Outstanding Historical Photos ... Thx Clay V!

Outstanding Historical Photos
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:04:21 -0500



 

 

 

 

Miss America 1924

 

 

Helen Keller Meeting Charlie Chaplin

 

 

Leather gloves worn by Lincoln to Ford's Theater on the

night of his assassination. Blood stains are visible at the cuffs.

 

 

Phoebe Mozee (aka: Annie Oakley). Famed for her marksmanship by 12 years old,

she once shot the ashes off of Kaiser Wihelm II's cigarette at his invitation.

When she outshot famed exhibition marksman Frank

Butler, he fell in love with her and they married.

They remained married the rest of their lives.

 

 

Very Young Lucy Lucille Ball around 1930

 

 

Two Victorian sideshow performers boxing - the fat man and the thin man.

 

 

Amy Johnson, English aviator 1903-1941 One of the first women to gain a pilot's licence,

Johnson won fame when she flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930. Her dangerous

flight took 17 days. Later she flew solo to India and Japan and became the first woman

to fly across the Atlantic East to West, she volunteered to fly for The Women's Auxiialry

Air Force in WW2, but her plane was shot down over the River Thames and she was killed.

 

 

Prison Garb 1924. Belva Annan murderess whose

trial records became the musical "Chicago."

 

 

Female photojournalist Jessie Tarbox

on the street with her camera, 1900s.

 

 

Roald Amundsen was the first person to

reach the South Pole. At approximately 3pm on

December 14, 1911, Amundsen raised the

flag of Norway at the South Pole and named the spot Polheim — “Pole Home.”

 

 

The extraordinary life of Maud Allen: Seductive US

dancing girl who was sued for being too lewd,

outed as a lesbian, and fled London after being

branded a German spy who was sleeping with the

prime minister's wife.

 

 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

 

Wedding day photograph of Abraham and Mary

taken November 4, 1842 in Springfield, Illinois