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Excluding this original post, please limit your photos per post to a maximum of five.
I like to derail the ACP thread from earthporn and sharks with interesting photos from history. Seems a worthy enough topic for its own thread.
Colour Photograph Of LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II
Sister ship of the Hindenburg, the pair were the only airships ever colour photographed during the golden age of airship travel.
Scale with other large aircraft
And now for some of my previous submissions:
First known glider photograph
Otto Lilienthal with a manned glider. 1891.
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1931 - Al Capone and his son getting a baseball autographed
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(L-R) Julius, Milton, Minnie, Herbert, Simon, Leonard and Adolph
No? This is the Marx family in 1915.
L-R again it's Groucho, Gummo, Mamma Marx, Zeppo, Papa Marx, Chico and Harpo
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Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford in the first Ford car; Ford Quadricycle
c.1899-1901
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Operation Crossroads - Baker Test - Bikini Atoll, 2nd Explosion
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The German built USS Los Angeles floating over southern Manhattan. c.1924-28.
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Another airship, the USS Akron, also flying over lower Manhattan.
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1892, London - Tower Bridge Under Construction
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1844, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington
The man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Here at the age of 77.
I like to derail the ACP thread from earthporn and sharks with interesting photos from history. Seems a worthy enough topic for its own thread.
Colour Photograph Of LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II
Sister ship of the Hindenburg, the pair were the only airships ever colour photographed during the golden age of airship travel.
Scale with other large aircraft
And now for some of my previous submissions:
First known glider photograph
Otto Lilienthal with a manned glider. 1891.
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1931 - Al Capone and his son getting a baseball autographed
---
(L-R) Julius, Milton, Minnie, Herbert, Simon, Leonard and Adolph
No? This is the Marx family in 1915.
L-R again it's Groucho, Gummo, Mamma Marx, Zeppo, Papa Marx, Chico and Harpo
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Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford in the first Ford car; Ford Quadricycle
c.1899-1901
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Operation Crossroads - Baker Test - Bikini Atoll, 2nd Explosion
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The German built USS Los Angeles floating over southern Manhattan. c.1924-28.
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Another airship, the USS Akron, also flying over lower Manhattan.
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1892, London - Tower Bridge Under Construction
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1844, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington
The man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Here at the age of 77.
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