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| A horse-drawn fire engine of Engine No. 39 leaving Fire Headquarters at 157 East 67th Street for the last time after being replaced with a motorized fire engine, New York City, February 19, 1912. |
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| A life guard and a doctor attempt to save a swimmers life on Coney Island Beach, 1940. The woman in the center chose the worst moment for a smile. |
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| Alice Huyler Ramsey (November 11, 1886 – September 10, 1983), the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast, 1909. Only 152 miles out of the total 3600-mile trip were made on paved road. |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger on his first time in New York, 1968 |
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| Barack Obama posing with a group of friends that called themselves the Choom Gang, Hawaii, c. 1979. Choom was slang for smoking marijuana. |
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| Burnt District Coffee House in Chicago after the Fire, 1871. Chicago entrepreneurs quickly reacted to establish or reestablish businesses in the fire district. |
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| In 1967, challenging the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer, at the time a headstrong 20-year-old junior at Syracuse University, entered the race. Two miles in, a race official tried to physically remove her from the competition. |
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| Children play a game on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphic user interface, 1973. Its monitor was switchable between portrait and landscape mode. |
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| Chinatown Squad of the San Francisco Police Department posing with sledge hammers and axes in front of August Pistolesi’s grocery store at 752 Washington Street, 1895. They were specialized in opium dens and gambling rooms and their method was simple. |
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| Coney Island, NY, 1940 |
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| Couple and friend being abused in a restaurant for the latter being black, USA, 1963 |
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| Drive-In restaurant on West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles,1932 |
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| Elvis Presley joins the Army, 1958 |
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| Hanging of a stagecoach robber in Texas, c. 1890-1900 |
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| John Travolta takes Princess Diana for a dance in the White House, 1985 |
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| La Plaza, as seen from the Pico House. Pueblo Los Angeles, c. 1869 |
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| Lawn mowers of the White House grounds, 1918 |
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| Log motor home by Wade, interior |
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| Log motor home by Wade, 1922 |
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| Minoru Yamasaki (right) posing with a model of the World Trade Center he designed, 1964 |
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| Motorcycle chariots, 1920s |
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| Neighbors of Japanese origin were already unwanted in some neighborhoods in 1923 |
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| New York City sidewalks filled with trash during the 1968 strike of sanitation workers. |
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| North American native Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team in 1909. |
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| North American native switchboard operator, 1925 |
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| Opium den in San Francisco, 1900 |
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| Portrait of hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk before face masks became standard in 1966 |
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| President Carter with engineers and solar panels newly installed on the White House, 1979. President Reagan had them removed in 1986, to be reinstalled by President Obama in 2010 |
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| Robin Williams joins the stunning women of the Denver Broncos’ Pony Express as profootball’s first male cheerleader and prances before 70,000 cheering fans in Denver’s Mile High Stadium. |
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| Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan posing with clay soldiers at the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, 1984 |
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| Slave auction place, c. 1870 |
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| Statue of Liberty as seen from Jersey City, 1963 |
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| Telephone wires in New York, 1887 |
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| Three friends take a joyride on their ‘new’ vehicle, Ohio, c. 1924 |
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| US President Richard Nixon jumps down from the trunk of a limousine which carried him and Pakistani President Yahya Khan (left, background) in a motorcade to Government House after Nixon’s arrival in Lahore on August 1, 1969 |
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| Victure Mature, Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth (both 30 at the time) meet at a movie premier in London. October 1956 |
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| Wood-plank prison in Wyoming, 1893 |
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| Workers lay bricks to pave 28th Street in Manhattan, 1930 |
7 comments:
According to Wikipedia Alice Ramsey had three other women with her as traveling companions, but none of the other women could drive. She changed tires nineteen times. Made the trip in 1909 at age 22 and interestingly she was a married woman (1907) who already had one child. Trip from Manhattan to San Francisco took 59 days. How did she do it? She followed telephone poles in the hope they would take her to the next town. I guess they mostly reached the towns because according to the article they only had to sleep rough once. Surrounded by Indians with drawn bows in Nevada.
I love these old photos. The history that is preserved is fascinating.
Just think how bleak it will be in 100 years when all of the photo history that we have today is gone because digital photos, unlike tangible photos, are easily erased or lost because technology has changed.
Our descendants will miss being able to see photos of their ancestors or photos of the times and places. Gone gone gone and we will be nothing be a vague memory because we didn't preserve our own history.
The convenience of digitized photographs is a poor trade off for future generations to be able to connect with the past.
I suspect the woman is smiling in the second photo because it's her husband who got pulled out of the water by her lover, and he took his time getting to him. Just a suspicion.
Great photos. Thanks
I enjoyed looking at the photos. Thanks for posting. The woman who made the transcontinental auto trip didn't wear a floor length overcoat for reasons of warmth. Horseshit was everywhere. I'm not speaking metaphorically. It was literally everywhere, and you had to cover up. I'm not just talking about the wet plops of horseshit. It used to dry out and then the wind would blow it everywhere. That's why everyone wore hats. Who wants dried horseshit in their hair. And goggles. You could have dried horseshit blow in your eyes and go blind. And your lungs. I bet a lot of people got horseshit lung disease but it was never properly diagnosed.......Those who complain about CO2 emissions do not take due cognizance of the costs of living in a biodegradable environment. Human beings are the most biodegradable product in a fully biodegradable environment.
Old happens, and it happens faster than you can imagine. I graduated from high school in 1964, our 50th high school reunion was in 2014. Fifty years before 1964, was 1914, when WWI started, 50 years before that was 1864, the Civil War was still going on. Just think how things have changed.
The Choom Gang looks like a bunch of rich preppy boys having fun slumming it.
Obama replacing the solar panels originally installed by Carter and removed by Reagan. Tediously typical. Welfare for right-minded rich people stuck in bygone era.
Queen Elizabeth was hot back in the day, even standing next to MM.
Robin Williams was adorable. Miss him.
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