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

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Sharpshooter Annie Oakley posing in her over the shoulder using a hand mirror position, 1899.

Adolf Hitler’s 4th grade class, 1899. He is top row, center.

Believe it or not, these are electric taxis on the streets of NYC in 1899.

Nikola Tesla with his Magnifying Transmitter in his Colorado Springs laboratory in 1899

A class in mathematical geography studying earth's rotation around the sun, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1899.

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

Female students playing basketball in a gymnasium in Western High School, Washington D.C., ca. 1899.

The first telephone pay station in Los Angeles, S. Spring Street, 1899.

Harry Houdini, age 25, 1899.

Photograph of a railroad derailment that took place in Santa Clara on August 28, 1899. Two engines derailed here, although one is under No. 1377 and cannot be seen. These two trains in tandem were pulling a heavy load of passengers returning from Monterey. They derailed at this intersection of broad and narrow gauge railroad tracks when a switchman switched the track to narrow gauge without realizing a broad gauge train was fast approaching. There were a few minor injuries but no one was seriously hurt. A large crowd is milling around examining the wreck. Note that many of the men have their train tickets tucked into their hatbands. In the background is the Santa Clara Depot as well as two trains unable to proceed.

Commissioned officers in front of the Administration building at Kentucky State University, 1899.

 

[Da-Scribe]

That's the magic of these old pictures. You see just how much has changed through the passage of time but also how much hasn't. Thanks for taking an interest in the thread Scribe. Take time to explore the thread from page one. It's a wild ride through histort in my humble opinion. If you have anything you think you can contribute please share.

Definitely agreed. This has quickly become one of my favorite threads to visit. Thanks for coming up with this!

 

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A nobleman is carried on a litter by four bearers, Korea, circa 1900.

Punt guns were used for duck hunting at the turn of the last century. A single shot could kill up to 50 waterfowl resting on the surface of a pond or lake. ca 1900.

Bison-drawn carriage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota 1900.

Woman talking on a hand crank oak telephone, 1900.

Two photographs of Union soldier Martin L. Chandler taken 38 years apart in 1862 and 1900. He served with Company C of the 13th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.

In the early part of the 20th century, the figure and face of Evelyn Nesbit were everywhere, appearing in mass circulation newspaper and magazine advertisements, on souvenir items, and calendars, making her a cultural celebrity. Her career began in her early teens in Philadelphia and continued in New York, where she posed for a cadre of respected artists of the era, including James Carroll Beckwith, Frederick S. Church, and notably Charles Dana Gibson, who idealized her as a "Gibson Girl." She had the distinction of being an early fashion and artists' model, in an era when both fashion photography (as an advertising medium) and the pin-up (as an art genre) were just beginning their ascendancy.

View from the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, in 1900.

The future Times Square NYC, 1900.

Young woman posing with picked peanuts, ca. 1900.

12th Street Bascule Bridge, Chicago, 1900.

 

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The first commercial jet airliner to land in Perth, an Air India Boeing 707, 1962.

 

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Chinese immigrant family rests on park bench in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1890s.

Margaret Ann Neve, 1902. One of only a few born in the 1700s to live into the 1900s. She lived from May 18, 1792 to April 4, 1903.

The U.S. Secret Service surrounds Theodore Roosevelt in his carriage on the day of his
second inauguration March 4, 1905.

Immigrants at Ellis Island undergoing a health inspection, 1920.

Recording an episode of “Gang Busters”, true crime radio show, New York, ca. 1930s.

Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what was then the USAAF Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, now part of White Sands Missile Range. The only structures originally in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, which scientists used as a laboratory for testing bomb components. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test.

The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The complexity of the design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and concerns about whether it would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test. The test was planned and directed by Kenneth Bainbridge.

Fears of a fizzle led to the construction of a steel containment vessel called Jumbo that could contain the plutonium, allowing it to be recovered, but Jumbo was not used.

