[BITList] Old photos!
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franka at iinet.net.au
Mon Aug 18 01:50:56 BST 2014
Amazing where they get these old photo's from . . ..
Difficult to find a "thread" linking this collection
together....
No thread, but *_very_* interesting.. George Bush and Bill
Clinton,
note how young they are in the picture.
The iceberg the Titanic hit is also one I had no Idea about.
Rare, and very interesting, old photographs...
http://i.imgur.com/2bxQr0N.jpgK
September 1933 - Adolf Hitler breaks ground on his ambitious
plans to link all major German cities with highways. This
ceremony kicked off construction of the Frankfurt-am-Maine -
Darmstadt/Mannheim highway.
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Betty White at home with her dog in 1952
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An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark
of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the
iceberg that sank the Titanic.
http://i.imgur.com/x8ijTXi.jpg
Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16
minute space flight in 1961.
http://i.imgur.com/qp7CxCZ.jpg
The rather luxurious seating area of the submarine,
The Protector, in 1902.
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Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890.
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The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior"
explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns
in 1944.
http://i.imgur.com/eYsLHlu.jpg
The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
http://i.imgur.com/nOk3vXK.jpg
Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912.
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Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie
"Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking
Plaszow labor camp, Poland. 1943-44.
http://i.imgur.com/Or9t9FT.jpg
Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966.
http://i.imgur.com/BqJWpHh.jpg
1945 - German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch
footage shot at a German concentration camp.
http://i.imgur.com/G2gbO1R.jpg
June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish sniper/sharpshooter,
dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs.
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Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the
1964 World's Fair.
http://i.imgur.com/C8zIKki.jpg
The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935.
http://i.imgur.com/KggW39P.jpg
Children for sale in Chicago, 1948.
Some parents sold their children due to poverty.
http://i.imgur.com/sTYW5hg.jpg
Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader,
Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994.
http://i.imgur.com/GhwjSwT.jpg
Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864.
http://i.imgur.com/7nKI0x6.jpg
The mugshot of Tokyo Rose, 1946.
http://i.imgur.com/z5r7E1J.jpg
A rescue boat comes alongside the crippled USS West Virginia
shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
http://i.imgur.com/GDQIXen.jpg
Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides
of a demonstration in 1972.
http://i.imgur.com/l8g4EMW.jpg
Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in
1912.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Zniszczenia1
Wieluñ just after German Luftwaffe bombing the 1st of
September 1939. Not only did this bombing provide a spark
for World War II, but it is generally believed to be the
first terrorist bombing in history.
http://i.imgur.com/NgXIyCv.jpg
Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human
ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.
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A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944.
http://i.imgur.com/lldCNqs.jpg
Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland's opening day
in 1955.
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A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of
The Wall of Death carnival attraction at
Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929.
http://i.imgur.com/kg0zfzz.jpg
Future presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush with
Governor George Wallace at a BBQ in 1983.
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-000060.jpg
Dr. Werhner von Braun and Walt Disney in 1954.
http://i.imgur.com/0hdgv2k.jpg
The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in
1942.
http://i.imgur.com/4VtmgOH.jpg
The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime
camouflage in 1915.
http://i.imgur.com/lJKsgRd.jpg
Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II
two years before their assassination in 1916.
http://i.imgur.com/Q5D3oyS.jpg
Children rush into a candy store following the end of
"sweets rationing" in 1953.
http://i.imgur.com/SzIkeZU.jpg
Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war
in the early 1950's.
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Albert Einstein brings sexy back in 1932.
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What is thought to be the oldest known war photograph:
New Hampshire volunteers depart for the Mexican War in 1846.
http://i.imgur.com/WOdC6ji.jpg
Coney Island in 1905.
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George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966.
http://i.imgur.com/CnWcHX8.jpg
Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the
1970's.
http://i.imgur.com/UV2uY7x.jpg
Six year-old Arthur Conan-Doyle in 1865.
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Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934.
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Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939.
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Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925.
http://i.imgur.com/GJMB6mK.jpg
OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984.
Nichole Brown can be seen on the left.
http://i.imgur.com/Hut2oS5.jpg
A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation
on an underground nuclear test in 1961.
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Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969.
None of them have been seen since!
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Amelia Earhart receives what proved to be her last haircut
in 1937.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Wartuba.jpg
The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft
before the invention of radar. Circa 1930.
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Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941. This
is where the Pentagon stands today.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Mark_Twain-S
Mark Twain in 1883.
http://i.imgur.com/xohjtJq.jpg
The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an
estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas.
http://i.imgur.com/tMWRjyZ.jpg
Prosthetic legs in 1900.
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Is this the mummified body of John Wilkes Booth?
No... but it traveled the country for decades as a carnival
exhibit under that claim. Circa 1939.
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The earliest known aerial photograph,
taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858.
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