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New York Harbor, end of WWII, 1945.

The liner Queen Elizabeth is filled with the American troops coming home from war. Wow!

 

A boy and two big lobsters that have just been caught on the New Jersey Coast, 1916.

 

1945: The Mona Lisa painting can finally be opened again after it had been hidden from German troops in 1939.

 

Longacre Square, New York, 1903, one year before it was named Times Square. That happened because New York Times moved their headquarters there

 

Imperial Airlines airplane, 1936.   It doesn’t look very safe, right?

 

April 15, 1912, a Titanic survival boat meets with a rescue ship.

 

A priest praying over the victims of the Titanic, 1912.

 

France, 1959. Kids playing with the guillotine. And they say that today’s video games are violent!

 

Bruce Lee and his master, 1958.

 

Enjoying a meal in the car while getting cooled air piped in the car. This is a drive-in restaurant, in Texas, 1957.

 

MGM opening credits in the making, 1928. Yes, that’s how they did it!

 

Hitler and Speer looking at the Schweder Gustav, the biggest gun ever used in battle.

 

Transporting a 5 MB hard drive seemed like a serious job back in 1956.

 

First Wimbledon as an international tournament, 1883.

 

1993, Queen Elizabeth II tests a big gun.

 

 

Coca-Cola being introduced to France, 1950.

 

Human-sized chess with actual soldiers, Russia, 1924.

 

Oil Crisis, 1973. People are having picnics on the deserted highways.

 

Her Majesty and Prince Phil - same broach, same pearls

We see many old photos, but this set is really special…

Hans Christian Anderson

Winston Churchill, 1895

Mahatma Gandhi dancing

Sophia Loren

Albert Einstein

Paul Gaugin

Vincent van Gogh

John Wayne, 1930 (aged 23)

Elizabeth Taylor...

Alfred Hitchcock, 1920’s

Paul Newman, served in the Pacific in WW2

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Confederate general Robert E Lee.               
Did you know that when Lee joined the confederacy, his farm was taken and later became Arlington National Cemetery?

William, Diana, Harry

Edgar Allan Poe poses with Abraham Lincoln in Mathew Brady’s Washington ,D.C. studio, 1849

Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer during World War I, 1918

 

Mark Twain, aged 15, 1850

Mother Teresa, What a find...!!!