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

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Cats catching squirts of milk during milking at a dairy farm in California, 1954.

Two boys, a girl, and some monkey bars, 1954.

Little Mouseketeer in Chicago, 1954.

Dock workers, Dublin, Ireland, 1954,

A young boy reacts to getting his polio vaccination.

Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1954.

Milkman making his deliveries despite the flood in Buckinghamshire, England, 1954.

French M24 Chaffee tank deployed at Dien Bien Phu, French Indochina, 1954.

French model Simone D'Aillencourt and unknown male model photographed by William Helburn in New York City, 1954.

People boarding a cable car in San Francisco on June 16, 1954. The car is on a turntable that allows it to change direction.

 

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Eartha Kitt, 1954.

Louis Armstrong getting some appreciation, 1954.

The Queen of naughty, Bettie Page, 1954.

James Dean walking, West 68th street NYC, 1954 as captured by photographer Roy Schatt.

Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, and Laraine Day arriving at the New York International Airport, 1954.

A Young Jim Henson Working On His First 'Kermit' Puppet Prototype, 1954.

Second issue of Playboy Magazine dated January, 1954.

Behind the scenes of the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe. On location in NYC, filming of Seven Year Itch, 1954.

 

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Debbie Harry of Blondie, outside CBGB'S in Manhattan, NYC, 1975.

Steven Spielberg and a toy shark, 1975.

Lynda Carter at the Warner Brothers backlot, 1975.

Motorhead

Lauren Hutton, 1975.

The Women Of SNL, 1975. Lorraine Newman, Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin.

Patrick Stewart as he appeared in the 1975 BBC series North And South.

ABBA in 1975.

Actress Diane Keaton, Los Angeles, 1975.

Robert De Niro’s Taxicab License which he applied for and received to prepare for the lead role in Taxi Driver from 1975.

 

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Some rough looking customers from the streets of Boston, Mass., 1975.

A color coordinated woman walking on the street of New York City in 1975.

Elders from North and South embrace, having lived to see Vietnam reunited and unoccupied by foreign powers, 1975.

The cover of DC Comics' The Witching Hour dated Jan. 1975.

Protests outside the court during trials for prisoners from the Attica riots of 1971 which were held in 1975.

Children continue playing on the court as the FDNY does its duty, Harlem, NYC, 1975.

Graduates of the University of Baghdad College of Nursing in 1975.

Pearl and Allie on their front porch by R Michael Walker, Sadieville Kentucky, 1975.

Times Square NYC 1975.

Men sit down and enjoy a coffee in a souk, Dubai, 1975.

 

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Pearl and Allie on their front porch by R Michael Walker, Sadieville Kentucky, 1975.

That's cool to see because Sadieville is just 20 minutes down the road from me.

 

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Baghdad, Iraq, 1965.

A Soviet Mig flies under bridge on the river Ob, Western Siberia, USSR, 1965.

The owner and workers of an auto body shop pose for a picture, Chicago, 1965.

Picture of Gemini 7 capsule taken from Gemini 6 during rendezvous, Dec. 15, 1965.

A bride nearly loses her veil during a windy wedding, 1965.

Soviet MIG pilot Natasha Prokhanova who had logged over 1000 hours of flight time in MIG-15s and MIG-17s when this photo was taken in 1965.

Tear gas is deployed against the marchers in Selma, Alabama during a civil rights march that became infamous for the level of brutality employed by the authorities, Sunday, March 7, 1965.

A couple enjoy the seaside in
Byblos, Lebanon, 1965.

Three U.S. Navy icebreakers push an iceberg to clear a channel leading to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 1965.

New Orleans market in 1965

 

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A wash tub folk band called The Makeshift jam, somewhere in the USA, 1965.

A policeman rips the American flag away from 5-year-old Anthony Quinn, having already confiscated his ‘No More Police Brutality’ sign. Jackson, Mississippi. 1965. Photograph by Matt Heron.

Willie Davis slides into second at Dodger Stadium, 1965. The camera was lodged under the base by photographer Neil Leifer.

Aleksei Leonov, a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, became the first human to conduct a spacewalk, March, 18,1965.

A darkened Manhattan from November 9, 1965 during the great Northeast blackout.

Northeast blackout of 1965 - Wikipedia

A worker on top of the Gateway Arch, St. Louis, 1965.

The first twin tornado ever caught on film. It was the deadliest tornado outbreak in Indiana history, with 137 people killed. It came to be known as the second Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, 1965.

