Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Historical and Old Pictures....

The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861
 
Hippo cart in 1924. The hippo belonged to a circus and 
apparently enjoyed pulling the cart as a trick
 
 
Charlie Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27
 
 
Suntan vending machine, 1949
 
 
Annie Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to 
survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She 
did it in 1901 because
 she needed money, and after 
doing it said she wouldn't recommend it to anyone!
 
Only known authenticated photo of Billy the Kid,ca. 1879
 
 
Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan ,
ca. 1944
 
 
Jesse James, approximately 16 years old
 
 
Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Sign
was put up at the 363rd station hospital in Papua,New Guinea during WWII

How could parents ensure that their children were getting 
sunlight and fresh air when living in apartment buildings?
The baby cage, ca. 1937
 
 
Hotel owner pouring acid in the water when black people
swam in his pool, ca. 1964
 
 
Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940
 
 
Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her 
bomb damaged home, London , 1940
 
 
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Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956
 
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Artificial legs, United Kingdom , ca. 1890
 
 
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Unknown soldier in Vietnam , 1965
 
 
1920's lifeguard
 
 
1928 fashion show at the beach
 
 
Former slave showing whipping scars
 
 
 
Measuring bathing suits in the early 1920s. If they 
were too short, the women would be fined
 
 
 
A space chimp poses for the camera after a 
successful mission to space in 1961
 
 
Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923
 
 
 
A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic 
test 75 miles away, Las Vegas , 1953
 
 
Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo advanced 
plastic surgery. His eyelids were damaged in World War I, 
and he got a skin transplant to replace them.
Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, 
Detroit 1929
Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
 
The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
 
 
Children eating their Christmas dinner during the 
Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
 
 
 
Annette Kellerman promoted women's right to wear 
a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… She was 
arrested for indecency.
 
 
Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores 
snowball fight in 1893
 
Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side 
removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960
 
 
 
The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963
 
Apollo I crew members rehearsing their water landing 
in 1966
 
 
President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while 
visiting China in 1972
 
 
Construction of the Manhattan Bridge , 1908
 
 
 
Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
 
 
Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas1941
 
 
 
Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865
 
 
 
Frozen Niagara Falls , 1911
 
 
 
Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
 
A penniless mother hides her face in shame after 
putting her children up for sale, Chicago , 1948
 
 
 
Putting on a crinoline (skirt support), 1855
Recovering bodies after the Titanic disaster,
April 1912
 
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A most beautiful suicide - 23 year old Evelyn McHale
leapt to her death from an observation deck (83rd floor)
of the
Empire State Building , May 1, 1947.  She landed
on a United Nations limousine…
 
 
The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin,
ca. 1927
 
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at 
Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London , 1930
 
 
 
New York City fire station, ca. 1912
 
 
 
Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by 
airplanes to America in 1975
 
 
 
Polish children examined by German officers to see if
they qualify as Aryan, and would be allowed to live
 
 
Santa Claus in New York, ca. 1900
 
 
 
Smallpox victim, New York , 1881
 
 
 
5:00 P.M., September 3rd, 1967Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving
on the right - this was the result
 
 
 
Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty
delivered June 17, 1885

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