Arnold getting a selfie with eventual champ Cedric McMillan at the 2017 Arnold Classic.
Alexei Navalny, the face of Russian political and social opposition to the rule of Vladmir Putin at one of the various anti-corruption marches held in Russia in 2017.
Two party girls didn't let snow stop their good times. Newcastle, U.K., 2017.
The 2017 Stockholm truck attack was an Islamist terrorist attack which took place on 7 April of that year in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before being crashed into an Åhléns department store. Five people were killed including an eleven-year-old girl and 14 others were seriously injured.
Two men sorting through debris in the wreckage of a building after a monster hurricane hit Galveston, Texas in 1900.
The Great Galveston hurricane, known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900, was the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, one of the deadliest hurricanes (or remnants) to affect Canada, and the fourth-deadliest Atlantic hurricane overall. The hurricane left between 6,000 and 12,000 fatalities in the United States; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000. Most of these deaths occurred in and near Galveston, Texas, after storm surge inundated the coastline with 8 to 12 ft (2.4 to 3.7 m) of water. In addition to the number killed, the storm destroyed about 7,000 buildings of all uses in Galveston, which included 3,636 destroyed homes; every dwelling in the city suffered some degree of damage. The hurricane left approximately 10,000 people in the city homeless, out of a total population of nearly 38,000. The disaster ended the Golden Era of Galveston, as the hurricane alarmed potential investors, who turned to Houston instead.
Royal Canadian Regiment assault of Boer positions during the Battle of Sunnyside on Jan. 1, 1900.
American, Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian troops march into and occupy the center of the Forbidden City in then Peking, China, 1901.
Eugen "The Mighty" Sandow, "Worlds Strongest Man" in 1902.
Evelyn Nesbit, 1902.
In the early part of the 20th century, Nesbit's figure and face appeared frequently in mass circulation newspapers and magazine advertisements, on souvenir items, and in calendars, making her a celebrity. Her career began in her early teens in Philadelphia and continued in New York, where she posed for a cadre of respected artists of the era, including James Carroll Beckwith, Frederick S. Church, and notably Charles Dana Gibson, who idealized her as a "Gibson Girl". She had the distinction of being an early fashion and artists' model in an era when both fashion photography (as an advertising medium) and the pin-up (as an art genre) were just beginning their ascendancy.
Nesbit received further worldwide attention when her husband, the mentally unstable multimillionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, shot and killed the prominent architect and New York socialite Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden on the evening of June 25, 1906, leading to what the press would call the "Trial of the Century". During the trial, Nesbit testified that five years earlier, when she was a stage performer at the age of 15 or 16, she had attracted the attention of White, who first gained her and her mother's trust, then sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious, and then had a subsequent romantic and sexual relationship with her that continued for some time.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1902.
The Eiffel tower struck by lightning, 1902 - Gabriel Loppé.
St. James Church in Hull, England in 1902, and the congregation leaves at the end of services.
Mark Twain visits the Houses of Parliament in London. 2nd of July, 1907.
Italy's last king, Umberto II, reigned from 9 May 1946 to 18 June 1946. This is a picture of him dressed as a little "corazziere" in 1907, when he was three years old.
Winter in Warren, Pennsylvania, 1907.
New Year's Eve, NYC, 1907.
Portrait of man named John Bour with a cat in one hand a bottle of Raleigh Rye whiskey in the other, c. 1907.
The historic Cliff House burns to the ground, San Francisco, 1907.
Chilocco Indian School - Basketball Team - 1908-1909. Long before the rise to power of the Nazis in Germany decades later, in this period the swastika had yet to accquire it's sinister symbolism.
Manhattan, circa 1908.
A stretch of what would become known as the LIE, Long Island Expressway, on Long Island, New York, 1908.
Edvard Munch's selfie as a patient in a mental institution in 1908.
Baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from a glassmaking factory. Indiana, August 1908.
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (seated behind small Native American children) and Native Americans and other performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West in front of John Wanamaker's Store, Philadelphia, PA, 1908.
