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

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Richard Nixon speaking from the Oval Office via telephone having a conversation with the Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon," July 20, 1969

 

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William Lundy regales some youngsters about his experiences as a Civil War vet in 1935. Though in fact no evidence exists to support his claim and he may well have only been five years old at the start of the war between the States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lundy

Zeppelin in Germany under construction, ca. 1935. Notice the workers on top of the giant ladders.

A mid-construction shot of the Golden Gate Bridge being built in San Francisco, California, 1935.

Dr. Robert H. Goddard stands next to the worlds first liquid propelled rocket in 1935.

Robert Wadlow, tallest man in history, with his parents and siblings in Alton, Illinois, 1935.

An engineer that worked on the turbines and generators of the Hoover Dam during it's construction, ca. 1935.

This vintage photograph from around 1932-33 shows a hatted man sitting on a steel girder of a skyscraper under construction, looking out over the Midtwon and Lower Manhattan skyline. The tall spire of the Empire State Building, completed in 1930, shines brightly in the night sky. From this vantage point, it's possible that the under-construction building the man is sitting on is 30 Rockefeller Plaza, completed in 1933.

In Lakin, Kansas, three children prepare to leave for school wearing goggles and homemade dust masks to protect them from the dust in 1935.

Major General Orvil A. Anderson and Albert William Stevens with the Explorer II high-altitude balloon, 1935. The two balloonists set a record of 72,395 feet and won the Mackay Trophy, an achievement annually awarded by the United States Air Force for the most meritorious flight of the year.

Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.

 

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British soldiers kissing their sweethearts goodbye as they leave for Egypt, London, 1935.

Tenant farmer and his child, Lee County, Mississippi, 1935.

Italian soldier poses with a local child in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion, circa 1935.

Organized crime figure Dutch Schultz shortly before his death after being targeted by "The Commission" in 1935.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Schultz

Flooding in Wharton, Texas - June 1935.

Dust storm approaching a town in Texas, 1935.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

Protesters in Paris burn election posters in march to extend voting rights to women, 1935.

The smallest working steam machine in the world, 6.25 cm long and 2.5 high, at a technical fair in New York, 1935.

 

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JFK Graduates from Choate, 1935.

Errol Flynn taking a break from fencing practice, 1935.

A colorized photo of "The Untouchable" Eliot Ness - ca 1935.

Colorized photo of the "Cinderella Man" - James Walter Braddock in 1935 - American boxer - The world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937.

Ernest Hemingway aiming a Tommy gun at the cameraman while aboard his yacht, the Pilar, 1935.

3 Stooges with some 1935 babes.

 

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A US marine being chased by a baby wild pig, somewhere in the South Pacific. 1943.

Two teen Russian girls helping to assemble machine guns during the siege of Leningrad, 1943.

A railroad plough, also known as a Schienenwolf (‘rail wolf’), destroys Soviet train tracks as the Germans retreat winter 1943.

An airgunner stands before his B24 bomber wearing what it took to survive at 25,000ft over Germany in 1943. Swastikas represent number of German planes shot down. Bombs represent number of missions flown.

View from an American A-20 Havoc aircraft during a bomber run against a Japanese airfield, 1943. The parachutes allowed for high-speed, low-altitude passes.

A RAF airman is buried with full military honors by occupying German soldiers, Jersey, Channel Islands, 1943.

The “Big Three” - Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - meet at the Tehran Conference, 1943.

A pilot of the U.S. Women’s Air Force Service in 1943- by Life photographer Peter Stackpole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots

Torpedo damage to HMAS Hobart in 1943 from Japanese submarine.

Airborne soldiers retrieve folding motorcycles or 'Welbikes' from equipment containers, Bulford, 9 June 1943.

 

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Fall of The Berlin Wall - 9 November 1989

 

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Flight of B-17's on a bombing mission over Bremen, Germany in November of 1943.

Pin-up photos in a bomber crew shack on Adak Island during the Aleutian Campaign of WWII in Alaska, 1943.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign

A helmeted GI Santa handing out presents to wounded U.S. soldiers on Christmas day in 90 degree weather, 1943. Photograph by Ralph Morse.

Future President John F. Kennedy in the Solomon Islands while serving for the Navy during World War II, 1943.

An African-American NCO poses for a picture before being shipped out, Camp Lee, VA 1943.

Two Soviet cameramen near St. Petersburg during World War 2. The winter of 1943-1944.

Color photo of Dnipropetrivsk, Ukraine, occupied by German forces. Photos by a German photographer, 1943.

Bomb damage to a London street, c 1943. The Battersea power station can be seen in the background.

Two U.S. Marines take a rest on the front lines of the Guadalcanal capaign in the Pacific theater, 1943.

