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Rare and Crazy Historical Photos [OT] The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Hilarious & the Horrifying
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Great thread. National Geographic has a tumblr account of lost and archived photos. It's a treasure trove of old photos that I can't possibly post them all here.
http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/
Enjoy as much as I have. It's a treat.
http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/
Enjoy as much as I have. It's a treat.
It's actually what he ate every day for lunch. The man loved cottage cheese with fresh fruit that he had flown in from California with a side of grain cereal or wheat germ. He also had his coffee beans flown in for his breakfast which was always fresh orange juice, half a grapefruit, cold cereal and skim milk, and coffee. The guy was a huge fan of fresh produce and loved salads. Dinner was his big meal, and like our current impeachment in process, he was a fan of meatloaf.
Edit: There is also a rumor he like ketchup on his cottage cheese. Staff have denied it but the rumor persists.
Anyway, more food pics.
Dinner, 1940's
Christmas dinner of turnips and cabbage, Great Depression, 1929
The Black Panther Party serving free breakfast to children, 1969
Thanksgiving meal on a airplane, 1949. He probably brought it with him.
Border Patrol dogs awaiting dinner, Finland, 1940
Hitchcock dinner with MGM lion,
Breakfast Tea Service, Peshawar Pakistan, 1983
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From 2017
Women flipping off Trump motorcade.
Comey testifying at Senate Intelligence Committee.
I love how these photos scream "democracy." Compare that Comey photo to Putin's "Big Press Conference." To be fair, Comey's not the President, but conceivably the President could be called to testify.
Named after one of Stalin's favorite films, Operation "The Great Waltz" intended to show that the German Wehrmacht was no longer invincible by parading 55,000 German soldiers through Moscow in front of both the Soviet public and western media. The German soldiers had been captured during the incredibly successful Belorussian offensive of 1944 or Operation Bagration that had ended in the complete destruction of Army Group Center. Operation Bagration was planned to be launched at the same time as the Normandy landings but Stalin ensured that the operation was launched afterwards so that the west would be fully committed to fighting Nazi Germany. The attack involved 2 million soviet soldiers encircling an army of 700,000 German soldiers. Similar parades happened throughout the USSR involving thousands of prisoners.
Most of these prisoners would die in the gulag system.
Sailors had them too.
Fidel Castro places a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial, 1959
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My oldest uncle, retired USAF Lt. Colonel was shot down 7 times during his tours in Vietnam. He survived all 7 crashes and received too many metals to list. In the one pictured below he saved the lives of ~17 people he hand flown in to pick-up and rescue before being shot down by a MiG-21. He was a USAF flight instructor before/after the war and a highly skilled motherfucker. He was also a model for the USAF.
He died 10 years ago, at 71 years old. His diabetes had crippled him to a wheelchair, and took 1 of his feet. His arthritis was so severe he could barely hold a pencil. But at 69 years old he taught himself how to build computers, and assembled his own gaming PC from scratch. Once complete, he challenged me to several multiplayer games, talkin' shit. Fire 'til the end.
This man will always be an ultimate bad-ass in my book.
He died 10 years ago, at 71 years old. His diabetes had crippled him to a wheelchair, and took 1 of his feet. His arthritis was so severe he could barely hold a pencil. But at 69 years old he taught himself how to build computers, and assembled his own gaming PC from scratch. Once complete, he challenged me to several multiplayer games, talkin' shit. Fire 'til the end.
This man will always be an ultimate bad-ass in my book.
1911 color photograph. There are older color photographs out there, but the quality of this one has always struck me.
Magnificent
I went and found Edward Crawford, the man in this photo since I live in the area. We talked for a good two hours about our lives, growing up in completely different upbringings. Sadly, he passed away earlier this year.
Damn man, what happened to him?
Looks like he shot himself (according to two witnesses in the same car)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...wford-subject-iconic-photo-found-dead-n755401
Likely a sailor tattoo. That's a classic location for it.
First one is from a Documentary I found really interesting The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, about a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.
The second picture is of someone dressed up as, Nayenezgani Slayer of Alien Gods from Navaho mythology. I remember there being some controversy as to weather or not that is an actualy Navaho dressed up or one of the researchers just wearing the outfit, just wanted to put that little disclaimer in just in case. Either way the picture is very old.
Sorry to be pedantic but it's Navajo or Dinè. :p
Eh I'd rather be corrected anyways. I just took the spelling from the first result on google about that picture.
Dinè is what we call ourselves, Navajo is just the more common term
Another interesting note on this picture, Jackie Kennedy is witnessing while still wearing the blood stained clothing from her husband's assassination
Yea I ended up doing a little bit of reading after you corrected me. Learn something new everyday
Holy shit. That's a bad motherfucker.My oldest uncle, retired USAF Lt. Colonel was shot down 7 times during his tours in Vietnam. He survived all 7 crashes and received too many metals to list. In the one pictured below he saved the lives of ~17 people he hand flown in to pick-up and rescue before being shot down by a MiG-21. He was a USAF flight instructor before/after the war and a highly skilled motherfucker. He was also a model for the USAF.
