Rarely Seen moments ... Thx tom Q!

Rarely Seen Moments of US History - 

Telephone wires in New York, 1887

Hanging of a stagecoach robber in Texas, c. 1890-1900

Wood-plank prison in Wyoming, 1893

Chinatown Squad of the San Francisco Police Department posing with sledge hammers and axes in front of August Pistolesi’s grocery store at

752 Washington Street, 1895. They were specialized in opium dens and gambling rooms and their method was simple.

Alice Huyler Ramsey (November 11, 1886 – September 10, 1983), the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast, 1909. Only 152 miles out of the total 3600-mile trip were made on paved road.

North American native Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team in 1909. Originally, the swastika is a sign of good fortune.

A horse-drawn fire engine of Engine No. 39 leaving Fire Headquarters at 157 East 67th Street for the last time after being replaced with a motorized fire engine, New York City, February 19, 1912.

Lawn mowers of the White House grounds, 1918

Motorcycle chariots, 1920s

Log motor home by Wade, 1922

Log motor home by Wade, interior

Neighbors of Japanese origin were already unwanted in some neighborhoods in 1923

Three friends take a joyride on their ‘new’ vehicle, Ohio, c. 1924

North American native switchboard operator, 1925

Workers lay bricks to pave 28th Street in Manhattan, 1930

Drive-In restaurant on West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles,1932

A life guard and a doctor attempt to save a swimmers life on Coney Island Beach, 1940. The woman in the center chose the worst moment for a smile.

Coney Island, NY, 1940

Victure Mature (my favorite "B" actor ever), Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth (both 30 at the time) meet at a movie premier in London. October 1956

Elvis Presley joins the Army, 1958

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev eating a hot dog in Des Moines, Iowa, on which he commented “It’s excellent… we make good sausages but yours are better”, 1959

Couple and friend being abused in a restaurant for the latter being black, USA, 1963

Minoru Yamasaki (right) posing with a model of the World Trade Center he designed, 1964

Portrait of hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk before face masks became standard in 1966

In 1967, challenging the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer, at the time a headstrong 20-year-old junior at Syracuse University,

entered the race. Two miles in, a race official tried to physically remove her from the competition.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on his first time in New York, 1968

New York City sidewalks filled with trash during the 1968 strike of sanitation workers.

US President Richard Nixon jumps down from the trunk of a limousine which carried him and Pakistani President Yahya Khan (left, background) in a

motorcade to Government House after Nixon’s arrival in Lahore on August 1, 1969

Children play a game on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphic user interface, 1973. Its monitor was switchable between portrait and landscape mode.

Statue of Liberty as seen from Jersey City, 1963

President Carter with engineers and solar panels newly installed on the White House, 1979. President Reagan had them removed in 1986, to be

reinstalled by President Obama in 2010

Barack Obama posing with a group of friends that called themselves the Choom Gang, Hawaii, c. 1979. Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.

Robin Williams joins the stunning women of the Denver Broncos’ Pony Express as pro football’s first male cheerleader and prances before

70,000 cheering fans in Denver’s Mile High Stadium.

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan posing with clay soldiers at the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, 1984

John Travolta takes Princess Diana for a dance in the White House, 1985

Rare Photos ... Thx Dr. H and Darrel C!

OLD PHOTOS

The Statue of Liberty's torch is parked in front of the western  side of Madison Square in 1876. A German Tank almost falls off a Russian bridge on July 4, 1941. The first armed airplane of the Serbian army in 1915. Women welders at Lincoln Motor Company in 1918. Times Square in 1922. The dedication of the Washington Monument in 1885. Race official Jock Semple tries to push Kathy Switzer off the road after she attempts to run the Boston Marathon, which at the time was men's only. Number 390 pushing Jock away was Kathy's boyfriend. 1967. The first human x-ray taken by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1896, for his efforts Roentgen was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. The image is of his wife's hand. The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964. Trapeze mining in Bonne Terre Missouri 1917. The world's largest nuclear test, the Tsar Bomba, leaves behind a 95-kilometre high mushroom cloud, Novaya Zemlya , October 1961. Julia Clark in her Exhibition Plane, 1911. Miss Clark was the third woman to receive a pilot's license from the Aero Club of America. She was the first female pilot to die in an air cra sh in the United States in 1912. World's first airplane design without a propeller. The Henry Coanda 1910. Greyhound in 1923. The crew of the USS Lexington abandon ship following torpedo strikes on May 9th, 1942. The first photo of the Earth from the moon taken by Lunar Orbiter in 1966. The first known selfie taken by Nasseraldin shah sometime between 1851 and 1896. Segregated cab service in Alabama in 1962. The first image of Titanic since its sinking in 1912. Taken in 1986. The attack on Pearl Harbor taken from one of the attacking Japanese air cra ft on December 7, 1941. Southwest Airlines stewardesses in 1962. Inside the turrets of the USS Massachusetts, 1898. The funeral of Victor Hugo in 1885. Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840.  More than likely the earliest born individual captured on film. A balancing act atop the Empire State Building in 1934. Ansel Adams, 1979. He broke his nose during the 1906 San Francisco  Earthquake, and never had it fixed. "Högertrafikomläggningen" - the day Sweden switched from driving  On the left to driving on the right (1967). Malcolm X tries to calm Muhammad Ali in 1964. The Dalai Lama at age 2 in 1937. An alien mugshot, part of a 1958 hoax in Bad Axe, Michigan . Hitler practices a speech in front of a mirror in 1925. The London Underground in 1890. Paul McCartney takes a selfie in 1959. Burning the albums of The Beatles in Alabama in 1966. Smuggling beer during prohibition sometime between 1920 and 1933. Illuminated tires invented by Goodyear in 1961. Directional sound finders used to detect incoming enemy planes in 1917. The aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The PGM-11 "Redstone" - the World's First Nuclear Missile  Displayed in Grand Central Station, July 7, 1957. Construction of The Lincoln Memorial in 1921. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++