A rehearsal was held on May 7, 1945, in which 108 short tons (96 long tons; 98 t) of high explosive spiked with radioactive isotopes were detonated.

The Gadget's detonation released the explosive energy of about 22 kilotons of TNT (92 TJ). Observers included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, Geoffrey Taylor, and Richard Tolman.

The test site was declared a National Historic Landmark district in 1965, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places the following year.

Dr. Moody Jacobs reveals a massive bruise on Ann Hodges – one of only two known people in history to have been directly struck by a meteorite which happened on November 30th, 1954.

http://weekinweird.com/2016/08/21/b...-whose-life-was-ruined-by-a-cursed-meteorite/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite)


Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death, April 18, 1955.

Fidel Castro meets Malcolm X during his visit to the United Nations, New York City, 1960.

The Apollo 11 Command/Service Module being mated to the Saturn V that will launch it on it's journey to the Moon, April of 1969.

 

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Picture taken during the Civil War of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his mount Traveler.

The notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde photographed in 1933.

PC Frederick Godwin offers tea and sympathy to a now homeless man, who returned home from walking his dog to find his house destroyed and wife killed by a V1 rocket, London, 1944.

A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation on an underground nuclear test in New Mexico, 1961.

Appalachian “hillbilly revolutionaries” from the Young Patriots Organization team up with members of the Black Panther Party for a “Free the Panthers” event, late 1960s

The Young Patriots wore a rebel Confederate flag on their blue jean jackets and berets, and fought against racism. They participated in demonstrations against police brutality and housing discrimination. In 1971, a portion of the Young Patriots attempted to build a national organization, renamed the Patriot Party, which had no relation to the right-wing group of the same name.

Johnny Cash waiting to play at Folsom Prison (1968).

Picture of Al Martino and the "Three Stooges", Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Joe Derita in 1968.

Way back in 1983, three exotic dancers were charged with violating Pinellas County anti-nudity ordinance which pretty much prohibited topless dancers and strippers from doing their thing. The law also allowed Pinellas County, located in Florida, to regulate any nudity in establishments where alcohol was served.

“…nudity and service of food and drink did not mix, that it is adverse to the public health, peace and morals of the community,” is an actual quote released from the Pinellas City Council. Well, when three exotic dancers were arrested for allegedly exposing their vaginas to undercover cops, one of the dancers bent over to show the judge that her bikini briefs were too large to show any of her goods.

The judge was David A. Demers, and because of that “presentation” put forward by the dancer the charges were dismissed.

This photo then went out to appear in Playboy’s issue of “The Year in Sex.” The judge was glad to learn that you could barely see his name on the nameplate, saying “Whew, I’m glad to hear that!”

Onlookers react to the American Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion. 1986.

Richard Nixon at his wife Pat's funeral, June 26, 1993.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I absolutely love this thread. These pictures are beautiful, touching and funny.

 

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I absolutely love this thread. These pictures are beautiful, touching and funny.

Believe it or not... I'm running out of material to post. When I started it the images were on the grab bag side in each post. Then I started posting more or less by decade going through each year in order but not doing the decades consecutively. THAT... Kinda exhausted all the stuff I could find right now so it's back to being a grab bag with each post.

Still, glad you are enjoying it Hob.

 

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Aretha Franklin and her sister Erma picking up fruit from a street vendor in 1963.

Franklin at the piano recording in 1967.

Aretha Franklin on the cover of the June 28, 1968, issue of TIME.

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Aretha Franklin speaking with reporters after a concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC, 1971.

