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

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Bosnian soldier with LA Lakers Jersey (Bosnian war 1992-1995)

May 13, 1995, and Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother of two, became only the second person ever to reach the peak of Everest–the world’s highest mountain–unaided, without oxygen or help from sherpas.

Selena’s last live performance. Record-breaking sold-out show at the Huston Astrodome on February 26, 1995

Lynda Carter, photoshoot, 1995.

Keanu Reeves and David Bowie. This photo was taken in 1995, when Keanu's band Dogstar was the opening act for David Bowie's U.S. Tour at The Hollywood Palladium.

This eerily prophetic quote from Carl Sagan's book, "The Demon Haunted World" that came out in 1995 describes a society that is very much like our own. The most horrifying aspect about this is Sagan believed this type of society will be the precursor to the fall of civilization.

 

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Theatrical poster for the original Rom Com, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, 1934.

Kay Francis in Mandalay, 1934.

Protesters in New York City marching against fascism, 1934.

Chrysler Building- New York, Margaret Bourne-White, 1934.

Margaret Bourke-White taking photographs while perched on the Chrysler Building in 1934.

 

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Upper Deck's Hardaway V. Jordan card for the 96-97 season.

The Next Level In Multiplayer Gaming can Be Found Online. And It's a Blast! (Boot Magazine December 1996)





Cameron Diaz & Matt Dillon, 1996.

Cover for KINGDOM COME, second issue, by Ross and Waid, 1996.

Skaters, 1996.

Baseball pitcher Bartolo Colon in 1996.

 

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Small truck with handbrake used by quarrie workers to ride in between rails when returning from work in 1935.





The China Clipper of Pan American Airways at the Pearl Harbor base in 1935.

Ruth Elder (September 8, 1902 – October 9, 1977) was an aviation pioneer and actress. She carried private pilot certificate P675, and was known as the "Miss America of Aviation." She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines.

In October 1927 she took off from New York in the Stinson Detroiter American Girl, with George Haldeman as pilot, in an attempt to become the first woman transatlantic airplane flyer. Mechanical problems caused them to ditch the plane 360 miles from the Azores, but they established a new over-water endurance flight record of 2,623 miles. It was also at the time the longest flight ever made by a woman. Rescued by a ship, she and George were honored with a ticker-tape parade upon their return.

Here she is in 1935.

Ferdinand Porsche (yeah, that Porsche) showing a model of the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935.

Classroom, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – circa 1935.

Staged publicity photo of Leah Howe polishing missiles during a Navy militia event in 1935.

 

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Model Paulina Porizkova for Escada Magazine (1997)

In the ring chaos as security and law enforcement confront Mike Tyson in 1997 after he bit Holyfield's ear.

Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother in the 1997 TV version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella which starred fellow singer Brandy in the title role.







Prince Charles meeting Jennifer Aniston, Geri Halliwell, Stephen Fry and Liz Dawn in 1997.

2020? Nope... Adam Clayton of U2 was a prophet apparently, rocking this look onstage in 1997.

 

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Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, pins Navy Cross on Doris "Dorie" Miller, at ceremony on board the USS Enterprise on May 27, 1942


It has been 80 years since Doris “Dorie” Miller, a black mess attendant, grabbed control of a machine gun he had never been allowed to use so he could help defend the USS West Virginia during the Pearl Harbor attack

 

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FDR visiting Mount Rushmore as it was being carved and constructed, 1936.

NAACP Headquarters, 1936.
A flag bearing the words "A man was lynched yesterday" was flown from the national headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) between 1920 and 1938 to mark lynchings of black people in the United States. The flag was purchased using money raised after the lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 and was stopped from flying after the NAACP's landlord threatened them with eviction if they continued the practice. A similar flag, inspired by the original, was created by artist Dread Scott in 2015. It read "A man was lynched by police yesterday" and was exhibited at art galleries.

Hitler reacts to a kiss from excited American woman at the Berlin Olympics, 1936.

Shortly before the finish of the men’s 1500 meters free-style swimming, a woman in a red hat, whom Black Guards repeatedly prevented from photographing Hitler at close range, broke the cordon during the excitement of the finish of the race, shook Hitler by the hand and then kissed him, while the crowd of 20,000 rocked with laughter. Hitler, who was in high spirits, joined in the fun, clapping his hands as the woman returned triumphantly to her seat.

