History in Pictures

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Ladies shopping for perfumes and jewelry at Illum department store in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1904.
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17 Cherry Tree Lane
Mary Poppins film set - Walt Disney Studios
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Two Friends strolling in a cool stream on a warm day, 1910.
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This charming ticket booth along the Big Apple’s subway system was snapped circa 1915. A far cry from modern ticket stops, this one is decked out with wrought-iron, dainty curtains and even a vase of flowers.
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I was born “Angela” Brigid Lansbury on October 16, 1925.

Angela Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in Central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury.
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Music For The Pain

January 1922: A dental assistant plays loud music on the gramophone to distract a patient from the pain of having her tooth pulled by the dentist.

Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
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Radio final assembly and test, Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, New York, 1945
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Two women buy ice cream from a vendor out of his converted car, in Cornwall, England 1928
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Economy class seating on a Pan Am 747 in 1970.
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A Victorian couple knitting together in their home. England. 1890s.

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Wow. Thanks for all the pictures. A couple of things came to mind as I went through the offerings. Reflections on 20th Century America, and the destruction of Western Civilization.

As a native of Buffalo NY, I had the opportunity to review its present (1980’s) architecture against that of the earlier years (1910-50). The transformation was shocking. In almost every view of downtown, grand structures had been reduced to parking lots and gas stations. This for a once great city (that no one knows about). To quote Architectural Digest:

"The population of Buffalo, New York, may hover around 250,000 today, but at the turn of 20th century this city on Lake Erie was a major urban hub. Indeed, over a hundred years ago, as an industrial port for shipping and manufacturing, Buffalo was also the country’s eighth most populated city. And in 1901 this town snug on the Canadian border had more millionaires per capita than any other city in America. [Note: and according to a 1910 encyclopedia, the most trees and finest residential neighborhoods in America.]

… Enter Frank Lloyd Wright … While Wisconsin and Arizona are the locations typically associated with Wright’s work, it’s in Buffalo, of all places, that architecture enthusiasts can find a plethora of his work."

This Smaller U.S. City Is Filled With Frank Lloyd Wright Gems

The most egregious devastation, however, is revealed in your pictures. Depression-era Americans were reduced to poverty (IMO, by the ruling oligarchs and ideologs.) Children for sale. Families of 7 living in shacks on $30 a month.

And intermixed in these images are the photos of the perpetrators and their grand lifestyles. The one of FDR shaking hands with a young LBJ in 1937 sums it up for me. All juxtaposed against an ascending pre-WWI world.

I thank you all for the nostalgic journey, but in many ways, you have documented the 100-year rot of the West. A good reminder of the challenges of the present.

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The picture of the golf ball collector brought back some memories. During high school I had a part time job picking up golf balls at a driving range. A lot of the golfers seemed to regard the collectors as targets. To avoid being hit the preferred job was driving a very old Willies jeep with a ball collector in front. The only drawback of the jeep was that the doors were missing so the driver could be broadsided. For hand picking the only safety equipment provided were old football helmets and it was painful when golf balls made contact.

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Otis Elevator Ads from 1975, stadium of the future
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Cafe Central in Budapest. Photography. About 1910
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Postcards store, 186 Rivoli street. Paris, France about 1900.
Photo by LL/Roger Viollet via Getty Images
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Connecticut, 1942…

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Southington, Connecticut. Mrs. Ethel Oxley, in the drugstore which she runs on the town’s main street. Her family has had a business on this same corner for more than 200 years…

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Library of Congress Fenno Jacobs photographer
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Jay Eyerman . Audience watches movie wearing 3-D spectacles, 1952

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The American bison is the new U.S. national mammal, but its slaughter was once seen as a way to starve Native Americans into submission. Here is a mountain of Bison skulls!.

