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

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The U.K. through the 1950's. (Mind that last image... Sure it's from today for some reason.)

 

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New Years 1907.

Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1907.

London Children's Hospital Ward, 1907.

Wagons loaded up at the docks with goods from around the world, New York City, 1907.

A Sami (northern indigenous) man holding a wolf pup in 1907 in Sweden.

The largest train engine in the world, The Chicago and Alton Railroad, 1907.

"7 of my Jewish frieds at N.Y. State Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis Hospital Ray Brook. Yar of 1907 when I was 23 years old." - Harold Chaffee (on the back of the photo) "Harold Chaffee spent time in Ray Brook Sanatorium in 1907 when he was 23 years old. He was originally from the Indian River area and then moved to Castorland. The New York State Hospital for Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis at Ray Brook was the first of it’s kind in New York State, and second in the country (first in Massachusetts)." - Adirondack Experience, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake

Someone named J.M. Longyer took an expediton to Spitsbergen, Norway, for Polar Bear hunting ca 1907.

 

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In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the Little Steel strike in the United States.

On Memorial Day, hundreds of sympathizers gathered at Sam's Place, a former tavern and dance hall at 113th Street and Green Bay Avenue, that served as the headquarters of the SWOC. As the crowd marched across the prairie towards the Republic Steel mill, a line of Chicago policemen blocked their path. The foremost protestors argued their right to continue. The police, "feeling threatened," fired on the crowd.[citation needed] As the crowd fled, police shot and killed ten people, four dying that day and six others subsequently from their injuries. Nine people were permanently disabled and another 28 had serious head injuries from police clubbing.

In the book Selected Writings by Dorothy Day (who was present), the events of the protest are summarized as thus: 'On Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, police opened fire on a parade of striking steel workers and their families at the gate of the Republic Steel Company, in South Chicago. Fifty people were shot, of whom 10 later died; 100 others were beaten with clubs.'


Memorial Day massacre of 1937 - Wikipedia

 

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Work it! Three gals show off their figures in the latest fashions, Paris, 1908.

From the New York Times in 1908:

Paris in the snow, 1908.

July 13, 1908 Ringling Brothers arrives in Lincoln, Nebraska down O Street.

Presidential Election Parade. New York, 1908.

 

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Arlington, Texas, 1909.

Photograph taken in November, 1909 shows three members of the Payro family being “photographed” by their cat: Edmund, age 12, Ernest, age 8, and Cecilia, age 5. Payro, J. (Joseph C.), 1862-1953 Sauce: retronaut.com.

NYC - Times Square 1909.

Street view of Sterzing, Italy 1909

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Welcome Arch, Seattle, 1909.

Shamisen maker and his customer, Japan around 1909.

January 19, 1909. Macon, Georgia. "Some adolescents in Bibb Mill No. 1." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Paperboy, NYC Subway, 1909.

Working late night until 6 am, "all barkeepers by from me" the 12 years old boy is quoted as saying.

Man with a phonograph, Amsterdam 1909.

Mark Twain, 1909, after a trip to Bermuda for his health. The great man of American literature would pass just four months later.

 

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Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky with his prototype helicopter in Kiev, 1910.

Standing portrait of a Native American Ute man, identified as Dick Charlie and an African American man, John Taylor. Charlie is a full-blooded Ute, Taylor, a Black man, is a Ute by marriage. Both men wear vested suits; Charlie with earrings and a kerchief around his neck, Taylor with a tie. Charlie wears his hat, Taylor holds his hat in his right hand. Colorado, 1910.

Some decidedly young street vendors, Bowery, New York City, 1910.

Paris, and the great flood of 1910.

Changing a streetlamp bulb, 1910.

The first movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was released by Edison Studios in 1910.




Singer and dancer Aida Overton Walker, circa 1910.

Street view of Rothenburg, Germany 1910.

African-Mexican children in Guanajuato, 1910.

Manhattan from on high, 1910.

 

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Famed African-American Abolitionist Harriet Tubman in 1911. She was 89 years old at the time.

A close up of Mae West when she was appearing in a Broadway play in New York City, 1911.

Child laborers working in a coal mine, Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911.

Two women and a young girl on board the deck of the "Puritan" from Chicago to Mackatawa Park on Lake Michigan, Summer of 1911.

