Sunday, November 8, 2015

Pictures you don't see every day




Here are some very rare pics you don't see everyday.......
 
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A 10 x 15-foot wooden shed where the "Harley-Davidson Motor Company  " started out in 1903
 
 
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Testing football helmets in 1912
 
 
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A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began,1920
 
 
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Mount Rushmore Before Carving, 1920s
 
 
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Traffic jam in New York, 1923
 
 
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A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, Florida, 1926(UPDATE: well, an alligator farm of course, as Roy notes in the comments below)
 
 
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World economic crisis, 1929
 
 
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Central Park in 1930
 
 
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Last four couples standing at a Chicago dance marathon, ca. 1930
 
 
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Meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, early 1930s
 
 
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Confederate and Union soldiers shake hands across the wall at the 1938 reunion for the Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg
 
 
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When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their sacks, 1939
 
 
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NY, Coney Island, 1940
 
 
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The thirty-six men needed to fly and service a B-17E in 1942
 
 
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A man begging for his wife  's forgiveness inside Divorce Court. Chicago, 1948
 
 
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Three young women wash their clothes in Central Park during a water shortage. New York, 1949
 
 
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19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he crossed the finish line. (UPDATE: As Peter notes in the comments below, "Tanaka was not exactly "a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima  " — when the bomb was dropped, he was at home, about 20 miles from the site. He saw a light and heard a distant rumble, but was personally unaffected by the bomb.")
 
 
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Florida  's last Civil War veteran, Bill Lundy, poses with a jet fighter, 1955
 
 
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NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1960  ′s
 
 
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Muhammad Ali  's fists after the fight with Cooper, 1963
 
 
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New York firemen play a game after a fire in a billiard parlor, 1969
 
 
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An abandoned baby sleeps peacefully in a drawer at the Los Angeles Police Station, 1971
 
 
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Boy hiding in a TV set. Boston, 1972 by Arthur Tress
 
 
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A spectator holds up a sign at the Academy Awards, April 1974
 
 
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Robert De Niro  's cab driver license. In order to get into character for the film Taxi Driver, he obtained his own hack license and would pick-up/drive customers around in New York City.
 
 
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Nancy Reagan sits on the lap of Mr. T, dressed as Santa, 1983
 
 
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Ronald Reagan wearing sweatpants on Air Force One, 1985
 

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