Many of these photographs are new to me. They add another view to mankind’s illustrious past.
Main picture: at 17h00 September 3rd, 1967 Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right. Look at the chaos that it generated.
A most beautiful suicide – 23 year old Evelyn McHale leapt to her
death from an observation deck (83rd floor) of the Empire State
Annette Kellerman promoted women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency.
Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty. Delivered June 17, 1885
Santa Claus in New York, circa 1900
President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while visiting China in 1972
Original Ronald clown in 1963
Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by airplanes to America in 1975
New York City fire station, circa. 1912
Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929
Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
Frozen Niagara Falls , 1911
The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1908
Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
Children eating their Christmas dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage.
A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic test 75 miles away, Las Vegas , 1953.
Apollo I crew members rehearsing their water landing in 1966
Abraham Lincoln’s hearse, 1865