Central Park, 1865. Stonework on Bethesda Terrace.
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The early Michelin Man mascot photographed in Santa Clara, California in 1926.
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The spot where Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March.
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Bob Hope , Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball
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Studebaker showroom when they were number one in the world
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A photograph taken infront of Rome’s Collosseum, circa 1897
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This is a ship bringing back troops to New York Harbor after V-day in 1945.
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Las Vegas, 1940 vs. 2017
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Notre Dame on a snowy evening. Paris, 1953.

By Albert Monier
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Fred Gwynne, Harry Secombe, Charlotte Rae and Al Lewis at the Universal Studio Commissary-1965.
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Vintage Vegas
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Filming Jaws 2.
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Fifth Avenue Bank, New York 1900
Ladies at the tellers’windows of the Fifth Avenue Bank, New York 1900
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FORD POLICE 1928
PRESERVED AT THE U NATIONAL MUSEUM. S. A.

Pompeii: Remains of ancient Roman snack bar open to tourists.

Decorated with colorful frescos, the snack bar was first unearthed back in 2020 in Regio V, the northeastern sector of Pompeii, which spans some 54 hectares.
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The Automat in 1923 - a unique concept (then) in restaurants where you choose your food from vending machines. . . Very, very novel for its day.
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Bridal crown, Norway, 1890s
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Canadian Pacific Railway work crew on the newly built bridge over Mountain Creek in British Columbia, Canada in 1890.
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East African warriors, photo taken by Sir Charles Windsor during his African travels in 1920
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1910 CHINESE TAKING TEA & smoker
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Egyptian Home (Interior). Cairo. 1865. A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library

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Women factory workers in a cotton mill in Lancashire, circa 1908. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
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Papa’s airplane, 1934. Photograph by Robert Doisneau
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Henry M. Leland, founder of Cadillac with his Cadillac Model “M” Touring, 1906
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Pony Cart and Donkeys on Beach, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA 1901
Detroit Publishing Company
Photo by: GHI/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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Recycling Household Waste in ca. 1943 Hornsey, London, England, UK.
Due to shortages caused by the war, people are being encouraged to recycle their newspapers, tins and glass.

Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
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Winter in Prague, 1934 by Josef Sazima
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Jean Bugatti poses with his Bugatti Royale, one of seven built, 1932.

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Mrs. Alice H. Ramsey, the first woman to drive across the US,
standing beside her auto c. 1908
Photographer unknown
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
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Edna was allowed to raise the paper bag for one photo
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Five of the castaways from “Gilligan’s Island”
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What classic TV show am I watching?
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Cherokee, NC
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Marconi Room on the ocean liner “Aquitania,” 1914.
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Ellis Island, 1924. A group of immigrants await processing in order to start a new life in the United States.
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Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek at the original Hard Rock Café, 1969. Photo by Henry Diltz…
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.Richard Hunt, Jim Henson, and Frank Oz on the set of Sesame Street
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Photograph of the East Front of the US Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. during the winter of c. 1935.
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New York City 1945
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Or does it?
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Lord Rothschild and his Zebra drawn carriage
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The Pig Cafe -
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“Smartly dressed opium smokers lounge around in an opium den in New York in 1925 as the drug craze swept the country”
Credit: News Dog Media|the sun Co. Uk
The source says its 1925 but I think it early. What you think?
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A driving education course in 1939.
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Wings of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (the “Spruce Goose”) being transported down a highway, 1946.

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Parrot Bay at Disney World 1960’s
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Map of the city of Rome

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mail sorters feb 3 1913 in ny post office
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LOVED the guy with the pipe!! There are so many mountains around the world that give one pause!

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Always enjoy these!! Thanks yyyyy!!

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Pneumatic tubes connecting 23 US Post Offices in NYC across 27 miles. Used until 1957

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Abuna Yem’ata Guh | Tigray Region | Ethiopia

Situated at a height of 2,580 metres (8,460 ft), it has to be climbed on foot to reach. It is notable for its architecture, dome & wall paintings dating back to the 5th century.

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