A child merchant working at a local market in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, credit, Andre Zucco, 1936.

Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers as Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as they appeared in the first Flash Gordon serial, 1936.

Amelia Earhart, center, is accompanied by her husband, George Putnam, left, and her technical adviser, Paul Mantz, as they arrived in her plane from Salt Lake City on May 22, 1936, to Los Angeles.

Canadian Snowmobile Taxi - Circa 1936.

 

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Eartha Kitt with her pet poodles photographed by Dave Allocca, 1998.

A happy owner of a Ducati 748r in 1998.

Overhead view of "The Undertaker" and "Mankind's" Hell In A Cell match from 1998.

Will Smith on the cover of Nickelodeon Magazine #39 - March 1998.

Korn, circa 1998.

1998, the founder of Hyundai—a self-made billionaire who left North Korea in 1933 at the age of 18 to seek his fortune—returned to his famine-ravaged homeland driving 500 fattened cattle in 50 open trucks.


The offering to help feed his people made him the first civilian to cross the demilitarized zone without a government escort. Another 500 cattle were expected in later weeks along with a donation of 50,000 tons of corn. Chung was raised the son of a poor farmer in what is now North Korea. His extraordinary homecoming and donation were estimated to be worth over $10 million.

1998, VH1 Divas Live concert event which featured Mariah Carey, Carole King, Céline Dion and Gloria Estefan.

 

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We lost one of the most influential directors on pop culture of the 70's, 80's and 90's.

RIP Dick Donner.


The Omen BTS (1976)

Superman: The Movie BTS (1979)

The Goonies BTS (1985)

Lethal Weapon BTS (1987)

Scrooged (1988)

 

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A dapper fellow show of his style somewhere in New Zealand, 1937.

Lucille Ball, 1937. Portrait by Ernest A. Bachrach

Kids remote learning during a polio outbreak in 1937. Teachers read lessons over the radio.

Striking auto body workers form a band to while away the time during their sit-down strike, Flint, Michigan, 1937

14-year-old Ray Charlton, the 1937 Marble Champion of Los Angeles, surrounded by spectators as he competes.

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, 1937.

 

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The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO signed a peace treaty in the end of the Kosovo War (1999)

Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne Moss celebrating the release of "The Matrix", 1999.

Ozzy on the cover of Highe Times, March of 1999.

Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio with Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. 1999.

Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France, after being given grave diagnosis of testicular cancer, 1999.

Paul McCartney, Abbey Road, 1999.

 

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July 1938. "Boys in the town in front of Greek coffee shop. Ambridge, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein.

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and the rest of the cast on the set of their Robin Hood film, 1938.

Steam Locomotives at Camden Town, London August 1938.

A Pack Horse Librarian reads out-loud to a man in the Kentucky mountains, 1938.

Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian-American actress, film producer, and self-taught inventor whose discoveries contributed to the development of modern Wi-Fi, 1938.

With war again on the horizon, the British weren't taking any chances. The gas mask was an everyday accessory that was carried everywhere. London, 1938.

80 plus years later... Still an issue. Police Brutality Protest Washington, DC, July 16, 1938.

 

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South Korea president Kim Dae-jung met Kim Jong-il, president of North Korea, for the first time, fulfilling the latter’s Sunshine Policy with an inter-Korea summit in 2000.

Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting POTUS to visit Vietnam, Nov. of 2000.

In 2000, 18 year old Pete Buttigieg won a national essay contest. His topic of choice? "The integrity of Bernie Sanders".

TEEN magazine cover, Jan. of 2000.

Nsync at 2000 MTV VMA awards.

A comic for the game Perfect Dark (N64) in 2000 tries to predict the future of celebs in the game's year of 2023.

 

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On the set of "Gone With The Wind" (1939)
The actual camera inside the soundproof "blimp" (case) was about the size of a regular 35mm Mitchell, but it used three reels of film simultaneously and a larger than average motor, so it was fairly noisy.

Superman comic strip from Feb. of 1939.

Detective Comics #33 - 1939.

Cleaning the horses, Wellington Arch, Hyde Park 1939.-

Frida Kahlo meeting Josephine Baker, Paris 1939.

 

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Onlookers seeing the destruction of the World Trade Center towers from the streets of Manhattan, September 11th, 2001.

