Page 24 More Old, Rare Photos

As always, each of these are clickable for a larger view. I wish that I could have done a better job with dates & such but. . . I did what I could with what I had. H

1.Prize fight Yankee Stadium

2. A Russian spy laughing through his execution (1939).

3. The evacuation of Saigon, in which some 45 UH-1

Hueys and one CH-47 Chinook

were pushed overboard to make room for others to land (1975).

4. The first passengers on the brand new  New York subway (1904).

5. Ernest Hemingway at a  Havana bar (date unknown).

6.  Princeton students after a Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893).

7. Policemen inspect a “lumber truck” that smelled of alcohol

during prohibition (1926).

8. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they are assassinated,

which contributed to the start of WWI (1914).

9. A native American watching the newly completed transcontinental railroad

in  Nevada (1868).

10. The oldest running car on the planet: the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et

Trepardou Dos-à-Dos.

11. A newly liberated French citizen happily lights Winston Churchill’s

cigar (1944).

12. A  US soldier offering his hand to a woman leaving a cave

during WWII.

13. Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.

14. A last picture of the Titanic before sinking (1912).

15. A pyramid of helmets from captured German soldiers on display

in  New York (1918).

16. Construction of Brasilia City, which would later become the

capital of  Brazil (1960).

17. Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When questioned about the stunt,

the test pilot said: “just selling airplanes.”

18. Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein debating over quantum mechanics

(1925).

19. Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960).

20. 106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with

an AK-47 (1990).

21. Star Wars set at lunchtime.

22. A WWI submarine washed ashore on the beach in  England .

 

23. William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914).

24. Execution of a German communist in  Munich (1919).

25. Muhammad Ali trying to talk down a suicidal man (1981).

26. Construction of  Mt.  Rushmore National Memorial (1939).

27. The assembly line of Porsche 911s at the  Stuttgart factory (1970)

28. American soldiers discover Manet’s painting hidden in the salt mines

of Merker,

Germany (1945).

29. John Young and Charles Duke training for the Apollo 16 mission

in the  New Mexico desert.

30. A rebel soldier tosses a grenade into a loyalist position in Burgos,

Spain (1936).

31. Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family’s flat in  Amsterdam (1942).

32. Archaeologist Howard Carter examining the opened sarcophagus

of King Tut.

33. Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun –

the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat (1942).

34. Russian soldiers preparing for a gas attack against German positions

(1916).

35. Eyes of hate: a photo of Goebbels after finding out his photographer

is Jewish.

36. The first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 by Sam Walton. It was called

Walton’s Five and Dime.

37. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb

over  Hiroshima .

38. Albert Einstein’s desk photographed the day after his death.

39. B-32 Bomber Factory in  Fort Worth ,  Texas (1944).

40. The  Cologne cathedral amidst the ruins (1944).

41. A rare photo of a young Winston Churchill (1895).

42. The construction of the  Golden Gate  Bridge in  San Francisco (1937).

43. Pre-Taliban days in Afghanistan when women enjoyed professional careers,

university education, etc… By mid-90s, the Taliban outlawed employment

and education of women over the age of 8.

44. Gadget, the first atomic bomb.

45. The night they ended Prohibition (December 5, 1933).

46. German prisoners marching to  Moscow after their defeat

at  Belarus (1944).

47. Testing a bulletproof vest (1923).

 

48. Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital (1940).

49. Control room of the UB-110 German submarine (1918).

50. A V-1 flying bomb “buzzbomb” plunging toward  London (1945).

51. Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie in space (1966).

52. Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once

in  France (1920).

3. USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen,

China (1945).

54. An assassin attacking the socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo,

Japan (1960).

55. A woman who survived the  Nagasaki bombing (1945).

56. The first car factory in the US for Ford (1926).

57. Allied forces mocking Hitler (1945).

58. A  US soldier replacing “Adolf-Hitler-Str.” sign with“Roosevelt Blvd ”

in Berlin,  Germany (1945).