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

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The streets of Shanghai, early 1980's.

Authors Neil Gaiman and the late Douglas Adams meet, mid to late 1980's.

John Travolta during a Scientology auditing session, early 1980's.

A young Whitney Houston poses for a studio photo, circa early 1980's.

 

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Some teenaged girls that look to be up to no good, early 1930's.

At the super market in 1965 America.

Playboy Bunnies prepare, Chicago 1960.

Yvonne Craig dressed as Batgirl on the Merv Griffin Show, 1967.

Swedish sex symbol Anita Ekberg doing som modeling, early 1960's.

Locales around Los Angeles in the early 1960's.

Outside Dean Martin's Restaurant in 1962 Los Angeles.

Workers at The Space Age Car Wash, early 1960's.

Downtown LA from Freeway, 1962.

 

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Martha Stewart during her modeling days, circa 1969.

Bruce Lee, his wife Linda and son Brandon in 1968.

Steve McQueen outside his garage, mid 1960's.

Saturday Night Live's cast in 1977.

Times Square, circa 1975.

George Lucas, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fischer on the set of Star Wars in 1976.

 

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Royal wedding of king George V



Royal wedding of the current queen, queen Elizabeth II

 

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Gay Rights activists march,Christopher Street Liberation Day, New York City, June 28, 1970

Female attendees at a "Drag Ball" at NYC's Webster Hall in the 1920's.

A mug shot from the LAPD in the 1930's, when you could be incarcerated just for being a lesbian.

 

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Clark Gable flying combat missions with the 8th Air Force over Europe.

Jimmy Stewart also flew with the 8th Air Force in Europe and eventually retired from the Air Force in 1968 as a Brigadier General.

 

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Teddy Roosevelt in his freshman year at Harvard 1877.

Nelson Mandela still raising his fist after being sentenced to life in prison June 1964.

People having a picnic in the middle of a highway during the 1973 oil crisis.

A drive-in plays "The Ten Commandments" in Utah, USA, 1958.

Hindenburg flies over Manhattan in 1936.

Folsom Street in San Francisco, USA after the great earthquake of 1906.

Members of the RECON platoon are shown unloading from a UH-1D (Huey) helicopter. Operation "Oregon" operating 3 kilometers west, Vietnam, 1967.

 

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A collection of showgirls employed in the various circuses around the U.S. from the 40's and 50's.


Circus Girl, 1950.

Performer Lottie Brunn, 1949.

Mardi Gras girl, 1952.

King Brothers Circus, 1950.

Circus Showgirl, 1950.

 

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Teddy Roosevelt in his freshman year at Harvard 1877.

Whoa---That is one intense stare. Thanks for posting this.

 

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A black soldier and a white soldier from different units (the army is segregated at this time) square off during the Chicago Race Riots of 1919. A total of 38 people (23 black, 15 white) would die, with thousands of black families forced from there homes through fear and attacks on them. The army was called in to quell the violence.

A hooded member of the Ku Klux Klan drives past black civil rights protesters showing a noose sometime in the early 1960s.

18-year-old Keshia Thomas shields a man wearing a Confederate T-shirt from an angry crowd during a Ku Klux Klan rally on June 22, 1996, outside Ann Arbor's city hall in Michigan, USA.

Paratrooper guides a medivac helicopter down in a photo taken by Art Greenspon, Vietnam, April 1968.

Paul Hawkins accident during Grand Prix of Monaco, 1965.

Rio de Janeiro, 1960.

Jamaica's bobsled team at the 1988 Olympics, Calgary, Canada.

Beatles fans, London, U.K. 1965.

 

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Arnie in Melbourne, Australia, 1974.

12 years old Freddie Mercury, 1968.

Bruce Lee with his son Brandon, 1966.

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the Oscars 1956.

Sylvester Stallone and Muhammad Ali at the 49th Academy Awards, 1977

Muhammad Ali taunts heavyweight champ Joe Frazier at Frazier's training camp in Pennsylvania, 1971.

 

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Before alarm clocks were affordable, 'knocker-ups' were used to wake people early in the morning. UK, c1900.

