These next 30 photographs go beyond the norm – they encapsulate the mood, tone and values of yesteryear, a compelling account of the evolution of our values if you will.
Check out the photo of Annette Kellerman who was arrested for indecency while promoting women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit. 1907
Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty delivered June 17, 1885
The hippo belonged to a circus and apparently enjoyed pulling the cart as a trick 1924
Charlie Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27
Annie Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901.
Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Papua, New Guinea during WWII
Artificial legs, United Kingdom, ca. 1890
1920′s lifeguard
Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940
Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923
Suntan vending machine, 1949
A space chimp poses for the camera after a successful mission to space in 1961
Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her bomb damaged home, London, 1940
Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929
Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956
Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
Children eating their Christmas dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
Abraham Lincoln’s hearse, 1865
A most beautiful suicide – 23 year old Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from an observation deck (83rd floor) of the Empire State Building, May 1, 1947. She landed on a United Nations limousine…
A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic test 75 miles away, Las Vegas, 1953
A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
Annette Kellerman promoted women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… She was arrested for indecency.
Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960
