Above is a rare photo of the construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.
Look carefully at the following pictures. Some you probably haven't
seen before. They are amazing. Enjoy! :)
A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.
Here's his report card! 1896 - highest marks
in Algebra - Physics - Geometry and lower
marks in languages.
Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.
A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II
planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941
Roy O. and Walt Disney the day they opened Disney Studios.
Young Bill Gates And The Microsoft staff in 1978.
11 people - 2 women 5 beards
The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.
Winston Churchill out for a swim. Typical swim suit of the day.
The London sky following a bombing and dogfight
between British and German planes in 1940.
Martin Luther King, Jr with his son removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960.
Google begins. 34 people here.
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
A Native American overlooking the newly completed
transcontinental railroad in 1868.
The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.
A Japanese plane shot down during the Battle of Saipan, 1944.
The original Ronald McDonald played by Willard Scott, 1963.
Hitler in Paris.
Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.
Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.
The first McDonalds. 'buy em by the bag' is on the sign.
California Lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of
tree rings in these ancient trees each over 1000 years
...such a shame - irreplaceable giants - national park
treasures all gone but for a few.
It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living
1200-1800 years or more. An estimated 95% or more of the
original old-growth redwood forest has been cut. In 1850,
old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres.
Only 8,100 acres by 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the
original redwood trees had been logged. Sad.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were
assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I.
The 1912 World Series.
Elvis in the Army. 1958
New York's Times Square in 1911.
Construction of Christ the Redeemer in
Rio da Janeiro, Brazil, built between 1926-31.
Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.
The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali (Casius Clay)
The construction of Disneyland.
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he
received his American citizenship.
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