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

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Bart Starr of the Packers score the winning TD against the Cowboys in the NFL Championship
Game, December 31, 1967.
"The Ice Bowl Game!".

 

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D-Day June 6, 1944.

Normandy Coast, France.



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




"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle.
We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."

- General Dwight D. Eisenhower


American assault troops in a landing craft. Proceeded by Naval gun fire.

Company E, 16th infantry, 1st infantry Division. One of the first waves at Omaha beach.

Beach traffic on D-Day 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the operation.

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with the 101st Airborne. "We will accept nothing less than full Victory".

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with paratroopers of the 101st just before they board their plane and begin their assault.

Paratroopers receive final instructions before boarding.

Soldiers of the 16th infantry regiment, wounded while storming Omaha beach.

Medics attend to wounded soldiers on Utah beach.

Monument erected by American soldiers on the coast of Normandy. 9,000+ Allied troops were killed or wounded on D-Day.

D-Day +2. American flag is laid out to stop friendly fire from tanks coming onto the beach.

A fully equipped paratrooper boards an airplane that will drop him over Normandy.

American Soldiers of the 8th infantry regiment, 4th infantry division, move over a seawall on Utah beach.

Convoy of landing crafts near the beach.

Soldiers on their way to Omaha beach.

Photos from the U.S. Army Center of Military History

U.S. Army Center of Military History

 

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Sophia Loren standing on a terrace on the Canal Grande, Venice, 1955.

28 August 1955, a motorcyclist crashes during a competition at Volk Mølle Racetrack in Denmark. Photographer: Mogens von Haven.

Walt Disney, First Ever Disneyland Opening day, 17 June 1955.

Walt Disney greets some park goers during the opening week of Disneyland, 1955.

James Dean picking up his groceries and draining a cooler, Texas, 1955.

18-year-old Dennis Hopper takes a break from filming his feature debut on the set of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, 1955.

Grace Kelly on vacation in Jamaica, 1955.

Audrey Hepburn, Vogue 1955 via the Norman Parkinson Archive.

Las Vegas, 1955.

Rider at the 1955 motorcycle race at Dachstein, Austria.

Marilyn Monroe Reads Joyce’s Ulysses at the Playground, 1955 by Eve Arnold.

 

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Rosa Parks’ Mug Shot, 1955.

Morgan Freeman in US Air Force uniform, 1955.

Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the Moscow subway, USSR, 1955.

A 12 year old Christopher Walken, 1955.

A regiment of Indian soldiers salutes the nation's president, 1955.

Stylish women and her poodles out and about, Paris, 1955.

A locust storm in Israel in 1955.

Busload of Girl Scouts going to camp, 1955.

Flooded streets in Philadelphia from the rains brought by Hurricane Diane, 1955.

A swimmer from a houseboat joins women diving in Weeki Wachee’s pristine spring waters in Florida, 1955.

 

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Shots of the parking lot at the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1955.

7 foot sunflower growing on a raft in the River Thames, London 1955.

Packard Funeral car, Yokohama, Japan 8 Oct 1955.

Boston Celtics Point guard Bob Cousy in 1955.

Start of the 1955 Grand Prix, Monaco.

Replacing cables on the Manhattan Bridge, NYC, September 6, 1955.

Halima and Chet Baker, Redondo Beach, 1955 by William Claxton.

Dovima by Richard Avedon, Paris, August 1955.

Kim Novak, Los Angeles, 1955. Credit to Michael Ochs.

 

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Behind the scenes of Jaws (1975).

 

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A young Russian boy playing around, 1965.

Sex symbol of the era Raquel Welch, 1965.

Playboy Magazine cover, dated October of 1965.

Ann-Margret in her rouge boudoir, 1965.

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

Michael Caine, 1965.

A high school football game goes on as a fire rages on at a boarding school in Northfield, Massachusetts. Mount Hermon vs. Deerfield Academy, Nov. 20, 1965.

Palm Sunday 1965: Southern Great Lakes ravaged by one of the worst tornado outbreaks on record.

On April 11, 1965, and over a time span of approximately 12 hours, one of the most infamous tornado events in United States history took place across the Southern Great Lakes region. Commonly known as the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak (more precisely, the second Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, following one in 1920 and preceding another in 1994), numerous fast-moving tornadoes were unleashed upon the states of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

The twisters claimed over 260 lives, injuring thousands of others and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. It was the worst tornado outbreak in Indiana’s history with nearly 140 killed in the state alone. In modern tornado history, this ranks second to the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974 in terms of violent tornado count in a single North American outbreak, with 17 F4+ tornadoes.

