Album Vintage from Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)

World's Highest Standard of Living

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:13:01 +0000

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Hm. Now that's ironic. Stumbled across it here.

1971: Panorama of San Francisco

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:28:01 +0000

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A panorama picture of 1971's San Francisco, taken off the Bay Bridge, then stitched together by Brad Templeton.

(via Telstar Logistics)

1970: Warschauer Kniefall

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:40:36 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

The famous "Warschauer Kniefall" of German Chancellor Willy Brandt.

Staatsbesuch von Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt und Außenminister Walter Scheel in Polen (6.-8.12.70). Bundeskanzler Brandt kniet am Denkmal für die Helden des Warschauer Ghettos nieder.; Motiv: 2 von 2; Foto: Hanns Hubmann, Warschau, 07.12.1970;

1970: Warschauer Kniefall

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:42:05 +0000

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1930: Elderly Worker on the Empire State Building

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:32:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

Old-timer, -- keeping up with the boys. Many structural workers are above middle-age. Empire State [Building].

Source: US National Archives

1910: German Anti-Hair Loss Advertisement

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:41:01 +0000

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"Müllern Sie Ihr Haar!" -- found in the Wellcome Collection.

1928: The Food Value of the Banana

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:32:01 +0000

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Nice vintage book cover found in the Wellcome Collection.

1955: Women in Ante-Natal (pre-natal) Class Exercising

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:17:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

A photo (CC by-nc licensed) I found in the Wellcome Image Collection.

I wonder why these women are all wearing masks. I assume it's to protect their privacy, but nonetheless it looks funny.

American Pineapple

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:16:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

November 1942. "An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va."

found on Shorpy.

New York City 1910: Flatiron Building

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:33:01 +0000

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found on shorpy (via kottke)

1945: Iwo Jima Flag

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:58:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

On February 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. It was taken down, and a second flag was raised. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured this second flag-raising. Now part of U.S. Navy records, it is one of the most famous war photographs in U.S. history.

(Source: US National Archives)

1952: Viewing a Nuclear Bomb Test

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:41:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

Personnel viewing the detonation of Project "Open Shot", Nevada.

(Source: US National Archives)

1941: Bombs on Pearl Harbor

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:16:01 +0000

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A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded.

(found at the US National Archives)

1945: Bomb on Nagasaki

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:09:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

found at the US National Archives.

1917: US Soldiers Exercising

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:54:01 +0000

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"View of soldiers from the 331st Machine Gun Battalion performing exercises at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois."

found at the US National Archives.

1994: Bill Clinton Playing the Saxophone

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:50:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

"President Bill Clinton plays the saxophone presented to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin at a private dinner hosted by President Yeltsin at Novoya Ogarova Dacha, Russia"
By Bob McNeely, January 13, 1994

found at the US National Archives.

1945: Wedding Rings Taken By The Nazis

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:47:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

"A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Germans removed from their victims to salvage the gold. U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings, near Buchenwald concentration camp."
By T4c. Roberts, May 5, 1945

found at the US National Archives.

1944: American Soldiers Landing in Normandy

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed)) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:44:01 +0000

Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) has posted a doc:

"Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat."
By CphoM. Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944

found at the US National Archives.