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

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The place that'll probably be the death of me someway... New York City, NY, throught the years.


Evolution of the New York skyline since 1876.

Vertical view of Manhattan, New York, 1944. Photograph by Andreas Feininger.

New York skyline in 1931.

Time's Square, New York City, 1959.

1929: Grand Central Terminal, NYC,. The sun can't shine through like that now due to the surrounding tall buildings.

A troupe of elephants and a zebra walk down 33rd Street in Manhattan for the arrival of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1968.

Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World’s Fair.

1909: Rush Hour in NYC.

 

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Charles Godefroy flying his plane, “Be?be?” through the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1919.
Photograph by Jacques Mortane.

The Eiffel Tower at twilight, 1932. Photograph by George Brassai.

Paris Flood, 1910. Photograph by Leonard Misonne.

 

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1938: Frank Sinatra takes a mirror selfie.

Chorus girl-singer Linda Lombard, backstage getting ready for show in NYC, 1949.

William Harley and Arthur Davidson, 1914.

The Taj Mahal at night with bright full moon, Agra, India, 1962.
Photography by Eliot Elisofon.

 

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"Born to be kings..." John Deacon, Roger Taylor & Freddie Mercury, 1974.

Shawn Corey Carter, before he was Jay-Z, visiting London in 1988.

Marilyn Monroe and hairstylist Gladys Rasmussen getting ready for the "How To Marry A Millionaire" premiere, 1953.

Kurt Cobain at the Colosseum in Rome, 1989.

Kate Capshaw, Steve Spielberg, George Lucas, & Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984.

Sid Vicious in a Bowie shirt, 1973.

A 12-year old Muhammad Ali, in 1954.

 

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Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, Los Angeles, 1969.

Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood, 1972. Photograph by Terry O'Neill.

Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, and Rob Lowe on the set of The Outsiders, 1983.

Walt Disney filming on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, 1941.

Gene Simmons and thirteen year old Brooke Shields, 1978.

Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley together at the Wonder Dream Benefit Concert in Kingston, Jamaica. 1975.

 

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Protestor at Weinstein Hall demonstration for the rights of gay people on campus. Photographer Diana Davies, 1970.

Hazel Lee, a Chinese American pilot who flew for the U.S. during WWII. Pic circa 1930s.

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

Geez... Russia seemed to corner the market on badass female snipers in WWII, didn't it?Roza Shanina, a Soviet sniper during WWII. She volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941. I am not totally sure but I believe this is a colorized picture.

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

James Dean (back to camera) in a bar with Eartha Kitt, New York, 1955.

 

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Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African-American to sit in the US Senate, circa 1870. Photograph by Mathew Brady.

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

Bandit's Roost (1888) by Jacob Riis, from How the Other Half Lives. This image is Bandit's Roost at 59½ Mulberry Street, considered the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of New York City.

At the Puerto Rican Day Parade, New York, 1963. Photograph by Joel Meyerowitz from the Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Korean refugees flee from Chinese Communist troops over a shattered bridge in Pyongyang, 1950.

Eleanor Roosevelt with the .22 Smith and Wesson she frequently carried in lieu of secret service protection.

 

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The reaction of German prisoners of war, who were forced to watch footage of what happened in the concentration camps, 1945.

Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar during an air raid practice, 1942.

The placement of the final segment of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, 1965.

The Ghost Army: The US army used inflatable rubber tanks and vehicles to deceive the Nazis in WWII, 1944.

 

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Baseball player Satchel Paige, looking dapper, Harlem, 1941. Photograph by George Strock.

Eighteen year old inventor, H. Day wearing headphones attached to a wireless under his top hat, 1922.

The Statue of Liberty under construction in the workshop of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Paris, 1882.

Police officer John Shuttleworth waist-high in flood waters, Cambridge Ontario, 1974. Photograph by Mike Hanley.

Make no mistake my fellow Americans... This sentiment still beats within the heart of far too many of our fellow citizens. "All I Want For Christmas Is A Clean White School." Segregationists protest the attendance of 6-year-old Ruby Bridges outside William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, 1960.

 

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Buzz Aldrin in the first ever space selfie during an EVA on the Gemini 12 mission, 1966.

Jerry Seinfeld on the first day of filming "Seinfeld," 1989.