3-8-1965, First Official US Combat Troops arrive in Vietnam.

Crowds gather along the route Pope Paul VI would take on his way to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, 1965.

 

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Wood Brothers Racing services the Lotus of Jim Clark during the 1965 Indianapolis 500.

Hell's Angels Outside the Blackboard Cafe at night, Bakersfield, Calif., 1965.

First close-up photo of Mars, by Mariner 4 in 1965.

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez 1965.

Multiple turret penetrations on a Pakistani M47 knocked out during the Battle of Asal Uttar, 1965.

Barbara Walters, 1965.

LAX, 1965.

Australian women protest the forced conscription of young Australian men during the Vietnam War in Sydney, 1965.

Save Our Sons (SOS) was established in 1965 in Sydney but soon other groups formed under the SOS banner across the country. Some men and young women became members, but for the most part SOS was comprised of women, mostly middle-class and middle-aged, whose sons were old enough to be subject to national service. The nature of SOS protests varied – some involved silent vigils in public places of commemoration such as Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance; at other times members handed out leaflets at Army barracks or railway stations from which national servicemen were travelling to begin their military service.

Members of SOS also prepared and circulated petitions, approached members of parliament and worked in conjunction with other anti-war groups to protest against national service and the war. Their protests were not always met with the same civility with which they were conducted. Some members of SOS were subject to abuse and insult. Called communists at a time when the term was replete with implications that the accused was somehow anti-Australian, some women were also sworn at and called ‘bad mothers’ and neglectful wives. One woman recalled the unpleasant experience of regular protests outside the Swan Street barracks in Melbourne while families farewelled their sons into military service. Unwelcome and subject to abuse, the SOS protesters persisted because they believed their cause was worth the opprobrium and verbal confrontation.

Cover of the classic Science Fiction publication Amazing Stories, dated October of 1965.

The Supremes looking chic in Paris, 1965.

 

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A selection of films in theaters during the year 1985.

 

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A selection of films in theaters during the year 1975.

 

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Harry Potter cast being announced in 2000.

Publicity photos of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint after they were cast in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", 2000.

18 ton nephrite jade boulder found in Canada in 2000.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker on the red carpet of the Oscars in 2000, wearing dresses, while on acid.

Shannon Elizabeth, Jan. 2000 issue of Maxim.

Garfield strip published after Peanuts creator Charles Schulz' death in 2000.

Nickelodeon Magazine - November 2000.

James Marsden, Lena Headey and Norman Reedus on the set of the film Gossip, 2000.

Chris Pratt's Headshot Circa 2000.

The Rock, MTV Video Music Awards, 2000.

August 12th, 2000: Oscar II class Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks with all hands.

The Russian submarine Kursk was lost with all hands after it sank in the Barents Sea during a naval exercise. It was determined afterwards that twenty-three sailors in the rear compartments survived the tremendous blast- including Lieutenant Captain Dmitri Kolesnikov. They lived more than six hours before an oxygen cartridge contacted the oily sea water, triggering an explosion and flash fire that consumed the remaining oxygen. The Russian government came under scrutiny afterwards as families demanded answers. The incident had at first been covered up, and then even once the rescue efforts had began, the old and outdated equipment failed. It was five days before Russia finally accepted the help of the British and Norwegians.

Two Palestinian sisters meet at at the Lebanese/Palestinian (Israeli) border in 2000.

Two soldiers at Air Assault school in Kentucky, 2000.

 

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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was an African American teenage boy convicted at age 14, in an unfair trial, of the murder of two white girls ages 7 and 11 in 1944 in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June of that year, still only 14.

His appeal to the governor for clemency was denied. He is the youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed.

A re-examination of the Stinney case began in 2004, and several individuals and Northeastern University School of Law organized to seek a judicial review. His conviction was vacated in 2014 when a court ruled that he had not received a fair trial.

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

French Resistance fighters man a barricade in Paris (August, 1944).

Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division advance in a snowstorm behind a tank in a move to attack the village of Herresbach, Belgium - 28 December 1944.

Finnish soldier makes coffee, as "Hupi" who has followed him through war sits patiently at his side Oct 16, 1944.

Anti-American Nazi propaganda from 1944.

Teenage fighters during the Warsaw uprising in Poland in 1944.

U.S. Marine Corporal Doris E. Bankhead poses with a captured Japanese Type 99 light machine gun during the Battle of Saipan. July 1944.

