History in Pictures

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One of The First portable Radios in 1923
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Photograph of the oldest house in Hamburg, Germany taken in 1898. It was built in 1524 and, despite protests from locals, was demolished on 8 December 1910
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1920 New York fast food restaurant
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s lion logo is one the most famous studio logos in Hollywood, so famous that it has spawned countless parodies and spoofs throughout the years. Although the finished product that we see today looks incredibly effortless, the whole process took about 40 years, with 7 lions used throughout those years to make the classic logo that we now see on the big screen.

The first lion to appear on the original Goldwyn Pictures design (from 1917-1924) was Slats. Because Slats made his first appearance during the pre-sound era, he did not do the trademark roar but only looked around, making him the only MGM lion not to roar.
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Whitechapel in the late 19th Century. A moment captured for all time making the people become paper ghosts for all to see…
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So wonderful to see how it “was”!! Thank you, yyy!!!

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New York’s renowned radio station, WOR, started broadcasting on February 22nd, 1922.
This circa 1930 photograph was taken at 1440 Broadway, the station’s original location in Manhattan.
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Victorian interior scene from the late 1800s or early 1900s.
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1941 Salvage Yard.
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Cook off: Men cook a barbecue at a Tin Can Tourists convention in Arcadia in the 1920s

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1900 Roller Coaster Ride

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Mr. Babcock photographed at his home in Rochester, New York tuning in for war news. Photograph taken by Ralph Amdursky in September 1942.
Credit: sebcolorisation on Instagram
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Loggers and the giant Mark Twain redwood cut down in California, 1892.
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a man warming up by a heating stove inside a general store, Middlesboro, Kentucky 1940s
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Pussycats galore! Circa 1920’s
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Willett Street at the SE corner of Delancey Street, 1901. Ewing Galloway via NYPL.

What interested me about this photo, aside from its snapshot of old New York, were the posters, particularly the one for Huber’s 14th Street Museum, one of the once-popular dime museums in New York featuring freaks and varios curios. Huber’s at 106 East 14th Street closed in 1910. The site was bought by Luchow’s which was looking to expand its original restaurant.
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Cabriolet with panoramic top, 1947.
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Annie Edson Taylor poses with her cat and the barrel she rode over Niagara Falls in 1901.
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Interior of Helmbold’s drug store, New York City, ca. 1880s

Ice Truck 1940

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A jade burial suit is a ceremonial suit made of pieces of jade in which royal members in Han Dynasty China were buried.

The suit is constructed of 4,248 custom cut jade pieces connected by gold wire. Jade suits were first documented in literature around 320 AD.

During the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD), members of imperial family were buried in jade burial suits. Jade was believed to possess magical properties that would protect the body from decay and ward off evil spirits.

Jade suits consists mostly square or rectangular shape, but triangular, trapezoid and rhomboid plaques have also been found. Plaques are often joined by means of wire, threaded through small holes drilled near the corners of each piece.

According to the Book of Later Han, the type of wire used was dependent on the status of the person buried. The jade burial suits of emperors used gold thread; princes, princesses, dukes, and marquises, silver thread; sons or daughters of those given silver thread, copper thread; and lesser aristocrats, silk thread, with all others being forbidden to be buried in jade burial suits.

A jade burial suit was extremely expensive to create and only wealthy aristocrats could afford to be buried in them. The process of manufacturing a suit was labor-intensive and is estimated to have required several years to complete a single suit.

For many years, many archaeologists suspected that records of jade burial suits were only legends. The discovery in 1968 of two complete jade suits in the tombs of Liu Sheng and Dou Wan in Mancheng, Hebei, finally proved their existence. It is now believed that jade burial suits were actually relatively common among the wealthiest aristocrats of the Han Dynasty, but that over the years most have been lost due to the activities of grave robbers. A total of 20 known jade burial suits being discovered in China to date.

Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King

This image graced the 1954 cover of Vermont Life Magazine’s winter issue
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Popular Science April 1923
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Log Trucks in North Bend, Washington, 1943.

