Historic Photos / Set # 49

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...

Thomas Lincoln, father of President Abraham Lincoln – 1850.

The Hindenburg Zeppelin flying over the Olympics in Berlin, Germany 1936.

General Douglas MacArthur kisses the white-gloved hand of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, just before he departed Taipei, Formosa after a conference with Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist government. August 7, 1950.

A log splashes into the Klamath River after sliding down the Pokegama Timber Chute. The chute was a half a mile long and logs reached speeds of 90mph. Photo by Maud Baldwin, Circa 1900.

The funeral of Queen Victoria (81) is held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. After 2 days of lying-in-state, she was interred beside Prince Albert in Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Castle. February 2, 1901. (Hulton Archive/Getty)

The German ship Pamir which, became the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn – 1949. She capsized and sank in September 1957 in a hurricane off the Azores, with the loss of 80 crew members.

Adoph Hitler greets President Hindenburg on the Day of the Potsdam – March 21, 1933.

January 14, 1973: Elvis Presley’s Aloha From Hawaii, is broadcast live via satellite from Honolulu Hawaii, and airs in over 40 countries across Asia and Europe. The show was the first entertainment special by a single performer to be broadcast live around the world. January 14, 1973 (Gary Null / NBC)

Maud Wagner, Circus performer and the first known female tattoo artist, Circa 1911. 

The interior of Hitler's underground bunker in Berlin, where he would reside for three months until his suicide.

Astronaut chimpanzee, Ham, gets an apple after his first successful flight into space - January 1961.

Jadwiga Dzido shows her scarred leg to the Nuremberg court as an expert medical witness explains the procedures inflicted on her at Ravensbrück concentration camp, 1942.

On the edge of the Grand Canyon, 1914.

American Soldiers consume rations outside a field hospital during the Battle of the Bulge – 1944.  

Young oyster shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina Circa 1909. 

General Dwight D. Eisenhower awarding a third star to General George S. Patton, 1943.

January 28, 1986: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. This flight marked the first time a non-government civilian, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, had flown aboard the Space Shuttle.

Children play in the streets of the working class neighborhood Cardiff, Wales - January 1954. Photo: Bert Hardy/Picture Post.

Followers of Charles Manson, Krenwinkel, Atkins, and Van Houten leaving the Los Angeles courtroom after being convicted of the first degree murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others. January 25, 1971 (Bride Lane Library/Popperfoto)

Gilbert’s Studio, Medical Class and Staff Picture, 1910.  (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

The world’s first “jumbo jet”, the Boeing 747, starts commercial service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport on Pan American Airways. January 22, 1970 (Rolls Press / Popperfoto)

Jaqueline Kennedy at the pre-inaugural ball held at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C. - January 19, 1961.

Shoichi Yokoi weeping with emotion as he is applauded on his arrival in Tokyo after hiding in the jungle of Guam for 28 years, 31 years after he had left Japan to do his military service. (Keystone/Getty)

Christ Episcopal Church - Babe Ruth pays his respects to Lou Gehrig at his funeral, 1941.

The Mona Lisa is packed away for protection and moved to avoid being taken by the Germans during World War II - The painting was moved five times during the war to avoid discovery by the enemy.

Norman Hartnell model, Jane McNeil, arrives at St Giles Church, Edinburgh, for her marriage to the Earl of Dalkeith, son of the Duke of Buccleuch - January 1953 / Photo: Bert Hardy/Picture Post.

 A dead child on the streets of Tampere during the Finnish Civil War, 1918.

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Historic Photos / Set # 48

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...

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in a bright dress with a bright smile as she and the President receive French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux at the White House on May 11, 1962.

Three friends take a joyride on their “new” vehicle, Ohio, circa 1924.

A National Guardsman walks away as a shop burns out of control during the 1968 Riots in Baltimore.

Four-year-old Michael Finder of East Germany is tossed by his father into a net held by firemen across the border in West Berlin. The apartments were in East Berlin while their windows opened into West Berlin, October 7, 1961. 

Poland re-denominates their currency on a much smaller scale.  The new zloty note equals 10,000 old zloty notes. January 1, 1995. 

Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr. greets a child outside the Memorial Church in Tarrytown, New York – 1923.

Amelia Earhart receives flowers after her record breaking Hawaii to California flight in her red plane Oakland Field, California on January 12, 1935.

Santa Claus with Christmas toys on a sled drawn by two white turkeys Circa – 1909.

 Passengers boarding British airship R101 in 1929.

Commercial Bus Stress Test of the Elisabeth Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, Circa – 1964.

Jim Henson leading puppeteers through rehearsal on the set of Sesame Street Circa –1980.

First IBM computer, the IBM 702 Mainframe; the first to use magnetic tapes and tubes for memory except for the 14th and last one built, Photo by Ezra Stoller – 1955. 

NLF star O.J. Simpson with his wife Marguerite (Whitley) Simpson, daughter Arnelle and son Jason on January 8, 1973 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty.

Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci performs on the balance beam during the 1976 Olympics on her way to earning the unobtainable score of perfect 10.

Refueling a plane from the ground 1959 - This is a picture of the Hacienda flight out of Las Vegas that still holds the endurance record for an aircraft. That plane was in the air continuously for over 64 days.

January 6, 1963: Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. an educational television series centering on the lives of animals premieres on NBC Television. The show was hosted by famed zoologist and naturist Marlin Perkins.

Elderly fisherman Thomas Perry guides his young friend along a stony path on the Cornwall coast at Polperro. 1933.

Street view of the run-ins of Warsaw, Poland two years after the end of WWII /  Colorized Photo – 1947.

A 19 year old AH-1 Cobra pilot poses with his machine, Vietnam, Circa – 1970.

Ireland’s bloody Sunday -  26 unarmed civil rights protesters were shot by members of the British Army - January 30, 1972.

WWII - Rifles of U.S. Marines killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

A Chinese girl who recently discovered her husband’s body in their burned out home, sifting through the ashes for personal possessions. Kweilin, China Photo by Jack Wilkes, 1945.

John Dillinger, center, handcuffed to Deputy Sheriff R.M. Pierce during Dillinger’s murder trial hearing in Crown Point, Indiana. Though his trial was scheduled for March 12, 1934. Dillinger would escape from the Crown Point prison a few days earlier on March 3, 1934.

Promotional still of the cast from the American television show ‘All in the Family,’ Los Angeles, California, early 1970s. They stand in the doorway of their television address, 704 Hauser Street, Astoria, Queens, New York, and are, from left, American actors Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Carroll O’Connor, and Sally Struthers. (CBS) 1972.

A horse drawn fire-engine with a steam operated water pump rushes to the fire, Location Unknown 1910. 

The New York Public Library, New York City – 1915.

A byproduct of the one child per family law… An abandoned girl wandering the streets of Hong Kong / Photo by Dennis Stock – Circa 1960.

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