Interesting old photos

This woman is Emily Lucas of Tunbridge Wells. The child she's holding is her 23rd. Yes, 23rd!

Taken 23rd March 1926

OTMA, ca. 1914

I've seen this story.

I went to an exhibition of the work of Frank meadow Sutcliffe when I was at school (a long time ago) and many of the sepia images have haunted me ever since http://www.whitby-yorkshire.co...cliffe/sutcliffe.htm

Of course, reproductions on the net don't do them justice at all

Kuma,

    Do not knw the site, but will tke a look.

These are all courtesy of Mista H !

Originally Posted by Cbr600:

The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963

 

Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

I don't know which is more sinister, the Nazis or the clown...

Mickey D for sure.

Could put you off burgers for life!

You can also try Shorpy.com

Many interesting historical photos which cover many genre.

Look at these kids from this 1907 *high resolution* photo!

One of the main reaons fr inroducing TV to Tunbridge Wells. Keep the husband occupied

Great images sniper, especially all the kids arsing around

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

 Putting on a crinoline (skirt support), 1855

Recovering bodies after the Titanic disaster, April 1912

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

Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by airplanes to America in 1975

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

5:00 P.M., September 3rd, 1967 Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right - this was the resul

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Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty delivered June 17, 1885

I like the modesty of having a photograph of himself on the bath.

A mirror might have done - for most.

I find the picture of the Polish children being selected by German personnel as one of the saddest pictures I have seen.  This is what happens when people play God.

The men who did the selection, did they go home at nights to their wives and families and say that they had had a hard day at the office?  Did they feel nothing?

Pictures like these should never be lost - they should be shown to every new generation as an example of what happens when thing go horribly wrong.

Don sunny downtown York

As an adjunct to the Apollo capsule picture, sadly they never made it into space, as a cabin fire during a launch pad test killed all 3 crew members.

I remember that horrific indecent well as a young lad fascinated with the space program:

A link to a recently found tourist film of NYC in 1939.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/...s_been_unearthed.php

Fabulous BigH. Love the soundtrack & the colour .

Graham

Very cool footage of my "home town" BigH - it was telling to think of my parents (born 1928 & 1932, the latter having passed last year) could have been those kids splashing around, and my grandparents were the peers of all those young adults, and would have been at many of those very same places & seen those same sights.

Thanks for that...

You can find a vast treasury of old photos here -

http://www.vivianmaier.com/about-vivian-maier/

'Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.

Currently, Vivian Maier’s body of work is being archived and cataloged for the enjoyment of others and for future generations. John Maloof is at the core of this project after reconstructing most of the archive, having been previously dispersed to the various buyers attending that auction. Now, with roughly 90% of her archive reconstructed, Vivian’s work is part of a renaissance in interest in the art of Street Photography'

Nice Sniper.

Thanks, Kevin. Imagine she worked for years as a nanny and spent most of free time poking around every corner of New York but she kept her work a secret and never showed it to anyone indeed much of her work was found in undeveloped rolls. 

Excellent Sniper.

She's a female Henri Cartier-Bresson but grittier.

Another photographer I like from the past is Robert Doisneau.
The same veins as Cartier-Bresson but slightly more humourous. These photos are like French Normal Rockwell.

Nice one Kuma, lovely set of photos. particularly like the leg out of the taxi !!