Mos Def in SPIN Magazine, April, 2001.

Jessica Biel and Chris Evans at a Playstation event in 2001.

Obama Family circa 2001.

Destiny’s Child at the MTV Icon: Janet Jackson show taping in Los Angeles, 2001.

 

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Color Photo of a Renault FT being inspected at a German captured vehicle depot, circa 1940.


German soldiers were actively encouraged by the military to take photos of what they saw in the field as it allowed for moments of propaganda, showing the power of the Wehrmacht against its foes. Some soldiers would bring color cameras to capture their operations with the most accurate method available to them. During the Fall of France in 1940, many Renault FTs would be subjects of photos as the soldiers were aware of the symbolism surrounding the tank that won the Great War being knocked out by the sons of the defeated German army men of World War One.

Some Dearborn, Michigan High Schoolers just chilling, 1940.

Jack Kerouac in his Columbia University football uniform, c. 1940.

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Drive in car hops in shorts and cowboy boots at the Log Lodge Tavern near Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas, 1940.

The evidence of the German bombardment of Britain is seen in the scarred streets of London, December of 1940.

Black Watch (Scottish Regiment) training in South Coast of England, 1940.

Indian pilots are welcomed to London by a policeman, after being called up to fight in the Battle of Britain, 1940.

 

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of Gangs of New York, 2002.

Kobe shaking hands with Jason Kidd's son after sweeping the Nets in the 2002 Finals.

Pilot ejects at the 2002 Ukranian (Sknyliv) airshow disaster : 85 people were killed, and over 100 injured. The crash remains the world's worst airshow accident to date.

Equilibrium (2002), with Christian Bale and Sean Bean.

The celebs at the 2002 MTV VMAs:


Brittany Murphy.

Enrique Igleisias and Anna Kournikova.

Britney Spears.

Kelly Osbourne and Nelly.

 

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August 1941. "Isadore Lavictoire, French Canadian dairy farmer near Rutland, Vermont, and children gathering hay."

German air raid on Moscow, the Soviet Union in 1941.

August, 1941, Main Street Sheridan, Wyoming.

A young African-American woman's graduation photo from 1941 in Birmingham Alabama.

San Francisco restaurant counter, 1941.

Youths remove the German swastika flag from pole of German consulate in San Francisco on Jan. 19, 1941.

 

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Penelope Cruz, 2003.

Peter Dinklage, 2003.

Jessica Simpson, cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, 2003.

Amy Winehouse photographed in 2003.

Chicago newspaper headline after the U.S. military captures former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Dec. 15, 2003.

John Mayer Photoshoot for Album "Heavier Things" (2003).

Hillary Duff and Amanda Bynes at the 2003 MTV movie awards.

 

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U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" dive bombers from scouting squadron VS-8 from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) approaching the burning Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma to make the third set of attacks on her, during the Battle of Midway, 6 June 1942. Mikuma had been hit earlier by strikes from Hornet and USS Enterprise (CV-6), leaving her dead in the water and fatally damaged. Note bombs hung beneath the SBDs.

The burning Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu, photographed by a Yokosuka B4Y aircraft from the carrier Hosho shortly after sunrise on 5 June 1942. Hiryu sank a few hours later. Flight deck torn out by the bomb dropped during a dive-bombing attack performed by Norman Kleiss.

Japanese prisoners of war on board USS Ballard (AVD-10) after being rescued from a lifeboat two weeks after the Battle of Midway. They were members of the aircraft carrier Hiryu´s engineering force, left behind when she was abandoned on 5 June 1942, and had escaped in one of her boats just as she sank.

The Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a USS Enterprise (CV-6) Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless during the afternoon of 6 June 1942, after she had been bombed by planes from Enterprise and USS Hornet (CV-8). Note her shattered midships structure, torpedo dangling from the after port side tubes and wreckage atop her number four 203 mm gun turret.

1942, Japanese Internment Camp (under construction), Pomona Fairgrounds, California.

German members of the Luftwaffe look over a theater playbill. Poltava, Ukraine June 1942.

Women in New Harbor, Maine cleaning mackerel for canning in 1942.

Snapshot of downtown Dallas, Texas in 1942.

A little boy cools off in the community sprayer, Frederick Douglass housing project, Anacostia, Washington, D.C., June 1942.

