Historical and Old Pictures

 The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861

 Hippo cart in 1924. The hippo belonged to a circus and apparently enjoyed pulling the cart as a trick

 Charlie Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27

 Suntan vending machine, 1949

 Annie Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She did it in 1901 because she needed money, and after doing it said she wouldn't recommend it to anyone!

Only known authenticated photo of Billy the Kid,ca. 1879

 Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan, ca. 1944

 Jesse James, approximately 16 years old

 Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. 

Sign was put up at the 363rd station hospital in 

Papua, New Guinea during WWII

 How could parents ensure that their children were getting sunlight 

and fresh air when living in apartment buildings? 

The baby cage, ca. 1937

 Hotel owner pouring acid in the water 

when black people swam in his pool, ca. 1964

 Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940

 Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her 

bomb damaged home, London , 1940.

 Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956.

 Artificial legs, United Kingdom , ca. 1890.

Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965

 1920's lifeguard

 1928 fashion show at the beach

Measuring bathing suits in the early 1920s. 
If they were too short, the women would be fined

 Former slave showing whipping scars

 A space chimp poses for the camera 

after a successful mission to space in 1961

 Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923

 A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud 

after an atomic test 75 miles away, Las Vegas , 1953

 Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo advanced plastic surgery. 

His eyelids were damaged in World War I,

and he got a skin transplant to replace them.

 Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929

Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

 The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

 Children eating their Christmas dinner 

during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage

 Annette Kellerman promoted women's right 

to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… 

She was arrested for indecency.

Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight in 1893

 Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side 

removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960

 Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

 Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

 Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865

 Frozen Niagara Falls , 1911

Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

 A penniless mother hides her face in shame 

after putting her children up for sale, Chicago , 1948

 A most beautiful suicide - 23 year old Evelyn McHale 

leapt to her death from an observation deck 

(83rd floor)of the Empire State Building , May 1, 1947. 

She landed on a United Nations limousine…;

 The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927

 Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire 

at Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London , 1930

 New York City fire station, ca. 1912

 Polish children examined by German officers 

to see if they qualify as Aryan, and would be allowed to live

 Santa Claus in New York, ca. 1900

 Smallpox victim, New York , 1881

 Sweden changed from driving on the left side 

to driving on the right - this was the result

Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Libertydelivered June 17, 1885 

July 2013