Aretha Franklin and her new husband, Glen Turman, arrive at a Los Angeles hotel, April 17, 1978 for their wedding reception. Turman signals his okay and pleasure at the reception as Kecalf (cq) 8, Aretha's son by a previous marriage looks on. The couple married recently,had planned a reception at her Beverly Hills home on Saturday but the party was rained out, and moved to the hotel for the Sunday party. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac)

Singers James Brown and Aretha Franklin perform at the Taboo night club in Detroit Saturday night, Jan. 11, 1987, for a show which was taped for airing on HBO. (AP Photo/Joe Kennedy)

Singing great Aretha Franklin joins George Michael on stage during his Faith World Tour in the Detroit area at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Aug. 30, 1988. The duo sang their Grammy-winning hit "I Knew You Were Waiting." (AP Photo/Rob Kozloff)

Singing legend Aretha Franklin brings down the house in the finale of "Aretha Franklin: Duets," an AIDS benefit concert in New York, April 28, 1993. From left to right: Franklin, singers Smokey Robinson, Gloria Estefan, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Raitt, and actors Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Gay Men's Health Crisis. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)

Singer Aretha Franklin listens to composer Morton Gould, as actor Kirk Douglas looks on following a dinner at the State Department in Washington Saturday, Dec. 3, 1994. The dinner was held to honor them as recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors of 1994. Also honored were songwriter Pete Seeger and Director Harold Prince. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

Aretha Franklin performs at President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Chain Of Fools (1967):

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Spirit In The Dark (1970):

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Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves (1985):

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Underneath the frozen waters of Niagara Falls in the winter of 1911.

On the "street" in the downtown of Las Vegas in 1912.

View from a U.S. military aircraft as it passes over the blasted remains of Hiroshima a year after the nuclear bombing of that city, Japan, 1946.

Official Police report for the arrest of Rosa Parks, when she refused to to give up her seat on a bus for a white man, Montgomery, Alabama, 1955.

A 13 year old Arnold Schwarzenegger at school in Graz, Austria, 1960.

The early construction of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1961.

A photographer catches the explosive result of a policeman smashing a protester in the face and smashing the man's glasses during a demonstration in Pittsburgh, mid to late 1960's.

Photographer Larry Burrows captures the moment of a U.S. Air Force napalm strike in Vietnam, 1963.

Rays of sunshine pass through the uncompleted structure of the Twin Towers, NYC, 1970.

“Firing Squad in Iran” was a stunning black and white image of 11 Kurdish men being shot to death in a dusty field in the Iranian province of Kurdistan. Standing a few feet behind and to the right of the riflemen, an Iranian photographer, armed with his Nikon, his savvy and his courage, had recorded the scene. The Pulitzer Prize jury decided this was “probably the single most important photograph of 1979,” writing: “It is not only a picture of enduring and memorable quality but also has the power to shape the viewer’s feeling about a compelling international crisis.”

Ayatollah Khomeini and his theocracy had been in control of Iran for just a few months. When this close-up of a state execution appeared the next day across the front page of Iran’s biggest newspaper, Ettela’at, the nature of the Islamic Republic could no longer be denied. So the newspaper’s editor, fearing for the photographer’s safety, withheld his name. When UPI distributed the picture around the world, it did the same. The identity of the photographer was not revealed until 2006 when it was announced that it was Jahangir Razmi.

 

[3rdstone]

This is a fantastic thread which I've highly enjoyed from the start. You've done a great job with presenting moments in our history which are sometimes entertaining and sometimes extremely sad. Here's a small contribution on the lighter side.

I once started a thread here about classic vintage cars, but few others than me contributed to it. When I realised that a thread for gun owners gained way more attraction I gave up on it. Anyway, here's some pics from that old thread.

Mostly from the 60s, and the theme here is celebs and cars.


Syd Barrett (RIP), once founder/member of Pink Floyd with a Pontiac -59 convertible. These were probably worth almost nothing in those days, but today we hail these "wide track" Pontiacs as classics.

Sonny and Cher with their matching customized Mustangs. Cute or tasteless? Up to the viewer, I guess..

A young Ringo Starr with a Facel Vega. No idea if it was really his, but regardless these are rare today.

Dolly Parton with a huge mid 60:s Cadillac. Anything big suits her fine, right?

Janis Joplin with a Porsche having a typical custom paint in the right psychedelic style. But how did that song really go? "My friends all drive Porsches, I must make a stand. Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz." Well, whatever.

Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson with a stunning Ford Thunderbird -58. "Ingo" got fame by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the 1959 World Champion heavy weight boxing final. Many people (including my father) still claim today that it's the most amazing Swedish athlete success ever. Over the years I've come to understand the grandness of that event in our little country back then. But then of course, the next time they fought Patterson won..

 

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John Lennon's Rolls Royce painted by the Dutch artist collective called The Fool. They also painted some famous guitars like the Gibson SG Eric Clapton used in Cream, and a Fender Strat used by George Harrison at the same time.

Marilyn Monroe and her Cadillac -54.

A couple of later pics, in which she's sporting a Chrysler 300H -62. And sadly as we all know, this icon would shortly after pass away.






Cassius Clay/later Muhammad Ali with a classic Cadillac -59.

One more pic with a Cadillac, this time with a -63.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

This is a fantastic thread which I've highly enjoyed from the start. You've done a great job with presenting moments in our history which are sometimes entertaining and sometimes extremely sad. Here's a small contribution on the lighter side.

I once started a thread here about classic vintage cars, but few others than me contributed to it. When I realised that a thread for gun owners gained way more attraction I gave up on it. Anyway, here's some pics from that old thread.

Mostly from the 60s, and the theme here is celebs and cars.

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Syd Barrett (RIP), once founder/member of Pink Floyd with a Pontiac -59 convertible. These were probably worth almost nothing in those days, but today we hail these "wide track" Pontiacs as classics.

Sonny and Cher with their matching customized Mustangs. Cute or tasteless? Up to the viewer, I guess..

A young Ringo Starr with a Facel Vega. No idea if it was really his, but regardless these are rare today.

Dolly Parton with a huge mid 60:s Cadillac. Anything big suits her fine, right?

Janis Joplin with a Porsche having a typical custom paint in the right psychedelic style. But how did that song really go? "My friends all drive Porsches, I must make a stand. Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz." Well, whatever.

Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson with a stunning Ford Thunderbird -58. "Ingo" got fame by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the 1959 World Champion heavy weight boxing final. Many people (including my father) still claim today that it's the most amazing Swedish athlete success ever. Over the years I've come to understand the grandness of that event in our little country back then. But then of course, the next time they fought Patterson won..

Thanks for taking interest in the thread and most of all the added material. I am far from a gear head so while I have a handful of shots of classic cars it's far from what would be here if I had a deep interest or appreciation. Thanks for the great pictures and the informed commentary. Keep 'em coming. Variety of topics is more than welcomed. If you are a sports fan try and drop in some important sports moments as well. I have done my best but sports is not high on my list of interests so moments that might have missed my attention would also be appreciated.

 

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Harriet Tubman poses with her remaining family, Alabama, 1887.

Photographer takes a picture of a Yakut Shaman from Siberia - notice the metal attachments to the regalia. These aid the shaman to stay in rhythm and trance while drumming and dancing. Taken in 1909.

Paris airplane show, 1909.

In Egypt during WWII in 1943 British forces disguise their tanks to look like regular trucks.

Buyers sampling the music in a London music shop, 1955.

Skating on thin ice... Literally. An outdoor hockey match goes awry in Sweden, 1959.

Music greats Dave Mustaine and James Hetfield getting buzzed in 1983.

Nirvana doing a sexy photoshoot for Mademoiselle Magazine in 1993.

 

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A female fisherman with 2 tarpons caught off Florida, US in 1891.

A giant elephant statue overlooks the gardens of Moulin Rouge in Paris, France in 1901.

A symbolic picture taken in 1902 used to try and show the end of hatred between former Civil War combatants from the Union and Confederacy after the country worked together to defeat Spain in the Spanish American War (1898) which freed Cuba from Spanish rule.

French colonial officers from Ivory Coast with their Ghanaian wives and children in Ghana in 1915.

