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

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Divers from a German submarine crew prepare to go underwater for training in 1908.

A hairdressing Competition in Warsaw, Poland in 1932.

A woman wears the Dakko-chan toy on her arm as part of the odd Dakko-chan craze in Japan in 1960.

This is the Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in that occurred in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963 to protest a white-only diner. Notice 2 of the 3 people being harassed are in fact white.

This is the American Nazi Party rally that occurred at Madison Square Gardens in NYC, US in 1939. Notice how many average Americans are doing the Nazi solute. Apparently some 22,000 people showed up for this rally.

German ballerinas stretching their calve muscles in 1977. There are special holes in the wall to step on.

People casually go about their business in the much destroyed city of Hue in Vietnam in 1968.

2 Japanese child soldiers captured on Okinawa in 1945. They claimed to be 18 and 20 years old.

 

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That submarine crew reminds me of the villain in the Spongebob movie

 

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Those suits must have been crazy heavy, lol.

 

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A tourist in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece in 1905.

A Brooklyn Dodgers player gets his cleat shined in Havana, Cuba in 1941.

A Native American looks a completed section of the Transcontinental Railroad in Nevada, US in 1868.

Soldiers meet for a military parade with King Saud (front left) in Saudi Arabia in 1930.

A soldier that was part of the unit known as the Harlem Hellfighters poses with his mother in NYC, US in 1918 after losing his leg in France during WWI.

An accumulator electric omnibus in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1900.

A soldier is pictured with his relatives after being honored in Lagos, Nigeria in 1913.

The US-Mexico border in 1930.

 

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The Waseda University baseball team in Japan in 1925. Baseball was active in Japan well before US occupation after WWII.

A couple vehicles attempted to cross a flooded road with disastrous results during the great Mississippi River Flood in Tennessee, US in 1927.

A Filipino baby and her family inside a human zoo in NYC, US in 1906.

Black soldiers known as Buffalo Soldiers guard captured Spanish prisoners during the Spanish American War in Cuba in 1898.

Getting gas during a flood in England in 1935.

A Buddhist monk and his pupil in Tibet in 1889.

Poor children share a bowl of food in Bolshoi Murashkin, Russia in 1904.

A variety of men dance at an openly gay club in Paris, France in 1933.

 

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16 years ago today, Spidey first swung into theaters

 

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The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon", 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group, 869th Bomb Squadron, the fifth B-29 to take off on the first Tokyo mission from Saipan on November 24, 1944, and first to land back at Isley Field after bombing the target. Crew members, posing here to duplicate their caricatures on the plane, are : Plane Commander, Captain Walter R. "Waddy" Young, Ponca City, Oklahoma, former All-American end; Lieutenant Jack H. Vetters, Corpus Christi, Texas, pilot; Lieutenant John F. Ellis, Moberly, Missouri, bombardier; Lieutenant Paul R. Garrison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, navigator; Sergeant George E. Avon, Syracuse, New York, radio operator; Lieutenant Bernard S. Black, Woodhaven, New York, Flight Engineer; Sergeant Kenneth M. Mansie of Randolph, Maine, Flight Technician; and gunners - Sargeants Lawrence L. Lee of Max, North Dakota; Wilbur J. Chapman of Panhandle, Texas; Corbett L. Carnegie, Grindstone Island, New York; and Joseph J. Gatto, Falconer, New York. All were killed when "Waddy's Wagon" was shot down attempting to guide a crippled B-29 back to safety during a mission against the Nakajima aircraft factory in Musashino, Japan on January 9, 1945

 

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In 1949 'Okhai Ojeikere bought his first box brownie camera.
He spent the next few years taking pictures of the hairstyles of the local women in his home in Nigeria. What followed was a collection of some of the most creative and intricate designs imaginable.
These women had no access to the modes of communicating fashion memes that we have become so used to such as, tv, movies, fashion magazines and other extensions of the influence of modern pop culture. They simply experimented and expressed themselves however they wished. Some designs were completely original, others followed trends.
Some tribes and cultural groups had similar fashions, and new fads swept through from group to group, just as you'd expect where fashion and women come together in once place.

 

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Women in Chicago being arrested for wearing one piece bathing suits, without the required leg coverings, 1922.

Releasing a messenger pigeon, WW1, 1914.

Brooklyn Bridge being under construction, 1871.

Pyramids of Giza as seen in 1880.

The Face of War being created by Salvador Dali, 1940.

 

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The models used for the painting ’American Gothic’ by Grant Wood, 1930.

Elvis Presley backstage during a break between performances, 1956.

Crew of the Starship Enterprise next to NASA's Enterprise in 1976.

Conan O'brien and the writers of ’The Simpsons’ hard at work, 1992.

Comedian Jerry Stiller takes his son Ben to a play, NYC, 1978.

 

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George Orwell holding a puppy while in the Spanish Civil War. The man behind him is none other then Ernest Hemingway (1937).

Wilbur Wright circles the Statue of Liberty, 1909.

Gordie Howe with a young Wayne Gretzky (1972).

Kurt Cobain playing the drums at an assembly at the Montesano High School (1981).

Bob Dylan With Mick Jagger And Keith Richards At Jaggers 29th Birthday Party, July 1972.

High schooler Lebron James meets Michael Jordan, circa 1996.

Dr. Seuss drawing The Grinch, 1957.

 

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History can be ugly because human beings can be very ugly. That's never a reason to turn a blind eye to what happened in the past and how it's affecting our present and future.


