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

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A sailor's eye view of the port city of Shanghai in 1949, from the bay, to the streets to the bars where the ladies of the night gather.

 

[Micromind]

Amazing thread, shows quite a bit about the life of people in past, something that everyone should be aware of to some extent.



It will take me some time to go through all the pics you posted, Great work.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Amazing thread, shows quite a bit about the life of people in past, something that everyone should be aware of to some extent.



It will take me some time to go through all the pics you posted, Great work.

Thanks Micro. Please, if you can think of anything of interest to post feel free to share. Just check the first post to see the general parameters.

 

[Micromind]

Soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing, 1900; left-to-right: Britain, United States, Australia, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan.

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[Micromind]

Indian soldiers In Mesopotamia, 1918, during World War I. As other soldiers run for the cover of slit trenches, an Indian Lewis gun team engage against German aircraft.

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Soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing, 1900; left-to-right: Britain, United States, Australia, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan.

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Cool.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing, 1900; left-to-right: Britain, United States, Australia, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan.

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And in 14 years those countries would be at war with each other. Funny how alliances come and go.

 

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People celebrating Irish independence on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, at midnight before Easter Sunday, April 1949.

A husband to be and groomsmen before his wedding, 1949.

A 24 year old Angela Lansbury in 1949.

Angela Lansbury on the set of Samson and Delilah, 1949.

A Girl in Old Style Bathing Suit with a Monkey, Port Aransas, Texas, 1949.

The cover of Health and Strength, May 1949.

Actor Montgomery Clift as photographed by Stanley Kubrick, 1949.

September 30th, 1949: Berlin Airlift Ends.

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

Actor Robert Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds convicted for possession of marijuana in 1949.

 

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Future director Stanley Kubrick takes a self portrait with Rosemary Williams, a Showgirl in NY. 1949.

Chicago, 1949 - Men walking along a train platform. photo by Stanley Kubrick.

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 parked on the ramp at NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station with the crew in 1949.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1

Little Eskimo and her husky, 1949.

Marilyn Monroe on a penny-farthing bike in 1949.

Minneapolis police officer and cruiser, 1949.

 

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Newly Restored Photos of Shackleton’s Fateful Antarctic Voyage, 1915.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition

 

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Lost England 1870-1930.

Philip Davies, an architectural historian, spent seven years trawling through the photographs, compiling the best 1,500 into a 558-page book entitled Lost England.

Birmingham Small Arms Company in 1917.
He said: “Many of the buildings are beautiful, but if this book does anything, it challenges the Downton Abbey myth of a Victorian golden age. The fact that shocked me most was that life expectancy for a boy born in the slums of Liverpool in the 1840s was 15 years. Many lives were spent in appalling conditions in the shadow of epidemics of killer diseases like typhus, cholera, TB and diphtheria."

One of his favourites was taken in 1895 and shows a group of boys gathered around a new drinking fountain in Liverpool. Davies pointed out that although the boys were working as shoe cleaners, apart from two who are wearing magnificently polished boots, most are barefoot. The fountain, with its shining bronze cup, was built to offer the urban poor an alternative to the seduction of the palatial Morning Star pub in the background.

Leeds General Infirmary, 1895.

 

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Participants of the all union fashion festival in 1988

 

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A 13 year old Vincent Von Gogh in the year 1866.

Prussian soldiers 1866.

Alexandra, Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, her sons, 1866.

Victorian travellers on the Chamonix Glacier in the Savoy Alps, France, 1867.

One of the earliest surviving pictures of Stonehenge circa 1867.

Itinerant musician in Constantinople 1867.

Big Ben, London, 1868.

Sami people of northern Sweden, circa 1868.

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

Inga Kajsa Finnberg. She was 14 years old.

Inga Amundsdotter. She was 76 years old.

Amma Pirkit Larsson.

 

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JFK personally (in 1962) chose font for “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” on fuselage of Air Force One because it resembled font of early printed version of Declaration of Independence:

 

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There goes something I never knew.

 

[Brutikus]

On this say in 1934: Comedian, writer, and actor Marty Feldman was born.

"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with."

 

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Some attempts at changing the way we travel that didn't make it off the ground.

A monowheel, also known as the Dynasphere spherical car, in the UK in 1930.

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A Uno-wheel, or monocycle, Paris, 1933.

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People stand near a BMW Schneekrad which was an all-terrain motorcycle in Germany in 1936.

The Sigvard Berggren "Ford" V8 streamliner in Sweden in 1959.

A Carden single transport vehicle (cyclecar) in the UK in 1916.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carden_(cyclecar)

The Sir Vival car in 1958.

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

 

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The only photo of a living Quagga, London Zoo, 1870. The species became extinct in 1878.