KKK members at their headquarters at the Glen Brae mansion in Vancouver, Canada in 1925. The Canadian version of the KKK called themselves the Kanadian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Musicians and their dancers in India in 1927.

Jewish refugees, mostly children, in camps in Israel after leaving their homes in Yemen to join the Jewish state in 1954.

Executives, managers and showgirls pose for a picture at the Tropicana Night Club in Havana, Cuba in 1954.

A sign to warn European white descendants of an upcoming town full of local black African natives in South Africa in 1964.

 

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A man dressed in the traditional attire of a Moro warrior smoking a cigar in the Philippines, 1905.

2 Men wearing authentic and traditional Samurai and sword maker clothes for a demonstration in Japan in 1910.

Women training with rifles in case they need to defend their homes while husbands and fathers are away during WWI in Toronto, Canada, 1915.

3 Somalian tribesmen in 1922.

A farmer in Japan in 1922.

A busy area by the waterfront in Shanghai, China in 1927.

Herdsman in Bolivia in 1933.

Japanese goaltender Teiji Honma at the Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1936.

People continue their daily lives even after the city streets have flooded in Mexico City, Mexico in 1951.

A lesbian club called The Gateway Club in Chelsea, England in 1953.

 

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Charlotte Cooper from the UK participating in the first Olympic games that allowed women in Paris, France in 1900. She would go on to be the first women Gold Medalist for tennis. No special shoes or clothes existed for most olympic events, but definitely not for women during the time period. So all female Olympic athletes competed in normal attire in Tennis and Golf in particular.

Japanese Picture Brides arrive at Angel Island, CA, US in 1910. The term Picture Bride is derived from when a matchmaker, often a family member, used pictures to assemble a pair to be married. It was mostly done in the first part of the 1900s, and came mainly from Japan, but also Okinawa and Korea. The women were as young as teenagers, but also had no age limit as the man whom they were to marry may have lost a wife or other factors causing them to request a new marriage. The matchmaker and future husband decided the details, with the women rarely having any say in the matter. This has been done for thousands of years well before pictures were invented. For example, European nobility in particular would exchange paintings to see the beauty of a prospective wife, then organize a marriage before meeting them. Other countries do arranged marriages of course, but I am referring to the practice of seeing a painting or picture of the future bride, then making a decision. Between 1905 and 1930, around 50,000 mainly Japanese Picture Brides arrived in the US.

An Armenian mother sits besides the bodies of her 6 children in 1915. They had been separated from their mom and starved to death during the Armenian Genocide. The fate of the mother is unknown. The father may have already been killed. The Ottoman Turks are believed to have killed 1.5 million Armenians in an ethnic cleansing of the area. They executed many, but preferred to starve the Armenians, often separating families and sometimes using the adults into forced labor while the old, sick, and children starved. Eventually they would kill everyone who were no longer useful. Many fled to Syria and would die on the harsh roads.

10 Year old Edith Houghton posing for a picture wearing her Philadelphia Bobbies baseball uniform to help promote a girls professional baseball league in 1922. You read that right. The remarkable Houghton not only was on a professional girls baseball team at just 10 years old but she was also their best player. She also joined the Navy, served in WWII, and was the first female scout for MLB.

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

Some ladies pose for a picture in Nong Kai, Thailand in 1923.

Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust pose for a few pictures somewhere in Germany in 1944. The pair were lovers, and Schragenheim was actually Jewish, fighting with the Jewish Resistance in Germany. She was unfortunately caught later that year and died during the death march from KZ Auschwitz Birkenau to KZ Bergen-Belsen. Wust was actually the wife of a German officer. She survived the war and would stay married and have 4 children. Their story became both a book and a movie by the same name, Aimée & Jaguar.

The Saudi Arabian fashion designer, Parveen Shaath, seated left on the couch, with her friends in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in the 1960s. Before the harsh laws imposed on women in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s, women had an open forum for thought and art.

Female members of motorcycle club in London, England in 1973.