Female Soviet partisan snipers operating under legendary Soviet guerrilla fighter Sydir Kovpak in German-occupied Ukraine, 1943.

 

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On the streets of Little Italy, New York City, 1943.

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, October 1943.

Japanese Americans being moved to detention camps 1943, Mojave Desert.

Union Station, Chicago 1943 by Jack Delano.

Night fishing in Hawaii circa 1943.

Street in Riad, Saudi Arabia, 1943.

Halloween costumes in Illinois, USA, 1943.

Restaurant in Sausalito, California, 1943.

Women in costume for a bachelorette party (1943).

 

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Cooling off in New York City, Summer 1943.

A serviceman has some fun swapping clothes with his wife for a photo, 1943.

A man looks back at his wife as she takes a picture as he boards a train after being drafted for military service, 1943.

Norma Jeane Doughtery in 1943 at Catalina Island California during the time her then husband was stationed there, she would soon be known as Marilyn Monroe.

Memorial Day , May 31, 1943 Pittsburgh PA. Young girl is given a Pepsi before a memorial service at a Lithuanian Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943.

Time's Square, NYC 1943 by John Vachon.

Target practice by Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), U.S. Naval Reserve, February 1943.

Traffic safety being taught in Swedish school, 1943.

Japanese-American nurse working at relocation camp, 1943.

 

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Veronica Lake by photographer Eliot Elisofon, 1943.

ID photos taken of an 18 year old Paul Newman during his time in the U.S. Navy, 1943.

Actress Joan Bennett, 1943.

Bea Arthur's ID photo (with her birth name) and in her USMC Woman's Reserve uniform, 1943.

On set with Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft - The First live action Batman and Robin, 1943.

Mexican actress Dolores Del Rio in 1943. She was one of the first major female Latin American crossover stars in Hollywood.

Bettie Davis enjoys some feline company, 1943.

The multi-talented Danny Kaye entertains service members at the Hollywood Canteen, 1943.

 

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These photos of Harlem were taken by Gordon Parks, a young photographer for the Office of War Information who would go on to become one of the most renowned photographers of the twentieth century.
Born in 1912, Parks left home at the age of 15 and bought his first camera in a pawn shop at 25. He made a living as a portrait and glamour photographer in Chicago while simultaneously capturing compassionate images of black life on the city’s South Side.
His work on the South Side led to a job in the Farm Security Administration’s famed documentary photography program, and later the OWI.
A few years after Parks shot these exploratory images of the streets, storefronts and residents of Harlem, he moved into the neighborhood and shot a photo essay on a 17-year-old gang leader, which won him a staff position at LIFE magazine. He would work there for more than two decades, producing an acclaimed body of work covering everything from racism and segregation to fashion and sports.


Harlem, New York City, 1943.

 

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Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten in Luxembourg, 1977.

Barack Obama, c. 1977.

Robin Williams, circa 1977.

Bill Gates' mug shot for driving without a license 1977.

Patrick Stewart as Oberon in a Midsummer's Night Dream, 1977.

Lynda Carter attending the 1977 Emmy Awards.

Debbie Harry & David Bowie, 1977.

Iggy Pop, 1977.

Bob Marley? and friends visited and played football in Kennington Park, London in 1977.

Mick Jagger talking with Andy Warhol at The Factory, 1977.

 

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Space Shuttle Enterprise first test flight in 1977.

View of New York City during the blackout of 1977.

Letting people know where they can go for some fun in the middle of the blackout, Manhattan, 1977.

New Yorkers jam the Brooklyn Bridge on their way home after the blackout shut down the subway system.

Exterior Shot of CBGB, New York City, 1977.

Chesapeake Bay freezes over in the winter of 1977, Annapolis MD.

China Town, San Francisco. September 1977.

Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California May, 1977.

 

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On May 16th, 1977, a rotor blade broke off a helicopter, after the landing gear failed while landing on the old Pan AM building in NYC, 808 Feet above ground (three killed on impact).

The blade fell down the side of a building and hit a window of the Pan Am Building on the 36th From there, it split into two, with one part killing a pedestrian from the Bronx on Madison Avenue, while she was waiting for the bus. More pieces of the rotor blades were found as much as four blocks north from the building.

A huge blizzard hit western New York and southwestern Ontario in 1977. 29 people lost their lives in the event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_'77

Conservative Republican women protest the Equal Rights Amendment in front of the White House, 1977.

Japanese men with beers bought from a street vending machine, Tokyo, 1977.

?Kalinin Prospekt, Moscow, USSR 1977.

