Rare photos from history (1930's, Washington, state, Spanish)

[TheArchitect]

A young Ottoman military officer named Mustafa Kemal in traditional Janissary attire at a ball in Bulgaria. 1914

[Oberon476]

This is an absolutely amazing thread!!! One of the best I have ever seen!!!

PLEASE keep it going

[Geezerrunner]

You have put together some very interesting photos, thank you!
I was very interested in those of desert scenes during the North Africa campaign of WW2 as my father in law fought under Monty against Rommel.
Several have been coloured, obviously photography was in black and white in Custer's day, a shame really. The technical quality of the photo of the early American battleship is outstanding, usually those old lenses had problems with edge resolution, but this image is outstanding.
I agree with Dewdrop on the date of the Chicago street scene, early sixties I would say. The soft top of the sports car looks like my TR4a, but the wheels don't look quite right and something is odd about the trunk- a Datsun 1600 roadster, in Japan called a Fairlady, would be my guess.
The women locked in a box is absolutely horrifying, makes me feel sick.

[Oberleutnant]

Thanks for the corrections and contributions.

Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1969.




14 inch shells on the deck of the USS New Mexico in 1944.



Mountain climbing in questionable attire near Chamonix in the 1890's



An x-ray of Hitler's skull



Rip, a rescue dog who found one hundred victims of air raids in London between 1940 and 1941. He received the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945.



Atlanta, Georgia in 1864.



The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944.



The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942.

[Oberleutnant]

George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966.



The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935.



OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left.





Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair.



Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969. None of them have been seen since!



Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland's opening day in 1955.



The earliest known aerial photograph, taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858.

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by Geezerrunner

I agree with Dewdrop on the date of the Chicago street scene, early sixties I would say. The soft top of the sports car looks like my TR4a, but the wheels don't look quite right and something is odd about the trunk- a Datsun 1600 roadster, in Japan called a Fairlady, would be my guess.

Good eye! I was thinking the same thing about the trunk. Looking at it again I agree it could be a Datsun.

[Oberleutnant]

Adolf Hitler visiting the battleship Bismarck prior to Exercise Rhine, 5 May 1941.







Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.



Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890.



Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966.



Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939.



Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's.



Albert Einstein relaxing back in 1932.



The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930.



Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961.

[Oberleutnant]

The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas.



An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic.



Control room of a submarine in 1918



Race Day, pretty girl with a Ferrari



James Dean and Marilyn Monroe



School dance. 1950

[Oberleutnant]

A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, early 1930s



Equipment carried by a parachutist radio operator", ca.1940's



March blizzard in North Dakota, 1966. Caption jokingly reads "I believe there is a train under here somewhere!"



In 1913 it was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations, accompanied by letter carriers



The White House kitchen, circa 1909

[Oberleutnant]

Apollo 1 crew crossing the access arm to the command module on January 27, 1967



Che Guevara greeting a woman in North Korea



An Iranian soldier looks out over the desert, darkened under clouds of burning oil set alight by Iraqi forces in 1990.



39th Tomsk infantry regiment with their motorcycle-mounted machine guns during WW1, Russia.



A German Krupp K5 283mm railway gun firing. It was one of the most commonly used railway guns during World War 2 by Germany.



Natives admiring an American Air Force F4-U “Corsair” somewhere in the Pacific. 1943



Times Square. New York, USA, 1943.