Swedish woman in 1870 wearing a bridal outfit so elaborate that she had to be dressed the night before and sleep in it sitting up. The dress was brightly colored in reds and blues and decorated with several kilos of pure silver.

Broken statue of the Emperor Napoleon I during the Paris Commune, Place Vendome, Paris. May 16th, 1871. The Paris Commune was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871.

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

Pagoda on an island in the River Min near Fuzhou, China, taken by John Thomson (1837-1921) in about 1871, published in 1873 in the book 'Foochow and the River Min'. Source: http://china-underground.com/2016/01/25/island-pagoda-about-1871/

In 1872 the spectacle of this one thousand-ton Exposition building floating serenely down San Francisco Bay caused residents of the Coast to doubt the testimony of their own eyes. Bon Voyage to the Ohio State Building! THAT all of the splendid architectural masterpieces which made of the Panama Exposition grounds a veritable fairyland was not doomed to inglorious destruction after their short span of life is evidenced by our photograph, in which the Ohio State Building is seen taking a leisurely and dignified trip down San Francisco Bay. The building, which weighs more than a thousand tons and which was a conspicuous feature of the Exposition,was purchased by a Country Club patronized by the elite society of San Carlos, California. Arrangements for its transportation down the bay began with the hiring of a number of barges which were lashed together to form a raft on which the building was mounted. It was towed by tugs to San Carlos, a distance of twenty-three miles.

View of destroyed buildings on Congress and Kilby Streets from Milk Street after the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Members of the "Wild West Show" Scouts Of The Prairie, Ned Buntline, Buffalo Bill Cody, The Peerless Morlacchi, and Texas Jack Omohundro in 1872.

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

Interior of the Public Library of Cincinnati in 1874.

Portrait of a ‘Mestiza de Sangley’ woman. Sangley is an archaic term used in the Philippines to describe and classify a person of pure Chinese ancestry - Circa 1875.

Passengers aboard Canadian Pacific Train, 1875.

 

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi in his earliest known photo circa 1876.

Celebrated early professional photographer Mathew Brady, self-portrait from 1875.

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

Reverend Daniel Davies, 1875.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Davies_(preacher)

The Temple at Karnak, Egypt, 1876.

Public urinal in Paris, 1875.

The Statue of Liberty's torch is parked in front of the western side of Madison Square in 1876.

The Paris World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) in 1878 displayed the head of the Statue of Liberty, which would come to the U.S. in 1886.

Guinness in Dublin being transported in 1877.

Parisians hold down a massive hot air balloon while it inflates in the Tuileries Garden, 1878.

A British elephant-drawn artillery battery during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, c. 1878.

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Promo photos from famous films.

Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman do a promo picture for Moulin Rouge! in 2001.

Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones do a promo picture for The Mask of Zorro in 1998.

Matt Damon doing a promo picture for Saving Private Ryan in 1998.

A promotional picture of The Lost Boys for the film Hook in 1991.

Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman doing a promo picture for Pulp Fiction in 1994.

Christian Bale doing a promotional picture for American Psycho in 2000.

Natalie Portmans promotional picture for Leon: The Professional in 1994.

Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer do a promotional picture for Tombstone in 1994.

Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins and Scott Glenn posing for a promo picture for Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

Florina Kendrick, Monica Bellucci, and Michaela Bercu do a promotional picture with Keanu Reeves for Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.

 

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More Promo photos from famous films.

One of Charlie Chaplins promo pictures for The Great Dictator in 1940.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michelle Pfeiffer, Al Pacino, and Steven Bauer take the wedding picture used at Tony Montanas home later on in the film and for promotion of the film Scarface in 1984.

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford doing a promo picture for Gilda in 1946.

Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton promoting Batman in 1989.

Colleen Camp doing a promotional shot for the film Clue in 1985.

Marty Feldman doing a promo picture for Young Frankenstein in 1974.

John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelsen promo picture for the film Rio Bravo in 1959.

Mathew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck doing a promotional picture for Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986.

Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper doing a promo picture of High Noon in 1952.

 

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Nikola Tesla at the age of 23,?1879.

Highlanders of Amir Yaqub at Gandamak, Afghanistan. Second Anglo Afghan War, 1879.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Afghan_War

Young Rabindranath Tagore in England, 1879. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

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

An amateur theatrical group presenting a mock lynching in Nashville, Tennessee, 1880.

Four of the last British veterans of the Battle of Waterloo at Chelsea Hospital, June 1880.

Lone horseman riding through Tucson, 1880.

Butch Cassidy, seated far left, Sundance Kid seated far right, and the Wild Bunch, 1880's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy's_Wild_Bunch

 

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Butch Cassidy, seated far left, Sundance Kid seated far right, and the Wild Bunch, 1880's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy's_Wild_Bunch

Amazing pic! t:

 

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Amazing pic! t:

They were some brazen son of a guns that's for sure.