Historic Photos / Set # 26

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...

A German soldier gazes out over the aftermath of the Spring Offensive - August, 1918.

June 1929. "Young boy with bucket and pole on the Potomac." Harris & Ewing glass negative.

Actress Lauren Bacall and Vice President Harry S. Truman at the National Press Club canteen in Washington, D.C., in 1945.

Viet Cong prisoner with mouth and eyes taped, Vietnam, by Paul Schutzer, 1965.

Anne Frank in happier times relaxing on a beach in 1934.

Desperate Job hunting in the 1930’s during the Great Depression.

Nine year old Prince Charles strikes a pose with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, and Princess Anne, October 1957.

British Police Bobbies holding back Beatles fans outside Buckingham Palace - October 26, 1965.

Group of teenagers listen to 45 rpm. records as they shop for the latest hits at a record store in West Grove, Mississippi, 1944.

Mowing Stone Henge in the 1950s.

1944. "Actress Lauren Bacall, three-quarters portrait, in houndstooth-check jacket." Warner Bros. publicity still for the film, To Have and Have Not.

The mushroom cloud from a 1.1 megaton nuclear detonation rises over Christmas Island during Operation Dominic, April 27, 1962.

Recording an episode of “Gang Busters”, true crime radio show, New York City - 1930’s.

Amelia Earhart before her first transatlantic flight in 1928.

John Ploch, an American POW who had not been reported by the North Koreans during the War, sits in dazed disbelief as he is processed during a prisoner exchange. Freedom Village, Panmunjom, Korea. 1953.

Girl armed with an AK-47 on a Cambodian road during the Khmer Rouge insurgency, 1992.

Black movement for integration: teaching the illiterate to write so they can vote in Virginia, 1960. Photo by Eve Arnold.

An old woman who fled the warzone with her cow, sits on a bench in Amiens, France 28th of March 1918.

Bagels are delivered to a restaurant on 2nd Ave. early morning in New York City in 1940.

The scars of 20 years of nuclear bomb testing in the desert in the state of Nevada.

July 1939. Granville County, N.C. "Country filling station owned and operated by tobacco farmer."  Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange.

Washington, D.C., circa 1915. "Purches, David E." A yar youngster and his mate at the Harris & Ewing portrait studio, not long before his life was cut tragically short in a traffic Accident in March of 1916. 8x10 glass negative.

An Irish Guards machine-gun team in 1914 / Not a single one of these men pictured here survived the war.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower seated with Vice President Richard Nixon in November 1952.

Four year old Joseph Schleifstein, who survived the Holocaust by being kept hidden by his Father from Nazi officials inside Buchenwald concentration camp.  He concealed his son from view in a large sack.  He is seen here shortly after his liberation in April, 1945.  He is one of the youngest known survivors of the Holocaust.

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, New York City 1909.

Women workers assemble the Sears catalogue by hand – 1942.

Additional References____________________________________ 
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Historic Photos / Set # 25

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...

July 1940. "Migratory agricultural worker from Florida waiting to leave Belcross, N.C., for another job at Onley, Va. It is Sunday and she is wearing her best clothes." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.

A dead German artillery gunner lies slumped over in the limber along with his team of four fallen horses. Unknown Location – Europe – WWI / Circa – 1918. (Library of Congress)

Fall 1940. "New Bedford, Massachusetts. Foggy night." Another noirish image from the prolific Jack Delano. Medium format nitrate negative.

October 1957. "Assembly line with 1958 Chevrolets." 35mm Kodachrome by Phillip Harrington, one of 1,200 photos taken for the Look magazine assignment "GM's 50 Years of Men, Money and Motors."

Annapolis, Maryland, circa 1892. "Class of 1892, U.S. Naval Academy." Photo by Edward Hart.

President Kennedy on that dark yet sunny day in Dallas, minutes before he was assassinated.  New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress - November 22, 1963.

"City Market. Washington, D.C." National Photo Company Collection glass negative - 1917.

European Alley – Circa 1910 / Unknown Location Nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe.

April 1955. "Entertainers Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, in costume, posed as their 'Honeymooners' characters Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton." Color transparency from unpublished photos by Arthur Rothstein and Douglas Jones for the Look magazine assignment "Gleason's Pal Carney."

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

January 1943. "Information room at the Union Station, Chicago." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

October 1943. Washington, D.C. "Demonstration of the correct procedure in applying street makeup. Home management class at Woodrow Wilson High School." Photo by Esther Bubley, Office of War Information.

Washington, D.C., circa 1922. "Boy and dog." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. 

May 1942. "Southington, Connecticut. Amusement park." With a dress code. Photo by Fenno Jacobs for the Office of War Information.

1959. "American Bandstand emcee Dick Clark with teenagers on the set of the show." From color transparencies by Phillip Harrington and Howell Conant for the Look magazine assignment
"Dick Clark Talks to Teenagers."

March 1937. "Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.

January 1939. "Grocery store in Negro section. Homestead, Florida." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

March 1943. "On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.

January 27, 1959. Washington, D.C. "Women working at the U.S. Capitol switchboard. An average of 50,000 calls are placed through the board daily." Photo by Marion Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report.

July 1942. "East Montpelier, Vermont. The Charles Ormsbee family gathered around the evening dinner table." Photo by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information.

Fall 1960. A Kodachrome by Arthur Rothstein, taken for the Look magazine assignment "Tailgate Gourmets."

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

August 1943. "Middle River, Maryland. A Farm Security Administration housing project for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. A worker's family in their trailer home." Photo by John Collier for the Office of War Information.

A young burn patient recovers in a New York Hospital with a view of the harbor.  Photo by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information. November, 1942.

July 1909. "Mrs. Bissie and family of Biloxi Mississippi working the berry fields at Bottomley Farm, Rock Creek near Baltimore during the summer months Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Sept. 12, 1953. Newport, Rhode Island. "Kennedy wedding -- Jacqueline Kennedy throwing the bouquet." Gelatin Silver print by Toni Frissell. 

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...