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

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Winston Churchill, 1923.

Cover illustration for the first issue of Time. The subject is now obscure Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon.

From a Muskogee Newspaper clipping. Wednesday Morning, July 4, 1923 Fourth of July Twins To Be Honored Today By Mrs. B. F. Wood Mrs. B. Frank Wood, 510 North Thirteenth street will entertain with a Fourth of July party today, in honor of the sixth birthday of her small daughters, Alene and Catherine. The house will be deocrated in red, white and blue ribbons, and candles tied in large bows. The birthday cake will carry out the same color scheme as will the small individual cakes at each place. A musical program will be given by the piano class of Mrs. Clark J. Tisdel, of which both the small girls are members. They will be assisted by the little Misses: Mary Louise Mills, Mary Elizabeth Tisdel and Dorothy Schofield. The clipping goes on to list all the piano pieces the girls will be playing and the full guest list.

President and Mrs. Harding leaving St. Augustine, Florida, 1923.

A French soldier, possibly harassing or ordering a German civilian, during the Occupation of the Ruhr post WWI, 1923.

Yankee Stadium opening day, April 18 1923. Opening game was against the Boston Red Sox.

 

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A then 35-year old Adolph Hitler upon his release from Landsburg Prison, 1924.

Young boy taking a bath in the garden, Sweden, 1924.

The men of a 1924 expedition to the top of Mt. Everest.

University of Illinois Memorial Stadium ca. 1924. A memorial to those from the University of Illinois who died in World War I.

There are a total of 200 columns on the east and west sides of the stadium. 184 columns display a name of a University of Illinois alum that lost their life in the 1st world war (183 men and 1 woman). Two non-University of Illinois alums are also honored as well as "Unknown Illini Dead" & "Students' Army and Navy Training Corps Dead."

Sylvia Hawkes (later Lady Ashley, Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Mrs. Clark Gable, Lady Stanley, Princess Sylvia Djordjadze), 1924.

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Decades before the invention of the Steadicam, cinematographer Karl Freund filmed some scenes in The Last Laugh (1924) by strapping an eight-kilogram camera to his body.

 

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University District Neighborhood Photo Spread, Seattle Times, 1925.

Future President Of The United States John Kennedy as a boy, 1925.

On the roof garden of the Langbourne Club. Opened in 1925 this was a club near London Bridge for women who worked in the City of London.

1925 c. Theatre director Erik Charell rehearsing chorus girls in Berlin, Germany.

Actress Betty Chester, 1925.

Louis Armstron, 1925.

Gaucho, Ultima Esperanza, Patagonia, circa 1925.

Exterior of the Hartman Mercantile in Bedrock, Colorado in 1925

 

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An uncomfortable looking Greta Garbo posing with MGM's 'Leo the Lion' in 1926.

Louise Brooks, 1926.

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Photo taken of participants of the Cristero War in Mexico, 1926.

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Swashbuckling screen hero Douglas Fairbanks in a scene from the film The Black Pirate, 1926.






Owner Ralph Dickey standing proudly in his hardware store, circa 1926 in Altheimer, Arkansas.

Ha Dong district, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1926.

"Girl-Evangelist vs. Girl-Atheist," Springfield Republican (MO), Dec 19, 1926, p. 21.

Aftrmath of the Great Hurricane of September, 1926 in Miami.

 

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Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, KBE, Kt (11 October 1881 – 21 August 1943), seen here from the year 1927, was the Okyenhene or King of the Akyem people and of Akyem Abuakwa, a kingdom that stretches back to the thirteenth century and was one of the most influential kingdoms of the then Gold Coast Colony.

What Hartsfield Intl Airport in Atlanta, GA looked like in 1927.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh on May 20, 1927, photographed in front of his plane "The Spirit Of St. Louis" on the tarmac in NYC before his successful solo trans-Atlantic flight to Paris.

1927, turbine hall in Wilson Dam on the Tennessee River.

World reknowned entertainer Joesephine Baker, 1927.

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A policeman directs traffic, Berlin, Germany, 1927.

