Historic Photos / Set # 109

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...

 Child laborers laying bricks to form a street curb, Finland, 1923.

German soldiers surrendering their weapons near a subway entrance, Berlin, Germany, May of 1945.

Winston Churchill with a Tommy Gun while touring near Hartlepool, UK July 31, 1940.

Union officer with several seized/captured former slaves known as "contraband” during the Civil War 1862.

A young Christopher Robin Milne poses for a portrait with Winnie the Pooh and his mother Daphne Milne / March 1928.

General Motors Pontiac assembly line, 1969.

Members of the French resistance with Molotov cocktails during the liberation of Paris, August 1944.

Pennsylvania miners on break above ground / 1942.

Sing-Sing Prison staff members prepare a prisoner for execution in the electric chair / Circa 1900.

A ditch filled with fallen Austro-Hungarian soldiers on the Serbian front, 1915.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his senior commanders at Supreme Allied Headquarters in London. February, 1944.

The USS Independence going under the Manhattan Bridge, New York, with main mast tilted 1959.

A destroyed Japanese H8K flying boat is examined by men of the US Army - October 24, 1943.

Bee keeper smoking a pipe. Tobacco smoke was often used to calm bees so that the honey can be harvested / Circa 1900s.

Future filmmaker Tim Burton showing off a Halloween costume that was handmade by his mother, 1967.

A behind the scenes photo on the set of ‘The Goonies, 1985.

Father and daughter on penny-farthings, London / Circa 1905.

A Soviet Army soldier feeds a Russian baby he has found abandoned in an empty cabin in the village of Izvekov in March 1943.

Corner of Fremont Street and Second Street, Las Vegas, Nevada / Circa 1955.

A Liberian army soldier stands ready to execute former government cabinet minister Cecil Dennis, following the coup of 1980.

"The Lost World" became the first film to be screened for passengers on a scheduled airliner flight, April, 1925.

A woman examines a volume of Antiphonaries in Prague Castle, containing a collection of short passages, usually from the Bible, recited or sung as a response after certain parts of a liturgical religious service, Circa 1960s.

The USS Recruit, a wooden “battleship” built in New York City’s Union Square to serve as a recruiting tool in 1917.

12 snipers from the Soviet 3rd Shock Army with 775 confirmed kills. Germany, May 4th, 1945.

Crowded streets in Berlin for the opening of the Olympic Games, August 1st 1936.

President Richard Nixon jumps off the trunk of his limousine in Lahore, Pakistan August 1st 1969.

Last photo shoot of Diana, Princess Of Wales, 1997.

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Historic Photos / Set # 108

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...

Charlie Chaplin attends the premiere of his newest film City Lights in Los Angeles, accompanied by Albert Einstein, and his wife, Elsa Einstein. February 2, 1931.

The Polish 1st Infantry Division heads towards the front, Summer 1943.

President and Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Agnew watch Apollo 11 lift off at Cape Canaveral, 1969.

The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp: women inmates collect their bread ration from one of the five camp cookhouses / 1945.

Automotive designer Alex Tremulis walking alongside his Tucker 48 Sedan,1948.

A British surgeon at work in the open air at a dressing station near Le Quesnel, 11th August 1918, during the Battle of Amiens.

An Irish teenager yells at British soldiers during unrest in Northern Ireland / Circa 1985.

Czech woman yelling “Ivan go home!” to an occupying soldier sitting on a tank in the streets of Prague - Aug 26, 1968.

German commercial airship GRAF ZEPPLIN in an airship hangar during the 1920s or 30s. Location unknown.

A young Angela Merkel and her first husband, Ulrich Merkel / 1975.

Jewish soldiers of the German Army celebrating Hanukkah during WWI, 1916.

German refugees crowding the market square at Jüchen, Germany, a town captured by the US Army at the end of the Second World War, 3rd March 1945.

A Polish Jewish boy lifts the head of a deceased young man who collapsed from starvation and died along the tram lines in the Warsaw Ghetto. Poland, 1942.

Republic of Korea MASH unit provide medical assistance to Vietnamese villagers / 1968.

English women protesting their governments stance on refusing to allow them to serve in WWI in 1915 after news had spread that other countries including Italy and Russia had already allowed women to serve in the war effort / 1915.

Young Angela Merkel having a Schnaps with fishermen on the island of Rügen during her first MP campaign in summer of 1990.

A Navy Corpsman lifts the head of a wounded Marine to give him a sip of water from his canteen as other soldiers relax during a pause in fighting on Guam Island, in the Marianas, in August of 1944.

People at entrance of a public shelter watch enemy planes during a daytime raid in London during The Blitz of World War II in 1940.

A 25 year old Joseph Stalin stands (top center) with other convicts in Kutai, Georgia of the Russian Empire 1903.

The torpedoed Japanese destroyer Yamakaze, as seen through the periscope of an American submarine, USS Nautilus, in June 1942.

Members of the British Ambulance Corps arrive after a V2 rocket strike on London, 1945.

Campbell-Railton Blue Bird, built by Sir Malcolm Campbell. It is powered by a 37 liter supercharged Rolls-Royce R V12 capable of producing about 2,800 horses. On Sept. 3, 1935 on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, he became the first person to reach 300mph behind the wheel of this automobile.

A trainload of British Expeditionary Force soldiers arrives back in London after being rescued from Dunkirk, June 1940.

To spread political views, soldiers release balloons holding leaflets in Taiwan, January 1969.

School being held in a converted train car, Ontario, Canada, 1932.

American aircraft fly over USS Missouri after the surrender 1945.

Hiroshima Victim’s Shadow Burned Into Wall By The Blast. August 6th, 1945.

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...