From Out Of The Past... The History In Pictures Thread

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On-set photos of James Remar as Corporal Hicks in ALIENS (1986) before being replaced by Michael Biehn.

Beastie Boys in (where else?) NYC, 1986.

Sylvester Stallone with his then wife and occasional co-star Brigitte Nielson doing a photo shoot, 1986.

Kurt Cobain, arrested 05/25/1986 for vandalism.

Steven Spielberg and a very young Christian Bale on the set of Empire Of The Sun, 1986.

Star Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter on the set of Big Trouble in Little China, 1986.

Chase, Martin and Short, The Three Amigos, 1986.

1986, a 11 year old Angelina Jolie stepped out at the Academy Awards with dad Jon Voight.

Charlie Sheen and Sherilyn Fenn on the set of the movie The Wraith, 1986.

Matthew Broderick and Jon Cryer, 1986.

 

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Joan Rivers with Elton John, Cher and Paul Reubens on the first episode of her attempt to become a talk show host to rival Johnny Carson, The Late Show, on Fox, 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Show_(Fox_TV_series)

Slash & Axl Rose - 1986.

Metallica in Kilsaran, a small village in Louth, Ireland Sept 1986.

Metallica in Japan 1986.

Stephen Colbert as a college student in 1986.

Prince performing at Wembley – London, 1986.

Robert Downey jr during a skit on SNL in 1986.

One of the great underrated voices in music,Cyndi Lauper 1986.

Leonard Nimoy at work editing "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home". 1986.

Anthony Kiedis & Flea of RHCP in 1986.

 

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The crew of the American Space Shuttle Challenger who lost their lives January 28th, 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

President Reagan aboard Air Force One, wearing sweatpants and dress shoes, 1986.

Swiss punks pose with their spiky hairdos in the old town of Geneva, Switzerland, 1986.

Mike Tyson knocks down Trevor Berbick on November 22, 1986.

Gas prices in America, 1986.

Ainge vs Jordan, 1986 NBA Playoffs, Bulls vs Celtics. Jordan's 63 points in game 2 aren't enough. Celtics eliminate the Bulls and then beat Houston in the NBA Championship.

The Cleveland Balloonfest. Over 1.5 million balloons were released simultaneously, 1986.

1986 Apple ads. They really tried to be cool.

Cover of the Sharper Image from Oct. 1986.

 

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Allied soldier in the trenches shows off his rations of tobacco and coffee, Toul, France, 1918.

THe 5th Mounted Canadians pose on a tank, somewhere on the Western Front, August 1918.

Sinking of the SMS Szent István, the only battleship loss filmed during WW1, 1918:

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US Marines Advancing During the Battle of Belleau Woods - 1918.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Belleau_Wood

Kiwi Soldiers with a captured T Gewehr, an anti-tank rifle of the era - 1918.

A German dispatch dog carries messages to the front line during a German offensive, January, 1918.

British soldiers sharing cigarettes with a group of French troops at the edge of positions they had just taken over from the French in Bernagousse, France, March 6, 1918.

The first female inductees in the U.S. Marine Corps being sworn in. 1918.

Three German soldiers in body armor and gas masks demonstrate operating a 2cm Becker-Flugzeugkanone, an anti-aircraft gun, Western Front, circa 1918.

Humphrey Bogart during his U.S. Navy service , c. 1918.

Ernest Hemingway recuperating from his wounds in Milan, 1918.

 

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Churchill meets female workers at Georgetown's filling works near Glasgow, October 1918.

This dapper gentleman is Franklin d. Roosevelt, visiting France in 1918.

American soldiers of the 18th Infantry Regiment pinned down during their assault on Hill 240 near Exermont during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October 11, 1918.


"How the Argonne was won. Like their Indian fighting ancestors the Americans fought from behind trees and bushes, digging a ‘fox hole’ fir cover whenever they paused. This photograph was taken by a Signal Corps operator during the advance of the 18th Inf., 1st Div., up the slopes of Hill 240, near Exermont, Oct. 11, 1918. These soldiers fought their way to the top in the face of heavy machine gun fire and drove the enemy from the position. The bullet-torn helmet in the foreground tells the story of a ‘buddy’ who lies ‘over yonder.'"

Allied soldiers and Salvation Army workers having doughnuts and coffee in a Salvation Army hut in Château-Thierry, France, 1918.

A group of German soldiers in a trench undergoing grenade launcher training, c. 1918.

The man who almost shot Hitler in 1918.