And... Our same trio out for a swim.

NYC street view, 1911.

 

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60th Rifles of British Army taking a break at a site of present day Chandigarh during their convey from Ambala to Dagshai on March 1912.

Woman posing with a cigarette in 1912, Sweden. At the time, smoking was a symbol of emancipation.

Titanic. April 10th, 1912, 2.15 PM - photographed from the Isle of Wight.

Titanic survivors, mostly crew, pose with their friends and family after returning home to Southampton, England. 29 April 1912.

Charging Electro Auto in 1912. Showing the real issue is a support infrastructure for such vehicles.

The Olympic pistol shooting team from Greece (with their Swedish captain, center) in 1912.

Women take a Thanksgiving Family Portrait, 1912.

French Actress and Model Jane Renouardt Doing a Picture Shoot for French Postcards in 1912.

 

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Elevated Sidewalks illustrated on the cover to Scientific American in 1913.

Blackfoot Indians in what is now Banff National Park (1913).

Statue of Freedom on top of the the US Capital Obilisk, 1913.

Admiring the swans. Asbury Park, NJ September 1913.

The Three Polar Stars,1913 left to right: Captain Roald Amundsen, Sir Ernest H. Shackleton, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary.

A color process of the time brings us this Senegalese soldier in Morocco from 1913.

A baby girl has some odd fun on Thanksgiving, 1913.

 

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In 1913, the day before US President Woodrow Wilson was to be Inaugurated, The Womens Suffrage Movement marched on Washington D.C.

Woman Suffrage Procession - Wikipedia


The event was massive, and even had people from around the world performing symbolic plays as part of the demonstration. Here is German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing the costume of "Columbia" with other suffragettes standing in background in front of the Treasury Building in Washington, District of Columbia, on March 3, 1913. Long forgotten today, Columbia was a female representation of the progress hoped for in the New World, sort of a female Uncle Sam if you will.

Many people ventured to DC anywhere they could, which mostly was by train. Some just walked all through the city on a cold day as well to get to the event.

The event was organized by key Suffrage Movement leaders like Alice Paul, Anna Howard Shaw and Lucy Burns. Together they recruited hundreds of womens groups from around the country for the parade. All told, some 8,000 women marched down the DC streets with signs and symbols of the movement. Anywhere from 100,000-200,000 men and women lined the crowds.

The parade itself was led by Inez Milholland, pictured here. She was a key womens labor lawyer and rode this white horse at the front. She was followed by 9 bands, 5 mounted brigades, and 26 floats.

At least 38 states had womens groups join the parade, often carrying their state flags and state symbols.

They even had some Native American womens groups attend as it truly was a near complete womens countrywide event.

However, some groups of people started to engulf the women in the parade, as pictured, and at times did not allow them forward. Harassment began, from mostly men, and the police at first did not stop the conflict. In some areas, fights broke out, many of whom were men from both sides of the argument tussling with each other. Around 200 people had to be treated for injuries at local hospitals after the day was done, but no reported major injuries or deaths occurred.

A couple important notes about this parade. Black suffragettes were allowed to attend, but were segregated and appeared to not actually march in the parade. There are rumors that Alice Paul objected to their participation in any capacity but Anna Howard Shaw insisted on any black women suffragette wanting to come could.


Also of note, many men, papers, and other groups supported the movement, especially after such a display, which was a key reason it drastically helped change things for women in the US and other countries. This [picture is a great picture of both black and white crowd members, as well as you can even see a mounted officer pushing back a gentlemen who ventured beyond the crowd to voice his opposition to the marchers. The Suffrage Movement was a massive push for womens rights, and did massive changes for the US in particular in the value, purity, and acceptance of women. It had so many great aspects involved in it. Many other womens movements over the next 100 years occurred, even today, and regardless of how everyone feels about some of them, especially todays womens movements, I feel it is important to see, know, and understand the first big suffrage movement. The movement existed for years, and many demonstrations in the UK preceded this march, but the scale of this specific parade was unseen before. And best of all, it was well documented and photographed especially for the time period.

 

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Girls protest dress code prohibiting girls from wearing slacks. Brooklyn, NY 1940.

 

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WWI British troops sleep after arriving in France en route to the Front, 1914.

Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata sitting in the presidential throne in Mexico City 1914.

WWI Italian Bersagliere ciclista, with Fiat-Revelli 1914 mounted on Bianchi brand bicycle.

Vancouver Millionaires Hockey Team, 1914.

These two kids were captured on film in 1914 in Aswan, Egypt. The process to give the image color was one of the many though not widely distributed methods of capturing color pictures.

 

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Publication from 1915 featuring an illustration of Tesla.

Kolpino, Russia, 1915. Picture from an album of photographs taken by Czar Nicholas II or one of his daughters.

Washington D.C. 1915.

Someone in a diving suit takes the plunge, 1915.

Ye' olden Comiskey Park, Chicago, 1915.

Famed, troubled and undoubtedly racist author H.P. Lovecraft, 1915.

Willamette Street in Eugene, Oregon, looking north from 10th Avenue, 1915.

Members of the Mono Indian Tribe, California, 1915.

Subway to the Senate, Washington, DC 1915.

 

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Mask control inspection during a gas alert exercise at the Paroches. January 1916. Photo provided by ECPAD.

United States Postal Truck promoting mail boxes in Washington, 1916.

A boy Ronald Reagan poses with his family, 1916.

German Soldier poses with three unexploded bombs ca 1916.

Liverpool Road Crosby circa 1916.

Harely riders looked way different in 1916.

 

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Interior, German military kitchen, ca. 1917.

British 6-inch Naval gun firing over Vimy Ridge, France - 1917.

Canadian lnfantry advancing during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917.

Royal Newfoundland Regiment in France 1917.

George V (1865 - 1936) and Queen Mary (1867 - 1953) visiting the Sopwith Aviation Company in Kingston-upon-Thames, 1917.

"Just as he is proud of the women in his own family, the King is proud of his female subjects and all that they have contributed to the war. [...] The King has been advocating for their capable inclusion in the nation’s plight all along. Early on in the munitions crisis in 1915 he suggested that women might be brought to manufacture shells in larger numbers, and that Mrs Pankhurst might be employed as a successful recruiting agent. [...]


By 1918 women are not only eligible for the OBE, but the first of them are legally entitled to vote, and in some quarters the Their Majesties are credited with helping this to happen. ‘It is an open secret that the pride of the King and Queen in the war work that the women of England have undertaken knows no bounds... Our broad-minded King, encouraged we feel sure, by his sympathetic Queen, had made it possible for good services rendered by women to be recognised in the same way that men receive reward.’ In the course of nearly four years of war, His Majesty has seen thousands of female workers and their passion, their dedication and their vivacity at the exciting new world opening up for them gives him no end of pleasure. He bombarded working girls with questions: How long had they been employed? Did they like their work? And what of their brothers at the front? He has a fatherly soft spot for a girl in uniform, and those war-girls have infiltrated almost every establishment that the King visits."

- In the Eye of the Storm: George V and the Great War

A Red Cross nurse writes down the last words of a British soldier, 1917.

A woman standing in front of the Japanese Tea House. Long Beach, CA. May 1917 .

 

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Micky mouse inspired children's gas mask of WWII vs Micky mouse inspired children's face mask of today

 

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Images of 1918, and how the "Spanish Flu" made an impact all over the world, and was felt and continued to kill people for the next two years.

U.S. Army 39th regiment wear masks in Seattle on their way to France.

A barber provides services to clients in 1919 at University of California, Berkeley.

Soldiers from the US Army during the 1918 Influenza.

An open-air court proceeding being held in 1918 San Francisco.

A group of nurses during the 1918 Influenza.

An emergency hospital is set up to care for patients in Brookline, Massachusetts in October of 1918.

Workers from the American Red Cross tend to patients in a makeshift hospital set up in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in 1918.

School girls in Japan wear masks to prevent the spread of Spanish Influenza.

Workers from the American Red Cross make a house call to a family that had fallen ill with the Spanish Influenza.

 

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Red Cross Nurses in Boston preparing gauze masks to wear while caring for those sick with the Spanish Flu in 1919.




Four members of the Meredith College Ukulele Club, 1919.

Kennywood Amusement Park, Pittsburgh, 1919.

