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

Navy chaplain Luis Padilla gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in 1962 Venezuela. Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest's cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete.





The ruins of Dresden, Germany after the Allied bombings, 1945.





American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell confronting Martin Luther King Jr., 1965.






John F. Kennedy’s coffin lies in state in the Capitol Building, 1963.





Harold Agnew carrying the plutonium core of the Nagasaki Fat Man bomb, 1945.





A young Bill Paxton (Top-Middle) at JFK's speech on the same day he was shot and killed, 1963.

 

Sisters are doing it for themselves...

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license, 1936.




American nurses land in Normandy, 1944.






Leola N, King, America’s first female traffic cop, Washington D.C, 1918.




Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency, 1907.





The first women’s basketball team from Smith College, 1902.




Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Chanel, 1926.





Elspeth Beard, during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle, ca. 1980s.





Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time in Toronto, 1937.




Women railroad workers at lunch. Many were the wives and even mothers of the men who left for war, 1943.

 

Ham the chimp, the first primate to be sent into space, being fitted for his capsule before his test flight, which took place on January 31, 1961.




Little Coyote and Morning Star, chieftains of the Cheyenne tribes, 1873.




Wife and husband in Korea, 1904.




Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, Lebanon, 1870-1885.




The unbroken seal of Tutankhamen’s tomb, 1922. It hadn’t been touched for 3,245 years.




Hannah Stilley, who was born in 1746, is pictured here, photographed in 1840. She is believed to be the earliest born person is history to be caught on camera.

 

President Lincoln's Secret Service at Antietam Battlefield, October 3rd, 1862.




Lincoln meets with General George McClellan, who lead the Army of the Potomac at Antietam, shortly after the battle. October 3, 1862.




Corpses of Confederate soldiers slain at the Battle of Antietam, September 19, 1862, Maryland.




The Kennedy trio in the mid 40s as teenagers; John, Bobby and Teddy.





Three archers, Japan, ca.1860-1900.





A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.




A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome, 1944.





Vietnam POWs going home, 1973.

 

F1 pilot ejects at extremely low altitude. The pilot survived with multiple fractures. 1962.




Golden Gate Bridge construction. 1937.




A shell shocked reindeer as World War II planes drop bombs, by Yevgeny Khaldei, Mourmansk, Russia, 1941.





Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911. You can see people walking right at the bottom of the frozen waterfall.





April 1941, Easter Sunday, five well dressed black youths pose for photographer Russell Lee.




1937 during the battle of Shanghai chemical warfare was being used thus the protection. These are Japanese troops.





Benjamin, the last Tasmanian Tiger, at Beaumaris Zoo in 1933.

 

The master himself, Jimi Hendrix, playing to a crowd at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1967.




The Rolling Stones looking dapper AF, 1967.




Cast of Star Wars chillin' in a canteen, doing press for the film's release in 1977.




Muhammad Ali training, 1974. Photograph by Ken Regan.




Robin Williams clowning around outside The Comedy Store, 1978.




A future president takes his shot as Barack Obama plays for his high school basketball team in 1979.

 

Chicago 'L' Transit system, 1967. It is one of the oldest-running elevated train systems in the world; its first operational date was June 6, 1892.




Building of the Soviet Buran spacecraft, circa 1982.





Members of the Guardian Angels on the NYC subway, 1980.





Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989.





A moment before a historical photograph is taken. If you look closely you can see a man between the tree and the man at the far right strolling toward the tanks coming down the street. This is the iconic "Tank Man" of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.




Rejected 1955 Lincoln Futura prototype, which became the Batmobile in 1966.

 

Mark Twain, with John Lewis, a lifelong friend and inspiration for the character Jim in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", 1898.





Saundra Brown, the first African-American woman on the Oakland police force, during her firearms training, 1970.




Russians wait in line outside a new McDonald's fast food restaurant in Moscow, 1991.





A billboard counting down to the release of Back to the Future, 1985.




Child cages, that were placed outside apartments in the 1930's so that children got enough sun.

 

Sorority sisters at the University of Texas, 1944. Honestly... Has very much changed?




Martin Luther King being arrested for demanding service at a white-only restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida, 1964.




Soviet border guards patrolling the USSR-China border (now Kazakhstan-China border) near Khorgos, 1984.




Philippe Petit walking on the line between two WTC towers, 1974.