Pope Paul VI Visits New York City, October 4, 1965.

 

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Johnny Cash, arrested in Texas on suspicion of drug smuggling, 1965.

Michael Caine, 1965.

Famed journalist
Morley Safer in Vietnam, 1965.

Author Truman Capote by Irving Penn, 1965.

Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and Truman Capote on the set of In Cold Blood, 1965.

The Amboy Dukes, Chicago 1965, feat. Ted Nugent.

John Lennon was posing during the filming of 'Help', Nassau, The Bahamas, 1965.

Clint Eastwood in a Jaguar XK 150 Raodster, 1965.

 

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The airship Hindenburg floats past the Empire State Building in New York City on August 8, 1936.



Theater in Ouray, Colorado, September 1940.

 

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Henry Clay Monument, Canal Street, New Orleans, circa 1900.

 

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The 1961 Starfire Convertible - the 1960 Chicago Auto Show

 

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A year after the Watts Riots in 1965, LIFE magazine revisited the neighborhood through a series of color pictures by photographer Bill Ray.

Watts riots - Wikipedia

 

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US B-66 Destroyer and four F-105 Thundercats dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder June 14, 1966.

American soldiers boarding their Huey helicopters. Northeast of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966.

The singing group the Korean Kittens appear on stage at Cu Chi, Vietnam, during the Bob Hope USO Christmas show, to entertain U.S. troops of the 25th Infantry Division, ca. 1966.

Gov. Ronald Reagan shakes hands at a public appearance, 1966.

Buzz Aldrin takes some "selfies" while performing an EVA during Gemini XII, 1966

JFK airport, TWA terminal interior, October 1966.

Wernher von Braun driving a concept of a lunar rover in 1966.

East 100th Street, NYC, ca. 1966.

Girl with bicycle, Dublin, 1966.

 

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Photographer Danny Lyon's snapshots of the NYC subway and its riders in 1966.

 

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Sally Field at age 19, 1966.

Michael Caine, Twiggy, Sally Kellerman and Barbara Parkins, out for the night in Los Angeles, circa 1966.

Model Twiggy, photographed by Terry Fincher in 1966.

Famed for playing drill instructors here is R. Lee Ermey (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket among other roles) during his time in the service as a drill sergeant in 1966.

Actress Jessica Walter in 1966.

Raquel Welch BTS in Fantastic Voyage, 1966.

Promotional photo for the film How To Steal A Million with Peter O'toole and Audrey Hepburn, 1966.

Guitar great Jeff Beck, 1966.

Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground, 1966.

Muhammad Ali, London 1966.

 

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Arnold Schwarzenegger with his ballet teacher Marianne Claire, 1976.

Jessica Lange is in good hands, the animatronic gorilla's arms built by Carlo Rambaldi for the 1976 De Laurentiis' King Kong.

Baby Leonardo DiCaprio with his mom and dad, 1976.

Leonard Nimoy with a copy of his book in Sherlock Holmes outfit for the short Holmes film Interior Motive, 1976.

Actress Jodie Foster, 1976.

Dame Maggie Smith in 1976.

Farrah Fawcett playing tennis in 1976.

Actor Robert Redford, 1976.

Chase, Ackroyd and Belushi, 1976.

Ellen DeGeneres at her senior prom in 1976.

 

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Norwegian or Swedish children from a nomadic group in 1884.

A small market in Mexico City in 1885.

Puerto Rico still under Spanish rule, 1887.

Natives of Hawaii on the beach of Waikiki after a morning of fishing, 1895.

Three Korean men taking a smoke break, Seoul, 1897.

Tank patrols the street during the Easter Uprising, Dublin, Ireland, 1916.

People hang out at the beach in Atlantic City, 1919.

People gather to see the aftermath of a car crash in Sidney, Australia, 1921.

Going to the beach, San Francisco, USA, 1924.

Roman bridge above the Wadi al-Murr, Mosul, Iraq, 1928.

 

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Paving 28th street in Manhattan, 1930.

The winner of the 1930 Miss Europe contest,
Miss Greece - Aliki Diplaraku.

Squatter's homes built in New York City's Central Park, 1930.

Policemen testing life-jackets, London, 1930.

A car gets towed out of a canal in Amsterdam, 1930.

3 boys fish for change in the street grates during the depression. N.Y.C. 1930.

A fisherman in Istanbul, 1930.

Prisoners on an all Black work detail captured on film Mississippi State Penitentiary also known as Parchman Farm, 1930.