Armed women guard a section of the main square in Tehran, Iran in 1979. This was during the Iranian Revolution, in which many women not only supported it, but participated in the armed takeovers of certain areas.

3 Japanese teens show the Wings sign and also show their tickets to a cancelled Wings concert in Toyko, Japan in 1980. The concert was cancelled when Paul McCartney was arrested at the airport after he was found with marijuana in his luggage. The tickets cost around $20 USD at the time. These fans loved Wings, but when the journalist asked them if they also liked The Beatles, the young girls had little to no clue about McCartney's former band.

 

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A young woman poses for a picture in Bombay, India in 1865.

Women imported from Thailand pose for a picture at an exhibition in what would be know as a Human Zoo in Paris, France in 1889.

Girls wearing traditional clothes pose for a picture somewhere outside of Amsterdam in The Netherlands in 1908. Notice they all are wearing the famous Dutch wooden shoes, which was normal back then and as far back 1200 AD.

English women protesting their governments stance on refusing to allow them to serve in WWI in 1915. Word had spread that other countries including Italy and Russia had already allowed women to serve, creating anger from those women in England who also wished to serve.

Japanese women protesting for women's rights in Tokyo, Japan, in 1922.

3 Japanese Maiko-san ride a special 3 wheel car somewhere in Japan in 1923.

Employees working at the Social Security Office in Baltimore, MD, US in 1950.

Members of the Public Scout and Girl Guide Movement of Libya (Libyan Girl Scouts) march in Tripoli in 1964. The troop founded in 1954 and exists to this day with nearly 20,000 members. It's history is similar to any other girl scout troop, but tend to start at older ages.

A group of girls dance on the set of The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery in 1965.

The first official masquerade costume contest at the annual San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California, US in 1974. The convention had already been around for a bit, but no one would wear costumes. Then after this contest, costumes became the norm.

 

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People take to the streets reviewing the damage after the Great Fire in Toronto, Canada in 1904. The fire destroyed much of downtown Toronto, claiming over 100 buildings. It was the largest fire ever on record for the city. Luckily, only 1 person died, and the damage of the fire was credited to small ineffective fire departments unable to handle the large blaze. 5,000 people, or 2.5% of the population of Toronto, lost their jobs. The result at least forced city officials to put money into the fire department, expanding it greatly and making the firefighters more effective, which ensured there was not a repeat of such damage.

Herders put elephants in a pen during the Ayutthaya Wild Elephant Collection in Thailand in 1904. The government was able to capture a few thousand elephants and trained them and put them to use for projects, eventually moving some into sanctuaries as well.

Female mechanics work on fixing a bus engine in London, England in 1917. Much of the day to day workforce became women in the UK during WWI, and many made the same call in WWII. They did everything from run public transport, to public jobs, to construction employees, and almost every kind of factory worker. This actually was instrumental in helping Womens' Rights Movements in the UK to get them the vote, which they did in 1918. Lawmakers knew they relied far too heavily on female labor, forcing them to finally cave in after over 3 decades of protests for Womens' rights.

4 Year old bartender Sloppy Joe Jr. poses for customers at the famous Sloppy Joes Bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1931. After the Cuban Revolution ended in 1959 and Castro took power, Sloppy Joes was abandoned. Pretty much all places frequented by the rich and famous in Cuba were shut down or abandoned in 1959-1960.

State Troopers keep a crowd in check in Salisbury, Maryland, US in 1933. The troopers were sent by Gov. Albert Ritchie to arrest suspects in a lynching of a black man that occurred in the previous month. The Lynching of blacks without due process in the area had risen in previous years, and the Governor intended to put a stop to it. However, the troopers were met by large crowds of white people who actually threatened the troopers, throwing rocks and some were said to be armed with clubs and bats. After initial clashes, the troopers used tear gas to repulse them.

2 families walk the promenade in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England in 1935. This picture is in some British fashion libraries to show the drastic change of fashion from generation to generation of that time period.

