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Friday, April 17, 2015

Neat Historical Photographs

For once, almost all of these are new to me... 

Some rather incredible images here

 
 
1: Santa with a helmet delivering presents during the London Blitz, 1940 
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2: Tony Kiritsis holding Richard O Hall hostage with a shotgun during a live television broadcast, 1977 
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3: America mourns the Germans who died in the Hindenburg crash 
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4: Chuck Jones original rules for the Roadrunner and Coyote 
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5: A young stud known as John Wayne 
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6: A possible photo of Confederate cadets during the civil war 
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7: A childs gas mask during WW2 
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8: The oldest known documented wheelie, 1936 
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9: A German child trying to sell his fathers Iron Cross for cigarettes, 1945 
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10: The original voice cast of Peanuts 
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11: The David Hilton family did not want to show their poor house to friends back east, but they wanted to prove they own an organ. Nebraska, 1887 
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12: Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to fly. 1910 
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13: A 1930 photo from the statue of libertys torch 
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14: 106 years old woman guard her home in southern Armenia, 1990 
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15: The first picture of the Andromeda Galaxy in 1888 
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16: Serena And Venus Williams posing for a picture with former president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in 1990 
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17: Arnold Schwarzenegger goes sledding with then president, George Bush, 1991 
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18: Dwight Eisenhower was the first US president to use a teleprompter in the 1952 presidential campaign 
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19: Four-year-old Bill Clinton. 1950 
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20: The first known picture of the Taj Mahal. 1855 
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21: Anti miniskirt sentiment in New York. 1966 
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22: Tom Baker working on a construction site in 1974 before being cast as the 4th incarnation of Doctor Who 
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24: Adolf Hitler tells a frostbitten soldier not to salute him ( year unknown ) 
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25: Onlookers reaction to the Challenger explosion. 1986 
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26: The first photo of the USS enterprise model and the men who build it. 1965 
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27: A French opium party in 1918 
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28: Kindergarten teacher Helen Hulick who was a witness to a burglary, was given a five day sentence and sent to jail for contempt only for wearing pants to court to give her testimony. Los Angeles, 1938 
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29: A child is blinded by the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. 1945 
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30: At a segregated lunch counter in Tennessee, Elvis Presley is waiting for his bacon and eggs while a woman waits for her sandwich. She is not permitted to sit. 1956 
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31: The sonderkommando photographs taken secretly in 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers 
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