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

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I found out this fact only last year when I searched a bit for WW1 history when I was looking for old World War 1 pics online after seeing some Indian soldiers in Wonder Woman movie (thanks to Patty) , which is set around that period. This is a part of history that is often neglected for some reason, even in India. (speaking as an Indian here.)

Interesting. As someone from the group in question do you have any idea why that might be? Possibly the connection to Imperial British rule on the Subcontinent?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

1971 American Airlines ad.

It looks like the lounge in 2001 A Space Odyssey.

 

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It looks like the lounge in 2001 A Space Odyssey.

If memory serves the then current styling of the Pan Am terminal in New York City's JFK airport (current meaning late 1960's) was a big influence on Kubrick and his team in terms of production design for 2001.

 

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Washington, D.C. in 1935.

A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935.

The Pico Drive In, California, 1935.

Newark Penn Station, 1935.

Taking a rest in what was known as Burma then, these newlyweds chose for their honeymoon to travel from Lithuania to Shanghai (10,000 kms) on a motorcycle in 1935.

Bathing Beauty contest at the Elks National Convention (July 9, 1935). left to right: Laurie Sherman, Billie Balche, and Miss Jersey City is Christine Maple.

John Cobb in the Napier-Railton Special at the Brooklands circuit in 1935.

British soldiers kissing their sweethearts goodbye as they leave for Egypt, London, 1935.

Cathedral of St. John The Divine, New York City,1935.

A caterpillar driven ferry with a 24 horsepower engine takes holidaymakers from the mainland at Bigbury in Devon to Burgh Island, a quarter of a mile away. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 4th April 1935.

 

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Nazi rally put on by the German consulate at City Hall in 1935: San Francisco.

Two women playing around at the 1935 Mardi Gras celebration, Venice Beach.

Here is the lineup for the 1935 Bismark Churchills. Home at one time or another to the likes of Ed Hendee, Satchel Paige and Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe, the team ended up winning the 1935 Wichita, Kansas National Semi-Pro Tournament. An independent team that operated outside of actual leagues for the most part due to the fact that they were a mixed race team.

Motor Vessel Kalakala, a ferry that operated on Puget Sound in Washington State, USA, in 1935.

Cliff and Ferry Street, Manhattan, NYC, by Abbott Berenice from 1935.

Fulton Street Dock, Manhattan, NYC, also by Abbott Berenice in 1935.

A shot from 1935's Sylvia Scarlett where Katharine Hepburn plays a woman posing as a boy in this film. Notable for it being the first teaming of Hepburn and Cary Grant, it's also notable that Hepburn kisses a woman as part of the story to keep the character's ruse up.

A bonfire built to celebrate bonfire night in a small village in the North West of England in 1935.

Men building the San Francisco Bay Bridge, 1935.

Elsa Lanchester doing costume and make up test for “The Bride of Frankenstein”, 1935.

 

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Doesn't get much more 1999 than this.

One happy kid hits the jackpot on his tenth birthday in 1999.

Nickelodeon Magazine - November 1999.

From a news article in 1999. Hindsight in 20/20 they say.

Natalie Portman by Regan Cameron for British Vogue, August 1999.

Io - by Galileo spacecraft: acquired its highest resolution images of Jupiter's moon on 3 July 1999.

Members of the band Coldplay in 1999.

 

[Micromind]

Interesting. As someone from the group in question do you have any idea why that might be? Possibly the connection to Imperial British rule on the Subcontinent?

I can't say for sure.. maybe the historians (mostly British) who were influential (at that time) in India and many European countries, did not want to go in depth about the contributions by people in subcontinent, though they did build a war memorial for those who died in those wars in India. But written accounts are few and kept away from the public eye.

Indian soldiers were instrumental in freeing Haifa (Israel) from the clutches of Ottoman Turks during World War I. 23 September is still remembered as Haifa Day.

Battle of Haifa (1918) (Wikimedia Commons)

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

If memory serves the then current styling of the Pan Am terminal in New York City's JFK airport (current meaning late 1960's) was a big influence on Kubrick and his team in terms of production design for 2001.

Good trivia.
I guess Pan Am and American Airlines shared the same futuristic style at the time.

 

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Stan Lee serving in the Army during WWII.