A Vietnamese soldier loyal to the French carries around his 2 ducks as he guards a sector in Vietnam in 1952. This was during the Second Indochina War, when the French tried to keep hold of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after WWII. They left by 1965, ceding military control to the US.

Inmates cheer during a negotiating session during the Attica Prison Uprising in New York State, US in 1971. For 4 days the prisoners controlled the facility, after capturing numerous officers and holding them hostage. Against the policy of the state, negotiations were held instead of an immediate retake of the prison. Too many leaders existed inside the prison to have proper negotiations. Then 1 of the guards died from injuries suffered during the uprising after being released by the prisoners. This made all the prisoners potential accomplices to murder, and negotiations broke down. Many of the demands just asked for better treatment, but the leaders of the uprising wanted assurances from the Governor in person. Instead, an armed retake of the prison commenced, killing 33 prisoners and 10 more correctional officers. Major state prisons and policies did reform after this uprising around the country to avoid a repeat.

A wedding ceremony in Changyi county, Shandong province, China in 1980.

People walk in support of a Homosexual Law Reform in Wellington, New Zealand in 1986. Several thousand attended the peaceful marches. Eventually, New Zealand would become one of the first countries in the world to fully legalize gay marriage.

 

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The famous Sydney Opera House under construction in Sydney, Australia in 1966. The project started in 1959, and wasn't fully completed for 14 years until 1973. The project ran so far over its budget and had such complications during all that time, that it overall ended up costing around $102 million, or after being adjusted for inflation, almost $1 billion today.

People linger around after the massive Woodstock Festival had ended in New York State, US in 1969. The concert was for 3 days, with up to 400,000 people attending. It was the biggest event of its kind at the time.

Caroline Munro, dressed in black, parties down in a scene from DRACULA A.D. 1972, a Hammer Horror film that was trying to bring "hipness" to the Dracula mythos while still employing Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in their old roles as the king of the vampires and the master vampire hunter, respectively.

Portuguese soldiers read updates in the paper during the Carnation Revolution of 1974. This was a military coup that went over pretty peacefully, and soldiers would decorate themselves and their weapons with carnations to show solidarity with the people. The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also referred to as the 25th of April (Portuguese: vinte e cinco de Abril), was initially a military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, on 25 April 1974 which overthrew the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo.[1] The revolution started as a military coup organised by the Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas, MFA) composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but the movement was soon coupled with an unanticipated and popular campaign of civil resistance. This movement would lead to the fall of the Estado Novo and the withdrawal of Portugal from its African colonies.

The name "Carnation Revolution" comes from the fact that almost no shots were fired and that when the population took to the streets to celebrate the end of the dictatorship and war in the colonies, carnations were put into the muzzles of rifles and on the uniforms of the army men by Celeste Caeiro.[2] In Portugal, 25 April is a national holiday, known as Freedom Day (Portuguese: Dia da Liberdade), to celebrate the event.

Girls from the Iraqi National school of Music and Ballet practicing outside in Baghdad, Iraq in 1975.

The dance floor at the famous Studio 54 in NYC, US in 1978.

People protesting against any form of nuclear power or weapons after the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania, US in 1979. An accident at the Nuclear Power Plant caused a small release of radiation. The government was unaware of the extent of the leak at first, and did not evacuate people. Up to 500,000 people were close enough to be heavily affected had it been worse, but the government did not know the magnitude of the radiation released within the first 48 hours, and did hardly anything while determining the extent of the incident. This lack of action and understanding of a possible nuclear disaster caused fear and protests for much of the year against anything nuclear. Those fears were realize with the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine 7 years later.

British SAS soldiers (a highly trained group of special forces) move into position for the siege on the Iranian Embassy in London, England in 1980. After 6 days of talks, the gunmen killed a hostage. Fearful of more executions, Margaret Thatcher ordered the SAS to storm the Embassy by force. In the 17 minute gun battle, all but 1 of the remaining hostages were saved and 5 of the 6 gunmen were killed, the 6th being captured and prosecuted.

