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[hollydolly]

Christmas shopping.. NYC 1910

 

[RubyK]

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Do you think they are gypsies or just poor people? That is their wedding.

 

[RubyK]

You all have shared some wonderful photos. I love this post.



Venice Beach - 1930 - Must have been a carnival.

 

[hollydolly]

British Tourists in Egypt 1880....

..and tourists and guides climbing the pyramids

 

[RubyK]

1907 Siblings (That can't be right. They are all so close in age.)

 

[RubyK]

1940's Women

Love their hats and shiny stockings.

 

[RubyK]

1922 Auto Accident

 

[hollydolly]

1907 Siblings (That can't be right. They are all so close in age.)

I think that's probably right. My Paternal Grandmother had 16 kids between 1922 and 1942.. and no twins among them...

 

[RadishRose]

Do you think they are gypsies or just poor people? That is their wedding.

Gypsies.

 

[RadishRose]

who are they ?..do you know, RR ?

No. I forgot where I found it. I think Romania. I love his outfit.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[SmoothSeas]

Washington D.C. …​

See the White House in the background. an American contrast. ca 1946 by Marion Palfi

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[1955]

My Grandpa took these pictures while stationed in Tientsin China during the Boxer Rebellion around 1918-1919. I have some 133 pictures from this period. This was a very brutal period where people were both tortured and executed on the street for public display. I’m not going to post any those pictures but life was pretty tough there.

The first picture shows my grandpa on the left and again in the 2nd picture. He went on to serve in WW1 in the trenches of France. I also have many of his diaries that are an interesting read.

I guess the limit is 5 pics.

 

[RadishRose]

My Grandpa took these pictures while stationed in Tientsin China during the Boxer Rebellion around 1918-1919. I have some 133 pictures from this period. This was a very brutal period where people were both tortured and executed on the street for public display. I’m not going to post any those pictures but life was pretty tough there.

The first picture shows my grandpa on the left and again in the 2nd picture. He went on to serve in WW1 in the trenches of France. I also have many of his diaries that are an interesting read.

I guess the limit is 5 pics.

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Fascinating!
Your Grandpa was very handsome, I might add....

 

[JonSR77]

This is such a powerful photo. It was taken in April, 1945 by Major Clarence Benjamin and shows a train of Jewish prisoners that had been intercepted by Allied Forces. This is the moment they learned that the train would not be heading to a Concentration Camp and they had been liberated.

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powerful, beautiful. thanks for sharing

 

[JonSR77]

well, the photos of Dorothea Lange are certainly amazing and tell many stories...

here are some from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Dorothea+Lange&sortBy=Relevance&pageSize=0

 

[hollydolly]

Fascinating!
Your Grandpa was very handsome, I might add....

I agree, looked like a film star from the Hollywood era

 

[hollydolly]

Visitors to Americas' National Parks...

Tourists ride up a trail in Rocky Mountain National Park...1909

Climbers scale Mt. Rainier. 1910.

 

[hollydolly]

Tourists pose on Glacier Point above the Yosemite Valley. 1887.

The gateway arch at Yellowstone. 1900.

Tourists drive their car on a dirt road along the Yellowstone River. 1899.

 

[Pappy]

Waiting in line to turn in their milk to the processing plant.

 

[hollydolly]

Detroit.

n this July 4, 1942 file photo, 28-ton tanks, called “General Grants” by U.S. forces in the Middle East who used them in the battle for Egypt, are turned out in mass production by the Chrysler Corporation’s tank arsenal in Detroit.

Stones flew despite a police riot squad’s efforts to maintain order in Detroit, on February 28, 1942 between prospective Black tenants of a million-dollar defense housing project and white picketers who halted their moving vans. Several were hurt in the picket line skirmishes.

Two youths help a man to his feet after he was badly beaten in street fighting which marked race riots in Detroit, Michigan, on June 21, 1943.

Guarded by more than 1,500 state troops, city and state police, moving vans carried the household goods of black families into Sojourners Truth, a federal housing project located in a white section of Detroit, on April 29, 1942. White protesters, whose previous attempts to prevent blacks from moving in ended in rioting, were dispersed.

 

[1955]

Your Grandpa was very handsome, I might add....

I agree, looked like a film star from the Hollywood era

Thanks, I have have very fond memories of him and was a great role model in my life.

Great pics hollydolly...

 

[SmoothSeas]

Wish I could take these two to dinner...

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[hollydolly]

 

[Sassycakes]

My Dad when he turned 13yrs old. He is on the left of the picture, His parents made him quit school so he could help support the family. They continued to have more children and my poor Dad had to help support even more kids. I think my grandfather should have just gotten a second job.