Will Robertson of the Washington Bicycle Club riding an American Star Bicycle down the steps of the United States Capitol, 1885. It’s not so much we see bicycle rider on Capitol stairs these days. Especially, with these wheel forms and sizes. But once it was allowed.
Worst Airship Disaster in History - The Airship USS Akron, April 4, 1933
USS Akron was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy. It was designed to provide long-distance scouting in support of fleet operations. Construction of U.S.S. Akron began in November, 1929 at the newly completed Goodyear-Zeppelin Airdock in Akron, Ohio. The airship was christened by First Lady Lou Hoover, the wife of United States President…
First American Spacewalker Edward White on June 3, 1965
First American to step outside spacecraft and spend some time in the zero gravity of space was Edward White on June 3, 1965. In his right hand we can see a Hand Held Self Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU) a device which is used to move about the weightless environment of space. And the visor of his…
One of The First Lumière Autohrome Pictures, 1907
This photo was taken By Louis Lumière among the first coloured photos. Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the Autochrome color photography plate and patented it in France in 1907. Lumière Autochrome was history’s first commercially successful color photography process.
President Truman leading exercises on the USS, Missouri, 1947
President Harry S. Truman, in a shirt “Coach Truman, Athletic Department,” leads exercises on the deck of the USS Missouri on his return trip to Washington from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 1947
Working in NAACP office, Detroit, Michigan, 1940s
Founded in 1909, the NAACP ( The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the US oldest and largest civil rights organization. One of NAACP key victories was the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools.
The world’s last commercial sailing ship,the Pamir, rounding Cape Horn for the last time in 1949
The Pamir, a four-masted barque, was built in Hamburg, Germany in 1905. It was used in the South American nitrate trade. After WWI the sailing ship was handed over to Italy as war reparation and atfer WWII the Pamir was seized as a prize of war by the New Zealand government. In 1950s, German shipowner Heinz Schliewen, who had sailed on her in the…
Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley in Central Park, New York City, 1974
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Kids in a car, New York, 1950s
This photo was made by Vivian Maier. She took thousand of photos of ordinary people and places in New York in the 1950s and 60s. But her photo archives were left woefully unacknowledged. And only two years after her death, in 2011, they were recognized.