Historical Vintage

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Cleveland, Ohio: January 22, 1958 Women office workers entering data using IBM tabulating machines and punch cards at the Erie Railroad Company offices.

United States: c. 1956 A portrait of professional wrestler William Cobb, better known as Happy Humphrey. He was the heaviest professional wrestler of all time, averaging 750 pounds during his career with one occasion of weighing in at over 900 pounds.

New Guinea: c. 1944 Two nurses stand in front of their thatched hut Red Cross shelter in New Guinea during World War II.

New York, New York: c. 1926 A Sheffield Dairy Farms employee working at the milk bottle washing machine during the sterilization process at their New York City plant. Above him is a sign admonishing, "Careful. Bottles Are Expensive".

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: January 7, 1942 The wreckage of a Japanese torpedo plane shot down during the surprise attack on December 7 being salvaged from the bottom of Pearl Harbor.

Baghdad, Iraq: 1932 A Sabean silversmith at work in his jewelry store.

Arctic: c. 1898 Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's ship, the Fram, that he took on his polar venture.

Camp Carroll, Vietnam: June 6, 1967 An Army 175 mm. projectile blasts from a gun near the Demilitarized Zone.

The surrealist artist, Salvador Dali (1904-1989), was photographed with a statuette of the Madonna and Child during a visit to London in 1959. At the time Fleur Cowles was writing a book about him. Date: 03/06/1959

New York, New York: c. 1929 Looking from inside the Arch at Grand Central at the cars coming up Park Avenue.

New York, New Yrok: April, 1938. Four visitors look across the nave toward the unfinished sanctuary and choir at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine. Bishop Manning has launched a million dollar fund drive to complete the cathedral before the opening of the 1939 World's Fair.

San Francisco, California: c. 1936 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge with a view of the catwalks being placed under the cables.

New Haven, Connecticut: c. 1913 The Yale football team at practice. The quarterback is preparing to throw the ball.

Nepal: January 29, 1922 The Prince of Wales watches from his howdah atop an elephant for any big game to break cover while on his hunting expedition in the jungles of Nepal. His gun loaders are in the howdah with him.

New York, New York: March 3, 1937 Sailors on the Finnish training ship, "Swan of Finland" go through their drill atop the rigging. The ship is visiting New York for four days.

New Jersey: c. 1936 A new water sport, speedboat polo, being played under the auspices of the South Jersey Speedboat Association. Spills and thrills add to the excitement.

United States: c. 1900 Two men with a wagon piled high with new chairs.

Akron, Ohio: c. 1930 Working on the nose of the Akron dirigible.

Detroit, Michigan: May, 1964 A Corvair test car on the "glass road" at the General Motors Proving Ground. The car has photo headlamps and a camera focused on the mirror under the glass surface. The mirror reflects the tire's footprint and is photographed at 2200 frames per second at 60 mph.

Berlin, Germany: August 19, 1926 The cockpit of new Junker tri-motored all metal G.23 passenger plane at Tempelhof Aviation Field.

San Diego, California: August 3, 1927 A Navy "daredevil" from the Coronado Naval Air Station jumps from an airplane using two parachutes, both of which are open.

London, England: May 6, 1939 The King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family in the Royal Procession over Westminster Bridge on their way to Waterloo Station today. They are leaving to visit Canada and The U.S.

England: June 22, 1939 Royal Air Force flying boats escort the "Empress of Britain" as she steams up the Solent today.

Gilbert Islands, Pacific Ocean: 1943 United States Marines on a landing barge share viewing a pin-up girl as they approach the Japanese held island of Tarawa.

Paris, France: July 16, 1924 Hawaii's trio of great swimmers, Sam, Dave and Duke Kahanamoku at the Paris tank for the Olympic elimination swimming trials.

Japan: c. 1924 Japanese sumo wrestlers competing in a match while other wrestlers and spectators watch.

United States: c. 1927 A man ready to parachute from a biplane.

New York, New York: April 9, 1939 WPA pickets marching along Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday protesting Work Progress Administration policies.

Los Angeles, California: c. 1926 The world's largest parachute at 85 feet in diameter with which Heard (Herd) McClellan will stall his airplane and then deploy the chute which is attached to the plane and float back to earth while still in the cockpit.

Miami Beach, Florida: 1936 A young woman does a graceful back dive into the Flamingo Pools.

Chicago, Illinois: c. 1935 Three firemen directing a hose at a large building on fire.

Chicago, Illinois: January, 1943 The Union Station concourse with the flags of various countries hanging from the ceiling.

Ft. Worth, Texas, 1901. The Wild Bunch Gang: Front, L-R: Harry Longabaugh, aka The Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, aka The Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy. Back, L-R: Wil Carver, Harvey Logan, aka Kid Curry

Chicago, Illinois: August 12, 1930 A young woman sitting inside the Lindbergh lamp just before it was hoisted to the top of the Palmolive building where it will soon be dedicated as the largest and most powerful beacon in the world. It is five feet in diameter and will have 2 billion candle power and throw a light for 500 miles.

