Fun thread - historic photos

[Tallguy88]

Let's post some historic photos and some info about them, if such is known. Let's also keep the thread light and serious-debate-free.

I'll start in the following posts.

 

[Tallguy88]

Both photos from 1800s or very early 1900s

US Marshall Bass Reeves (far left second pic). One of the first black US Marshalls. He policed Indian Territory (future Oklahoma) for nearly 40 years. He captured nearly 4,000 felons, and shot dead 14 of them in self-defense. It is likely the fictional character The Lone Ranger was based on Reeves.

More info: http://m.nydailynews.com/news/natio...researcher-claims-man-slave-article-1.1421920

 

[Tallguy88]

George Custer's Crow scouts visiting the Little Bighorn battlefield, circa 1913. From left to right; White Man Runs Him, Hairy Moccasin, Curly and Goes Ahead.

More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_scouts

 

[Tallguy88]

Unemployed men standing in line to get free soup during the Great Depression, circa 1931 (original black and white, false color). The soup kitchen was owned by Chicago gangster Al Capone.

 

[Michie]

Cool thread!

 

[Tallguy88]

Elvis Presley receiving his military haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas after being drafted into the US Army in March 1958.

Elvis received his draft notice Friday December 20, 1957. 'It's a duty I've got to fill and I'm going to do it', he said. Initially ordered to report for duty January 20, he received a deferment for the filming of 'King Creole' (at that time titled 'Sing, You, Sinners') which was already in pre-production.

The deferment was granted and Elvis was inducted March 24, 1958.

More info: http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pictures/1958-1959-elvis-presley-army.html

 

[Colin]

The remains of the Antwerp Rex Cinema , Holland , after it was hit by a German V2 rocket on 16th December !944 . The death toll was 567 casualties to soldiers and civilians, 291 injured and 11 buildings were destroyed. 296 of the dead & 194 of the injured were U.S., British, & Canadian soldiers. This was the single highest death total from one rocket attack during the war in Europe.

My dad , a soldier in the British army , used to talk about it . He had been in to the same cinema the previous day .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cine_Rex

 

[Colin]

A knocker-upper in the North of England .

Before the days when people could afford alarm clocks , a knocker-upper would go round the houses , tapping on bedroom windows with his pole , making sure they were up in time for work .

 

[civilwarbuff]

George Armstrong Custer
A few fun facts:
Graduated last in his class at West Point
Commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in 1862
On June 28, 1863, three days prior to the Battle of Gettysburg, General Pleasonton promoted Custer from captain to brigadier general of volunteers. At 23 years of age he became one of the youngest General Officers in the war.
At the end of the war he was reduced back to his last rank of captain.

Union Cavalry Generals George A. Custer (left) and Alfred Pleasonton in Autumn 1863

Second Lieutenant George A. Custer had his photo taken with ex-classmate, friend, and captured Confederate prisoner, Lt. J.B. Washington, an aide to General Johnston, at Fair Oaks, Virginia, 1862

Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer, 7th U.S. Cavalry, ca. 1875

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Custer photo here:

 

[Colin]

Coal after a shift down the pit.......

Coal miners down the pit.....lying on their sides in a confined area, digging out the coal......

 

[civilwarbuff]

Constructing the Panama Canal
I was stationed there from 1975-78

Panama Canal Construction Zone
A shovel vehicle operates during the construction of the Panama Canal, Panama, circa 1906. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

Date unknown: An auxillary crane dumps concrete at the Pedro Miguel locks. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Roosevelt also helped them accomplish the task at hand by operating a steam shovel at the Culebra Cut. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson hit a button in Washington that was transmitted by telegraph to blow up a dike at Gamboa, causing the waters of Gatun Lake to flood the cut. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Construction of the Gatan Locks in 1909. When completed, each of the locks in the Panama Canal was 110 feet wide by 1000 feet long; the miter gates, which open and close to allow ships to pass through, are 65 feet wide and 7 feet deep, with their height varying from 47 feet to 82 feet depending on their location. Photo courtesy ofCanalMuseum.com.

 

[Tallguy88]

The Grand Staircase of the RMS Titanic, 1912.

The wood is gone, but much of the supports for the staircase remain and is a good point of entry into the wreck.

 

[Tallguy88]

Apache leader Geronimo, 1887

 

[civilwarbuff]

Abraham Lincoln

Earliest known daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln (1846)

Lincoln ambrotype taken in Beardstown, Illinois, by 18-year-old Abraham Byers on May 7, 1858 (2yrs before his election)

Abraham Lincoln at Antietam (fall 1862)

Abraham Lincoln meets with General George McClellan at Antietam on October 3, 1862 (He was personally there to urge an attack on Lee because McClellan had the "slows".

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death: Jeremiah Gurney, Jr. took the photo on April 24, 1865, as President Lincoln lay in state in City Hall in New York

 

[tadoflamb]

This photo is from my hometown of Missoula, Montana. When I was home this Christmas I went birding along the base of the mountain on the right. The mountain on the left is called Mt. Jumbo. I used to climb it a lot.

 

[civilwarbuff]

Portsmouth Oh, my hometown.
There are too many pics to post here. They are murals on the flood wall depicting scenes from the Indian settlement there, Sinioto, to modern day. Here is the link.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs...=yhs-mozilla-004&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004

 

[LivingWordUnity]

"Peasants of Bethlehem"

Source:
http://www.old-picture.com/europe/Bethlehem-Peasants-of.htm

 

[LivingWordUnity]

"Old Salts of the Square Rigger Navy"

Source:
http://www.history.navy.mil/content...ent/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1438379062639.jpg

 

[Colin]

There are a million fascinating facts and figures about the London Underground, but this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was. Here we see the creation of the Central Line in 1898 .