He died 10 years ago, at 71 years old. His diabetes had crippled him to a wheelchair, and took 1 of his feet. His arthritis was so severe he could barely hold a pencil. But at 69 years old he taught himself how to build computers, and assembled his own gaming PC from scratch. Once complete, he challenged me to several multiplayer games, talkin' shit. Fire 'til the end.
This man will always be an ultimate bad-ass in my book.
Fascinating images connected with perpetrators of President Lincoln assassination.
Lewis Payne, seated and manacled, at the Washington Navy Yard about the time of his 21st birthday in April 1865, three months before he was hanged as one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators
July 7, 1865. "Washington, D.C. Hanging hooded bodies of the four conspirators; crowd departing." Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold and George Atzerodt shortly after their execution at Fort McNair
Both from, Shorpy historical photo archive.
Lewis Payne, seated and manacled, at the Washington Navy Yard about the time of his 21st birthday in April 1865, three months before he was hanged as one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators
July 7, 1865. "Washington, D.C. Hanging hooded bodies of the four conspirators; crowd departing." Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold and George Atzerodt shortly after their execution at Fort McNair
Both from, Shorpy historical photo archive.
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Oh, by the way, feel free to include videos in the thread as well :)
I just stumbled across this pretty great video "1929 - Interviews With Elderly People Throughout The US":
They interview Civil War veterans, it's pretty incredible to hear these people speak about the Civil War the way elderly vets today speak about WW2 or Vietnam. Hearing someone say "I enlisted in 1861" is pretty damn surreal. There's also a brief interview with a 94 year-old former slave owner, though they don't talk about that particular aspect of her life.
I just stumbled across this pretty great video "1929 - Interviews With Elderly People Throughout The US":
They interview Civil War veterans, it's pretty incredible to hear these people speak about the Civil War the way elderly vets today speak about WW2 or Vietnam. Hearing someone say "I enlisted in 1861" is pretty damn surreal. There's also a brief interview with a 94 year-old former slave owner, though they don't talk about that particular aspect of her life.
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the Elephant's Foot
Taken shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. It's nuclear fuel and melted core, concrete etc. Standing near it for a few seconds would make you sick. A few minutes and you'd be dead in a couple days. Now I think you'd need to stand near it for an hour or so for it to be lethal. Either way it's pretty creepy, like a real-life SCP.
Taken shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. It's nuclear fuel and melted core, concrete etc. Standing near it for a few seconds would make you sick. A few minutes and you'd be dead in a couple days. Now I think you'd need to stand near it for an hour or so for it to be lethal. Either way it's pretty creepy, like a real-life SCP.
What is actually going on in this picture? Is the guy in the hardhat getting zapped? What is that ghostly image behind him? This is some surreal shit right here.the Elephant's Foot
Taken shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. It's nuclear fuel and melted core, concrete etc. Standing near it for a few seconds would make you sick. A few minutes and you'd be dead in a couple days. Now I think you'd need to stand near it for an hour or so for it to be lethal. Either way it's pretty creepy, like a real-life SCP.
It was probably pretty dark in that room, so I imagine the photographer used a long exposure time in order to properly expose the film. the ghostly image and light trails are from the worker moving around during the exposure.
I guess I'll post some local photos.
Louisville kentucky flood of 1937
Yes that is a dead horse in the tree after the water receded.
Waiting in line at the Red Cross after the flood.
This was Walnut St in 1942. Walnut street as a Black business area started in the 1800's that saw a boom from the 1920's to the 1950's.
Muhammad Ali(at the time, Cassius Clay) at their family home in Louisville before he became a household name.
Louisville kentucky flood of 1937
Yes that is a dead horse in the tree after the water receded.
Waiting in line at the Red Cross after the flood.
This was Walnut St in 1942. Walnut street as a Black business area started in the 1800's that saw a boom from the 1920's to the 1950's.
Muhammad Ali(at the time, Cassius Clay) at their family home in Louisville before he became a household name.
The video title is wrong, because it is colourised (not original colour footage), but the footage is nonetheless interesting to watch. It's early 1900s to the dawn of WW1, of various German cities.
And here is an original colour film just after WW2 in European theater, Berlin. This was shot by a U.S serviceman.
And here is an original colour film just after WW2 in European theater, Berlin. This was shot by a U.S serviceman.
Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong (Moon, 1969).
Daughter of concentration camp prisoner hits a Neo-Nazi with her handbag (Sweden, 1985).
Tank Man (China, 1989).
Daughter of concentration camp prisoner hits a Neo-Nazi with her handbag (Sweden, 1985).
Tank Man (China, 1989).
Actual photograph of the Duke of Wellington, most famous for defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, circa 1844.
Amazing. Also while not at all surprising, crazy how flat the world used to be compared to what we've built upwards nowadays.
In the times of the Mexican Revolution, women also served in various roles that could include them achieving officer status. Comonly referred to as "Las Adelitas" or "Soldaderas".
^^^Colonel Carmen Amelia Robles (Yes, Afro Mexican) from my state.
^^^Colonel Carmen Amelia Robles (Yes, Afro Mexican) from my state.
This thread never stops! That's amazing. Those women probably deserve infinitely more recognition than they ever got. Suck that I know so little about so much of history.
Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United States' first Historical Black University, 1946
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Conrad Heyer (1749–1856) was an American farmer and veteran of the Revolutionary War who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born person known to have been photographed