"I was supposed to go overseas with the Signal Corps. I was practically waiting at the pier for the ship to take me overseas when I got a tap on the shoulder, and some colonel said, 'You worked in comics?' Yes. 'We have a job for you.' And he sent me to Astoria, Queens, where they had the Army's Training Film Division. The next thing I knew, I was writing training films, and I'm sitting next to [playwright] William Saroyan and Theodor Geisel [Dr. Seuss] and the guys [Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts] who wrote the Jimmy Cagney movie White Heat. I was churning this stuff out — it was the least I could do for my country."

Stan with Danny Seagren the performer who appeared as Spider-Man on the PBS show The Electric Company, 1974.

Stan at a comic convention, 1975.

Stan Lee in Us Weekly 1978.

Lee posed for the photo way back in 1983 for inclusion in The Marvel Fumetti Book – a project designed to show some of the wild and crazy happenings behind the scenes at the company. While that probably seems quaint in the Internet age, it was an interesting idea back during the Reagan years. Stan, never one to miss out on being part of a good gag (in this case, maybe literally), was all too eager to do his best impersonation of a Playgirl centerfold, posing nude with only a strategically placed oversized comic book keeping viewers from spotting his version of the Thing. The only other "thing" missing from this vintage piece of '80s erotica is a snazzy gold chain.

Stan on the set of the NBC Hulk telemovie, The Incredible Hulk Returns in 1988.

Stan once again is caught between the Thunder God and the Gamma Goliath at Wizard Con 2013, Sacramento, CA.

As Frank Miller looks on Stan Lee throws out the First Pitch at a Texas Rangers baseball game in June of 2016.

 

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The cast of That 70's Show in 1998.

In 1998, when Titanic took over Star Wars at the box office, Lucas sent Cameron this.

French police in the Old Port area of Marseille use tear gas against English "hooligans" in 1998.

The games of 1998.

Zach Galifianakis Stand-Up with Ken Jeong, 1998.

John Oliver and Richard Ayoade On-stage Back in 1998.

Lovin' Leo: A 1998 Fan Magazine for Leonardo Dicaprio.

Feb. 15, 1998, Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 after two decades of trying.

 

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New South Wales police in Australia race motorcycle chariots, 1936.

Most beautiful legs contest in Paris, 1936.

Young ladies on bikes, USA, 1936.

Tyde Pickette, the first black female to compete for the U.S. at the Berlin Olympics, 1936.

Actress Paulette Goddard on the set of the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times,1936.

Paulette Goddard - Wikipedia

French workers participate in a General Strike, Paris, 1936.

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge nearing completion, March, 1936.

1936 Toronto Maple Leafs Training Camp.

Italian team crashing their bobsleigh at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

More than 600 canoes got stuck in a lock on the River Spree in Berlin on their way to a canoeing event on a nearby lack on July 31, 1936.

 

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Peyton Manning hanging out on the Tennessee University campus in 1997.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter and Allison Hannigan on the set of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV show, 1997.

Comet Hale-Bop, dubbed the Great Comet of 1997, made its closest approach to Earth at 1.312 AU.

On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp.


Heaven's Gate (religious group) - Wikipedia

Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. The first match was played in Philadelphia in 1996 and won by Kasparov. The second was played in New York City on May 11th, 1997 and won by Deep Blue. The 1997 match was the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion by a computer under tournament conditions.

When Amazon shipped its 1 millionth package in 1997 CEO Jeff Bezos personally delivered it.

A college dorm room in 1997.

The 1997 Miami Tornado; an F1 touching down in the heart of downtown Miami, FL on May 12th 1997. Remembered not for the minimal damage, but for the epic photos which made headlines around the world.

Entertainment Weekly cover for December 13, 1997.

 

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Times Square, New Year's Eve, 1937.