This is Henry Tandey, an English recipient of the Victoria Cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tandey

Here he is in this painting, carrying a wounded man.
4 years after the event in this image, he caught a wounded German soldier in his gunsights. But rather than kill the man, he took pity on his wounded state and spared his life. The man he saved was Adolf Hitler, who later became an extremist ruler of the Nazi Party.

There is still some controversy over whether this REALLY happened or not. Imagine of Henry hadn't spared Hitler's life. How different would our world be today?

'Weapons for Liberty' WWI war bonds poster, 1918.

Salvation Army Woman Smiling Ansonville, France 1918

American soldiers bring the national pastime to France, playing baseball in Paris, 1918.

 

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Barrage Balloons being prepped in Paris, 1918.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon

1918 newspaper article.

March 28 1918 -- An old lady refugee sits on a street bench in Amiens, France with her last remaining possession in the world - her cow.

An African-American soldier rests with a puppy and his platoon, 1918.

The interior of an armored train car, Chaplino, Dnipropetrovs’ka oblast, Ukraine, in the spring of 1918. At least nine heavy machine guns are visible, as well as many ammunition cases.

British Medium Mark A Whippet tanks advance past the body of a dead soldier, moving to an attack along a road near Achiet-le-Petit, France, on August 22, 1918. The Whippets were faster and lighter than previously deployed British heavy tanks.

Soldier on a U.S. Harley-Davidson motorcycle, ca. 1918. During the last years of the war, the United States deployed more than 20,000 Indian and Harley-Davidson motorcycles overseas.

Seven or eight machine-gun crews are ready to set out on a sortie in France, ca. 1918. Each crew consists of two men, the driver on a motorbike and the gunner sitting in an armored sidecar.

A German soldier rubs down massive shells for the 38 cm SK L/45, or “Langer Max” rapid firing railroad gun, ca. 1918. The Langer Max was originally designed as a battleship weapon, later mounted to armored rail cars, one of many types of railroad artillery used by both sides during the war. The Langer Max could fire a 750 kg (1,650 lb) high explosive projectile up to 34,200 m (37,400 yd).

A disused German trench-digging machine, January 8, 1918. The vast majority of the thousands of miles of trenches were dug by hand, but some had mechanical assistance.

 

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A newly married couple leaves the church under a ceremonial arch of Lewis light machine guns, April 1918

Private 1st class Lester Fenis painting names on crosses. Dijon. France. 1918

Massive pyramid of slain German soldier's helmets brought back from Europe in New York's Grand Central station, 1918.


At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.

Celebrations in New York upon news of the German surrender, 1918.

An injured British soldier who has had both his arms amputated below the elbows, working on a farm, France, 1918

Under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1918.

Madison Square & Flatiron Building NYC, by W.W.Rock, 1918.

Color photo of Rue Cambon, Paris in 1918.

Pole climbing class for aspiring telephone electricians, 1918

Snow covered coal train. Nebraska, 1918.

 

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Pennsylvania Avenue & US Capitol in the snow, c. 1918.

Man collecting fire wood with Mount Fuji in the background, Japan, 1918.

Actor Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan on set, 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Lincoln

Harold Lloyd & Bebe Daniels behind the scenes of Look Out Below, 1918.

Ezra Pound by E.O. Hoppé, 1918.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound

Multnomah Falls, Oregon, 1918.

Houdini and Jennie, the Vanishing Elephant, January 7, 1918.

https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/vanishingelephant.html

Georgia O'Keeffe, Hands, 1918 by Alfred Stieglitz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

NYC Women's Machine Gun Squad Police Reserves 1918.

 

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"Brooklyn Supreme" the world's largest horse from the time, at 19.2 hands and 3,200 lbs. "Brookie" wore a 40-inch collar and boasted a girth measurement of 10 feet, 2 inches around. It took 30 inches of iron for each of his horseshoes. Foaled in 1928, he eventually became the property of C.G. Good of Iowa. Good's partner, Ralph Fogleman, exhibited the big horse around the country, charging spectators 10 cents apiece. Brookie died in 1948.

Chorus girls relaxing in the dressing room between scenes during the filming of 'Broadway', 1928.

Conrad Veldt from The Man Who Laughs (1928) The inspiration for The Joker.

The Loire, France, two women chatting, 1928.

A young Alfred Hitchcock conducting a sound test on the set of his first "talkie" film, BLACKMAIL (circa 1928). The film was originally meant to be silent, and Czech actress Anny Ondra (right) had such a thick accent that English actor Joan Barry stood off camera and spoke her lines instead.