Basketball game between USN pilots in forward elevator of of USS Monterey (CVL-26), June 1944. Future U.S. President Gerald Ford is player jumping on the left.

Photograph taken during the explosion of a Japanese Kamikaze on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid, November 25, 1944.

Allied soldiers resting in a tent shredded by shrapnel on Anzio Beach in Italy, 1944.

During the landing phase, code named Operation Shingle, ten German divisions faced off against two Allied divisions. In total, the Germans had fired about 30,000 shells from various field artillery pieces toward the Allied lines along the beachheads in a few short days. In return, they received about 60,000 shells from British and American artillery.

 

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Behind the scenes of famous films.


Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and producer David O. Selznick on the set of Gone With The Wind, 1938.

Prepping a scene where Godzilla breaks through power lines for the original 1954 film.

James Dean gets just the right lighting on the film Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

Michael Caine on the set of the 1964 film Zulu.

Linda Blair has her picture taken with The Exorcist director William Friedkin, 1972.

Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers take a rest from punching each other in the face during production of Rocky, 1976.

Jack Nicholson advances menacingly on Shelley Duvall while director Stanley Kubrick and crew captures it during production of The Shining, 1979/1980.

Producer/Creator George Lucas hangs with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fischer and Harrison Ford between takes of The Empire Strikes Back, 1980.

George Lucas readies a scene with Sean Connery and John Rhys-Davies on horseback for the film Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, 1989.

In full Dark Knight garb Michael Keaton takes a look through the camera during filming of the 1989 Tim Burton directed blockbuster Batman.

 

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This is Juliane Koepcke. In 1971, at the age of 17, she was sucked out of an airplane when it was struck by a bolt of lightning while flying over Brazil. Strapped to her seat, she fell 2 miles into the Amazon jungle, and survived. She then endured 11 days alone before being rescued. This picture was taken a few years after the event.


Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia

Raoul Duke and Hunter S. Thompson in Las Vegas, 1971.

Alan Shepard on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission, 1971.

Original photo taken by Terry O’Neill on a deserted film set for James Bond (Diamonds Are Forever) in Las Vegas, 1971.

1971 Washington Redskins Cheerleaders.

New York City 1971 - Times Square.

Paris traffic, 1971.

Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden shot this UV photograph (AS15-99-13488) of a crescent Earth seen during the return home from the Moon, Apollo 15, August 1971.

Cover of the June 1971 issue of Marvel Comics' The Avengers.

Street Level under the Loop, Chicago. Taken on Kodachrome on 1 June 1971.

 

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The Queen of England and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the Badminton Horse Trials in 1968.

Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway 1968.

Alain Delon & Brigitte Bardot, Saint-Tropez, 1968.

Johnny Cash and June Carter at Folsom prison, 1968.

A gorgeous lass sits on Chris Amon's Ferrari 312 nose at the 1968 British Grand Prix.

The first photo of Black Sabbath as a band, 1968.

Contestants at the Miss Universe Pageant, 1968.

Linda Ronstadt, 1968.

T-62 tank bringing down the house during the "Prague Spring" in 1968.

Prague Spring - Wikipedia

A US Marine sniper team at work in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, February 1968. By David Douglas Duncan.

Young Woman walking in Saigon, 1968.

Neil Armstrong floating to the ground after ejecting from LLRV1, in May, 1968. If he had ejected a second later, he'd have died.

On May 6, 1968, astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, then assigned as backup commander for the Apollo 9 mission, took off on a simulated lunar landing mission in Lunar Landing Research Vehicle #1 (LLRV-1) at Ellington Air Force Base near the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, his 22nd flight of the test vehicle. Armstrong had been airborne about five minutes when he suddenly lost control of the vehicle. About 200 feet above the ground, he chose to eject. While the LLRV crashed and burned on impact Armstrong parachuted safely to Earth and was not injured. MSC Director Robert L. Gilruth appointed an accident investigation board, chaired by Aircraft Operations Office chief Joseph S. Algranti, an experienced LLRV pilot. The crash investigation showed that a loss of helium pressure caused depletion of the hydrogen peroxide used for the reserve attitude thrusters. The vehicle’s instrumentation did not provide adequate warning about the adverse situation. Engineers corrected the problems before flights resumed in October.

An operator working at an Enns Power Network analog computer, Seattle, Washington, 1968. From the City Light, Seattle Municipal Archives.

Mamie Van Doren, 1968.

