Tank Destroyer in Italy, Colorized Photo - 1944.

Fall 1940. "New Bedford, Massachusetts. Foggy night." - Photo / Jack Delano.

May 1943. "Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore. 'Liberty ship' cargo transports." Photo by Arthur Siegel, Office of War Information.

May 1915. "Nine-year-old newsie and his 7-year-old brother 'Red, Los Angeles newsboys." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.

"Christ's College 1st XV rugby team." Steffano Webb studio in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1911.

"Edgar Allan Poe's mother's house. Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia." Large-format negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Circa 1930.

Approaching the shores of Normandy, 1944.

Early Play Pen, Photo by William Williams, National Library of New Zealand, circa 1890's.

Crittenden County, Arkansas. Cotton workers on the road, carrying all they possess in the world." Photo by Carl Mydans, Resettlement Administration.  May 1936.

Green Bay, Wisconsin. "Packers coach Vince Lombardi at lunch counter." Sneezer's No. 2 - Photo by Frank Bauman, 1960. 

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi 1939. Library of Congress.

Additional References ____________________________________

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Historic Photos / Set # 4

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...

"Washington Tidal Basin Beauty Contest — August 5, 1922." Seventeen year old Misses Eva Fridell and runner-up, Anna Niebel. National Photo Company glass negative.

Big Ben clock tower as seen through the tangles of barbed wire during World War II.

John Wayne "The Duke" in a bunny suit as a guest on Rowan and Martin’s variety television show, Laugh In –1972.

Young boy tends a freshly stocked fruit and vegetable market – 1915.

Jaws - 18 Foot Shark caught off Port Chalmers, California – Circa 1900.

George Davey (Prisoner # 4100) was sentenced to one month’s hard labour in Wandsworth Prison in the United Kingdom in 1872 for stealing two rabbits. He was ten years old.

The Wizard of Oz / Film Promotional Photo ~ Dorothy and Toto, 1939.

May 6, 1937: German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire while attempting to dock at the Lakehurst Naval Station in New Jersey. 35 of the 97 passengers were killed along with one ground crewman.  Photo: Arthur Cofod/Time & Life Pictures.

Daguerreotype portrait of Dolley Madison by Mathew Brady, 1848. She was the earliest former First Lady of the United States to be photographed.

Slums of Washington, D.C. With the Capitol Building in the background, 1940.

Just Married on the Las Vegas Strip circa 1956.

Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, shaves during a camping trip in Polandon, Poland, in this July 25, 1959 file photo when he was a parish priest.

A family heads down Park Avenue in NYC via sled dog during the winter of 1947.

"Eskimo group", by William Dinwiddie, Port Clarence, Alaska, 1894.

 A portrait of a young Lucille Ball around 1930.

"Policeman directing traffic at Ninth and G Streets N.W., Washington, D.C."National Photo Company Collection glass negative, 1922. 

 Crew members of the Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing, in 1966.

 Castro with a bear cub that was given to him by Siberian geologists when visiting the USSR in 1967.

 Priscilla Beaulieu Presley photo shoot at Blue Light Studios, May 10, 1965.

 Prohibition beer raid in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1931.

 A "couple" of elephants wearing hats for Easter Sunday, circa 1937.

Tired of shoveling snow, Sargent Robert. G. Evraets uses a flame thrower to clear a path through the frozen Governors Island, 1947.

In Memphis State University twenty-six Sigma Kappa ladies half-heartedly attempt to cram into a telephone booth, in 1959.

A police officer on a Harley motorcycle with a “mobile booking cage” Circa 1925.

After most of the Allied Fleet was destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of the Java Sea in February 1942, the crew of the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen covered the ship with green foliage, which enabled it to escape from the area safely.

US Government photo mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself during the war, Circa 1941. 

 Barrels of alcohol erected into a pyramid to be burned during Prohibition (1924)

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...