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Historical and interesting photos
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Wow - some awesome photos there
I found one recently that dealt with a topic we don't see anymore in this day and age of right wing political correctness:
Very famous antiwar and anti-draft poster from the Vietnam era. Proceeds from sales of these went to help those in litigation over the draft and the war.
Wow - some awesome photos there
I found one recently that dealt with a topic we don't see anymore in this day and age of right wing political correctness:
Very famous antiwar and anti-draft poster from the Vietnam era. Proceeds from sales of these went to help those in litigation over the draft and the war.
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you are older than you think. :lol:
ClassicPics @History_Pics
Sydney Opera House under construction, 1966. pic.twitter.com/W4xKufFNau
you are older than you think. :lol:
ClassicPics @History_Pics Sydney Opera House under construction, 1966. pic.twitter.com/W4xKufFNau
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The very first known photograph of London: Parliament Street from Trafalgar Square, 1839. In the foreground there is a statue of Charles I and in the distance the Banqueting House, outside of which Charles I was beheaded during the English Civil War in 1649. Banqueting House is the only part of the Palace of Whitehall which still exists. The Palace of Whitehall was Europe's biggest palace, but was burnt down in 1698, leaving only Banqueting House. In the photo there are also traces of the people who stayed still long enough to register on the exposure, which probably lasted some minutes. To the left, against the kerb, can be seen a man in a Hackney carriage and there appear to be one or two people sat down in the foreground.
Parliament Street is the southern extension of Whitehall, leading to Parliament Square and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. However, at the time this photo was taken the Houses of Parliament (located inside the Palace of Westminster) were being rebuilt after they were almost totally destroyed by a huge fire in 1834, with only small sections of the old building surviving. The fire was popular, with those watching it cheering it on! In the meantime, the immediate priority was to provide accommodation for the next Parliament, and so the Painted Chamber and White Chamber were hastily repaired for temporary use by the Houses of Lords and Commons respectively, under the direction of the only remaining architect of the Office of Works, Sir Robert Smirke. Works proceeded quickly and the chambers were ready for use by February 1835. It was not until 1870 that the Palace of Westminster was completely rebuilt.
Parliament Street today taken from the same location as the photo above, with the Charles I statue still there and the rebuilt Houses of Parliament. Parliament Street is the southern extension of Whitehall. Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea. Recognised as the centre of Her Majesty's Government, the street is lined with government departments and ministries; the name "Whitehall" is thus also frequently used as a metonym for overall British governmental administration.
The very first known photograph of London: Parliament Street from Trafalgar Square, 1839. In the foreground there is a statue of Charles I and in the distance the Banqueting House, outside of which Charles I was beheaded during the English Civil War in 1649. Banqueting House is the only part of the Palace of Whitehall which still exists. The Palace of Whitehall was Europe's biggest palace, but was burnt down in 1698, leaving only Banqueting House. In the photo there are also traces of the people who stayed still long enough to register on the exposure, which probably lasted some minutes. To the left, against the kerb, can be seen a man in a Hackney carriage and there appear to be one or two people sat down in the foreground.
Parliament Street is the southern extension of Whitehall, leading to Parliament Square and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. However, at the time this photo was taken the Houses of Parliament (located inside the Palace of Westminster) were being rebuilt after they were almost totally destroyed by a huge fire in 1834, with only small sections of the old building surviving. The fire was popular, with those watching it cheering it on! In the meantime, the immediate priority was to provide accommodation for the next Parliament, and so the Painted Chamber and White Chamber were hastily repaired for temporary use by the Houses of Lords and Commons respectively, under the direction of the only remaining architect of the Office of Works, Sir Robert Smirke. Works proceeded quickly and the chambers were ready for use by February 1835. It was not until 1870 that the Palace of Westminster was completely rebuilt.
Parliament Street today taken from the same location as the photo above, with the Charles I statue still there and the rebuilt Houses of Parliament. Parliament Street is the southern extension of Whitehall. Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea. Recognised as the centre of Her Majesty's Government, the street is lined with government departments and ministries; the name "Whitehall" is thus also frequently used as a metonym for overall British governmental administration.
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And still desperately searching for that mysterious Fountain of Youth!
And still desperately searching for that mysterious Fountain of Youth!
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the pictures showing the struggles for equality are quite something. Its almost incomprehensible that any one would think skin colour equated to less than human or that a woman showing too much leg could be fined and punished for indecency...