Salinas California USA 1938

New York, New York: May 1, 1920. Sailors on board the USS Pennsylvania cheer as they pass by the Statue of Liberty on their way to port in New York. It literally means liberty to them as they will be given shore leave when they finally anchor.

New York, New York: July 22, 1922 These ingenious radio fans have rigged their canoe with an amplifier and aerial to hear music on the water. They can now have music wherever they are and have no such trouble as winding up a phonograph.

San Francisco, California: June, 1969 A fortunate driver missed a turn and his car ended up precariously balanced on one of the BART roadway construction beams.

Fort Magnesia, Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Land, Canada: c. 1900 An Eskimo family poses in its home.

Washington, D.C.: February 2, 1961 Vice President Lyndon Johnson leans over Jacqueline Kennedy to listen to President John Kennedy at the inaugural ball after their election to office.

New York, New York: 1939 Albert Einstein with his daughter on his lap at the opening of the Jewish Pavillion at the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows in Queens. Grover Whalen is is leaning to talk to him.

New York, New York: c. 1913 Immigrants representing four countries, Poland, Norway, Germany, and Russia, looking from Ellis Island towards the promised land.

Accra, Gold Coast: June 17, 1943 Mallam Isq Katsina (L) and Mallam Bello Kano (R) broadcast to British West Africa from the Gold Coast broadcasting station in Accra. They broadcast regularly in their own language, bringing Africans the latest news and entertainment programs. The Gold Coast became indendent in 1957 and is now known as Ghana.

London, England: c. 1923 Unemployed men in London standing in line at the Employment (Dole Line) Exchange.

New York, New York: c. 1917 Sign on the door says 'Merrill Broker', and possibly Charles Merrill. The photograph looks like a film still, but was used in a book on Wall Street and the author identified the seated man as Charles Merrill.....

Atlanta, Georgia: October 26, 1970. Referee Tony Perez signals the end of the fight between Muhammad Ali and Jerry Quarry. Angelo Dundee, Ali's manager, is at the right.

Film director Sergei Bondarchuk at the shooting of 'War and Peace' by Anonymous /The State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow/1964/Photograph/Russia/Portrait,Genre

A Watering place by Yermakov, Dmitri Ivanovich (1845-1916)/Russian Museum of Ethnography/1880s/Albumin Photo/Russia/Landscape,Genre

Oil wells in Baku at the Caspian Sea by Yermakov, Dmitri Ivanovich (1845-1916)/State Museum of History, Moscow/c. 1890/Photograph/Russia/Landscape,History

A gas mask by Russian Photographer /Moscow Photo Museum (House of Photography)/1930s/Photograph/Russia/Genre,History

Long Beach, California: November 12, 1936. Members of the Striking Committee of the International Seamen's Union pass literature to crew members of the Ford freighter, Lake Osweya.

United States: April 17, 1918 Two groups of African American soldiers having a tug of war contest.

East Boston, Massachusetts: c. 1928 James Chin becomes the first Chinese aviator to get a commercial license at the East Boston airport.

San Francisco, California: August 4, 1972 Two of the founding members of the San Francisco Women's Health Collective on 24st Street in SF.

Washington, D.C.: November 13, 1933 Captain Al Williams, noted speed flyer and driver, and Marvin McIntyre, Secretary to President Roosevelt, standing by the Dymaxion concept car designed by Buckminster Fuller.

Bellingham, Washington: c. 1916 A motorized and portable drag saw being used by lumbermen in Washington. Note the end of the blade exiting the log at the top.

Wichita, Kansas: 1959. Test models of Douglas Aircraft Skybolt missiles nestle under a B-52 wing at Boeing Aircraft's Wichita Division. They were to be hypersonic air to surface ballistic missiles with nuclear capability, but were eventually scrapped in favor of the newly developed submarine based Polaris missile in 1962, by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under President John Kennedy

Stalingrad, Russia: 1942. Russian soldiers fighting against the advancing German army on the outskirts of Stalingrad.

United States: 1963. The TELSTAR II communications satellite. It is virtually indentical to the TELSTAR I, and was launched on May 7, 1963

Washington, D.C.: 1930. Congressman Fred Hartley Jr. of New Jersey buys an apple from one of the unemployed apple vendors in Washington.

San Francisco, California: c. 1960. San Francisco Ballet Company under the Golden Gate Bridge at the Fort Point promenade.

c. 1933 A deep sea diver holds a young porpoise in his hands.©Underwood Archives

Portrait of a mature man standing on a boat

The Flying Concellos Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus 1941

Collapsed house after an earthquake, San Francisco, California, USA, 1906

John D. Rockefeller, (1839-1937), American Industrialist