The White House in Washington, D.C. on March 16, 1927, while the attic was being converted to a third floor.

 

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The RMS Queen Elizabeth pulling into New York with service men returning home after the end of WWII, 1945.

 

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1928 Bugatti Type 43 Grand Sport.

Mother Teresa, age 18, 1928.

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Charles Birger laughing with his executioners before his hanging, Benton, Illinois, US, 1928.

Jacqueline Logan on the set of The Leopard Lady, 1928.

Pilots gathered next to a Bi-Plane, Oakland airport, California 1928.

Yugoslav Partisans of the 4th Montenegrin Brigade and 1st Krajina Brigade stand at attention and re-group at Janja, near Jajce.

Miss Universe Ella Van Hueson in 1928.

 

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"Sweetheart Contest" contestants at the Southern California Fair, Riverside, 1929.

Jean Cocteau, 1929

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Buster Keaton at home, Christmas of 1929.

Chicago, 1929.

Sunbathers at Piscine Molitor, Paris, 1929.

A carter passes near the overhead at Wapping, Liverpool. You can see the Baltic fleet pub in the background.

Film still of Greta Garbo in The Kiss, from 1929.

Actors Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez, 1929.

 

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The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a camping, hiking and handicraft group with ambitions to bring world peace. It was the first of three movements in England associated with the charismatic artist and writer John Hargrave (1894–1982). The Kindred was founded in 1920. Some members continued into Hargrave's Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, which was established in 1931–32, and which became in 1935 the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This was wound up in 1951.

Hargrave claimed all three organisations to be part of one mission, telling his followers after the last title-change: 'We are the Green Shirts – indeed we are the Kindred – calling ourselves the Social Credit Party of Great Britain officially, but knowing full well who and what we are. "Whelm on me ye Resurrected Men!" – I give you that outcry of the Kin in 1927.'[1]

The mission was the belief that Kibbo Kift training would produce a core of healthy and creative individuals through whom the human race would evolve into a society without war, poverty and wasted lives. The Kibbo Kift held that individual character strengthened by mental discipline was the key to the future, not mass movements based on groups defined by class, race or nation states.

Here a group of young boys and their guardian take part in a Kift "ceremony", England, 1930.


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Georges Méliès, 1930 Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938),was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well-known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.

A European hunter with his trophy with two locals, Belgian Congo, 1930.

Actress Loretta Young, 1931.

Children hanging around an Old Growth Oak, Lousiana, 1930.

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NYC, 1930.

Nice,France, 1930. Restaurant de la Reserve.

Red Army brigade commander on a Harley Davidson motorcycle. 1930.

 

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Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NYC, 1930.

Notice the advertisement for cocaine: prevents baldness and dandruff

 

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Notice the advertisement for cocaine: prevents baldness and dandruff

I got both...

Yeah... I'm gonna stick to just shaving it down and hHead 'N Shoulders.

 

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I got both...

Yeah... I'm gonna stick to just shaving it down and hHead 'N Shoulders.

Back then, cocaine, hashish etc were the miracle cures.
Depressed wife => cocaine
Noisy baby because of teeth growth => hashish paste on the gum

Maybe I will try to shampoo my head with Coca Cola who knows...my hair may grow back.

 

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Ian Fleming, the English author and literary father of the fictional secret agent James Bond and James Bond, the American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean photographed outside Fleming's estate of Goldeneye on Oracabessa bay of Jamaica in 1964.
James Bond's name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy of the same name. Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book (Birds of the West Indies), and chose the name of its author for the hero of Casino Royale.

 

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Vietnamese opera singers stepping on their first flight. Colonial Exhibition, Paris, 1931.

Netherlands, 1931. A man is being fined for "wearing inappropriate clothing" on the beach.

Catalina Island, California 1931.

Leeds United Players 1931.

 

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1989 Tiananmen Square protests - Wikipedia


The Tiananmen Square protests or the Tiananmen Square Incident, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件; pinyin: liùsì shìjiàn, literally the six-four incident) in mainland China, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing during 1989. The popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests is sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement (Chinese: 八九民运; pinyin: Bājiǔ mínyùn). The protests started on April 15 and were forcibly suppressed on June 4 when the government declared martial law and sent the People's Liberation Army to occupy central parts of Beijing.