Pinterest has some amazing photo's with descriptions.
History on Pinterest - old photos, timelines and other infographics
the pictures showing the struggles for equality are quite something. Its almost incomprehensible that any one would think skin colour equated to less than human or that a woman showing too much leg could be fined and punished for indecency...
Pinterest has some amazing photo's with descriptions.
History on Pinterest - old photos, timelines and other infographics
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$80 a gr downtown.
And still desperately searching for that mysterious Fountain of Youth!
$80 a gr downtown.
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First Photograph of a US President
John Quincy Adams, 1843 - The first known photograph of a US President. He served as the 6th President between 1825 and 1829
Just as soon as photography made it over the Atlantic to the United States from Britain and France, some people were already so over them - or at least President John Quincy Adams didn’t think it was a big deal. As the Atlantic reported, this is the oldest known photograph of a US president (the first is thought to be of William Henry Harrison, although it’s long lost. Harrison was the 9th US President for just a month - 4th March 1841 to 4th April 1841). In his meticulous diary of the day it was taken — on a New York trip in August of 1843 — Adams gave as much attention to “a visit to the dwarf C.F. Stratton, called General Tom Thumb, eleven years old, twenty-five inches high, weighing fifteen pounds, dressed in military uniform mimicking Napoleon” as his stop for four daguerreotype likenesses, “all hideous.” The loathed image was found in an antique store in the 1970s and purchased for just 50 cents, although now it’s in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
First Photograph of an Amputation
Photograph of an amputation on April 18th, 1847 during the Mexican-American War of Sergeant Antonio Bustos by Belgian surgeon Pedro Vander Linden (who is holding the leg)
First Photograph of Drinking
Edinburgh Ale photograph from 1844, salted paper print from paper calotype negative (via Metropolitan Museum of Art)
This is known to be the first photograph of people drinking, perhaps even of people partying. Taken probably in Edinburgh in 1844 by British painter and photographer David Octavius Hill, it shows him (right) with writer and artist James Ballantine (left) and commissioner Dr. George William Bell (centre), partaking in three glasses of Edinburgh ale, “a potent fluid, which almost glued the lips of the drinker together, and of which few, therefore, could dispatch more than a bottle.”
First News Photograph
A French 1847 daguerreotype believed to be the first news photograph, as well as the first photograph of an arrest (via Three Lions/Getty Images)
This 1847 daguerreotype from France is thought to be the first news photograph, as well as the first photograph of an arrest, perhaps also documenting the first gaze of defiance on camera from the accused criminal.
First Photograph of the Sun
Daguerreotype of the sun from April 2, 1845 by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault (via National Science Foundation, High Altitude Observatory)
Taken on April 2nd, 1845 using 1/60th of a second exposure by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault, the photograph was just 4.7 inches but as National Geographic reported, still caught sunspots, visible in photography for the first time.
First Photographic Hoax
First Hoax Photograph: Hippolyte Bayard, “Self Portrait as a Drowned Man” (1840) (via Juan Carlos M. Rosas/Flickr user)
And just as soon as people were able to take their own photographs, the use of it for staged hoaxes came about, appropriately, in response to a scandal among the pioneers of photography. French photographer Hippolyte Bayard, who had his own innovative ideas about the process of photography, staged a self-portrait of his fake suicide in response to a friend of Louis Daguerre’s convincing him to delay his announcement to the French Academy of Sciences, which of course propelled Daguerre and his daguerreotype to fame. Here he is in his 1840 photograph posed like a drowned man, and on the back he wrote a note asserting that it was his corpse and that the suicide was a direct cause of Daguerre and the Academy. He sent copies of it off to his enemies, and while he may not be the celebrated pioneer that Daguerre is, at least he has this first photographic prank.
First Photograph of People Playing Chess
First photograph of people playing chess with Nicolaas Henneman (1841) (via allposters.com)
This 1841 giclée by Nicolaas Henneman (who is actually one of the players) may be the first photograph of people playing chess, but it might not have been his last. This photograph of chess players from 1841 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is also attributed to Henneman, although has a decidedly more engaging posing, even breaking the fourth wall, perhaps another photographic first, at least in photographs of gaming.