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First metered taxi in NYC, 1907
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A 1915 photograph of the NYC Subway Lost & Found. There is so much to love about this photo. Look at the phone and phone books. That awesome safe. The men in their Boater hats. The women are nicely dressed.
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Double leg amputee railway signalman, James Wide, photographed working alongside his pet and assistant, Jack Baboon, in Cape Town during the 1880s. James Wide purchased a chacma baboon in 1881 and trained him to push his wheelchair and operate the railway signals under supervision.
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Seems pretty safe enough.
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The American Wrestler Joe Savoldi Traines In An Aircraft. 23Th May 1933.
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You might think this is a picture of Europe, but you would be wrong.

This is China in the late 19th century, a time when it was undergoing a cultural and political transformation.

A time when it was influenced by Western ideas and technologies, but also resisted foreign domination. A time when it was rich in diversity and creativity, but also faced internal conflicts and challenges.
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Oldest video ever recorded - 1874 - History

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Kansas 1911
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Mickey Mouse club meeting circa 1930.
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american-diner-with-food-delivered-by-model-trains-the-youngsters-are-so-intrigued-with-the-trains-that-it-is-difficult-to-get-them-to-leave-after-they-have-finished-eating-van-nuys California–choo-choo

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California Street
San Francisco
February 5, 2024
Atmospheric River Rain

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The bespoke interior of the Duke of Windsor’s 1941 Cadillac including cigar humidor
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Three students playing basketball, Hampton University, 1907.
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Philadelphia 1925, teen boys in young men’s suits with flat caps.
They don’t seem like teenagers don’t they? But they are. This was the teens fashion for important occasions

A motor home, 1922
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A cop poses with some Ladies, in Los Angeles, California, USA (1920s)
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Brazil 1941

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Cab Calloway in a zoot suit (1944)
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Edison Studios, circa 1907–1914 (Bronx, NY)
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The old Cincinnati Ohio Library, it was a little intimidating but it really looked fantastic.
Photo is from the Cincinnati Library Collection.
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Medieval humor. - Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, c.1050. See also:
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Owensby, Ky
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A late 19th century photo by Félix Arnaudin which shows Gascon shepherds on stilts. They used the stilts to navigate the marshy pastures of Landes region in the southwest of France. Photo: Musée d’Aquitaine. Something a little different.

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Harry Houdini; the man at work. 1914. Postcard, United States of America.
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A bit of window shopping at the Gamages shop window. London, 1930s.
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A New York cop stops traffic for a cat and her kittens; 1925.
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A tile from a wall in the Mitre Tavern in Melbourne The tavern is around 200 years old I took photos of all the tiles and will post them
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Modern Bathroom at 16 W88 th Street on Manhattans Upper West Side in c1902
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An Advertisement showing a Young Woman with her Singer Sewing Machine in 1925
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The family of photographer Bernard F. Eilers enjoying a day at the beach of Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Photograph taken by Bernard F. Eilers in 1910
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Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses awaiting the scrap heap, 1946
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A Family In Front Of Their Summer Home. Stockholm, Sweden, 1867
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A stylish couple with their car in 1907.
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Daytona Beach 1904
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young woman exiting a NYC streetcar in 1912
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André Zucca.

Occupied Paris, 1943.
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Elizabeth Taylor with her first leading ‘man’–Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer.
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Cowboy and His Chuck Wagon.
Bonham, Texas, 1909.