Frank Zappa in his Los Angeles home with his dad Francis, his mom Rosemarie, and his cat in 1970. Photograph by John Olson.

David Bowie at Red Square in Moscow, 1973.

Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, 1967.

Bob Ross without an afro in the military circa 1960.

Albert Einstein, his secretary Helen Dukas (left), and daughter Margaret (right) becoming U.S. citizens to avoid returning to Nazi Germany, 1940. Margaret/Margot Einstein was Albert Einstein's stepdaughter. Her mother was Elsa Hoffman, Einstein's second wife; Picture was taken on October 1, 1940, as they took the oath of U.S. Citizenship .

 

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Western Union messengers leaving the White House on Dec. 7, 1941, day of Pearl Harbor attack. Photograph by Thomas D. Mcavoy.

National Guardsmen stand guard after the rioting that occurred as a result of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Chicago, 1968.

John Glenn relaxing in his Chuck Taylors aboard the USS Noa after his legendary orbital flight, 1962.

A grandfather teaches his grandson how to walk at Manzanar Japanese-American internment camp, 1942. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.

 

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Awesome posts KRYPTON INC

 

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This thread is awesome. **** the useless 2010s.

One could counter that with the images in the thread itself.

Nostalgia goggles aren't just about entertainment. Those black slaves? The Native Americans whose way of life was destroyed by the near extinction of the American Buffalo? The African-American woman and her daughter that had to use a "coloreds only" entrance?

Yeah... I'm not sure we would get an answer from them that they had it so good back then.

 

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there's many more, It's 4/20 though man... give me a break

 

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I will always remember that Jordan shot. You could not have written an ending better if it was fiction.

 

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American soldiers in the desert with a captured Kubelwagen fitted with jeep wheels and a large auxiliary fuel tank, WW2.

 

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Last known picture of Marilyn Monroe with jazz pianist Buddy Greco in August 1962, just days before her death.

Last known photo of Paul Walker, taken while he was leaving a charity event. Moments later the red Porsche, driven by Roger Rodas, would crash into a concrete lamp post and caught fire, killing both men, 2013.

Last photo of Elvis Presley was taken at Graceland in the early hours of August 16th, 1977 having just visited the dentist. Later that day Presley had a heart attack and died.

Last photo of Joan Rivers was taken the night before she underwent a surgery whose complications would ultimately claim her life on August 28th, 2014

This photo of Carrie Fisher was taken by a fan in London the day before she boarded a flight to Los Angeles and had a medical emergancy.

Unconfirmed last photo of Kurt Cobain alive. It was claims to have been taken in Seattle on March 26, 1994, 10 days before his death.

Last known photo of Little Edie of Grey Gardens who died in 2002.

 

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These are great pictures.

 

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These are great pictures.

Any in particular stick out to you squeek?

 

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Photos of late 19th Century Beijing, China.

 

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The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe, also called the Ikeda Mission, was sent on December 29, 1863 by the Tokugawa shogunate. The head of the mission was Ikeda Nagaoki, governor of small villages of Ibara, Province (Okayama Prefecture). The assistant head of the mission was Kawazu Sukekuni. It followed the so-called First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862), even though the Tensho Embassy (1582–1590) and the expedition led by Hasekura Tsunenaga (between 1613 and 1620) had previously reached Europe centuries earlier.

The objective of the mission was to obtain French agreement to the closure of the harbour of Yokohama to foreign trade. The mission was sent following the 1863 "Order to expel barbarians" enacted by Emperor K?mei, and the Bombardment of Shimonoseki incidents, in a wish to close again the country to Western influence, and return to sakoku status. The task proved impossible, as Yokohama was the center of foreign presence in Japan since the opening of the country by Commodore Perry in 1854.

On the way to France, the mission visited Egypt, where the members of the mission were photographed posing before the Sphinx by Antonio Beato, brother of the famous photographer Felice Beato. The members of the mission were abundantly photographed in Paris by Nadar.

The mission returned to Japan in failure, on July 22, 1864.

 

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Must have been a sale on those coats.

 

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Felix Baumgartner broke the speed of sound reaching an estimated speed of *833.9 mph (1,342.8 km/h) jumping from the stratosphere, which when certified will make him the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall while delivering valuable data for future space exploration.