The 5 person crew of the mission STS-51-L doing training at a high altitude to simulate weightlessness in 1985. The following year they would take off along with 2 specialist and unfortunately would all die in the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986.

3 People are knocked to the ground and dragged away to be arrested during the Poll Tax Riot in London, England in 1990. The super unpopular new tax was the main driving force in Margaret Thatcher's resignation that very same year.

 

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Mounted armed guards of Emir of Katsina wearing traditional attire during the festival of Sallah in Katsina, Nigeria in 1970. The armed guards have had long standing purposes in the area, and would guard royalty or important functions of the Katsina state and surrounding areas.

3 Gang members walk the streets of New York City in 1972.

Former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam talking to Smila Underwood at Wattie Creek in 1980.

A jockey at a Jamaican race track in 1982.

3 FMLN Child soldiers with their commander pose for a picture in El Salvador in 1983. The FMLN guerillas forced children into their ranks, and rarely did anyone have a choice. This all occured during the El Salvadorian Civil War, with lasted from 1979 all the way until 1992.

Protesters in Warsaw Poland in 1984. This was the beginning of a 7 year movement known as the Solidarity Movement. They are holding up the peace symbol which also became the symbol of the movement.

Chinese Citizens, mostly students and workers, occupy Tianamen Square during pro-democracy protests in Beijing, China in 1989.

This is a picture of Bosniaks (Muslim Bosnians) at the Omarska concentration camp run by the Serbians during the Bosnian War in Bosnia in 1992. It was basically a concentration camp being disguised as a prisoner camp.

The international community forced the Serbians to allow a BBC news crew onto the site to examine if human rights violations were occurring. What they found were people who suffered from malnutrition and often starving nearly to death. They also were specifically ethnic prisoners, all Muslims, with many seemingly showing no signs of being in any military or militia. They also found the guards would torture the prisoners often. Inmate stories and records would show that the Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were interned here, split up based on sex, with many of the women being raped, and thousands being shot and killed at this concentration camp. This was worldwide headlines on most papers and stations when it was released. A doctor on site also smuggled more incriminating photos of what happened at this site to help expose it.

2 Korean Americans stand guard on top of their stores during the LA Riots in 1992.

 

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Left to right: James McCord, Jr., Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, and Bernard Baker, the men whose attempted burglary ended up bringing down a president.

Watergate Hearing: May 18th, 1973. (left to right) Senator Howard Baker, Senator Sam Irvin, Majority Council Sam Dash, Senator Herman E Talmadge and Senator Daniel Inouye listening to the testimony of James McCord.

Cover of The New York Times, Oct. 21, 1973.

 

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I really like this thread.

 

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Charlton Heston poses with Stephan Boyd on a scooter while shooting in Rome for the epic classic, BEN-HUR, 1959.

A special effects artist on the set of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, prepares his work in between takes on an actor, 1968.

Actress Kim Hunter in full make up looks through a camera on the set of PLANET OF THE APES, 1968

The cast of Milos Forman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST at Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon where they filmed, 1974.

Tim Curry getting his hair done just right, ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, 1975.

Jim Henson with his creation Kermit in between takes of the opening scene of THE MUPPET MOVIE, 1979.

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Creator and Executive Producer George Lucas, Director Irvin Kershner and Darth Vader actor David Prowse in costume on the set of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, 1980.

John Rhys-Davies and Harrison Ford holding a plywood cutout to create the a shadow for the scene in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK where they find the ancient artifact, 1981.

Steven Spielberg plays around with the animatronic of the title character on the set of E.T., 1982.

A young and at the time relatively unknown Leonardo DiCaprio with a puppet used in the film CRITTERS 3, 1993.

 

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The Apollo 11 Command/Service Module being mated to the Saturn V that will launch it on it's journey to the Moon, April of 1969.

Does anyone else see Liam Neeson in the guy on the left?