Ramen delivery, Tokyo, Japan, 1928.

Frankfurt, Germany, 1928.

Graf Zeppelin over Washington DC, 1928.

Paris, 1928 and cafe owners create a path for people during the flood of that year.

A forest of oil wells overlook California's Huntington Beach, 1928. In the 1890s, the small town of Los Angeles (population 50,000) began a transformation driven by the discovery and drilling of some of the most productive oil fields in history. By 1930, California was producing nearly one quarter of the world’s oil output, and its population had grown to 1.2 million.

 

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Winner of the 1928 Miss Universe pageant, or as it was known at the time "International Pageant of Pulchritude" (No... really) Ella Van Hueson.

A young woman delivering/collecting milk from the Creamery at Kilmeaden in Waterford, Ireland, 1928.

Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, practicing with his wife in Kansas, 1928.

Shinto wedding of the Japanese Prince Chichibu, younger brother of the Emperor Hirohito, in 1928.

Fashionable young women in Tokyo, 1928.

Three Hawaiian women working in a pineapple cannery: 20th November 1928.

Amelia Earhart Was The First Female Aviator To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean (1928).

Models and L.A. policeman in an ad for the Pickwick Motor Stages Bus Company, 1928.

London bus at capacity, 1928.

A lesbian couple pose together, 1928.

 

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1928 US Olympic Women's Swimming Team.

President Herbert Hoover with his dog, King Tut, circa 1928.

A teenage Eva Braun in an image titled 'My first carnival costume,' from her photo album, Munich, 1928.

Swimsuit photo op. Brandenberg, Germany (Mar. 1928).

A woman sticks her head out of her bridge house window, in Ambleside, Lake District, Cumbria, England, 1928.

Kamal Ataturk showing off the new alphabet he was imposing on Turkey, 1928.

Charles Lindbergh checking out the Spirit of St Louis - St Thomas USVI - 1928.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

 

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Sean Connery, British Navy, 1946.

This photograph was captured - inconspicuously - through the main gate of the Santé prison in Paris on May 25, 1946.

The guillotine is being dismantled after the execution of the most infamous serial killer in French criminal history. Marcel Petiot was a shady doctor who, during the occupation of France, preyed on people seeking to escape from the Germans. These included Jews, members of the Resistance and common criminals. He lured them to his office under pretense that he could help them escape to South America then murdered them with poison, incinerated their bodies and stole their belongings. He was caught after the liberation of Paris, tried and sentenced to death for twenty-six murders, although he probably had committed many more.

He has the dubious honor of being the first person executed by guillotine after the War.

1946, Tokyo, Japan. Tattoo artist works on Yakuza member.

Chicago, 1946.

The first ever image from space. Retrieved from a V-2 rocket in 1946.

Micheline Bernardini wearing the first bikini in 1946. Designed by Louis Reard, a French automobile engineer.

Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), later known as Dorothy Horan, and best known as Dovima. Born in Queens, New York, to a Polish-American policeman and an Irish-born mother, she was the first model to use a single name. The name Dovima is composed of the first two letters of her three given names. Here she is in a photo shoot in Jamaica, 1946.

Billie Holiday and her dog Mister, backstage dressing room, probably at the Downbeat, NYC, 1946.

Summertime · Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday

US soldier giving Japanese girl a bicycle ride, with handlebar riding forbidden. Japan, 1946.

 

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The streets and tunnels of New York City in 1946 as captured by a then 17 year old Stanley Kubrick. Over two weeks in 1946, Kubrick worked for LOOK magazine to capture the everyday lives and intimate moments of the people of a bygone era.

 

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Gandhi And The Spinning Wheel by Margaret Bourke-White, 1946.

Albert Einstein lecturing at the first all black university, Lincoln University, 1946, established in Pennsylvania in 1854. All the students enrolled at the time were men. Women were not granted degrees until 1953.

Shoeshiners outside subway entrance at Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, 1946.

LAPD use tear gas on striking workers, California 1946.

Doris Day at the Aquarium Jazz Club in NYC ca. 1946.

All-time pitching greats at the 1946 Old-Timers' Game at Fenway.

US Admirals celebrating the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests, November 7, 1946.

Actor Gregory Peck in 1946.

An unshaven Yul Brynner in 1946.

Head shot of the great Christopher Lee, 1946.

