[BITList] Wonderful old photographs

[ronald.thomas at sfr.fr]

      Quite a collection! RT

                                Boxing in Yankee stadium (1923).


                                A Russian spy laughing through his execution 
(1939).


                                The evacuation of Saigon , in which some 45 
UH-1 Hueys and one CH-47 Chinook were pushed overboard to make room for 
others to land (1975).


                                The first passengers on the brand new New 
York subway (1904).


                                Ernest Hemingway at a Havana bar (date 
unknown).


                                Princeton students after a 
Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893).


                                Policemen inspect a “lumber truck” that 
smelled of alcohol during prohibition (1926).


                                Archduke Franz Ferdinand with wife on the 
day they’re assassinated, which contributed to the start of WWI (1914).


                                A native American watching the newly 
completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada (1868).


                                The oldest running car on the planet: the 
1884 De Dion, Bouton et Trepardou Dos-à-Dos.


                                A newly liberated French citizen happily 
lights Winston Churchill’s cigar (1944).


                                A US soldier offering his hand to a woman 
leaving a cave during WWII.


                                Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.


                                The last picture of the Titanic before 
sinking (1912).


                                A pyramid of helmets from captured German 
soldiers on display in New York (1918).


                                Construction of Brasilia City , which would 
later become the capital of Brazil (1960).


                                Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When 
questioned about the stunt, the test pilot said: “just selling airplanes.”


                                Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein debating over 
quantum mechanics (1925).


                                Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960).


                                106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her 
home with an AK-47 (1990).


                                Star Wars set at lunchtime.


                                A WWI submarine washed ashore on the beach 
in England .




                                William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914).


                                Execution of a German communist in Munich 
(1919).


                                Muhammad Ali trying to talk down a suicidal 
man (1981).


                                Construction of Mt. Rushmore National 
Memorial (1939).


                                The assembly line of Porsche 911s at the 
Stuttgart factory (1970)


                                American soldiers discover Manet’s painting 
hidden in the salt mines of Merker, Germany (1945).


                                John Young and Charles Duke training for the 
Apollo 16 mission in the New Mexico desert.


                                A rebel soldier tosses a grenade into a 
loyalist position in Burgos , Spain (1936).


                                Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family’s 
flat in Amsterdam (1942).


                                Archaeologist Howard Carter examining the 
opened sarcophagus of King Tut.


                                Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm 
“Schwerer Gustav” railway gun – the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used 
in combat (1942).


                                Russian soldiers preparing for a gas attack 
against German positions (1916).


                                Eyes of hate: a photo of Goebbels after 
finding out his photographer is Jewish.


                                The first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 by 
Sam Walton. It was called Walton’s Five and Dime.


                                The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that 
dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima .


                                Albert Einstein’s desk photographed the day 
after his death.


                                B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth , Texas 
(1944).


                                The Cologne cathedral amidst the ruins 
(1944).


                                A rare photo of a young Winston Churchill 
(1895).


                                The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge 
in San Francisco (1937).


                                Pre-Taliban days in Afghanistan when women 
enjoyed professional careers, university education, etc.
                                By mid-90s, the Taliban outlawed employment 
and education of women over the age of 8.


                                Gadget, the first atomic bomb.


                                The night they ended Prohibition (December 
5, 1933).


                                German prisoners marching to Moscow after 
their defeat at Belarus (1944).


                                Testing a bulletproof vest (1923).


                                Gas masks for babies tested at an English 
hospital (1940).


                                Control room of the UB-110 German submarine 
(1918).


                                A V-1 flying bomb “buzzbomb” plunging toward 
London (1945).


                                Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie in space (1966).


                                Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several 
chess masters at once in France (1920).


                                USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer 
Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen, China (1945).


                                An assassin attacking the socialist 
politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo , Japan (1960).


                                A woman who survived the Nagasaki bombing 
(1945).


                                The first car factory in the US for Ford 
(1926).


                                Allied forces mocking Hitler (1945).


                                A US soldier replacing “Adolf-Hitler-Str.” 
sign with “ Roosevelt Blvd ” in Berlin , Germany (1945).


                                The 2,800 years old kiss.


                                Nine Kings in one photo (1910).


                                Mark Twain pays a visit to Nikolai Tesla’s 
lab (1894).







































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