Earliest known photo of a surfer. Hawaii, 1890.

Samurai, 1866. Photograph by Felice Beato.

Train Derailment at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France. 1895.

Crammed into a Bulgarian coal mine elevator, coming up after a day of work, 1900.

 

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Young girls babysit their younger siblings in a small village in Japan in 1901. Girls in traditional areas were brought up and taught how to care for children even before they could bear them themselves. This is a common sight among many areas around the world even today, as poor or traditional families had the children looked after by other children so the parents could work and feed everyone.

Chinese policemen employed by Russia at Port Arthur, 1900. The Russians employed the Chinese for many duties around the area until Port Arthur was lost to the Japanese 5 years later.

Black soldiers during a skirmish in South Carolina during the US Civil War in 1864. Once allowed to become soldiers, some 400,000 black men signed up, replenishing the Unions ranks easily. Originally many thought they wouldn't be used but for manual labor or to free up white regiments, they actually took part in many battles in 1864 and 1865. Their ability to work well in all facets of soldiery allowed politicians to make major pushes for more rights for blacks in the North and the end of slavery legally in the South.

Bodyguards for the Sultan Sanda of Bornu, Dikwa Emirate of Nigeria in 1917. The Dikwa Emirate was established in 1901, and run by the Germans. After their defeat in WWI, the British took over. The Dikwa Emirate existed in some capacity all the way up until 2010, when changes were made to properly organize the 3 Emirates in Nigeria.

An Italian Alpine Unit scales a cliff during the Italian Campaign (or Mountain War) in 1915. During WWI, the Italians were on the allies side, and used these units to get over mountains and cliffs to create a second front against Austro-Hungary. The mountains are in Northern Italy, and posed a natural border. Moving units over them rather than around them helped the Italians gain some ground on their enemy. WWI had many different campaigns and fronts, causing different methods to maneuver in order to possibly flank an enemy. The Italians going over mountains on foot though is often forgotten.

Indian troops man a Lewis Gun to target an approaching Ottoman Empire air attack on the Mesopotamian Front during WWI in 1918. Most people associate WWI to the Western front in France and Belgium, and perhaps the Eastern front between the Baltic and Black Seas. However, the Mesopotamian Front, or Middle Eastern Theatre of WWI, was also a major front, which had mostly British, Indian, and Australian troops against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. It existed throughout the entire war, comprised of 5 massive campaigns, involving nearly 7 million troops, and had over 1.5 million casualties on all sides. Some of the conflicts in the Middle East later on that exist even to this day were a direct result of which groups chose what side during WWI.

Chinese railroad workers pose for a picture somewhere outside Vancouver, Canada in 1874. As West Coast cities were established, the Chinese were coming to North America in large numbers looking for work and better lives. Just like mining companies and other manual labor companies, the railroad companies often employed them for cheap labor with no questions asked. The Canadian Pacific Railway employed these men. When the work was completed, they were discarded. They were often not allowed to settle down in the areas they worked, and many people in Canada and the US were quite racist towards the Chinese in the 1800s, even creating laws that discriminated them specifically.

The USS Maine after it exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba in 1898. Of the 355 men on board, 260 died. Only 16 men total escaped uninjured. The ship was in the harbor to protect US interest during the Cuban War of Independence, and after an investigation, was said to be sunk by a Spanish mine. However, further evidence would show the explosion was almost certainly an accident within the ship. Regardless, US authorities used the incident to declare war on Spain, with the firm intention of conquering Spanish territory around the globe. After a brief 4 month war where the US obliterated the Spanish with vastly superior ships and weapons, Spain surrendered, and in the treaty the US gained the Philippines and Cuba. This was one of the first major events where the US started on its way to becoming a major world power.

 

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Children eat ice cream in New South Whales, Australia in 1933. The sign makes this picture.

A man leans up against a statue of a camel on a road outside Nanking, China in 1874.

2 Young Jewish girls wearing traditional wedding dresses in Morocco in 1935. Apparently the one on the left is already married, and the one on the right, who is noticeably crying, is getting married that week.

