historic_photos

Collection of Historic photos
MuhLIme  The Statue of Liberty 's torch is parked in front of the western side of Madison Square in 1876. Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1994-009-33, Russland, bei Lepel, Panzer IV  A German Tank almost falls off a Russian bridge on July 4, 1941. h2WTrnE  The first armed airplane of the Serbian army in 1915. w 18  Women welders at Lincoln Motor Company in 1918.
7RyexLv  Times Square in 1922. d7J6qea  The dedication of the Washington Monument in 1885. RZKywfa  Trapeze mining in Bonne Terre Missouri 1917. qVywz5t  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 crash in the United States in 1912.
KBM82RW  Greyhound in 1923. kdUD2RI  The crew of the USS Lexington abandon ship following torpedo strikes on May 9th, 1942. Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view  The attack on Pearl Harbor taken from one of the attacking Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941. A2AoIXk  Southwest Airlines stewardesses back in the "good old days".    1962.
21pxydL  Inside the turrets of the USS Massachusetts, 1898. CnhCXUs  Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. More than likely the earliest born individual captured on film. P7hEQMY  A balancing act atop the Empire State Building in 1934. h8PimZI  Ansel Adams, 1979. He broke his nose during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and never had it fixed.
iszn0T2  The day Sweden switched from driving on the left To driving on the right (1967). EvHjTFk  The Dalai Lama at age 2 in 1937. it8J4p8BR6p1m  The London Underground in 1890. ZsEH14Z  Smuggling beer during prohibition sometime  between 1920 and 1933.
cjU5Z6x  Illuminated tires invented by Goodyear in 1961. IeeY8  Directional sound finders used to detect  incoming enemy planes in 1917. Post-and-Grant-Avenue.-Look  The aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. d8tP1wg  The PGM-11 "Redstone" – the World's First Nuclear Missile Displayed in Grand Central Station, July 7, 1957.
KO5o2tX  Construction of The Lincoln Memorial in 1921