Old and rare photos ... Thx Ramey H!

1. Born 110 years ago, Red Grange carries the ball in his professional debut for the Chicago Bears in front of 39,000 people on Thanksgiving Day 1925. (average game attendance was about 5,000 up to that time).   2. The face of an NHL goalie before masks became standard equipment.  Terry Sawchuk, Detroit Red Wings goalie.  NHL Hall of Fame retired by Detroit.         3. The first ever team photo in baseball history, 1858.       4. Members of the Stealth Bomber football squad at Gallaudet University, 1920. It was the first university for the deaf and they started the concept of the football huddle so other teams couldn't see their signs.       5. U.S. chess prodigy, Bobby Fisher, playing 50 opponents simultaneously at his Hollywood hotel on 12 April 1964.  He won 47, lost 1 and drew 2.       6. The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, 1931.       7. Old Cincinnati Library, looking at one of the large cast-iron book alcoves that lined the Main Reading Hall, circa 1900.       8. The Hindenburg successfully landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May, 1936.           9. This is what Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like if they hadn't run out of funding in 1941.       10. Last public execution in USA, 1936.                     12. Suburbia: move-in day 1950.         13. Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination.  Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937.       14. Andr�oussimoff (Later known as the Giant) Cannes, France, 1967.             15. An aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb detonation, taken July 20, 1946.                                                                  --- END ---

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