Two women in a roadster getting a traffic ticket on Wardour Street in London, 1930.

 

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An Indian rifleman with a SMLE Mk III in the prone firing position, Egypt, 16 May 1940.

Scottish Soldiers Training in their Kilts, 1940.

WWII Norway, 1940. The british army medic carrying a wounded soldier to safety.

The Holland House Library (in London) in 1940. Even the Blitz couldn't stop some people from satisfying their intellectual needs.

President Roosevelt tours the Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1940.

President Franklin Roosevelt got a tour of “defense operations clustered in Maryland,” including the Aberdeen Proving Ground (currently the oldest active proving ground — where military weapons and tactics are tested — established in 1917). “The President seemed to be particularly impressed by his visit to Aberdeen, where he drove past all types of mobile artillery, ranging from 8-inch railway guns down to the small anti-tank cannon, and saw a demonstration of the fire-power of the new Garand automatic rifle and of a new type howitzer,” The NY Times wrote. (Sept. 30, 1940)

Dutch soldiers skating on a frozen lake with weapons during training, 1940.

Upstate New York firefighters covered in icicles and fighting a fire, 1940.

A sergeant drilling civilian members of the Women's Home Defence Corps, in the use of rifles, England, 1940.

Germans marching down Karl Johan after sucessfully invading Norway. 9 April 1940.

British soldiers in a sandbagged position guarding the Admiralty House in London to protect it against potential seizure by fifth columners, May 27, 1940.

 

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1934, repairing the hull of the Graf Zeppelin during the flight over the Atlantic – photo by the great Alfred Eisenstaedt

 

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Ship the Empress of Britain under construction at the John Brown Shipyards, Scotland, 1931.

Dancer turned racer Helle Nice posing with her 1927 Bugatti 35C at the 1931 Grand Prix.

Hellé Nice - Wikipedia

Welsh woman washing her husband a mineworker, Wales, 1931.

Waiter Competition, Montmartre, Paris, 1931.

Al Capone attending the Notre Dame vs Northwestern football game in Evanston, Illinois, October 10, 1931.

The Goodyear Blimp visiting Dexter, Kansas in 1931. Dexter was the site of a helium factory at the time.

Empire State B. opening day on May 1, 1931, by Samuel H. Gottscho.

George Washington Bridge by Edward Steichen, 1931.

Hitler visited by Nazi rank-and-file and others at the Braunen House hotel bar in Munich, 1931.

 

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American Actress Virgina Dale, New Years Eve 1941.

Sidney volunteered to enlist in the US Marines at age seventeen on December 8, 1941, then was inducted later that month after gaining parental permission. He served with Hal Company, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division and saw combat as an 81mm mortarman in a number of battles including the Battle of the Tenaru during the Guadalcanal Campaign and the Battle of Cape Gloucester. He reported that his mortar crew observed effective fire control discipline with one example being a firefight on Cape Gloucester where they were able to provide light high explosive rounds through the jungle canopy only fifteen yards in front of their own lines.

He turned 18 during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

From The Morgantown Post (Morgantown, WV) dated March 12, 1941.

One of the Bren gun carriers used by Australian light horse troops in Northern Africa, on January 7, 1941.

The strangely charismatic Phil the gorilla at the St. Louis Zoo, Sept. 10, 1941.

McSorley's Old Ale House (still at the same location in Manhattan at 15 East 7th Street today) in 1941.

A ferry passing by the Statue of Liberty, 1941.

Westwood Village, Los Angeles 1941.

Dancers Frankie Manning & Ann Johnson do the Lindy Hop, 1941.

A Japanese cherry tree hacked down with the words "To hell with those Japanese" carved into it three days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C., December 10, 1941.

 

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Second Battalion of the IX Coast Artillery Corps demonstrating the hollow square formation used in the event of a street riot. New York City, 1918

 

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The Beatles and their entourage at the Atlantic Hotel, Newquay, England, 1967 during their Magical Mystery Tour.

Jefferson Airplane 1967 Toronto concert playbill.

Willie Nelson in 1967.

Johnny Cash and June Carter, 1967.

Young Martin Scorsese during shooting Who's that knocking at my door, 1967.

Alain Delon on the set of Le Samourai, 1967.

Raquel Welch dancing with GIs in South Vietnam during a Bob Hope Christmas Special in 1967.

Geraldine Chaplin at Cannes 1967.

 

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Wreckage of United Airlines Flight 826 at the intersection of Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 17 December 1960