Farmers await the opening of a slave fair in St. Louis, Missouri, 1852.

A slave showing his scars from repeated floggings, 1863.

A device that was probably meant to prevent slaves from escaping through small openings, such as windows, 1863.

African American Union soldier with his family, circa 1860.

A British sailor removing the leg irons from a slave, late 1800s.

Klu Klux Klan at a carnival, 1925.

World’s Highest Standard of Living – A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph,1937.

A Japanese family returning to their home in Los Angeles after WWII, 1945.

Segregation in North Carolina, 1950.

Black children looking in on a whites-only playground, Mobile, Alabama 1956.

So much of this isn't ancient history either. The kids in that last photo? It's likely some of them are still alive in 2018.

 

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Sad, so very sad.

 

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A younger Bill Nye in his 9th grade science class, 1970.

Michael Jordan celebrating after winning the NBA finals two years in a row, 1998.

Elvis, his father Vernon, and his grandmother Minnie Mae, 1959.

Led Zeppelin play Melbourne, Australia in 1972.

Marilyn Monroe without makeup, 1955.

Notorious B.I.G. at 6 years old, right after graduating from kindergarten, 1978.

 

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Fishermen of the Volga river, Russia, with their impressive catch, 1924.

Margaret Hamilton, the principal software engineer for NASA, 1969. (She is still kicking it today at age 81 I might add.)

Players of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Chicago Black Hawks search for Jack Evans’ lost contact lens during an ice hockey game, 1962.

A teenaged fan at an Elvis Presley concert lets loose, 1957.

 

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These Are Titanic Survivors Boarding The Carpathia In 1912.

Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967.

Aboriginal man Tom Noytuna using newly installed phone for the first time, circa 1980. Photograph by Penny Tweedie.

US soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy in a cockpit during the Battle of Saipan, 1944. Photo by Peter Stackpole.

Showgirls play chess between shows, New York, 1958. Photograph by Gordon Parks.

Microsoft staff. December 7, 1978.

The assembly line of Porsche 911's at the Stuttgart factory, 1970.

John F. Kennedy at NASA's Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex in 1962.

A goodbye kiss in 1950 between a soldier and his love.

 

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I do miss the art of the truly historic photograph. The lighting and direction etc.

I suppose there’s still iconic historic photos right now but we won’t know til a few decades in the future

 

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I'm amazed that soldier didn't fall out of the train, lol.

 

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Jewish Menorah Defies Nazi Flag - 1931
It was the eighth night of Chanukah in Kiel, Germany, a small town with a Jewish population of 500. That year, 1931, the last night Chanukah fell on Friday evening, and Rabbi Akiva Boruch Posner, spiritual leader of the town was hurrying to light the Menorah before the Shabbat set in. Directly across the Posner’s home stood the Nazi headquarters in Kiel, displaying the dreaded Nazi Party flag in the cold December night. With the eight lights of the Menorah glowing brightly in her window, Rabbi Posner’s wife, Rachel, snapped a photo of the Menorah and captured the Nazi building and flag in the background. She wrote a few lines in German on the back of the photo. “Chanukah, 5692. ‘Judea dies’, thus says the banner. ‘Judea will live forever’, thus respond the lights.”

As the leader of the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland in the 1960s, Gloria Richardson worked tirelessly to end segregation and unequal government treatment of blacks. During this time, they also had to actively defend themselves from attacks by white supremacists and pro-segregationists. In 1963, racial tensions culminated in a major riot, forcing the governor to declare martial law and send in the National Guard. This ugly episode would turn out to be Richardson’s finest moment: Instead of backing down from a Guardsman pointing a bayonet at her face, the single, middle-aged mother of two angrily brushed it aside and shouted invectives at the man. Although Richardson would later continue to join other protests, she never forgot that fateful incident in her later years, even remarking that she was crazy to have done that back then.

The Statue of Liberty surrounded by scaffolding as workers complete the final stages in Paris. Circa 1885.

Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore recording the music of a Blackfoot chief onto a phonograph, 1916.

Attorney at law, Mohandas Gandhi, 1893.

Wirths Circus arrives at platform 9, Spencer St. station in Melbourne, Australia. Alice the 102 year old elephant helps unload the trains, 1948.

 

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This worker in a Van Nuys CA factory in 1944 soon started calling herself Marilyn Monroe.

Bob Marley on the beach with Miss World 1976 Cindy Breakspeare, mother of Damien Marley.

Stephen Hawking, 1965.

Two greats working together. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong recording in studio, 1956.

Harrison Ford on one of his pre-acting jobs as a carpenter circa 1970.

Arnie and disco diva Donna Summer in Austria, 1977.

 

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The first successful photograph of a comet - Comet Donati, 1858.

Woman takes a break from updating stock prices in the pre-digital read out era, New York 1962.

Kindergarten teacher, Helen Hulick a witness to a burglary, was given a five-day sentence and sent to jail for contempt for wearing pants to give her courtroom testimony. Los Angeles. 1938.

Serena and Venus Williams posing for a picture with former President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in 1990.

Teddy Roosevelt becomes the first president to fly, 1910.

Carl Sagan and the Dalai Lama meet in 1991.

 

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Legendary drag queen Divine, the inspiration for Ursula the sea witch in the little mermaid, meets a future reality tv star

 

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Hong Kong 1900



Present

 

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Legendary drag queen Divine, the inspiration for Ursula the sea witch in the little mermaid, meets a future reality tv star

Not exactly a flattering picture there, lol.