Historic Photos / Set # 46

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 model Jean Pachett helps define 1950's fashion with her reserved style of conservative elegance.  Photo for Vogue Magazine by Erwin Blumenfeld 1950.

Actress Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning home aboard the USS Monticello 1945.

Extreme snowfall in Jamestown, North Dakota 1966. Photo by Bill Koch.

Newspaper cameramen photograph Fala, Roosevelt’s pet Scotty, who accompanied the President to the Quebec conference on August 20, 1943.

Queen Elizabeth II inspects troops at age 16 after her father made her Colonel of the Grenadier Guards - 1942.

Graf Zeppelin makes an extremely low pass over the stands at Wembley Stadium, England during the 1930 FA Cup Final, won 2-0 by Arsenal over Huddersfield.

Children looking longingly at a collection of toy soldiers in a shop window. United States, Circa 1950.

Casualties of the German mustard and chlorine gas attacks at the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, World War I - May 1915.

Young German soldiers known as "Place Fillers" are held captive during World War I  by the French.  Place Fillers were boys between the ages of 14-18 that were recruited to take the place of fallen or captured older soldiers in their mid 20s.  Photo - Leslie's Weekly.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and her children John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy riding a horse and pony, November 19, 1962. Photo: JFK Library.

Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in 1937. On the left is Oliver Law, the first African-American to command white troops.

Young church folk from Sunnyvale protest against John Lennon’s remark that the Beatles are “more popular than Jesus” outside Candlestick Park in San Francisco where the Beatles are holding a concert, August 29, 1966.

The “shadow” of a Hiroshima victim, permanently etched into stone steps, after the atomic bomb – 1945.

Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across the US in 1909. The trip was designed as publicity for the Maxwell-Briscoe carmaker and covered 3,600 miles, only 152 miles of which were over paved roads.

In this April 2, 1967 photo, a wounded U.S. soldier is given water on a battlefield in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Street in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania – Winter of 1941 Photo by Jack Delano.

Chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky at age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in a simultaneous exhibition in 1921.

Mao Zedong, AKA: Mao Tse-tung, the founding father and communist leader of the People's Republic of China playing ping pong in 1963.

The four Romanov sisters of Russia, Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana, 1910 / Colorized Photo by Dana Keller.

A tiny puppy sleeping comfortably between Russian soldiers. (1945)

US 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery pose for a group photo in Grenzhausen, Germany at the close of WWI - August 1918.

Young men climb about wreckage after the Great Flood of 1899. Heavy rainfall caused a massive failure of the South Fork Dam, releasing a torrent of water upon the small city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing over 2,200 residents and causing $500 million in damages. The Johnstown Flood remains the single event causing the largest loss of life in Pennsylvania.

Two little boys running arm in arm to the shops to pick up the family entitlement of cod liver oil, orange juice and dried milk in the slum area of Glasgow in the East End of London. Photo by Bert Hardy for the Picture Post, 1948.

The Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers 1957 - Macfadden Publications.

A couple enjoys an old fashioned zip line on a weekend afternoon. (1923).

An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s)

Spanish woman fighting for the Republican Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. She is armed with a British Lee-Enfield rifle. Circa 1936.

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Historic Photos / Set # 45

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...

Photo entitled The Homecoming, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Lt. Col. Bob Moore hugs his daughter upon returning home to Iowa in 1943. An officer in the National Guard, Moore was one of the first American soldiers to see action in World War II. Photo by Earle L. Bunker/The World-Herald –1944.

Chinese troops standing to attention during President Richard Nixon’s arrival in China with Airforce One in the background. Photo by John Dominis - Time Life

Two women in bathing suits are among the crowd viewing the body of John Dillinger at the Cook County Morgue in the city of Chicago. Dillinger’s body was put up for display after he was gunned down by federal agents on July 22, 1934.

United States Union Army Engineer Battalion - Company B, Petersburg, Virginia, 1864.

Full city Parking Lot due to the gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C. During World War II – Photo by Albert Freeman for the Office of War Information, 1942.

A young Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, October, 1917.

Sabena Flight 548 en route from New York CIty to Brussels, crashes in Belgium, killing 73 people aboard, including the entire U.S. figure skating team who were en route to the world championships in Prague. Photo - February 15, 1961.

Alan Shepard being recovered from the Freedom 7 capsule after the first American human spaceflight, May 5, 1961.

"New York. School victory garden on First Avenue between 35th & 36th streets." Photo by Edward Meyer, Office of War Information - June 1944.

A woman serves a customer from an Italian food stand on the streets of the Harlem section of New York City – Circa 1955.

A boy and his dog sit in the rubble left behind by the Great Tri-State Tornado that tore through three states in the U.S. on March 18, 1925. 

Soccer Great Pele signing autographs outside of Goodison Park during the 1966 World Cup.

A puppy named "Feller" a cocker spaniel that was sent as an unsolicited Christmas gift to President Harry Truman in 1947. Truman decided not to accept the gift and gave the dog away to his physician, angering dog lovers around the country.

African American entertainer Josephine Baker received the Croix de Guerre, the Rosette de la Résistance, and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, for her underground resistance work against the Germans during World War II – 1945.

 B-57B observing a nuclear test during Operation Redwing, Bikini Atoll, July 12, 1958.

A large family of thirteen children pile into a convertible, Boston Massachusetts, 1925.

Natives admiring an American Air Force F4-U “Corsair” plane somewhere in the South Pacific during WWII. It was said, when the native people first met the Americans they thought they were from the heavens and briefly treated them as gods.

 President John F. Kennedy takes a draw from one of his valued cigars – Photo by Howell Conant, 1963.

12-year old Sarah Jean Collins who survived the 16th Street Baptist Birmingham Church Bombing which killed her sister, recuperating in the hospital.  The bomb killed 4 young girls and injured 22 others.  Collins survived but lost and eye and had extensive facial scars – 1963.

 Kindergarten teacher, Helen Hulick, who was a witness to a burglary, was given a five-day sentence and sent to jail for contempt for wearing pants to give her courtroom testimony rather than a traditional skirt or dress.  Los Angeles, 1938.

 Groups of adults riding down toboggan slides. Beebe Lake, Cornell University - New York, 1904.

A sunny day along the famous Las Vegas Strip, Nevada 1959.

 The very first Miss America Pageant 1921. The winner was crowned Miss Washington D.C.

A British soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a quick hot bath in Tobruk, Libya – February 17, 1942.

The Waffen-SS is warmly received by Ukrainians and presented with refreshments and food.  A short time later, the people were rounded up and deported for slave labor where many died – 1941.

The Best Deal in Town "J.A. Herzog Pontiac, 17th & Valencia Streets, San Francisco." Labor standing on the left and management on the right with a car and a world between them - Wyland Stanley collection - June 3, 1936.

Two Dutch civilians after liberation from a Japanese internment camp, Dutch East indies, 1945. 

Additional References____________________________________ 

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