 

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2004, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell in full Cheyenne dress on the senate floor.

Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings collected a total of $2,520,700, television’s biggest game show winnings by the end of the show's season in 2004.

Cover to Robert Downey jr.'s solo album released in 2004 titled The Futurist.

Game Boy Advance SP Ad 2004.

 

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April 26th, 2004. Operation Vigilant Resolve. 2/1st Marines. Fallujah, Iraq.


37 men of 2nd Platoon, Echo Company were ordered to take two houses (House A and B) near a mosque and cemetery in Northwestern Jolan Heights.


They raided the houses in the early hours of April 26th and found no signs of enemy activity.


Sometime after noon that day, a single RPG had struck the outside of one of the houses, the Marines know their position has been discovered by the enemy. They began to fortify the houses using rice sacks, overturning mattress over windows, and taking doors off the hinges to barricade windows. The Platoon Sgt. Ordered the Machine gunners upstairs and a Marine at every window to keep watch.


An hour or two after the RPG strike, all hell broke loose. Insurgents had the Marines pinned down inside the houses with accurate machine gun and sniper fire from across the cemetery.


As the Marines returned fire Barrels of their M240 Machine guns had become so hot from the constant firing that they melted and became deformed.

Lance Corporal Aaron Austin had taken a burst of machine gun fire to his chest while throwing a grenade to an adjacent roof top. He would not survive his injuries. For his actions that day he earned the Silver Star. Insurgents had taken up positions in the next door houses and began to exchange hand grenades with the other Marines on the roof top.

"OK, we are punching out of here now, and we are punching out hard! We are getting everybody out of here ASAP!" They began to gather equipment, weapons, and ammo from the upper floors downstairs to the casualty collection point.


The Marines fought their way back to the school house through the same alleyway they had came through early that morning. Running and gunning down a city block under fire the entire way back.


At the end of the day, 16 Marines were wounded, 1 was KIA. It was estimated that over 7,000 rounds were fired at the Marines.


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Lance Corporal Aaron Austin, he was killed when he was shot as he threw a grenade on to an adjacent roof top. He earned the Silver Star for his actions. He was 21 years old.

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Freshly Painted M4 Tank receiving heat treatment, 1943.

40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun hauled by elephants in Burma in late 1943.






Shirley Slade WASP Pilot on the cover of LIFE Magazien, July of 1943.

Women in the United States Army

An allied prisoner of war climbing out of a sewer after guards caught him trying to escape from Colditz Prison in Leipzig Germany 1943.-

Singer, dancer and actress Lena Horne with Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson in the musical film 'Stormy Weather,' Hollywood, California, 1943.

At an evacuation camp, 1943. When nationality kills.


A Polish woman and her grandchildren at an American Red Cross evacuation camp in Tehran, Iran. 1943 Galyna Noga, Kyiv, Ukraine, thus commented on this photo: "Many Poles were deported to Siberia and northern Kazakhstan in 39-40 from western Ukrainian lands. Ukrainians who lived nearby also were sent into exile with them. So my grandfather's brother's family was evicted. First to the north of Russia, and after the beginning of the Second World War to northern Kazakhstan. There, in inhumane conditions on the verge of starvation, people lived until the year 1943. The Allies insisted on the release and relocation of interned Poles. There were lists of those who wanted to. My relatives noted in the lists that they were Ukrainians, then they were deleted from the lists. Polish neighbors advised: "Write down that you are the Poles, because you will die!". They recorded themselves as the Poles and were transported through Tehran to Africa near Lake Victoria. They lived there until the end of the war under the protection of Great Britain."

 

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Cover to Game Informer from 2005.

Skaters, 2005.

Madonna on stage, 2005.




MF Doom doing what he do in 2005.

Zathura, 2005. This film would be important in getting Jon Favreau the job of directing Iron Man which would come out three years later.



A resident looks out at the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

 

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Liberation of Paris: French Resistance and U.S. infantry fight German loyalists and "Milice" paramilitary in Paris France (July, 1944).






American soldier and camp dog, Battle Of The Bulge, 1944.

Pile of Oranges at Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Palestine 1944.

B-29 assembly line in Wichita, Kansas, circa 1944.

Death Valley Fliers. Photos by John Florea for Life magazine 1944.