In what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre (Chinese: 天安门大屠杀; pinyin: Tiān'ānmén dà túshā), troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded.


As the protests developed, the authorities responded with both conciliatory and hardline tactics, exposing deep divisions within the party leadership. By May, a student-led hunger strike galvanized support for the demonstrators around the country, and the protests spread to some 400 cities. Ultimately, Deng Xiaoping and other Communist Party elders believed the protests to be a political threat and resolved to use force. The State Council declared martial law on May 20 and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops to Beijing. The troops advanced into central parts of Beijing on the city's major thoroughfares in the early morning hours of June 4, killing both demonstrators and bystanders in the process.

Considered a watershed event, the protests set the limits on political expression in China up to the present day. Its memory is widely associated with questioning the legitimacy of Communist Party rule and remains one of the most sensitive and most widely censored topics in China.

 

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Bridge at Kufa, Iraq, 1932. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.

German Federal Election of 1932: Police clash with protesters of dueling parties outside of the Reichstag. In the 1930 elections: the democratic parties lost their majority and Hindenburg soon dismissed Chancellor Brüning as the public viewed him as too left-leaning (causing NSDAP membership to rise).



From the New York Times, April 25, 1932:

Anna May Wong, 1932.

Harry Barone, Welterweight Champion of New Jersey 1932.

Cruise To Japan, a travelogue from 1932.




Test driving the new Ford V8. 1932.

 

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London, 1933.

If someone from the U.K. could give me some context here for this image, I'd appreciate it. What's this all about?

New York. December 5, 1933. "Rockefeller Center and RCA Building from 515 Madison Avenue." Digital image recovered from released emulsion layer of the original 5x7 acetate negative. Gottscho-Schleisner photo.

Newspapers from 1933.

Sepik tribesman, 1933.

Original Blonde Bombshell Mae West in I'm No Angel, 1933.

Klu Klux Klan flier distributed in 1933.

 

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Members of the Monte Carlo Sporting Club, Harlem, 1934.

Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, President Franklin Roosevelt and Ambassador Josephus Daniels aboard USS Indianapolis 31 May 1934.

Screen sex symbol Mae West checking out a boxing match, 1934.

Protesters in New York City marching against fascism, 1934

All-American football players Donald Huston and Millard Howell from Alabama pose with coach Frank Thomas, Christy Walsh, and USC coach Howard Jones, Tuscaloosa, 1934-1935.

Actor Cesar Romero, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934.

Josephine Baker clowns for the cameras, Vanity Fair, October 1st, 1934.

 

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The dying of the day's light, sunset, Manhattan, September 10, 2001.

 

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School clothes to protect from dust storms in Lakin, Kansas, 1935.

Snowmobile service, Canada, 1935.

Children of destitute Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas, 1935.

Boy with model glider, 1935.

Elsa Lanchester as she appeared in“The Bride of Frankenstein”, 1935.

Hope, Arkansas' Hope Star front page from September 16, 1935.

June 1935. Motherless migrant children, agricultural workers, original notes “they work in cotton”, California. -Dorothea Lange

October 1935. "Russ Nicholson, grandfather of all the Nicholsons in Nicholson Hollow. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia."

 

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1953.

Ginsburg with her husband Martin at Cornell U., 1954.

RBG and Anton Scalia on one of their friendly co-vacations, here to India.

 

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Women of the Spanish Republican Militia during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

1936 Nazi Germany Guinness Ad.

An automobile cruises under a sky darkened by the environmental calamity known as the Dust Bowl, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936.

Editorial cartoon, 1936.

Olympic torch, Berlin, Germany, 1936.

Jessie Owens competing on the world stage for Olympic gold, Berlin, Germany, 1936.

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Salvador Dali and his wife, Gala, 1936.

