As the pithy maxim states, “A picture paints a thousand words.” That is so true. It is not just the primary action or object which is being highlighted, but a whole array of other aspects. These embody the clothes being worn, the vehicles being driven and even the advertisements being displayed.
Each of these photographs in itself is a gem. Despite being an eclectic mix, each one evokes the ethos of a bygone, long forgotten era.
The first winner of the Tour de France in 1903
Propellors of the Titanic in 1911
Following his release, a Jew of a German concentration camp points a gun at a Nazi.
Playing golf high up on the Empire State Building in New York City during its 1932 construction
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy, 1944
New York City’s Grand Central Station in 1929. Currently, skyscrapers around the site prevent this illuminating view
Construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
Niagara Falls (Ontario/New York), frozen in 1911
Marilyn Monroe entertains American soldiers during the war in Korea, 1954
Buddhist monk immolation in Saigon, Vietnam, to protest religious persecution of the South Vietnamese government. Since then, this protest is called “self-immolation”
Nelson Mandela raising fists after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964
Nikola Tesla in his laboratory
London, England, children celebrating Christmas in a bomb shelter, 1940
Children suffering from polio are placed into iron lungs, which apply external air pressure and vacuum to allow their own lungs to work, 1937
People from Baileys Circus, 1930
First publicity photo of the Rolling Stones, 1963
Searchlights on the Gibraltar peninsula, protecting against Nazi air attacks in 1942
Samuel Reshevsky, only 8 years old, simultaneously playing against multiple Chess Masters in France, 1920
Three Chinese women accused of witchcraft in 1922
Final four couples of a marathon dance contest in Chicago, USA, in 1930
Selling coats in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1936
Before clocks became popular, Mary Smith made a living waking workers by blowing peas against their windows
Old municpal library in Cincinnati (Ohio) before its demoliton in 1955
Traffic jam in Berlin, Germany, on the first Saturday after the fall of the Wall
Charlie Chaplin and a crowd of supporters in New York City, 1918
Bar clients celebrating the end of Prohibiion in December 1933
Construction of a Zeppelin in 1923
Dirigible over the Capital dome in Washington, DC
Dresden, after the 1945 Allied Forces bombing
Albert Einstein with an Einstein marionette in 1931
A Russian physician in an Antarctic Expedition, removing his own appendix in 1961
Construction of the Christ The Redeemer status in Río de Janeiro, Brazil, 1930
Mick Jagger did look young at one point in his career!
It is unbelievable
Hi Victoria
It is not drawn from one book or article specifically but I have read widely on Churchill over the years because he is my history hero
Some of the strains of the article are based upon Andrew Marr’s latest offering
But when I wrote the article I had to refer to Google for the exact detail
But start with Andrew Marr because many of the ideas originated there
Regards
Dean