Adriana Caselotti, seen here at the Disney studio in 1937, was the voice of "Snow White". The daughter of a vocal coach and an opera singer, she was chosen for her childlike voice. Walt Disney wanted to maintain the illusion of the character, so he had her sign a contract that prevented her from appearing in any other media, even for Disney. There is one exception, as always: The Wizard of Oz. She provided the voice of Juliet during the Tin Man's song, "If I Only Had a Heart", speaking the line, "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

The bustle and liveliness of this casino have long been dead. All that remains is a specter of the club’s former self in the form of a rundown, abandoned building — a state befitting its home, the now desolate ruins of Rhyolite, Nevada. Situated in the desert about 120 miles north of Las Vegas, the gambling enterprise began as a railroad depot erected during Rhyolite’s short-lived boom between 1906 and 1911. Named after the igneous rock prevalent there, the town had boomed after prospectors discovered gold nearby. Once the rumor had spread that the precious metal in the region had been exhausted, all but a few residents had deserted Rhyolite. Nearly three decades later, in 1937, a Las Vegas saloon owner, Norman C. Westmoreland purchased the entire ghost town at a bankruptcy auction. He sank $15,000 (about $250,000 today) into remodeling it into a nightclub and casino, which he named Ghost Casino. Open only during winters, it became a gambling hotspot for visitors from California’s Death Valley. It “became famous all over the country and was a noted tourist attraction,” the Nevada State Journal noted (May 27, 1947). Westmoreland ran the Ghost Casino for 10 years until he grew ill and tried to sell it. There weren’t any takers and he died, so his sister, H.H. Heisler, maintained the place as a museum and gift shop into the 1970s. Today, it’s shuttered and fenced in.

A plague of Crickets eating some unlucky home owner's house paint - Sundance, Wyoming 1937.

“Oswald E. Camp, who is superintendent of the statue for the National Parks Service, is 6 feet 1 and ½ inches tall, but appears dwarfed by contrast with Liberty’s right foot, which measures 11 feet between the back edge of the upraised heel and the surface on which the foot rests,” read the notes accompanying this August 1937 photo in the National Geographic archives. “When the statue was displayed in Paris before being shipped to America, the copper plates of the sole were left off and the opening was used as the entrance to the statue.”

The ‘walking machine’ at the National Bureau of Standards, for testing wear on shoes, 1937.

Sailor on shore leave sitting at a soda fountain with a young woman, San Diego, 1937. Photo by Peter Stackpole.

Scenes of devastation from the Cincinnati flood of 1937.

 

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Helen Keller visits Japan in 1937.

A photographer found a photo of Anne Frank from 1937 playing with friends in Amsterdam.

Located by Paul Schutzer from Life Magazine whilst going though a Maryland's family friends albums. One of the children and the owner of the photo Mrs Barbara Rodbell said the photo was taken by her mother in 1937 in Amsterdam. One of the other girls ( Barbara's sister) also died in the camps, but the rest in the picture survived and raised families of their own.

JFK with Dachshund puppy "Dinger" in the Netherlands, 1937.

A young bean picker, Cambridge, Maryland, 1937. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.

Airplane wreckage after head-on collision with an automobile at Clover Field, Santa Monica, 1937.

Triborough Bridge, New York City, 1937.

Prince Konoe Fumimaro (shortly to be Japanese Prime Minister) as Adolf Hitler at a costume party in the spring of 1937.

A man drinks a bottle of pop at the counter, Deerfield, Florida, 1937.

A dust storm arrives in Clayton, New Mexico, 1937.

Saturday night in a saloon, Craigville Minnesota 1937.

New York Daily News cover, July 3, 1937.

 

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The $4 million scoreboard at Buffalo's new Marine Midland Arena crashed onto the ice November 17, 1996, just hours before the scheduled National Hockey League game between the Buffalo Sabres and Boston Bruins. The Sabres had just minutes earlier had completed a practice and left the ice.

A tornado wreaks havoc on the landscape near Scott, Kansas in June of 1996.

Philadelphia based sports magazine cover from January of 1996.

Cover for the DC/Marvel crossover teaming up The Caped Crusader and The Sentinel Of Liberty which was published in 1996.

Daihatsu ad in 1996. At least they had a sense of humor abou themselves.

650,000 firearms seized during Australia's 1996 compulsory gun buyback program.

July 23, 1996, with two torn ligaments in her ankle, and a gold medal on the line, Kerri Strug took her second attempt at the vault and nailed it. She helped the US women's gymnastic team win gold.

 

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From a 1938 guide to dating etiquette for single women.

Two women boxing with boxing gloves on their hands and feet in a New York nightclub, 1938.

A coal miner in Omar, West Virginia, 1938.

