Photos From History Thread

[eran0004]

You see kids, selfies aren't a recent thing and they were all made without a darn selfie stick too!

Here's one by Finnish-Swedish poet Edith Södergran (1892 - 1923). Note the tape measure she's holding, after having measured the distance from the lens. No auto-focus back then! Picture was taken in Davos in Switzerland, where she spent a couple of years (1912 - 1914) at a sanatorium to get cured from tuberculosis.

 

[Liquid]

WHO FOUNDED THE CAR COMPANY? UNITED STATES EDITION

Ransom Eli Olds US

Louis Chevrolet CH

Henry Ford US

Walter Chrysler US

John Dodge US & Horace Dodge US

 

[axletramp]

Mr Rolls and Mr Royce

 

[Liquid]

WHO FOUNDED THE CAR COMPANY? CONTINENTAL EUROPE EDITION

Karl Benz DE

Gottlieb Daimler DE

Ferdinand Porsche CZ

Armand Peugeot F

Louis Renault F

 

[RocZX]

1938- US Dept. of Agriculture collecting bugs

 

[TheCracker]

It's amazing how similar and familiar that graphical interface is 32 years later. If it ain't broken, why fix it.

 

[axletramp]

Unless you're Microsoft, then you take something that's not broken, break it, then have to work out how to fix it.

 

[ScottPuss20]

Kai Tak Airport Hong Kong, Late 40's:

 

[Beerz]

Back in the days when they were just "pictures of yourself". And damn well ought to be.

No, "pictures of yourself" is a thread here in GTP.
The term you're looking for is "self portrait".

 

[W3H5]

Some pics from the early days of aviation. I don't have the time to find the specific information on each pic as I'm supposed to be working but a Google reverse image search should do it if you're desperate to know.

Prince Kuhio flies an early airplane.

Glider - details unknown.

Lucky survivor...

 

[Grand Prix]

One of the spiral tunnels built for the CPR in 1909. They were designed to make traversing the steep Kicking Horse Pass, near the British Columbia/Alberta border, somewhat easier. Here we see one CPR train exiting, and still entering, one such tunnel.

Still in use today:

 

[W3H5]

@Grand Prix, I think your long standing avatar wins this thread today.

 

[Dennisch]

Founders of Spyker :

Hendrik Jan sitting down and Jacobus standing with his arms folded.

The happy elderly couple are the parents.

Fun fact. They're from Hilversum.

 

[axletramp]

I hope mum is sitting down.

 

[Grand Prix]

@Grand Prix, I think your long standing avatar wins this thread today.

Thank you,

For those that don't know, that would be Raymond Mays, founder of the ERA and BRM racing teams, losing a drive wheel at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in 1924. Mays had tuned his Bugatti Type 13 to rev to 6000rpm, something Ettore Bugatti could only dream of at this time. It was too much for the half-axle and the wheel, complete with brake drum, flew off.

The car skidded to a stop inches away from a precipice.

 

[Liquid]

Last Photograph Taken Of Winston Churchill

Yes, a photograph of a photograph because this has only lately come to light and nobody has scanned and uploaded it to the internet but this was taken shortly before Churchill's death in 1965 at the age of 90.

Edit: Going off this I just Googled "Churchill Funeral"

Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip (saluting), Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Princess Margret (behind Charles), Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon (holding hat)

 

[W3H5]

Photoception....

 

[mister dog]

A day at the beach in Belgium around 1900:

Yes there were no sunglasses yet to stare discretely at the broads in bikini, in fact; there were no broads in bikini neither.

 

[Adamgp]

Violet Jessop

Stewardess for the White Star Line, and only one to survive the disastrous sinkings of both the RMS Titanic (1912) and her sister ship, the HMHS Britannic (1916). Also was on the RMS Olympic in 1911 when it collided with the HMS Hawke (a ship designed to sink ships by ramming them).

Can't tell if she had good luck or bad.

Lunch time on the set of Star Wars:



Ann Frank getting some fresh air, 1942:



Rare picture of a young Winston Churchill, 1895:

 

[W3H5]

According to Wiki this is the oldest surviving photograph ever taken.

On a side note, this thread is awesome. I'm not a fan of photography but I do love me some history.

 

[turbolefty78]

It looks like a guy with big sideburns working on a model of an Imperial Star Destroyer.
Also posted already on page 2 by @Lucas.

 

[W3H5]

My bad, I have the memory of a what was I saying again?

EDIT: what has been seen...

 

[Liquid]

@W3HS You have the honour of the first repost in this thread.

Now this feels like a proper thread embedding itself into the community with such an achievement like that attached to it.

 

[turbolefty78]

EDIT: what has been seen...

Saw it didn't ya! I can't see anything else but that each time I look at that picture.

 

[W3H5]

I couldn't make out the sideburns but the Star Destroyer, oh my gosh!

Yay! First repost honours! I'll put that down to 5 beers and a stunted memory.

 

[D.Kadettdriver]

Just some color photos from the 1930s, taken in Amsterdam:

 

[PeterJB]

That's a lot of orange oranje.

 

[Liquid]

@D.Kadettdriver Excellent. Love it. I really, really do love photos which show the past with clarity and a resolution that make a decade such as the 1930s is more tangible in the mind and not something fuzzy and grainy.

 

[W3H5]

Looking at those Amsterdam pics just makes me wonder if any of them people around at the time would comprehend what the world had become today.
What did it smell like there, what did it sound like? How fresh was the air, what did they eat for dinner, etc.

 

[mister dog]

Funny that you have a photo shop on the left side there.