American sailors captured by North Korea aboard the USS Pueblo in 1968 in a photo taken by the North for propaganda purposes.

Vidal Sassoon cutting Mia Farrow's hair for Rosemary's Baby, 1968.

 

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"On 2 October 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737, operating Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, collided with two other aircraft on the runways of the old Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, while attempting to land. The hijacked aircraft struck a parked China Southwest Airlines Boeing 707 first, inflicting only minor damage, but then collided with China Southern Airlines Flight 2812, a Boeing 757 waiting to take off, flipping onto its back. A total of 128 people were killed, including seven of nine crew members and 75 of 93 passengers on Flight 8301 and 46 of 110 passengers on Flight 2812.

Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue UK, January 1990.

Johnny Depp & Winona Ryder - Mermaids premiere, December 1990.

Brad Pitt aged 27 in the year 1990.

Soviet navy infantrymen (marines) during a demonstration in 1990.

Cover for the first issue of Shade The Changing Man from DC Comics, cover dated Jan. 1990.

Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins and Charlton Heston as Long John Silver in the 1990 version of Treasure Island.

15-year-old Tiger Woods with his parents, Earl and Kultida, in 1990.

 

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When Astronomers Chased a Total Eclipse in a Concorde

June 30, 1973. A group of scientists use a Concorde jetliner to study a solar eclipse across the Sahara desert.

Led Zeppelin at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, 1973

David Bowie and his ex-wife Angie at train station, 1973.

The WTC ribbon cutting ceremony was on April 4, 1973.

Theatrical poster for the film Soylent Green, from 1973.

November 3, 1973, Mariner 10 was launched to explore Mercury & Venus.

Queen photographed by Mick Rock, 1973.

U.S. Army audiovisual technician stands at her videotape editing station, 1973.

1973-DJ Kool Herc deejays his first block party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx.

DJ Kool Herc - Wikipedia

 

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Pictures of various world cultures' warriors from the past in traditional garb and uniforms.

Batak warriors from Indonesia in 1870.

Sikh warriors from India in 1880.

Zulu warrior from South Africa around 1890.

Blackfoot warrior from Canada (Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia) in 1887.

Ainu warriors from Japan (Hokkaido Island, Far Eastern Russian and Japanese ancestry) in 1895.

Ainu people - Wikipedia

Nandi warriors from Kenya around 1900.

Mongolian warrior in 1900.

Female Benin warrior from Nigeria around 1905.

Fuegian warriors from the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in Chile around 1910.

Tibetan warrior in Tibet around 1910.

 

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More pictures of various world cultures' warriors from the past in traditional garb and uniforms.


Cheyenne warrior from the United States (Dakotas, Montana) in 1880.

Samurai from Japan in 1880.

Onna-Bugeisha warrior from Japan around 1880.

Shoshone warrior from the United States (Wyoming and Idaho area) in 1884.

Beja warrior from the Sudan around 1890.

Moro warrior from the Philippines in 1890.

Bedouin Warrior from the Arabian Peninsula around 1900.

Cossack warriors from South Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russian around 1900.

Kele warriors from the Congo around 1905.

Dyak warriors from Borneo around 1910.

 

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Behind the scenes pictures.

The Shining (1980). Stanley Kubrick shooting the famous hotel's maze.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Steven Spielberg with a camera that's covered in a white cloth with two holes in it. It was used to get the point of view shots for E.T.

Labyrinth (1986). In order to film the "Helping Hands" scene, the creators made over 100 pairs of latex hands.

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989). A giant robotic bee that was used to film the bee ride scene. In the post-production of the movie, some digital effects were also added.

The Hunt For Red October (1990). Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin on the set.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Setting up models of vehicles.

True Lies (1994). A shot from filming the helicopter scenes for the 1994 action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. For the movie, the US Government supplied three Marine Harriers and their pilots for a fee of $100,736.

Independence Day (1996). The highest grossing movie of 1996 used a mixture of models and CGI for the effects shots. Around 80% of effects were models (like the large-scale model below) while the other 20% were created digitally.

The Matrix (1999). In the scene where Neo is reaching for a doorknob, there was no proper way to hide the camera so the director of photography disguised it with a coat and tie matching the ones Morpheus is wearing.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001). A prop used for close ups of the ring.

 

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Iraqi Su-22 in the sights of an Iranian F-4 phantom during the Iran/Iraq War, 1985.

The Band AC/DC, 1985.

Angelyne, Nina Hagen, and @Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) in 1985.