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Imagine a moonshiner so notorious, so untouchable, that even the law couldn’t haul her in. Picture a whiskey queen who ruled from a rugged fortress in rural Tennessee, and that’s where history buffs will learn of the legendary Mahala Mullins…

Read the Full Story Here: https://northeasttennessee.org/moonshinelegend/
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Young girls with their cameras, late 1930s.
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Broadway, Skagway, Alaska, May 20, 1898. Headquarters Yukon Outfitters on left, Getz & Donovon Packers and Dyea Mercantile & Mining Co. on right.
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Betty White driving her Cadillac
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A protestant husband and his catholic wife were not allowed to be buried together. Here are their headstones reaching across the two cemeteries in 1888.
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Demonstrating how bulletproof vests work, 1923.
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Coffee machine optional equipment in 1959 Volkswagen
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A family poses with their covered wagon in Kansas, 1908.
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Building the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1876.
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Two women, minutes after voting, London, 1929.
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Mother and son pose for a photo, Ireland, 1890
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Henry Ford in the first car he ever built, 1896.
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The absolutely massive chain for the Titanic’s anchor, c. 1909
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A woman plays a piano designed for people undergoing bedrest, 1935.
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A photo by Berenice Abbot of a woman wiring an IBM computer, 1948.
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The Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City
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A WWI-era German submarine washed ashore in Hasting, England, in 1919.
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The intact seal on Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922. It went untouched for 3,424 years.
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The employee cafeteria at Disneyland, 1961.
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An Austrian child gets new shoes during WWI
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Painting the Eiffel tower, 1932.
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A girl tries to get a reaction from a royal guard. Stockholm, Sweden, 1970s.
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Audrey Hepburn with her pet deer, 1958
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A hippie sells flowers on the road, Oklahoma, 1973
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An East German soldier sneaks a little boy across the Berlin Wall, 1961.
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Wojtek the bear, who fought in WW2.
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Samurai pose in front of the Sphinx, 1864.
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Monet with his wife Alice, 1908
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Protesting in Miami Beach, Florida, 1980s.
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Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923
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Selling lemonade with a portable dispenser, Berlin, 1931.
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A young Elvis with his parents, 1937
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Blackfoot tribe in Glacier National Park, 1913
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Collecting golf balls, 1920s
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Lenin giving a speech in Moscow, 1920
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Samurai in full armor and sword, c. 1860.
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Windows on the World. Restaurant on the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, 1976. Photo by Ezra Stoller
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A 17-year-old Fidel Castro playing basketball, 1943.
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During World War II, Steinway & Sons air-dropped pianos with large parachutes and complete tuning instructions into the battle for the American troops.
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The Statue of Liberty as seen from the torch.
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This is the first image captured of Chernobyl, taken 14 hours after the explosion on April 26, 1986.
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Two Maori Women. New Zealand, 1902
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Cats drinking milk straight from the source. 1954
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Joe Biden withdraws from the 1988 presidential election
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Father and son take silly photos, 1910s
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A Barbershop, 1869.

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A mobile radio-telephone set of Bell Laboratories was installed on a car with a rotary loop antenna. 1924
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Beautiful downtown Cisco in an undated photo. My guess is roughly 1925, but maybe you car aficionados can chime in with a more educated guess.
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Traffic on the Long Island Expressway in 1908 (back then it was known as the Long Island Parkway)
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A 1920s Harley Davidson with covered sidecar.
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The FBI fingerprint files in 1944.
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A father helping his son feed a giraffe at London Zoo.

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Nan Wood Graham and Dr. Byron McKeeby, at the memorial exhibition Gallery at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. September 1942.
Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Figge Art Museum, City of Davenport Art Collection…
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Superman II (1980) featured some ground breaking special effects, in particular the battle between Superman and the supervillains General Zod, Ursa and Non and here is special effects designer Derek Meddings (1931-1995) on the model “battle” set of Superman II.
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Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer for LIFE magazine, prepares to take a photo from one of the eagles on the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in New York City in 1934.

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Las Vegas Caesars Casino in the mid 1960s

Photo credit: veryvintagevegas.com
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Here is the “Ringling Brothers’ Barnum & Bailey Circus” in The Bronx Coliseum in March 1929
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Coney Island, New York City, photographed in 1903.
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Pioneer family In Nebraska during the winter of 1880
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Original Advertisement For An Optician On Boulevard St. Germain, 1925.
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What a treasure trove of photos!!! Much appreciated, yyyyy!!