 

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No... I'm not making this up for ****s and giggles... Donald Trump in Moscow at a conference luncheon in November of 1996.

Tupac Amaru Shakur June 16, 1971 - September 13, 1996. Newspaper piece on the killing of Tupac a shortly after the event from 1996.

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos aka Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente smoking a pipe atop a horse in Chiapas, México in 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcomandante_Marcos

John Oliver, Richard Ayoade and David Mitchell at a Footlights garden party (1996)

Amber Heard in 1996.

Mourners lay flowers to commemorate the worst mass shooting in Australia's history, the Post Arthur massacre in 1996.

Again, no joke... Justice Ginsburg and the late Antonin Scalia on vacation together in India, 1996.

Hanging out at the club, Andre Benjamin in 1996.

As you can see... He's ALWAYS been like this. Sir Ian McKellen playing with a Buzz Lightyear toy in 1996.

Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who made for TV movie.

 

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Kevin Smith in his office, 1996.

Nicholas Cage and Patricia Arquette at the 1996 Academy Awards.

View from the top of the World Trade Center Tower Two in 1996.

Michael Jordan collapses in the locker room after winning another championship after the death of his father who was murdered, Father's Day, 1996.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver and Robin Williams at the premier of "Jingle All the Way" (1996)

Muhammad Ali, 1996 Olympics, Atlanta.

Yusof Ghani taking a selfie from the top of the Kuala Lumpur tower in 1996.

Kate Winslet, 1996.

The band Kiss and Tupac backstage at the 1996 Grammy awards.

Gillian Anderson and the Creature. Rolling Stone cover 1996.

 

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May 16, 1929 and the first Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Science, the first Oscars is held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. It honored the films of both 1927 and 1928.

Marlene Dietrich straightens her bow tie on the set of MOROCCO, circa 1929.

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Comedy duo Laurel and Hardy on a skyscraper beam, c. 1929.

Laurel and Hardy in "Liberty":

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Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who discovered the expansion of the universe, looking though a telescope in 1929.

Coco Chanel 1929.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel

Margaret Morris dancers exercising on the sands at Saint-Idesbald, Belgium, August 1929.

Churchill and Chaplin, Hollywood, California, 1929.

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-179/churchill-and-chaplin-3/

The infamous Bonnie Parker working as a waitress at Marco’s Cafe in Dallas, Texas before her crime spree, 1929.

Al Capone relaxing at his Palm Island, Florida estate, 1929.

 

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The Graf Zeppelin going into it's hangar in Lakehurst, N.J., in 1929.

The headquarters of Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party in Rome, 1929.

Human billboard for MGM’s “The Hollywood Revue of 1929,” corner Wilshire Blvd and Shatto Place, June 1929. Each figure you see is a real life woman contracted to dance high above the ground, supported only by a pole behind them.

Poster advertisement for Felix The Cat, a cartoon sensation of the era, 1929.

Queen (then Princess) Elizabeth II shakes hands with an old soldier in London, circa 1929.

Babe Ruth hits his 500th Homerun, Aug. 11th, 1929.

A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929

Wedding picture from Vogue magazine in 1929.

Actress Joan Blondell photo shoot in 1929.

 

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A janitor sweeps up after New York Stock Exchange Crash, October 29, 1929.

A man trying to sell his car after losing all in the Great Crash of 1929.

Aerial view of Detroit, Michigan, 1929.

Detroit Skyline from Windsor - 1929.

West 47th Street NYC in the snow, 1929.

Sport Mart's Christmas display, Washington DC 1929.

Silent film beauty Clara Bow, 1929.

Two women changing discreetly on a beach in 'Skreenette' bathing tents, England, 1929.

Placing the Final Stones on Top of the Canada Life Building, Toronto- c. 1929.

Streets of Boston 1929.

 

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I swear to God... I'm not going out of my way to look for these but I keep coming across them... Future President Donald Trump with his then future ex-wife Ivana visiting Leningrad, USSR in 1987.

President Reagan gets photobombed during a photo op with Congressman Curt Weldon and his family in the Oval Office, 1987.

Tim Burton and the cast and crew of Beetlejuice, behind the scenes in 1987.

Alan Moore, the creator of Watchmen and V For Vendetta, outside his house in the U.K., 1987.

No... Not a random couple from Wisconsin... Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, 1987.

Ice Cube, high school, 1987.

