"Great Historic Photographs" Topic

Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940

The last photo of all four Beatles together, August 22, 1969.
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Nine kings gather to mourn the death of King Edward VII (1910).

This may very well be the most kings ever photographed at once. Represented are Norway, Bulgaria, Portugal, the German Empire, Greece, Belgium, Spain, Great Britain, and Denmark.

The "TV Glasses" that never quite caught on. (1963)

The oldest known selfie. (1839)

Robert Cornelius took this photo outside the store his family owned. It became famous for being the first self portrait or as its commonly now known, a "selfie."

Italian Special Forces soldier after 3 days of constant fighting in Afghanistan

A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome. 1944.

Soviet soldier before, during, and after a 7 month deployment in Afghanistan.

1945 – German boys play with anti-aircraft armament of the Wehrmacht, abandoned along the highway to Cologne

Grooming Chewbacca on the set of the original Star Wars

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Puyi, Emperor of Manchuria and final Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China on his capture by forces of the Soviet Union at the close of the Second World War, 16 August, 1945

A German dispatch dog carries messages to the front line during a German offensive

Santa boycotting Nazi made toys – New York City – 1938

A Royal Air Force procession escorts the remains of two German pilots, whose Ju-88 bomber was shot down during a raid upon a naval base on the coast of Scotland. Edinburgh on Oct 21,1939.

Stay Puff Man
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Ghost Busters style. That's pretty neat. That movie approached "crush, crumple and stomp" from an entirely different angle….

Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings photographed in a photo-booth in Central Station, in New York City, 1959

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. telephones aides during a stopover in Miami, Florida, 1965

Helen Soros works the new pneumatic tube system to take cash at Marshall Fields store in Chicago, November 26, 1947

James Dean (1940s)

15-year-old Léon Merdjian poses for a photograph with his unit of the Axis collaborationist Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism. December, 1941.

Adolf Hitler on a walk with Helga Goebbels, 1936. Helga was later killed with cyanide by her parents with her siblings in Hitler's bunker in 1945.

Louis Blin, who lost his legs during World War I

Crown princes Hirohito of Japan and Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, 1922

Gangster in Kabukicho, Japan, 1960s

Otto Wels, the only man to publicly speak against Adolf Hitler's Enabling Act of 1933, which would eventually give Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag, March 1933

Colonel Sanders and Alice Cooper Hanging out (1969)

Last photo of Nikola Tesla. 1943

HRH Princess Elizabeth II, aged 18, 1944

White swastika 6d war savings stamps, 1916. During the First World War, the swastika was used as the emblem of the British National War Savings Committee.

John F. Kennedy: "Wanted for Treason." A handbill circulated in Dallas the day before President Kennedy was assassinated.

Lee Harvey Oswald when he served in the US Marine Corps

Heinrich Himmler picking flowers in Dachau's herb garden

Evolution of the donut hole through the years, 1927 to 1948

Red Army soldiers sit on the ruins of the German Reich Chancellery in Berlin looking through boxes of German medals that would never be awarded following the Battle of Berlin

In 1925, Coca-Cola used the symbol to make this lucky brass watch fob.

Peter Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 USD on The $64,000 USD Question.

Walt Disney filming on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, 1941

Wedding rings of Holocaust victims, near the Buchenwald concentration camp

photo of George Lucas standing beside an unfinished R2-D2. The photo was taken in 1975 on the Star Wars set

Neta Snook, Earhart's first flight instructor

Shirley Slade, pilot trainee in Women's Flying Training Detachment, sporting pigtails & GI coveralls as she sits on wing of her Army trainer at Avenger Field. This image appeared on the July 19, 1943 cover of LIFE Magazine. (Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

"First World War soldiers celebrate Hanukkah on the Eastern Front. Photo courtesy of the Center for Jewish History"

to many photos to post but here
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is an article about Where the Nazis Hung Out in Occupied Paris

Extras playing corpses on the set of Spartacus assigned with numbers so that Stanley Kubrick could address them individually and give them instructions

Designed as propaganda of the Nazi gramophone plate industry which produced only records of the national socialist movement

Coke, freshly delivered on your doorstep every morning circa 1934