Photos From History

Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon. ca. 1930

3 Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight.1893 Princeton, NJ

"Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers." After realizing a woman was running, Boston marathon organizer Jock Semple went after Kathrine Switzer. Other runners blocked him
and she went on to finish the race. 1967.

The only known photograph of an African American Union soldier with his family. c1863-65

Russian peasants getting electricity for the first time in 1920.

Johnny Cash performing for prisoners at Folsom Prison – Jan. 13th 1968

Cow shoes used by Moonshiners in the Prohibition days to disguise their footprints, 1922.

Streets are cleared, shops are closed, people are out of harms way and now begins
"The Long Walk" (as the British Army calls this), as
a technician approaches a suspected "unexploded" device – Date Unknown

"Tereska" a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard, Poland 1948.

A Native American looks down at a newly-completed section of the transcontinental railroad. Nevada, about 1868

Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978 (Bill Gates – front left)

Jewish refugees, approaching allied soldiers, become aware that they have just been liberated, April, 1945

New York man reads a newspaper, headline reads "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris." May 18, 1940

Three archers, Japan , ca.1860-1900

Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents inspect a lumber truck. Los Angeles, 1926.

Martin Luther King Jr. removing a burned cross from his front yard with his son at his side. Atlanta, GA. 1960.

A Japanese family returning home ( Seattle , Washington ) from a relocation centre camp in Hunt, Idaho on May 10, 1945.

9 kings featured in one photo (Windsor Castle, 20 May 1910)

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961.

The headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist party in Italy, 1934.

The Kennedy trio in the mid 30’s as teenagers: John, Bobby and Teddy.

The first official riders in New York City’s first subway, 1904