 

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Photograph of a *****e Muslim AMAL militiaman firing his AK-47 assault rifle during skirmishes with Druze irregulars on Corniche-al-Mazraa road in West Beirut, Lebanon, February 20, 1987.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War

Oddly enough, the aftermath of an building fire, but one which had to be put out in -30 celsius weather, in Skövde, Sweden, winter of 1987.

A group of Contras in the Nicaraguan wilderness, 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras

Subway Graveyard near NYC, 1987. The undeveloped and abandoned skyline to the west of New York City has been a comfortable abode of subway cars, barges, and trucks. When they aren't being dumped to sea or made into artificial barrier reefs, they were left to rust until Mother Nature reclaimed them.

IRA member on patrol in West Belfast 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

Rubble left behind from the Enniskillen, Remembrance Sunday bombing, 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_bombing

Workers demonstrate personal computers as technological achievements in a parade in East Germany, 1987.

Moving a 7600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987.

Stan Winston and his team with Kevin Peter Hall on location in Mexico for the movie Predator, 1987.

A Thanksgiving turkey named Charlie trying to fly away after being pardoned by President Reagan at the White House, Washington, D.C., November 23, 1987.

 

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People protesting against dictatorship clash with the police in Seoul, 1987.

U2 during filming of the "Where the Streets Have No Name" music video, 1987.

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Sting, Bob Dylan & Andy Warhol - 1987 NYC.

President Nixon's letter to Donald Trump in 1987.

Prom photo of Matthew McConaughey in 1987.

A young Milla Jovovich having a burger and milkshake at Johnny Rockets on Melrose in Hollywood 1987.

Cover for Prince's ninth album, Sign O' The Times.

Yogi Berra at Astros Spring Training in 1987.

Andre the Giant, Mandy Patinkin, and Wallace Shawn on the set of 'The Princess Bride', 1987.

Bernie Sanders after winning his fourth term as mayor or Burlington, Vermont, 1987.

 

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The driver of this Detroit Electric automobile takes a break from the promotional “Seattle to Mt. Rainier” tour to appreciate the incredible view, 1919.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric

Boston Molasses Flood, 1919.

On January 15, 1919, a molasses vat on Commercial St in Boston burst after the temperature rose 30 degrees overnight. A 50 foot wave of 2.3 million gallons of molasses devastated the area, killing 21 people. Local legend has it that on very hot days you can still smell the molasses seeping out of old brick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

The wave was so strong and so tall it bent elevated train tracks 20 feet from the ground.

Prohibition advocates, c. 1919.

A crowded bar in New York City, the night before the Prohibition went into effect, 1919.

Beach wear in 1919.

The signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the hall of mirrors, 1919.

Walt Disney in 1919. He served as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross in France after the great war.

 

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Mack Sennett's bathing beauties posed on an automobile, Washington D.C., ca. 1919.

German Freikorps soldiers armed with flamethrowers in Berlin during the Spartacist Uprising, 1919.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_uprising

Adolf Hitler (far right) while working as an intelligence agent for the Reichswehr photographed here attending the funeral for Kurt Eisner, the assassinated Minister-President of Bavaria, February 26, 1919.

Returned US Soldiers with "War Trophies", San Francisco, CA 1919.

A grisly scene from the Omaha race riot of 1919 as the burning corpse of a black man is surrounded by the white rioters that lynched and mutilated their victim before setting the body on fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_race_riot_of_1919

Residents evacuate their homes and flee with valued items for fear of a spreading fire, Istanbul, 1919.

Man working on a 1919 Studebaker.

James Cagney In Drag (3rd from Left). In his first stage role, American actor James Cagney stands on stage with other male actors dressed in drag while a man in a sailor suit leans over to kiss one of them in the play 'Every Sailor', New York City, 1919.

A trilithon being re-erected during Lieutenant-Colonel Hawley's excavations and renovations at Stonehenge in 1919.

 

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American teenagers at a party in 1947.

A windy day on the streets of Philadelphia, 1947.

Legendary cinematographer, James Wong Howe shooting BODY AND SOUL (1947) on roller skates. Scorsese has said Howe's work on this film was a major influence for RAGING BULL.

Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin having a lunch together at the Brown Derby in Hollywood in March 1947.

Two men at the Greyhound Bus Terminal, New York City, 1947.

Miles Davis getting it on at the piano, 1947.

Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bomi Bulsara) with his mum, Mrs Jer Bulsara, 1947.

New York City in winter, the great blizzard of 1947 - more than 25 inches of snow in less than 24 hours.

April 10, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to sign a major league contract, breaking the color barrier in one of America's favorite pastimes.