The Matignon Agreements (French: Accords de Matignon) were signed on 7 June 1936, between the Confédération générale de la production française (CGPF) employers' organization, the CGT trade union and the French state. They were signed during a massively followed general strike initiated after the election of the Popular Front in May 1936, which had led to the creation of a left-wing government headed by Léon Blum (SFIO). Also known as the "Magna Carta of French Labor", these agreements were signed at the Hôtel Matignon, official residence of the head of the government, hence their name.

The negotiations, in which participated Benoît Frachon for the CGT, Marx Dormoy (SFIO) as under-secretary of state to the President of the Council, Jean-Baptiste Lebas (SFIO, Minister of Labour), had started on 6 June at 3 PM, but the pressure from the workers' movement was such that the employers' confederation quickly accepted the unions' terms. A general strike had been initiated in Le Havre on 26 May, accompanied by factory occupations to prevent lock outs, and had quickly spread to all of France. More than a million workers were on strike. The social movement immediately followed the electoral victory of the Popular Front, in order to reach this position of force. Interior Minister Roger Salengro publicly announced the following day the success of the negotiations.

Without having to organize strike in each factory in order to gain some advantages for them, all of the workers benefited with these agreements of:

• the legal right to strike
• the removal of all obstacles to union organization (including the right to have representatives, named délégués du personnel, elected by secret ballot, which may not be fired without approval from the labour inspection - inspection du travail - and thus are protected from pressures by the employers
• and a blanket 7-12 percent wage increase for all workers (it is thus the reverse of deflation, and is an economic policy based on demand) (the female workers in Verdun even succeeded in obtaining a 400% wages increase)

Furthermore, Blum's government deposed on 5 June five law projects, prepared by the Minister of Labour Jean-Baptiste Lebas, which were easily adopted during the month. These laws granted:

• paid vacations (two weeks - for the first time in France) (voted by the National Assembly on 20 June 1936)
• 40-hour work week paid 48 (adopted by the Assembly on 21 June 1936).
• collective bargaining (adopted by the Assembly on 24 June 1936)
• the repeal of the 1935 decree-laws concerning the wages of public servants and the taxes on World War I veterans' pensions.

On 11 June, Maurice Thorez, national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), stated that "one must know how to finish a strike, at the moment that the main points have been obtained." His declaration was published in L'Humanité, the press organ of the PCF. Alluding to Marceau Pivert's famous statement, he recalled that "Not everything was possible but the slogan is still: 'Everything for the Popular Front!' 'Everything by the Popular Front'" [1]

Work was resumed at the Renault factories on 13 and 15 June and in the steelworking industry.

 

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Today 41 years ago, Pennie Smith photographed The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979. She made one of the most famous images in rock history from the Punk/New Wave era.

 

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Flu season in Hollywood in 1937.

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, 1937.

A dapper pianist, Sweden, 1937.

For size comparison workers surround and stand atop the massive turbines used at the Bonneville Dam, 1937.

Workers test gas-masks in London, England, Feb. 11, 1937.

School Disaster March 1937 New London, Texas.

At 3:17 pm on March 18, 1937 a natural gas leak caused an explosion which destroyed the school and killed at least 298 students and teachers.

The London school before the explosion.

The school board canceled their natural gas contract earlier in the year and opted to tap into a residue gas line from the Parade Gasoline Company. This was a common practoce in the area. The natural gas was considered a waste product and was flared off by local companies.

Untreated gas is both odorless and colorless. A gas leak under the school filled a large crawl space. It is believed that the shop teacher flipped a switch on a sander which sparked and ignited the explosion. The explosion was heard up to four miles away.

Within weeks of the explosion the Texas Legislature mandated that an odorant be added fo natural gas to provide early warnings of leaks.

Many survivors were unwilling to discuss the tragedy. Some famlies lost an entire generation. One survivor traded seats with a girl on the day of the explosion. He was injured but she did not survive. He lived with survivors guilt his entire life. Mother Francis hospital in Tyler, Tx was scheduled to open the following day but canceled their dedication ceremonies and opened immediately. Workers cleared all victims and debris from the site in seventeen hours. A two-ton concrete block was thrown from the building 200 feet and crushed a 1936 Chevrolet.