Mark Twain in Tesla’s lab, 1894
A 10 x 15-foot wooden shed where the “Harley-Davidson Motor Company” started out in 1903
Testing football helmets in 1912
Helmets again: A Pyramid of captured German ones in front of the NYC Grand Central Terminal, 1918
A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began,1920
Mount Rushmore Before Carving, 1920s
Traffic jam in New York, 1923
A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, Florida, 1926
World economic crisis, 1929
Last four couples standing at a Chicago dance marathon, ca. 1930
Meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, early 1930s
Confederate and Union soldiers shake hands across the wall at the 1938 reunion for the Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg
When
they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their
children, flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their
sacks, 1939
NY, Coney Island, 1940
(Wow! Let's all go swimming!)
The thirty-six men needed to fly and service a B-17E in 1942
A man begging for his wife’s forgiveness inside Divorce Court. Chicago, 1948
Three young women wash their clothes in Central Park during a water shortage. New York, 1949
19
year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and
went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he
crossed the finish line. (UPDATE: As Peter notes in the
comments below, “Tanaka was not exactly “a survivor of the bombing of
Hiroshima” — when the bomb was dropped, he was at home, about 20 miles
from the site. He saw a light and heard a distant rumble, but was
personally unaffected by the bomb.”)
Florida’s last Civil War veteran, Bill Lundy, poses with a jet fighter, 1955
NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1960′s
Muhammad Ali’s fists after the fight with Cooper, 1963
New York firemen play a game after a fire in a billiard parlor, 1969
An abandoned baby sleeps peacefully in a drawer at the Los Angeles Police Station, 1971
Boy hiding in a TV set. Boston, 1972 by Arthur Tress
A spectator holds up a sign at the Academy Awards, April 1974
Robert
De Niro’s cab driver license. In order to get into character for the
film Taxi Driver, he obtained his own hack license and would
pick-up/drive customers around in New York City.
Nancy Reagan sits on the lap of Mr. T, dressed as Santa, 1983
Ronald Reagan wearing sweatpants on Air Force One, 1985
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