World War I disrupted society in vast ways that were still being felt even after the actual end of combat, as this image attests. Waiting in line for potatoes, 1919, Sweden.

Passengers waiting at Goldhawk Road Station in London. 'For nine days, from September 27 to October 6, 1919, the Great Railway Strike paralysed the country's transport. The regular deliveries of newspapers was interrupted, and the resultant lack of news gave rise to many fantastic rumours'.

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston, one of history’s most bizarre disasters and one that has remained a topic of grim fascination ever since. The catastrophe happened after a giant storage tank at the Purity Distilling Co. on Commercial Street in Boston’s North End ruptured, releasing a massive wave of molasses that killed 21 people, injured 150, crushed buildings, and tore a firehouse from its foundation. The disaster, which occurred shortly after noon on Jan. 15, 1919, submerged two city blocks within seconds, overcoming people in the streets.

German actor Conrad Veidt (1919) His role in "The Man Who Laughs" served as an inspiration for the creation of the comic book character The Joker.

 

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What appears to be a Japanes couple taking a mirror selfie in 1920.

American ranch hand, 1920.

A man takes five in a rowboat on a river somewhere in Bolivia, 1920.

Bernard J. "Boompy" Logue on his homemade bicycle. Circa 1920

World War I veteran and amputee fitted with a welding arm, 1921.

Trolley car, Ogden, Utah, 1920.

Times Square near 42nd Street in New York City, in 1920. (AP Photo)

 

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As a 19-year-old university student, Carl Størmer used a hidden camera to photograph life in Oslo, Norway from 1893 to 1897.

Carl Størmer (1874-1957) was a young student of mathematics when he purchased his first hidden camera. It was so small that the lens fit through the buttonhole in his vest with a cord that led down to his pocket, allowing him to secretly snap away.

In his biography for the Fellows of the Royal Society, he revealed it was actually a secret crush that led him toward photography. “When he was a young man at Oslo University he fell in love with a lady whom he did not know and with whom he was too bashful to become acquainted,” writes his biographer. “Wishing at least to have a picture of her, he decided that this was possible only by taking a photograph of her himself, without her knowing.” And while the love affair came to nothing, Størmer continued capturing images of people on Karl Johansgate, the main street in Oslo, over the course of his studies from 1893 to 1897. The results are close to 500 secret images that show a wide range of people in a casual, relaxed state. Working like a paparazzo, Størmer would greet his subjects and then snap away as they approached. Friendly salutations and suspicious glances play out across his work, serving as some of the first examples of street photography.

“It was a round flat canister hidden under the vest with the lens sticking out through a buttonhole…Under my clothes I had a string down through a hole in my trouser pocket, and when I pulled the string the camera took a photo…I strolled down Carl Johan (street), found me a victim, greeted, got a gentle smile and pulled. Six images at a time and then I went home to switch the plate.”

 

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Khevsureti warriors in the Caucus Mountains, 1921.

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1921 motorcycle shop, Ashington, England.

Entrance to the catacombs of Paris, 1921.

Starlight Park in The Bronx, NY, 1921.

King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra of Houston Texas, circa 1921.

Smoke seen rising from the destruction wrought during the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921.

 

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Yuri Gagarin and his Matra Bonnet Djet VS coupe, 1965

 

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One of my favorite twitter pages is Detroit Street View. Basically they post pictures of old Detroit compared to what you would see on a modern google maps street view.

 

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Cow shoes used by Moonshiners in the Prohibition days to disguise their footprints, 1922.

Charlie Chaplin & Anna Pavlova, 1922.

A fireman getting into his roadster, California St., San Francisco, 1922.

A show girl does a photo session, 1922.

Vietnamese Emperor Khai Dinh, France 1922.

As a controversial emperor in Vietnamese history, Khai Dinh was a proponent of modernisation and keen to learn from industrial powers. In Vietnam, he is unpopular in his homeland for having been seen as a French puppet and collaborator during their colonial rule, which lasted until the end of WWII.

Aerial photo, possibly the earliest, of Manhattan, as it was in 1922.

A little Swedish girl dressed in a traditional folk costume, 1922.

 

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In 1862 a Japanese who worked in printed wood blocks visited France. An interesting look at how a foreigner used their traditional art to depict the early contacts between Europeans and the Japanese.