Miami, Florida, 1908.
Assembling a water pipeline from wooden staves, Yukon, Canada, 1908.
Cincinnati, 1909, and a woman poses for picture conceptualizing a "Woman Policeman". Just a year later L.A. would hire it's first female police officer.
Manhattan, 11th Ave., 1909.
Paris exhibition of flying machines, 1909.
Afternoon newsboys, Newark NJ, 1909.
A Native American named Yellow Wolf, photographed in 1909.
1909: A young Kenyan woman holds her pet deer in Mombassa.
A man poses in a then brand new 1909, three wheeled Morgan Runabout.
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it... This is what sanitation looked like in many cities in 1909. A worker hauls a "latrine barrel" out of a building.
Theodore Roosevelt with incoming President William Howard Taft on Taft's inauguration day in 1909.
Edwardian ladies on rollerskates, ca. 1909, somewhere in the U.K.
The Red Sox vs the Detroit Tigers in Boston, 1910.
American missionary with mission school staff and students, Mokpo, Korea, circa 1910.
Woman selling fish from a barrel, c. 1910, London.
Fishermen at the docks, Ireland, 1910.
A man in Missoula, Montana riding an Elk. 1910.
Autochrome photo of Leonid and Anna Andreyev, about 1910.
The Autochrome Lumière was an early color photography process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. Autochrome was an additive color "mosaic screen plate" process. It was the principal color photography process in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s.
"Chinese Man", C. 1910, taken by S. Prokudin-Gorsky.
Using a railroad-car darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II, Prokudin-Gorsky traveled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915 using his three-image colour photography to record its many aspects. While some of his negatives were lost, the majority ended up in the U.S. Library of Congress after his death. Starting in 2000, the negatives were digitised and the colour triples for each subject digitally combined to produce hundreds of high-quality colour images of century-ago Russia.
The Hotel Swastika in Raton, New Mexico opened for business in June 1929. The name “Swastika” was selected because it was common symbol used in the area by some of local Native American Indian tribes. It wasn’t until the rise of Hitler that the symbol was viewed negatively. In 1939, the hotel changed its name.
A mother helping her child off the trolley on a Broadway in New York City, July 1913.
A trio of children walk along an alley in Dublin, Ireland, 1913.
Grand Falls Single Ladies hockey team - 1913, Newfoundland Canada.
Curtin Hines, 14 years old, Western Union messenger, Houston, Texas, 1913.
NYC's American League team in 1913, playing formally for the first time as Yankees.
A catch of sharks from a fishing trip off the coast of North Carolina, July, 1913.
Rare footage of Tokyo, Japan, in 1913.
Grand Army of the Republic veterans raise a cheer at Gettysburg, on the 50th anniversary of the battle, 1913.
Magic-City was an amusement park near Pont de l'Alma, two blocks east of the Eiffel Tower, from 1900 to 1934. It attracted attendees from all over the world. Here are some images from the playland taken in 1913.
French soldiers in the trenches on the Western Front of WWI, 1915.
Gallipoli. Soldiers from the United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, Newfoundland, and more engaged Ottoman forces in the Dardanelles in 1915, seeking control of the strait to the Black Sea and the surrounding land. The campaign was disastrous for the Allies, who withdrew after suffering more than 50,000 deaths.
An Australian bringing in a wounded comrade to hospital. Dardanelles Campaign, ca. 1915.
Japanese Red Cross station, operating near Tsingtao in 1915.
Indian soldiers who served during World War I in France as part of the forces fielded by the British Empire of the time. ca. 1915.
A low flying German Fokker E.II 35/15, somewhere on the Eastern Front, ca. 1915.
Lecture hall at Iowa State University in 1915. Note the total lack of any women in attendance.
Young Mountain Mother, Burnsville, NC 1915.
Members of the West Point Class of 1915 which was known as "The Class the Stars Fell On," whose graduates included Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, posing in front of Christ Lutheran Church in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1915.
Babe Ruth behind the bar at the place his family ran near Camden Yards, Baltimor, Maryland, 1915.