Sperlingsberg, Germany in 1945 with Allied troops warily crossing in the middle of battle and again 69 years later.





A summer day comes to a close across the water from Manhattan on the shores of Brooklyn, circa 1980.

 

Linda, Paul and Mary McCartney, 1969



Clint Eastwood skateboarding in Rome, Italy, 1964.




Betty Ford dancing on the Cabinet Room table during her last day in the White House, 1977.





Debbie Harry in 1976 in a photo taken by Andy Warhol.




Jack Nicholson and his date Nancy Smith at their senior prom, 1953.





Phil Collins drumming for Genesis circa the early 1970s.





Actress Sigourney Weaver getting a snack in 1983.





A then 12 year old Jodie Foster on the set of the movie “Taxi Driver” in NYC, 1976.

 

I assume that person is handsome in an early George Clooney way with a charming personality and minty fresh breah. A snappy dresser too boot.

 

Marlon Brando, 1950. Photograph by Art Shay.




David Bowie, alternative cover shots for Heroes, 1977. Photography by Masayoshi Sukita.





Looking Boss, Bruce Springsteen walking down Sunset Strip, LA, 1975.





A 17 year-old Pele? in Sweden before the start of the 1958 World Cup.





Stevie Nicks in New Haven, Connecticut, 1975.





Barbra Streisand, 1966.





Sonny and Cher at an outdoor party given to welcome Twiggy to Los Angeles, 1967.





Director Stanley Kubrick sneaking a self shot while pretending to take one of Jack Nicholson on the set of The Shining, 1979.

 

A young female welder adjusts her goggles, Groton, Connecticut, 1943. Photograph by Bernard Hoffman.




Before computers. The finger print or record room in the famous Scotland Yard, England.




Music fans on the way to the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen NY in 1973.





Women fire fighters during a training exercise at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, during World War II, circa 1941. From left to right, they are Elizabeth Moku, Alice Cho, Katherine Lowe, and Hilda Van Gieson.




Reception Desk at General Motors Technical Center, 1965. Kodachrome by Balthazar Korab. Eero Saarinen, architect.




Premiere of A Hard Day's Night, London Pavilion, 1964.

 

Turkish men having lunch in restaurant of Nevsehir named Lokanda, 1970. Photograph by Bill Ray.




Texas Track Club of Abilene, 1964. This photo was part of a Sports Illustrated shoot in 1964.





Harlem, New York, 1948. Photograph by Gordon Parks.






Princess Diana with Mother Teresa in New York, 1997. Photograph by Anwar Hussein.





The dressing room at the Moulin Rouge, 1924.





Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Photograph by Richard Pipes during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.





Coca Cola delivery truck, 1909.




The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, NYC 1931. St. Patrick's Cathedral is visible in the background on Fifth Avenue.

 

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.




The 1912 World Series.





New York's Times Square in 1911.





This photo of the Statue of Liberty appeared in a 1930 National Geographic article that featured the first successful aerial color photos. The photographer used Finlay, a process that required a shorter exposure than autochrome.





Admiral Robert E. Peary searches the horizon for land during his third attempt to reach the North Pole in 1909. The successful trip made Peary the first person to reach the region.

 

A crew member is rescued from a French ship which ran aground at Lands End, Cornwall. 12 men lost their lives, 1962.




Jesse Owens, in a suit, practices aboard the SS Manhattan on the way to the Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936.





Cats on a roof in Paris, 1947.





Rays of sunlight illuminate the basilica and its mosaic floor in the Vatican, 1971.





Snowstorm in Boston, 1930.





A policeman questions a young, crying boy who intended to fish in the fountain on Trafalgar Square, London, 1892.




A Russian soldier plays an abandoned piano in war torn Chechnya, 1994.

 

That's probably closer to the truth.

 

A collection of young people out and about at the various malls in America from the early to mid 1980's.

 

Lemmy of Motorhead fame and then "Page 3" tabloid girl Samatha Fox fool around in the studio, 1983.




Album cover photo for singer/model/actress Grace Jones' fifth release Night Clubbing, from 1981.




Robert Downey Jr. pals around with Mike Tyson on the streets of New York circa mid 1980's.




Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his son in front of the White House.
circa early 1980's.




Famed pro-skater Tony Hawk in the mid 1980's.






On the streets of Kingston, Jamaica in the early 1980's the Youth Promotion Sound System Crew, photo by Beth Lesser.