Historical and Old Pictures

Historical
and Old Pictures!!!!









The
Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861













Hippo
cart in 1924. The hippo belonged to a circus and
apparently
enjoyed pulling the cart as a trick



















Charlie
Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27



















Suntan
vending machine, 1949



















Annie
Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to
survive
going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She
did
it in 1901 because she
needed money, and after
doing
it said she wouldn't recommend it to anyone!







Only
known authenticated photo of Billy the Kid,ca. 1879



















Sharing
bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan ,
ca.
1944



















Jesse
James, approximately 16 years old



















Advertisement
for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Sign



was
put up at the 363rd station hospital in Papua,
New Guinea during
WWII








How
could parents ensure
that their children were getting
sunlight
and fresh air when living in apartment buildings?
The baby cage,
ca. 1937



















Hotel
owner pouring acid in the water when black people
swam in his
pool, ca. 1964



















Bookstore
ruined by an air raid, London 1940



















Little
girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her
bomb
damaged home, London , 1940















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Animals
being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956









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Artificial
legs, United Kingdom , ca. 1890















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Unknown
soldier in Vietnam , 1965



















1920's
lifeguard



















1928
fashion show at the beach



















Former
slave showing whipping scars

























Measuring
bathing suits in the early 1920s. If they
were
too short, the
women would be fined

























A
space chimp poses for the camera after a
successful mission
to space in 1961



















Testing
new bulletproof vests, 1923

























A
mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic

test
75 miles away, Las Vegas , 1953



















Walter
Yeo, one of the first people to
undergo advanced
plastic
surgery. His eyelids were damaged in World War I,
and
he got a skin transplant to replace them.







Illegal
alcohol being poured out during Prohibition,
Detroit
1929







Austrian
boy receives new shoes during WWII













The
Ford Theater, where
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated



















Children
eating their Christmas dinner during the
Great
Depression: turnips and cabbage

























Annette
Kellerman promoted women's right to wear
a
fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… She was
arrested
for indecency.



















Princeton
students after a freshman vs. sophomores
snowball
fight in 1893













Martin
Luther King Jr. with his son by his side
removing
a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960

























The
original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963







Apollo
I crew members rehearsing their water landing
in
1966



















President
Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while
visiting
China in 1972



















Construction
of the Manhattan Bridge , 1908

























Construction
of the Berlin wall, 1961



















Hitler's
officers and cadets celebrating Christmas,
1941

























Abraham
Lincoln's hearse, 1865

























Frozen
Niagara Falls , 1911

























Last
prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963













A
penniless mother hides her face in shame after
putting
her children up for sale, Chicago , 1948

























Putting
on a crinoline (skirt support), 1855







Recovering
bodies after the Titanic disaster,
April 1912









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A
most beautiful suicide
- 23
year old Evelyn McHale
leapt to her death from an observation deck
(83rd floor)
of the Empire State Building , May 1, 1947. She
landed
on a United Nations limousine…



















The
real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin,
ca.
1927













Melted
and damaged mannequins after a fire at
Madam
Tussaud's Wax Museum in London , 1930

























New
York City fire station, ca. 1912

























Operation
Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by
airplanes
to America in 1975

























Polish
children examined by German officers to see if
they qualify as
Aryan, and would be allowed to live



















Santa
Claus in New York, ca. 1900

























Smallpox
victim, New York , 1881

























5:00
P.M., September 3rd, 1967
Sweden changed from driving on the left
side to driving
on the right - this was the result

























Unpacking
the Head of the Statue of Liberty
delivered June 17, 1885