The aftermath of the Dutch train hijacking crisis (May 23 - June 11): The wreckage of the train carriage shootout at De Punt, where it was estimated that over 15,000 bullets were fired, 1977.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Dutch_train_hijacking

Pres. Jimmy Carter and his assistant jump over the fence at Laguardia Airport, New York, July 1977.

 

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The Quarry Men AKA, The Beatles in 1957.

Nelson Mandela training for the boxing ring, 1957.

David Bowie's Youth Football Team, 1957-58.

A 6 year old Robin Williams with his mother Laurie, Detroit 1957.

British blond bombshell Diana Dors - Publicity still from the movie The Unholy Wife, 1957.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Dors

Janet Leigh blowing smoke, 1957.

The King getting the word out about the American Cancer Society, 1957.

Singer Sam Cooke performing on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1957.

Tony Curtis, Central Park, NYC 1957.

Marlon Brando and James Garner share a laugh during location filming in Japan for SAYONARA, 1957.

 

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A rare picture of Marilyn Monroe without her signature smile. Photo by Richard Avedon, 1957.

Lawrence Olivier gives Marilyn a light, 1957.

A gorgeous Betty White out on the ocean, 1957.

The Dark Angel of 1950's pop culture, Bettie Page doing some modeling, 1957.

Jimi Hendrix with his first electric guitar , Seattle, 1957.

Actor and car enthusiast Steve McQueen getting into his brand new 1957 XKSS.

James Stewart & Kim Novak on the set of Vertigo 1957.

Grant Williams and Randy Stewart on the set of The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957.

 

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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( the forerunner of NASA ) researchers using an IBM type 704 electronic data processing machine in 1957.

A basement family fallout shelter, circa 1957.

Times Square, 1957.

Daytona Beach, Florida, 1957.

In 1957, the U.S. government erected a 65-foot tall Redstone rocket in the main concourse of Grand Central Station in NYC shortly after the launch of Sputnik to ease anxiety over losing the space race.

The only known photograph of the giant 28 foot crocodile that was killed in Queensland, Australia in 1957.

A Forgotten Age of Open-air Schools in the Netherlands, 1957.

A street corner in central Tokyo, Japan 1957.

Taking a break New York, 1957.

 

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Johnny Carson and James Brown, 1967.

James Brown in front of his private jet in 1967.

Diana Rigg (Olenna Tyrell from Game of Thrones) in 1967, when she played the dangerous, stylish and alluring Emma Peel from British television's The Avengers.

Yvonne Craig as Batgirl, who made her first appearance on the Batman TV show in 1967.

The undisputed Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin in 1967.

Johnny Cash and June Carter, 1967.

A young bodybuilder enjoys Oktoberfest with a friend in 1967, Munich, West Germany.

Simon and Garfunkel in 1967.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley as they prepare to board a chartered plane after their marriage in 1967.

The then line up of Pink Floyd doing high kicks, 1967.

 

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A rear view of Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain at a 1967 Celtics-Sixers game at Boston Garden.

Andre the Giant. Cannes, France, 1967.

Sinatra coming through, Miami Beach 1967.

The Who's drummer Keith Moon's 21st Birthday at a Holiday Inn while touring in 1967.

Tim Burton showing off a Halloween costume made by his mother, 1967.

The Beatles with producer George Martin, 1967.

September 1967: This fashion study was taken to announce the opening in November 1967 of the Beatles Apple Boutique in Baker Street. Beatles’ wives Pattie Harrison, Cynthia Lennon and Maureen Starkey with Jenny Boyd posed for the stunning portrait taken by Ronald Traeger.

Young Martin Scorsese during shooting Who's that knocking at my door (1967).

The band Buffalo Springfield taking the top down on their corvette in Malibu, 1967.

Leonard Nimoy appearing at the Oregon Pear Blossom Festival as Spock in 1967.

 

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A 17-year-old girl offers a flower to a soldier during the Pentagon Anti-War Protest in October, 1967.

Two Members of the 25th Infantry Division, including Oliver Stone, in Vietnam, circa 1967.

The remains of the cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov

The crew of Apollo 1, who died during a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

Apollo 1 crew crossing the access arm to the command module on January 27, 1967.

American airman Dewey Wayne Waddell, held prisoner in Vietnam, 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Homecoming

A soldier lets his helmet do the talking somewhere in Vietnam, 1967.

American Author John Steinbeck flying aboard a Huey helicopter in Vietnam. January 1967.

U.S. machine gunner Spc. 4 James R. Pointer, of Cedartown, Ga., and Pfc. Herald Spracklen of Effingham, Ill., peer from the brush of an overgrown rubber plantation near the Special Forces camp at Bu Dop, South Vietnam, during a firefight, Dec. 5, 1967.

Is this picture the definition of "quagmire"? Somewhere in Vietnam, 1967.

