Historic Photos Blog Post Archive

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Historic Photos / Set # 38

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...


U.S. soldiers care for a Filipino infant who had suffered from bayonet wounds to the face by retreating Japanese forces during the Battle of Leyte. Southern Leyte Province, Leyte Island, Philippines. November 1944.



Portrait of Katherine Hepburn / Woman of the Year, Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1942.



Frederick C. Branch, the first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps, returns from war. November, 1945.



Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, crashes in the Andes mountains. Sixteen people survived for 77 days by resorting to cannibalism until they were rescued, Dec. 1972.



 Bill Gates in his office at Microsoft, 1983.



Apollo 11 astronauts, still in their quarantine van, are greeted by their wives upon arrival at Ellington Air Force Base, July 27, 1969.



Queen Elizabeth II coronation photo, 1953.  Portrait Photo by Cecil Beaton.



German prisoners, captured during the fall of Aachen, marching through the ruined streets, October, 1944.



Thomas Edison takes a nap under a tree while camping with President Harding in the Blue Ridge Mountains, July, 1921.



 Model wearing an ensemble with a fur muff for Vogue, 1956.



Polish State Railways used MiG-15 airplanes to clear snow off of and to de-ice railroad tracks during the 1960’s.



People read at a street library in Hong Kong, where for a very small payment, books were available for reading on the sop during the 1930s.



WWI British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, with a friend, Circa, 1925.  



Rooms filled with the collected shoes of Holocaust victims killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1945.



Actress Janet Leigh with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis - Los Angeles 1967.



 Newspaper boys and girl in NYC, 1910.



Teddy Roosevelt Becomes the First US President to Fly in an Airplane, 1910.



East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989.



 Burt Reynolds’ yearbook photo from Florida State University, 1954.



The USS Cole being carried by the MV Blue Marlin after the Al-Qaeda attack on October 12, 2000, Picture taken on October 31, 2000.



President Kennedy leaves the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, the day he was assassinated, November 22, 1963.



A young boy adjusts his friend’s Adolf Hitler mask during a game on a street in King’s Cross, London, 1938.



Dog named Pal, who played Lassie, star of the television series of the same name pictured with cast member Tommy Rettig who played Lassie's owner Jeff Miller, 1954. The show ran for 19 seasons. All dogs playing Lassie were related to Pal, including those dogs used today.



Steel worker Carl Russell sits at 1,222 feet on top of a steel beam casually waving to the cameraman, who risks his life climbing into a crane to be able to make this photo. Empire State Building, 18 September, 1930.



A very young Soviet soldier, severely injured, crawls towards his German captors after surrendering during the Battle of Kursk. Kursk Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. July 1943. 



Attorney General Robert Kennedy is comforted by two of his children on the lawn of his home, after he had been notified of the assassination of his brother, November 22, 1963.



A pilot is thrown from his downed aircraft Near Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1943.

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, May 20, 2015

Historic Photos / Set # 37

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...

Sally Halterman, the first woman granted a license to operate a motorcycle in Washington, D.C. 1937.



WWI German prisoners are treated by American soldiers during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. American and French troops took St.-Mihiel Salient in 36 hours and captured 15,000 prisoners. September 1918.



New York, 1899. "Dumping snow carts at the river after a blizzard." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.



Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the U.S. Capitol under construction. May 13th 1861.



FIBA allowed professional basketball players to compete in the Olympics for the first time at the 1992 Games. The best players in the NBA teamed up to represent the USA, winning the gold medal with arguably the best team ever assembled aka: Dream Team.




Funeral procession of the dead from the Battle of Veracruz passing over Manhattan Bridge. July 15th 1914.



An unidentified Lady on a balcony in Paris, France – Circa 1910.



Sternwheeler steam boat coming into landing, Silver Spring, Florida 1886.



White Guards in Vasa at the beginning of the Finnish Civil War, 1918.



July 1936. "Going to church to pray for rain. Grassy Butte, North Dakota." Medium format negative by the peripatetic Arthur Rothstein.



The Who pose for their most iconic picture portrait, Photo by Art Kane - 1968.



People celebrate the end of Prohibition, 1933.



WWII: Rachel Rudnitzki, a Jewish partisan, after the liberation of Vilnius.



Circa 1910. "Surf bathers at crowded beach, possibly Atlantic City." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.



Marcel Marceau, French mime artist who created the figure of “Bip” a tragic white clown, with Stan Laurel – Paris, France. Photo Erich Lessing – 1958.



When this photo was taken, the David Hilton family did not want to show their old sod house to friends back east, but the young lady and mother wanted to prove they owned an organ, near Weissert, Custer County, Nebraska, 1887.



 A bookseller sets up shop during the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925. 




Anatoly Golimbievsky, a heavily decorated veteran who lost both legs in WW2, is saluted by four young sailors on V-Day. Leningrad 1989.



Winston Churchill as a war correspondent for the Morning Post during the Boer War in South Africa 1899.



March 1937. "Migratory agricultural worker family making tire repairs along California highway U.S. 99." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.



Pale Blue Dot: a picture of Earth taken from a distance of 6 billion kilometers by Voyager 1, February 14, 1990.



An 18 year old Mahatma Gandhi, 1887.



Medical school lecture auditorium - Date Unknown.



Titanic survivors approach their rescue ship, the Carpathia – April 15, 1912.



British Jewish Brigade soldier holding an artillery shell bearing the inscription “Gift for Hitler".



April 8, 1936. "Pontiac convertible at Spreckels Lake, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco." 



"Washington Street Snow Scene." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative - April 1924.


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...