Still from the film Tuff Turf which starred Robert Downey Jr., 1985.

Penn and Teller, 1985.

NYC Subway car, 1985.

NYC Subway platform, 1985.

Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, 1985.

 

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The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. In those years, photographer Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time – when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.

The method of color photography used by Prokudin-Gorsky was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855 and demonstrated in 1861, but good results were not possible with the photographic materials available at that time. In imitation of the way a normal human eye senses color, the visible spectrum of colors was divided into three channels of information by capturing it in the form of three black-and-white photographs, one taken through a red filter, one through a green filter, and one through a blue filter. The resulting three photographs could either be projected through filters of the same colors and exactly superimposed on a screen, synthesizing the original range of color additively.


Pinkhus Karlinskii, eighty-four years old with sixty-six years of service. Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate, part of the Mariinskii Canal system. Photo taken in 1909.

A group of Jewish children with a teacher in Samarkand, (in modern Uzbekistan), ca. 1910.

A woman is seated in a calm spot on the Sim River, part of the Volga watershed in 1910.

An Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), circa 1910.

Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara, (present-day Uzbekistan), ca. 1910.

Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan (Eloten), Turkmenistan, on the Murghab River, ca. 1910.

A man and woman pose in Dagestan, ca. 1910.

View of Tiflis (Tblisi), Georgia from the grounds of Saint David Church, ca. 1910.

Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva, now a part of modern Uzbekistan), full-length portrait, seated outdoors, ca. 1910.

A metal truss bridge on stone piers, part of the Trans-Siberian Railway, crossing the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region, ca. 1910.

Prokudin-Gorskii rides along on a handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway along Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk in 1910.

General view of the Nikolaevskii Cathedral from southwest in Mozhaisk in 1911.

 

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A collection of photos from August of 1969. Full disclosure someone on Imgur found and captioned all these. Imgur

It's a great slice of the moment so to speak from decades in the past.



August 6 1969. Sharon Tate in a London taxi three days before her death. Photo by Terry O'Neill.

August 1969. People in circus, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

August 1969, American soldiers watch as former Viet Cong sapper (now defected) demonstrates how a barbed wire compound can be breached quickly and quietly.

August 2 1969. New York, corner of Second Avenue. Photo Fred W. McDarrah.

August 8 1969. London. Abbey road.

August 9 1969. Piccadilly, London.

August 1969. The Battle of Bogside, Northen Ireland.

August 13 1969. People line 42nd Street in New York to cheer Apollo 11 astronauts, in lead car from left, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, traveling east on 42nd street, towards the United Nations.

August 15 1969. Woodstock Music and Art Fair opening.

August 22 1969. After hurricane Camille in Buras, Louisiana.

 

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A collection of photos from August of 1969. Full disclosure someone on Imgur found and captioned all these. Imgur

It's a great slice of the moment so to speak from decades in the past.st 1969.

August 8 1969. London. Abbey road.

All of these pictures are awesome (as usual in this thread which is one of my favourites, KRYPTON INC) , I just remember putting up this particular pic on FB a couple of years ago, only since I thought it was a cool moment just before that iconic shot.

My brother then asked: But who might that older lady on the picture be?
Me: That has to be Ringo's mum making sure her son looked proper enough for the photo shoot. Which of course I'd no idea if it really was.

But we always have to remember Ringo's awesome reply to why Beatles were so popular at a certain moment. IIRC it went something like this:

- Because we have something for everyone; The girls like Paul. The young angry guys like John. People into mystic stuff like George. And the mums like me.

I don't even care if it might be made up afterwards, it's still bloody brilliant.

 

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Covers for the Epic/Marvel mini-series HAVOK & WOLVERINE, published in 1988. The series is notable for being illustrated in watercolors.

December 6, 1988, Roy Orbison dies at the age of 52.

Brighton Beach, NY, Summer of 1988.

Herb Ellis gave cartoonist and The Far Side creator Gary Larson guitar lessons in exchange for the cover illustration for the album Doggin' Around (Concord, 1988) by Ellis and bassist Red Mitchell.

Director Ron Howard and star Val Kilmer on the the set of Willow, 1988.

Michael Jordan takes flight in this famous 1988 Dunk Competition.

Willem Dafoe in 1988.

Robin Williams spending all day signing autographs and telling stories at a homeless shelter in Boston, 1988.

Fire Officials Meet in Yellowstone National Park on August 20, 1988.

Yellowstone fires of 1988 - Wikipedia