Photo Historical Photos

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The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) left, and Lord Louis Mountbatten 1922

 

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Tuskegee Airmen at a briefing in Italy in 1945. The squad of all African American pilots was formed in 1941 after extensive lobbying for funding by the press and civil rights organizations. Prior to 1941 African American men were barred from flying for the U.S. military. The pressure resulted in the formation of an all African-American pursuit squadron based in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941.

 

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U.S. soldiers listen to the 1944 World Series baseball game on a radio

 

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WWI Scottish troops having some fun away from the trenches

 

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Charles Ebbets shooting his famous photograph, Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932

 

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Luther Sage Kelly aka Yellowstone Kelly, 1849-1928. Well educated, expert rifleman, trapper & hunter. Scout for the US Army in Yellowstone river area. Guided 2 expeditions into Alaska plus other major government expeditions.

 

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Group of US Navy sailors take a break beneath rows of torpedoes in a torpedo shop during WW2, May 1, 1945

 

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A warrior from the Nez Perce tribe, Pacific Northwest, USA, 1910

 

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Author Jack London (1876 - 1916)

 

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John Brown, Scottish personal attendant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years, 1871. The dogs are Corran, Dacho, Rochie and Sharp, who was Queen Victoria's favourite

 

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Plenty Wounded, Lakota, c. 1900. Photo by Heyn & Matzen, Chicago.

 

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Victory celebration, CINCPAC headquarters, Guam, August 15, 1945

 

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Maurice Barrymore, ne Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe, stage actor and patriarch of the acting Barrymore family - father of Lionel, John and Ethel. Cabinet card and cigarette card (S.F. Hess & Co.'s Cigarettes), c. 1915

 

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U.S. soldiers of Pennsylvania's 28th Infantry Division march along the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe in the background, on August 29, 1944, four days after liberation of Paris

 

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Doing laundry on the Pacific front

 

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Future Governor of Massachusetts Nathaniel Banks, 1852

 

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young JFK with a snake

 

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Jack Dempsey, c 1920

 

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Jack Dempsey, c 1920

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Thanks lot for your many awesome pics, you please our eyes so often, dear. You are really fantastic! THANK YOU!

 

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Thanks lot for your many awesome pics, you please our eyes so often, dear. You are really fantastic! THANK YOU!

Thank you very much and you are also very welcome! As in the other threads, I post what I find appealing and hope others enjoy them too.