First Photograph to Illustrate a News Story
Daguerreotype of the Barricade in the Rue Saint Maur-Popincourt on June 26, 1848 (via Musée d’Orsay)
In 1848, the first photograph to be used to illustrate a news story was made. This photograph of the revolution in Paris, a four-day insurrection in June that left thousands dead in the streets of Paris, is now in the Musée d’Orsay. You can make out the barricade on the narrow street. Revolution started in France in February 1848, and that month saw the overthrow of King Louis Philippe I, France's last monarch. He fled to England and remained there in exile until his death in 1850. On 23 June 1848, the people of Paris rose in insurrection, which became known as June Days Uprising - a bloody but unsuccessful rebellion by the Paris workers against a conservative turn in the Republic's course. On 2 December 1848, Louis Napoleon (Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew) was elected President of the Second Republic, largely on peasant support. 1848 was a year in which revolution spread throughout Europe, with usually peaceful Britain also being affected.
First Photograph of a US President
John Quincy Adams, 1843 - The first known photograph of a US President. He served as the 6th President between 1825 and 1829
Just as soon as photography made it over the Atlantic to the United States from Britain and France, some people were already so over them - or at least President John Quincy Adams didn’t think it was a big deal. As the Atlantic reported, this is the oldest known photograph of a US president (the first is thought to be of William Henry Harrison, although it’s long lost. Harrison was the 9th US President for just a month - 4th March 1841 to 4th April 1841). In his meticulous diary of the day it was taken — on a New York trip in August of 1843 — Adams gave as much attention to “a visit to the dwarf C.F. Stratton, called General Tom Thumb, eleven years old, twenty-five inches high, weighing fifteen pounds, dressed in military uniform mimicking Napoleon” as his stop for four daguerreotype likenesses, “all hideous.” The loathed image was found in an antique store in the 1970s and purchased for just 50 cents, although now it’s in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
First Photograph of an Amputation
Photograph of an amputation on April 18th, 1847 during the Mexican-American War of Sergeant Antonio Bustos by Belgian surgeon Pedro Vander Linden (who is holding the leg)
First Photograph of Drinking
Edinburgh Ale photograph from 1844, salted paper print from paper calotype negative (via Metropolitan Museum of Art)
This is known to be the first photograph of people drinking, perhaps even of people partying. Taken probably in Edinburgh in 1844 by British painter and photographer David Octavius Hill, it shows him (right) with writer and artist James Ballantine (left) and commissioner Dr. George William Bell (centre), partaking in three glasses of Edinburgh ale, “a potent fluid, which almost glued the lips of the drinker together, and of which few, therefore, could dispatch more than a bottle.”
First News Photograph
A French 1847 daguerreotype believed to be the first news photograph, as well as the first photograph of an arrest (via Three Lions/Getty Images)
This 1847 daguerreotype from France is thought to be the first news photograph, as well as the first photograph of an arrest, perhaps also documenting the first gaze of defiance on camera from the accused criminal.
First Photograph of the Sun
Daguerreotype of the sun from April 2, 1845 by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault (via National Science Foundation, High Altitude Observatory)
Taken on April 2nd, 1845 using 1/60th of a second exposure by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault, the photograph was just 4.7 inches but as National Geographic reported, still caught sunspots, visible in photography for the first time.
First Photographic Hoax
First Hoax Photograph: Hippolyte Bayard, “Self Portrait as a Drowned Man” (1840) (via Juan Carlos M. Rosas/Flickr user)
And just as soon as people were able to take their own photographs, the use of it for staged hoaxes came about, appropriately, in response to a scandal among the pioneers of photography. French photographer Hippolyte Bayard, who had his own innovative ideas about the process of photography, staged a self-portrait of his fake suicide in response to a friend of Louis Daguerre’s convincing him to delay his announcement to the French Academy of Sciences, which of course propelled Daguerre and his daguerreotype to fame. Here he is in his 1840 photograph posed like a drowned man, and on the back he wrote a note asserting that it was his corpse and that the suicide was a direct cause of Daguerre and the Academy. He sent copies of it off to his enemies, and while he may not be the celebrated pioneer that Daguerre is, at least he has this first photographic prank.
First Photograph of People Playing Chess
First photograph of people playing chess with Nicolaas Henneman (1841) (via allposters.com)
This 1841 giclée by Nicolaas Henneman (who is actually one of the players) may be the first photograph of people playing chess, but it might not have been his last. This photograph of chess players from 1841 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is also attributed to Henneman, although has a decidedly more engaging posing, even breaking the fourth wall, perhaps another photographic first, at least in photographs of gaming.