 

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An American soldier uses a Starlite Scope in Vietnam, 1967. This was an early version of "Night Vision" technology which would become a key element in military special operations for the US military in the coming decades.

Times Square, 1967.

Barefoot Bikinis on the Boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, ca. 1967.

Private First Class James P. Laurie, M1911 and flashlight in hand, in a Vietnamese cave complex south of An Khe during Operation Pershing, February 1967. Such men became known as "Tunnel Rats", inching their way through the cramped passages used by the Viet Cong armed with only a pistol and a source of light, never knowing if they were going to run into enemies while cut off from the rest of their comrades topside.

Jane Anne Jayroe, who was Miss America in 1967, making a 17-day tour of U.S. bases in South Vietnam in August 1967.

Sea World, San Diego, 1967.

LIFE magazine August 1967.

Demonstrator at the Harlem Peace March to end racial oppression carries an anti-war sign, 1967.

The world’s first heart transplant occurred in December 1967. Dr. Christiaan Barnard (below) of South Africa successfully performed the procedure, though the patient only lived for 18 more days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard

A soldier in a US tank in Vietnam, 1967. Photograph by Co Rentmeester: The commander of an M48 tankgunner of the US 7th regiment in Vietnam's 'Iron Triangle'.

 

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American Teens car surfing in a sudden flash flood on the corner of Horacio and Presidente Masaryk- Enrique Metinides, Polanco, Mexico City, Aug. 9, 1967.

Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski in a Paramount Pictures office building while filming ROSEMARY'S BABY (circa 1967). Reportedly while filming, Roman had to tell Mia so often to behave herself that he had a chart made (featured here) to grade her general condition.

On Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.

Half time at the first superbowl 1967.

Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop Festival, June 18, 1967.

Dorm Room Bar, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1967.

Snapshots from the Newark New Jersey Riots of 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Newark_riots

 

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James Ashley "Ash" Feazle (left), and his brother Sam Feazle (right), lumberjacks, Pacific Northwest, 1915. Before the complete destruction and harvesting of the thousands of years old, Old Growth forests in the U.S.

French soldiers in the trenches, WWI, 1915.

Colorized photo, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1915.

Indian soldiers constructing a trench in Fauquissart, France, 1915.

Sikh soldiers of 29th Indian Infantry Brigade in a trench during the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915. By Reggie Savory.

Russian soldiers teaching the Cossack dance to German prisoners of war. Eastern Front, 1915.

"Britian Needs You At Once" 1915 WW1 propaganda poster. In light of St. George's day, this poster was created in 1915 by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. The idea was that St George and the Dragon is a national symbol for multiple parties involved in the war (ironically including Germany).

German soldiers wearing four different types of gas masks that had been developed by late 1915.

German sniper on the Eastern Front in 1915.

Execution of participants of the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny at Outram Prison in Singapore. Incited by pro-Turkish agents, the 5th Light Infantry regiment of the British Indian Army, consisting largely of Muslim sepoys, mutinied in February 1915, rampaging around Singapore until it was put down with the help of French, Russian and Japanese marines.

More than two hundred sepoys were court-martialed, of which 47 were executed by firing squad.

 

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Babe Ruth, Bartender, 1915. His family ran a bar in Baltimore. It was partly on the site where Camden Yards sits today.

Mussolini being arrested at a pro-war interventionist rally, Italy, 1915.

NYC, Penn Station, awaiting the arrival of evangelist Billy Sunday, 1915.

Comiskey Park, Chicago, c.1915.

Willamette Street in Eugene, OR., looking north from 10th Avenue.

Silk road bandits - Xinjiang, China 1915.

Los Angeles Fire Department harnessing up their horses in 1915.

A Royal Flying Corps Photographer Demonstrating a Thornton-Pickard Photo-Reconaissance Camera, Circa 1914 or 1915.

Casey Stengel playing outfield for Brooklyn Dodgers (1915).

Taking the Christmas tree home, Chelsea, London, 1915.

 

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Near identical cousins, Czar Nicholas II of Russia (left) wearing an English uniform, and King George V of England, in Russian regimentals, England, circa 1915. It was a courtesy observed among royal rulers of the time when visiting each other.

Stern-wheelers Louise and Delta on the Yukon River circa 1915 at the Gold Rush supply center of Ruby, Alaska.

People on Nias Island in Indonesia move monoliths to a construction site, circa 1915.

World War I soldier, a double amputee, plays billiards with prosthetic legs in 1915.

New York skyline taken from the Manhattan bridge circa 1915.

Eruption of Lassen Volcano, May 1915.

Buenos Aires, 1915.

Woman at a tenement for self-supporting women (1915, Sweden).

Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1915.