An Inuit Shaman working with a sick boy in Alaska in 1892.

A child in an oxygen apparatus in the US in 1930.

 

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Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder filming an iconic scene from SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE in 1977.

 

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Epic!!!

 

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Oh my heart :’(

Really we owe them so much these days for all the comic book films which are now abundant

 

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A 19 year old Prince outside of Minneapolis’ old Schmitt Music Headquarters, 1977.

A still vivacious Marilyn Monroe poses with her sprained ankle, 1953.

Vladimir Putin, 1963.

Bill Gates in 1994 showing the information capacity of a then cutting edge CD-Rom as compared to paper hard copy.

Einstein with Cord Meyer Jr., a CIA operative, discussing world politics in 1948.

Ernest Hemingway, Venice, Italy, 1954.

Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios with their wives and mother, 1923.

 

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3-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan giving his "Cross Of Gold" speech, July 1896.

On the side walk, New York City, 1900.

Mission Control celebrates the successful splashdown of Apollo 13 in the year 1970.

An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967 The airman is John McCain.

AP photojournalist Horst Faas took this iconic photo on June 18, 1965, during the Vietnam War with 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion member Larry Wayne Chaffin on defense duty at Phouc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam. The headband message “War is Hell” typified an acerbic attitude of many young American soldiers who were likely drafted and sent to the remote southeastern Asia jungles to engage in deadly and terrifying combat.

John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1971, Kent State, Ohio.

 

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French women who had been suspected of having relationships with German soldiers are rounded up to be transported for questioning after being publicly humiliated by having their heads shaved in Cherbourg, France in 1944.

A Jewish mother and her daughter are attacked during the Lviv Pogrom in Lwow, (Poland at the time, now Ukraine) in 1941. Most of the women victims were beaten and stripped before eventually being executed. The massacres were committed by Ukrainian nationalists when Germany took over the city.

Constable Alex Hill is rushed by angry citizens as he tries to pull fallen police detective Charles Millar to safety in the opening minutes of the historic Regina Riot in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1935.

A photo of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Before this event, workers had been striking for better safety procedures (1911).

Gangster Mickey Cohen standing amongst the front pages of newspapers that helped make him the city’s’ most infamous citizen – 1960.

American soldiers rest near a small Christmas tree on Hill 875 near Dak To, Vietnam, 25 December, 1967.

 

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Tom Baker working on a construction site in 1974 before being cast as the 4th incarnation of Doctor Who.

At a segregated lunch counter in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, Elvis Presley waits for his bacon and eggs while a woman waits for her sandwich, she is not permitted to sit. 1956.

A young stud known as John Wayne, 1931.

Michael Jackson in the makeup room for the "Thriller" music video. California 1982.

Arnold Schwarzenegger goes sledding with then-president George Bush in 1991.

A Helmetless Daft Punk, circa the early 1990's.

 

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A young woman puts up a poster for Halloween, New York City, 1913.

A Japanese woman flaunts the American Flapper style, 1922.

NYU students on the fencing team in the 1920's.

Colorized photo of a typical day on Wall Street, NYC, in the early 1920's.

 

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On break in between takes of the Fritz Lang movie METROPOLIS, 1926.

Suburban girls on scooters, early 1920's.

A man shows off his Indian motorcycle with side care in Shanghai, early 1930's.

Some ladies out for summer fun, early 1920's.

 

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Pictures in color of the interior of the passenger's area of the Hindenburg before it's destruction in 1937.

Passenger Cabin

Smoking Lounge

Smoking Lounge

Writing Room

Dining Room

Dining Room

Dining Room

Passenger Lounge

Passenger Lounge

 

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Kodachrome photo by Chalmers Butterfield of Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, in the West End of London, mid 1930's.

From the early to mid 1930's, a "Ma Bell" switchboard operator.

Early 1940's L.A.

An Sherman tank named 'Elowee' of 'E' Company, Armored Regiment, Armored Division is parked near a hedge in Champ du Boult, Calvados, Normandy post D-Day, France, 1944.