Surviving Confederate and Union soldiers shake hands across the wall at the 1938 reunion for the Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg.

October 1938, Hustopeče, in what is in the modern day the Czech Republic. March of that year started the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Rabbits around a waterhole on Wardang Island off South Australia, 1938. South Australia has known a few outbreaks of "Rabbit Plagues", giant upticks in the wild rabbit populations, since the animal was introduced to Australia by the English.

Rabbit plagues in Australia - Wikipedia

Story in the New York Times about the Orson Welles broadcast of War Of The Worlds in 1938.

A workman in 1938 on top of the Statue of Liberty does a handstand.

From the first appearance of Superman in Action Comics #1, dated June, 1938.

 

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Times Square, 1938.

Experimental Post Office Prototype Autogyro shuttling mail along the mall in Washington D.C., 1938.

Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers as Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as they appeared in the 1938 Flash Gordon serial.

Spanish Republican fighters with a captured Fascist officer, 1938.

Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia

A woman and her food cart, Brownsville, Texas, 1938.

Louis Armstrong in Doctor Rhythm, 1938.

US Air Mail, California, 1938.

A crowd gathers at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NYC to see Howard Hughes off on his around the world flight, July 10, 1938.

Howard Hughes - Wikipedia

 

[C. Lee]

Street corner in Gonzales, Texas, November 1939.


Brooklyn 1941.


Movie theater. Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

 

[C. Lee]

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


Coal miner in business center of Colp, Illinois, January 1939.


Signal Hill oil field near Long Beach, 1932.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

@C. Lee thanks for the added content in the spirit of the thread. Anything you can add in terms of topics etc. is always appreciated. I obviously have some historical blind spots like everybody and as much as I attempt to compensate (trying to cover as much history from around the world as opposed to just America which as an American I would tend to favor our own history, or trying to include more sports history as I am not much of a follower of most sports etc.) there's always going to be stuff that won't register as something to look into, so anything you can think of would only add to the variety.

 

[C. Lee]

Elevated train structure and buildings - lower Manhattan, December 1941.


Loan Companies on Lower Douglas Street, Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938.


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

 

[C. Lee]

@C. Lee thanks for the added content in the spirit of the thread. Anything you can add in terms of topics etc. is always appreciated. I obviously have some historical blind spots like everybody and as much as I attempt to compensate (trying to cover as much history from around the world as opposed to just America which as an American I would tend to favor our own history, or trying to include more sports history as I am not much of a follower of most sports etc.) there's always going to be stuff that won't register as something to look into, so anything you can think of would only add to the variety.

I'm doing my little bit....just having trouble posting some of the pics I want to. I told you awhile back about having trouble posting some pics that my laptop says are too large.

 

[C. Lee]

A platoon of African American troops surrounds a farmhouse near Vierville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, as it prepares to eliminate a German sniper holding up the U.S. advance from the Omaha beachhead.
June 10, 1944.

In this photo is Sgt. George A. Davison and other troops of the all-black US 320th AA Barrage Balloon Battalion VLA (Very Low Altitude).
Sgt. Davison was on board LCT 608 (Landing Craft Tank) with a group of Army Rangers on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
(Source US Army Signal Corps - 190120-5)
“Everywhere you saw a barrage balloon, there was a three-man crew of African-American soldiers with it, to prevent German aircraft from strafing Omaha and Utah Beaches. Also, there was the headquarters unit of the battalion and it too was on the beach. They stayed as long as they were needed. When the beaches were secured, the balloons, some of them at least, were shot down by the Navy, and the soldiers of the 320th were given new assignments moving inland.”

(George Davison and his two brothers who also served in the war, all survived. George died October 2002 aged 80)

 

[C. Lee]

A Canadian Captain (probably with the Régiment de la Chaudière) and two Officers from the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Div. inspect a German PzKpfw IV Ausf. H tank of the Panzer Lehr Division knocked out by the Durham Light Infantry, 50th Inf. Div. with a 6-pounder AT gun, on the road between Bayeux and Douet-de-Chouain, Normandy.

 

[C. Lee]

The crew of a Staghound armoured car of 1st King’s Dragoon Guards shelter from the sun beneath a parasol fitted to the turret of their vehicle, 13 July 1944.