The year is 1916 and the young woman on the right is escorting the older woman on the left to cast her first ever ballot. The older woman was 102 at the time.
The trench warfare of the Great War in Europe held more hazards than just bullets, bombs and poison gases. Disease spread through the camps and lines dotting the countryside. A prime vector for spreading infection as has always been the case were rats. Here a terrier, dogs long bred to be ratters, shows off its catch after a 15 minute rat hunt in French held territory, September 1916.
An English military aviator dropping bombs, the Western Front, c. 1916.
Augusta and Adeline Van Buren were two sisters who traveled from New York City to California in 1916. They were the first women to do so on solo motorcycles.
Officers of the Women Police Service, London, 1916.
Boston Red Sox dugout, 1916. From left, Babe Ruth, Jack Barry, Bill Carrigan, and Del Gainer.
In 1916 a shark killed 2 people and maimed a 3rd in a creek in New Jersey. This one shark is credited with 4 deaths in total. This story served as the inspiration for Peter Benchley's book Jaws.
American soldiers having a snowball fight at Camp Meade (now Fort Meade), Maryland, 1917.
An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France. British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right - in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917.
Woodward Avenue, Detroit, 1917.
French Sailors visiting the Imperial German Navy SM UC-61 Type UC II minelaying submarine stranded on the beach near Wissant, Pas-de-Calais, France, in August 1917.
A well-stocked German canteen during WWI, c. 1917.
In the London area, 350 Boy Scouts volunteered for air raid duty in time for the Gotha Raid in November 1917.
A captured German Gotha bomber pilot who was shot down over London stepping out of a truck, 1917.
Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, 1917. FDR served as Assistant Secretary of the navy during Woodrow Wilson's presidency, a position once held by his cousin Theodore.
Reynard, The fox cub mascot of No.32 Squadron at Humieres Aerodrome, St Pol, France, 5 May 1918.
A Canadian soldier enjoying the blackberries he had just gathered in Bourlon Wood, October 1918. Once Canadian troops had crossed the Canal-du-Nord during the initial assault of the battle, they reassembled and widened their front at lightning speed from 2,600 metres to 15,000 metres in order to circle and capture Bourlon Wood. Having successfully taken the wooded area, which was teeming with German machine gun nests, they paused and prepared to press forward to Cambrai. This charming scene was photographed during a lull in the battle. Source: https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/firstworldwar/025005-1600.004-e.html
A tommy contemplates the remains of a captured Mk. IV tank knocked out during a German offensive - 1918.
British soldiers sharing cigarettes with a group of French troops at the edge of positions they had just taken over from the French in Bernagousse, France, March 6, 1918.
Madison Square & Flatiron Building NYC, by W.W.Rock, 1918.
Ernest Hemingway posing with three nurses including Agnes von Kurowsky (center left) at a horse racing track in Milan while recovering from wounds he received while serving as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front, 1918.
Humphrey Bogart in the Navy, c. 1918.
Salvation Army Woman Smiling, Ansonville, France 1918.
A police dog bites the ankle of man during a training session, March 1919. Photograph by the Public Ledger Service.
London police officers, 1919.
The favorite sons of NYC take to the field, Yankee Stadium, 1919.
A crowded bar in New York City, the night before the Prohibition went into effect, 1919.
Charlie Chaplin, ca. 1919.
Cover of the Boston Daily Globe, covering the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
The Great Boston Molasses Flood in Numbers: 2.3 million gallons of molasses 50 ft tall tank burst from temperature change 15 ft wall of molasses at 35 mph 21 people died, 150 injured $100 Million in damages (adjusted).
Harry Houdini had this 'Spirit Picture' picture taken to demonstrate how photographers could manipulate their images, 1920. Houdini was a crusader in his way against charlatans who would prey upon the credulous.
Female students in their school uniforms, China, 1920.
The window of Saks Fifth Avenue advertising their selection of fur products, Dec. of 1920.
The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.
The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point. The death toll was exceeded in the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921.
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