History in Pictures

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Andy Griffith in North Carolina 1938
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Cotten Mill worker in Floyd County, Georgia
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Experience the breathtaking beauty of Niagara Falls, a testament to nature’s wonder!
Circa • Early 1900s
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Two Cherokee Indians looking over a cliff in the Great Smokey Mountains
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[Ninna]

I’ve spent the entire evening scrolling through this wonderful collection of photographic history. Thank you so much! I think the evolution of the camera allowed anyone, not just the privileged, to become the archivist of their own histories leaving the next generations the visual evidence of their origins. But of course, there were those who used those little boxes with great artistic facility too. Those folks captured more than just a time period, but the realities of life with a stark, sometimes poignant and unflinching focus on the deeper essence our humanity. I was especially impressed with the one of “Jimmy Armstrong, aka The Dwarf Clown at the Clyde Beatty Circus " and the comments of his photographer, Bruce Davidson. " I found something in Jimmy that was more than loneliness, it was a story about surviving.” That’s the magic of artistic action when artists themselves reflect on their work and suddenly see they captured more than they were consciously aware of when they created it. What a lovely evening!

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New York 1918 Hotel Astor Automobile Salon: White, Bodies by Rubay
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Central Park New York City New York 1914
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Penn-Station Drug Store 1910
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Penn Station 1910 Trains inside the station

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On the night of June 15, 1959, “Superman” actor George Reeves and his fiance Leonore Lemmon went out drinking in Los Angeles. When they returned home, Reeves went to bed, but Lemmon kept the party going with three guests. Around 1 a.m., Reeves walked downstairs and complained about the noise that Lemmon and her friends were making. When he turned to go back to the bedroom, Lemmon reportedly said, “He’s going upstairs to shoot himself.” The guests then heard a noise, and Lemmon stated, “See, he’s opening the drawer to get the gun.” Then a shot rang through the house. “I told you, he’s shot himself,” Lemmon said.

Nobody called the police for 45 minutes, but when they arrived, they quickly ruled Reeves’ death a suicide — despite the fact that there were three bullet holes and no fingerprints on the gun. To this day, many people are convinced that Reeves didn’t kill himself at all. Some believe he was taken out by the Mafia on the orders of Eddie Mannix, the general manager of MGM Studios whose wife had a three-year-long affair with Reeves. Others think Lemmon murdered him in a fit of passion — then had her friends help her cover it up.
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Lafayette Street Bridge -Tampa, Florida , 1925,
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Thanks I’m glad someone likes them… It’s almost like we are looking through the camera back in time.

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1938 – Can it fly? Pitkin Brothers Service Station located at 1101 Valley Boulevard, El Monte. Gas is selling for 14¢ per gallon. Photo by Julius Shulman
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This is how the system of 5 000 telephone lines in Stockholm looked like in 1890.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo in 1896
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Ferris Wheel from the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893. Each of the 36 cars held 60 people for a total of 2160 passengers.

For the World’s Fair of 1893, Chicago planners desperately wanted something to compete with the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower had been standing for four years, having been completed for the Parisian World’s Fair. The city of Chicago entertained many submissions, but most of the submitted sketches looked like Eiffel Tower knock-offs and were not very innovative. Along came George Washington Ferris with his submission of a circular construction that moved and was taller than the recently installed Statue of Liberty. The committee originally turned him down as the entire “Ferris Wheel” contraption was deemed deadly and wildly impractical.
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Behind the scenes of “All in the Family”
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One of two known surviving tea chests from the December 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party when 340 tea chests were dumped into Boston Harbor by rebelling colonists.

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Child abuse—1960
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Pre-WWII Logo of Citizen’s National Bank

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Commencement of the American Airlines flight attendant graduation ceremony in 1954.
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Anna Haining Bates, who at 7’11" was one of the tallest women to ever live, with her 7’8" husband Martin van Buren Bates. 1870s.
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The Original Interior to Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California. Opened in 1922.

Gutted in 1998, but partially restored to its original glory in 2023.
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Happy 166th birthday Calamity Jane, May 1, 1852.
Calamity Jane famously posed in 1903 next to the grave of her friend Wild Bill Hickok on Mt. Moriah above Dea!
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We are using the word “invented” very loosely here.
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[Morrisville]

Always enjoy these “history” pictures!!

[Sphinx]

Some moving pictures…

Old World Technology From His Story

[Sal2lee]

How are you @yyyyythats6ys ? I miss your History In Pictures. Hope all is well.

[Sphinx]

This is video, but does anyone have any thoughts on this?
I’ve seen multiple vids like this lately, where people have made a collage of old pictures from major American cities, that either crashes with “our timeline” or have some other things that’s weirs about them.

You cannot accept any thing that has ever been said about any history.

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