First Photograph to Illustrate a News Story
In 1848, the first photograph to be used to illustrate a news story was made. This photograph of the revolution in Paris, a four-day insurrection in June that left thousands dead in the streets of Paris, is now in the Musée d’Orsay. You can make out the barricade on the narrow street. Revolution started in France in February 1848, and that month saw the overthrow of King Louis Philippe I, France's last monarch. He fled to England and remained there in exile until his death in 1850. On 23 June 1848, the people of Paris rose in insurrection, which became known as June Days Uprising - a bloody but unsuccessful rebellion by the Paris workers against a conservative turn in the Republic's course. On 2 December 1848, Louis Napoleon (Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew) was elected President of the Second Republic, largely on peasant support. 1848 was a year in which revolution spread throughout Europe, with usually peaceful Britain also being affected.
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awesome pic of JQA whose writings inspired the Progressive movement and Teddy Roosevelt & FDR in the next century
awesome pic of JQA whose writings inspired the Progressive movement and Teddy Roosevelt & FDR in the next century
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What Became of New York City's Ubiquitous Public Bathhouses? - Summer Flashbacks - Curbed NY
I'm old enough to remember the bath house in Coney Island - long extinct. Defo for the better as they could be a bit unsanitary.
What Became of New York City's Ubiquitous Public Bathhouses? - Summer Flashbacks - Curbed NY
I'm old enough to remember the bath house in Coney Island - long extinct. Defo for the better as they could be a bit unsanitary.
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Old Ebbets Field in Brooklyn:
Great sports palace - gone but not forgotten.
Old Ebbets Field in Brooklyn:
Great sports palace - gone but not forgotten.
I'm uploading an old video to Youtube, At least Circa 1930 after the papermill was built.
The video starts with the sealing of a time capsule at the main entrance......the rest....well...wouldn't want to ruin the suspense :lol:
Will post the link in the morning.....
The video starts with the sealing of a time capsule at the main entrance......the rest....well...wouldn't want to ruin the suspense :lol:
Will post the link in the morning.....
This first video is a historical compilation of events in Kapuskasing, It starts with laying of the time capsule , then the building of the dam and water filtration plant, the source of the town drinking water for many years, and on to logging with horses and the river drive etc...
It is also a history of filmmaking that starts in B & W then colour...then the film was later transferred to Beta or VHS then much later transcoded to digital....the copy I have...
I noticed, after uploading to youtube, that the software they have is so good for stabilizing old film, that I will in the next few days upload a lot more of the collection I have, in private mode, also for safekeeping...
The following clip, which is "unlisted", I will switch to "private" in about a week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlpHUIq2Eoc&feature=youtu.be
Queen Victoria and Napoleon III, Old Boney's nephew, at the Crystal Palace in London - which hosted the Great Exhibition in 1851 - on 20th April 1855. Its aim was to show the two military leaders united as allies during the Crimean War against Russia. Four months after Napoleon III's visit to London, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert travelled to meet with the French president and took trips to the Exposition Universelle and Napoleon I's tomb at Les Invalides. The royal couple were also guests at a 1,200-seat ball at the Palace of Versailles.
Chinese militia armed with clubs and shields stand ready for battle in 1860 during the Second Opium War against Britain and France
A British stronghold in 1860 during the Second Opium War
Chinese soldiers lay dead in North Fort after it was stormed by the British during the Second Opium War. On 21 August 1860, British soldiers of 44th (East Essex) and 67th (South Hampshire) Regiments breached the walls of the North Fort in Peiho. The North Fort was one of several Taku Forts, strategically-placed defences guarding the mouth of the Peiho River, which flows through Beijing (then known as Peking), the capital of China. Following the escalation of hostilities, the British envoy, Lord Elgin, determined to conclude a peace treaty with the Chinese Emperor. After forcing the Chinese to accept The Treaty of Tientsin on 26 June 1858, further hostilities led to the forts being besieged again, unsuccessfully, in June 1859. In another attempt on 21 August 1860, the North Fort was breached and the garrison surrendered after a fierce fight. The remaining forts later capitulated without further resistance. Reprisals for the mistreatment of European prisoners led to the looting of the Emperor's Summer Palace near Peking by French troops, followed by its burning by the British.
