Monday, March 24, 2014

HISTORY'S FORGOTTEN IMAGES

Photos from 1858 on.
All are of the USA.
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Abe Lincoln inspects the battle-field 1862.

An American field hospital in the bombed out remains of a French church in 1918.

Bonnie and Clyde's car following the shootout that ended the two outlaws. The gunfire barrage was
so loud that many members of the posse experienced temporary deafness.

Car crash.

Civil War veterans and survivors of Gettysburg shake hands in 1913.

Albert Einstein visits The Grand Canyon in 1922.

The first ambulance: Bellevue Hospital Center, NY, 1869

Children in iron lungs before the advent of the polio vaccine in 1937.

The first known sports team photo ever taken, The 1858 Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, Hoboken,
New Jersey.


Mark Twain 1905.

12th Street in Miami, Florida in 1908.

Michigan Loggers 1890.

The old Pony Express and the future of mail delivery.

Prohibition begins and alcohol is poured down the drain in 1921.

Woodstock.

Civil War veteran Samuel Decker poses with the prosthetic arms he made for himself... somehow.

A group of school children visit a bison in 1899.

School-house, Alabama.

Cheif Sitting Bull and Billy the Kid.

Leisure time, Civil War.

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