Historic Photos / Set # 18

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...

Two severely burnt British soldiers whose tank had been hit by a German shell shortly after the Normandy landings, 1944 -

An Iraqi boy selling oranges in a Baghdad during the Gulf War, circa 1991.

 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife emerging from the Sarajevo Town Hall to board their car, a few minutes before the assassination June 28, 1914.

Troops of the Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade land with their bicycles on Juno Beach on D-Day, 6th June 1944, Normandy.

Children learn to swim in the schoolyard in England in the early 1920s.

 The city gates of St. Augustine, Florida, 1865.

German Friedrichshafen seaplane crashed into a building in Germany 1918.

 Worker on the Empire State Building by Lewis W. Hine 1930.

Eric Lomax, a British soldier tortured by the Japanese during WW2, photographed on his reunion with a remorseful Takashi Nagase, one of his interrogators, in Thailand, 1993.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with his first cousin King George V of England, Colorized Photo 1915 -

Two soldiers at Victoria Station about to leave for the front, 1914 -

Midnight At the Glassworks. Photo taken at an Indiana glass and bottle factory in 1908. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke - Library of Congress.

American and United Nations troops enjoy a Jack Benny performance at a USO show in Korea, July, 1951. Photo Michael Rougier, Time & Life Pictures.

President John F. Kennedy looks over a Gemini space capsule with Astronaut John Young on board during a September 1962 visit to McDonnell Aircraft.

The body of Volkssturm Bataillonsführer Walter Doenicke, who killed himself shortly before the arrival of allied troops in Leipzig, lies next to a portrait of Adolf Hitler with his face torn out, April 1945.

Three unidentified boys at Manzanar Relocation Internment Camp, Owens Valley, California - 1943.

American and Soviet troops meet at the River Elbe near Torgau, Germany on April 25th 1945.

Medical attendants remove the body of Marilyn Monroe from her home following her fatal overdose of sleeping pills, 9th August 1962.

A woman from Ukraine sends a blunt message to President Putin of Russia - 2014.

Traffic warden Hugh ­Duncan cradles injured child in the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Belfast, 1972.

Huts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer St., Manhattan, by Berenice Abbott, 25th October 1935.

Jewish children of the Warsaw ghetto during German occupation, Summer 1941.

This 1971 photo from David Hume Kennerly shows an American GI, his weapon drawn, cautiously moving over a devastated hill near Firebase Gladiator during the Vietnam War.

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme sits in an interrogation room September 5, 1975, just after her assassination attempt on Gerald R. Ford.

 John F. Kennedy catches a bunch of bananas thrown to him by an admirer during the 1960 campaign.

Queen Elizabeth II during the throws of World War II, 1944.

 Japanese plane shot down during the battle of Saipan 1944.

Burt Ward and Adam West photographed by Yale Joel on the set of the Batman movie, 1966.

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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____________________________________ 
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...