Historical American Images, Some Very Obscure- email to me from friend

You know how these photos circulate on the 'net. 

I have seen some of these before but a number are new to me and unusually interesting

HISTORY'S FORGOTTEN IMAGES

It's time for another journey into history with images that you

might not have seen before of things famous and

obscure.

 

 

Bonnie and Clyde's car following the shootout that ended the two outlaws. 

The gunfire barrage was so loud that many members of the posse

experienced temporary deafness.

Civil War veteran Samuel Decker poses with the prosthetic arms

he made for himself... somehow.

 

Inmates at Attica play chess.

 

American soldiers hunker down in a trench less than a mile away

from the detonation of a 43 kiloton nuclear bomb in 1953.

 

Mark Twain smokes a cigar in 1905.

 

LAPD police officers going undercover in 1960 to catch purse snatchers.

Children in iron lungs before the advent of the polio vaccine in 1937.

 

Cincinnati's cavernous main library, demolished in 1955.

 

The first known sports team photo ever taken,

The 1858 Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, Hoboken, New Jersey.

 

Albert Einstein visits The Grand Canyon in 1922.

 

Eisenhower and Patton examine a trove of stolen artifacts

that the Germans hid in salt mine in 1945.

 

An American field hospital in the bombed out remains of a French church in 1918.

 

Waiting in line following the Louisville flood of 1937.

 

John F. and Bobby Kennedy in 1960.

 

A group of school children visit a bison in 1899.

 

The old Pony Express and the future of mail delivery.

 

The first ambulance: Bellevue Hospital Center, NY, 1869

 

Abraham Lincoln inspects the battlefield in 1862.

 

A mountain of bison skulls ready to be ground into fertilizer in the 1870's.

 

Michigan loggers in 1890.

 

Civil War veterans and survivors of Gettysburg shake hands in 1913.

 

The Rivoli Theater in 1975.

 

A car crash in Washington DC in 1921.

 

Prohibition begins and alcohol is poured down the drain in 1921.

 

12th Street in Miami, Florida in 1908.

 

A lull in the fighting during the Civil War.

 

An Alabama schoolhouse in 1935.

 

Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill pose together in 1885.

 

The road leading to Woodstock in 1969.

Lewis Powell, a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 

He was hanged in 1865.