The 1909 FA Cup Final between Bristol City and Manchester United at Crystal Palace, which United won 1-0 thanks to a goal by the great Alexander "Sandy" Turnbull. It was Manchester United's first ever victory in football's oldest tournament and, to date, they have won it a record 11 times, their last coming against Millwall in 2004. There was great anticipation from the fact that at last there was to be another north versus south tussle. Manchester United, League winners the previous season, had the greater experience and the boost of a victory over Newcastle United in the semi-final. The two teams were also neck-and-neck in the League; Manchester United leading Bristol City by just one point.
As both teams normally wore red, they both decided to wear an alternative strip. Manchester United chose an all-white kit with a thin red line at the neck and wrists, the red rose of Lancashire on the breast and a distinctive red chevron from shoulder to breast bone. The company that made the kit was interestingly owned by Manchester United winger Billy Meredith. Bristol City wore royal blue shirts and white shorts. Billy Meredith had been the hero of the victorious Manchester City team in 1904, while his team-mate, George Wall, had been to the Palace only weeks before, scoring two goals in the England victory over Scotland. Nevertheless, although Meredith mesmerised the Bristol defence, it was Sandy Turnbull, who had also played for Manchester City in 1904, who scored the only goal of the match. Yet it was only by chance that he played because he was suffering with a knee injury, but his captain Charlie Roberts said: “Let him play. He might get a goal and if he does we can afford to carry him”.
Bristol City were also hampered by the loss of Rippon and Marr before the game and Hayes, the Manchester United full back, played with a broken rib. Though many expected Manchester United to romp to victory, the issue was decided by the single goal – in the 22nd minute. Halse’s shot rebounded off the crossbar and Turnbull guided it into the net. On a couple of occasions, the Bristol forwards were presented with an open goal but failed to exploit the situation. The nearest Bristol came to emulating this was when Hardy, left unmarked in front of goal after a fine bout of passing, had his hard shot turned aside in masterly fashion by a dive from Moger.
We tend to think of fixture congestion as a modern phenomenon but the 1909 United team were just as hard-pressed. After the Final, they stayed in London until the Tuesday afternoon, returning to Manchester to play Woolwich Arsenal (now known as Arsenal since they moved to Islington) at 6 o’clock that evening. On the Thursday following, they played their last league game of that term at Bradford City.
One consequence of the 1909 Final was the loss of the second FA Cup trophy. This time the perpetrators were not robbers but well-wishers in Manchester. They wanted to have a lasting reminder of the great victory and so they commissioned a silversmith to make a replica. On the 9th July 1910, the FA Council met in Cromer and decided that “the present Football Association Challenge Cup, having been duplicated without the consent of the Association, be withdrawn from competition and a new cup offered, the design of which shall be registered”. Following the Cup Final victory, John Davies gave United the then huge sum of £60,000 to purchase a site and build a new stadium, Old Trafford, to which United moved in February 1910. Today, Old Trafford has a capacity of 75,635, making it Britain's second-largest football stadium after Wembley and the ninth-largest in Europe. However, United have plans to increase their stadium's capacity to 95,000.
Manchester United 1 (Turnbull A) vs. Bristol City 0
Manchester United: Moger; Stacey, Hayes; Duckworth. Roberts, Bell; Meredith, Halse, Turnbull (J.), Turnbull (A.). Wall
Bristol City: Clay; Annan, Cottle; Hanlin, Wedlock, Spear; Staniforth, Hardy, Gilligan, Burton, Hilton
Referee: J.Mason (Burslem); Linesmen: J. R. Schumacher (London), A. Green (Birmingham)
Attendance: 71,401
Road to the final
Home teams listed first.
Round 1: Bristol City 1–1 Southampton; Replay: Southampton 0–2 Bristol City. Manchester United 1–0 Brighton & Hove Albion
Round 2: Bristol City 2–2 Bury; Replay: Bury 0–1 Bristol City. Manchester United 1–0 Everton
Round 3: Bristol City 2–0 Norwich City; Manchester United 6–1 Blackburn Rovers
Round 4: Glossop North End 0–0 Bristol City; Replay: Bristol City 1–0 Glossop North End. Burnley 2–3 Manchester United
Semi-final: Bristol City 1–1 Derby County; Replay: Derby County 1–2 Bristol City. Manchester United 1–0 Newcastle United
Extracts from: "To the Palace for the Cup - An affectionate history of football at The Crystal Palace" by Ian Bevan, Stuart Hibberd and Michael Gilbert and The FA Cup | FA Cup Final History Online | Results & Scores
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