Historical Photos Thread

[SOAZ]

If its a shot older than 1950 post it in this thread!
I found these in the national archives! All of them from good old Arizona!


A roof top... BED and one of the new offroad trailers, both taken on the 87-Beeline Highway.

[SOAZ]

Last one is a hanging in Tombstone... :gunt:

[SOAZ]

If anyone has done the Apache Trail the first one is the Power station for Roosevelt dam being built.
Check out this pic from last year of the power house. http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/5-29-07%20Utah%20Grand%20Staircase-%20Escalante-%20Mon%20Vlly/Utah07285.jpg
The last two are of the Hoover/Boulder dam. Yikes!!

[Rob O]

If anyone has done the Apache Trail the first one is the Power station for Roosevelt dam being built.
The last two are of the Hoover/Boulder dam. Yikes!!

Very cool

[Grim Reaper]

From my Grandfathers visit to Italy in the 40's and a Hard drive.

[SOAZ]

From my Grandfathers visit to Italy in the 40's and a Hard drive.
Oh my! Was he visiting with the US Army?

[IH8RDS]

I always loved these pictures:

http://www.poster.net/new-york-collection/new-york-collection-men-on-girder-1930-9961358.jpg

[IH8RDS]

1. The First Photograph [France, 1826]

http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/800px-view-from-the-window-at-le-gras-joseph-nicephore-niepce-tm.jpg

[SOAZ]

1. The First Photograph [France, 1826]

http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/800px-view-from-the-window-at-le-gras-joseph-nicephore-niepce-tm.jpg
That is amazing to think it was the first thing captured and frozen in time. :orngartis

[viatierra]

http://expeditionportal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=16075&d=1203639561

That Saguaro is incredible!

[SOAZ]

Some things change, some things stay the same. I think I found some pictures of my relatives :jump:
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/2-3-08%20Sycamore/Tim-4.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/5-29-07%20Utah%20Grand%20Staircase-%20Escalante-%20Mon%20Vlly/Utah07255.jpg

[FourByLand]

Oh, this is going to be a fun thread to watch!!!

:lurk:

[Moody]

I just so happen to be starting my unit on the Civil War:

[Moody]

Another couple of cool ones:

[SOAZ]

I just so happen to be starting my unit on the Civil War:
Wow. Amazing shots. I recognize the... howitzer? from the national archives. Very cool!

[Moody]

Wow. Amazing shots. I recognize the... howitzer? from the national archives. Very cool!
That particular cannon is known as "The Dictator" 13in. diameter if I remember correctly. Look at the cannonballs. The size of two grown mens heads. Intimidating.

[SOAZ]

That particular cannon is known as "The Dictator" 13in. diameter if I remember correctly. Look at the cannonballs. The size of two grown mens heads. Intimidating.
Yikes. How would you like that flying at you. I can only imagine the sound it would make flying through the air! :yikes:

[Streakerfreak]

Some really great choices everyone.


1. The First Photograph [France, 1826]

http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/800px-view-from-the-window-at-le-gras-joseph-nicephore-niepce-tm.jpg

I know this image very well from my college years.

Here are three images that have always intrigued me. I can't find the other two images that have always fascinated me.
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w172/streakerfreak/CIVIL099-2.gif
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w172/streakerfreak/Bourke-White_bombing_of_mos.gif
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w172/streakerfreak/MBourkeWhite2D.gif

[SOAZ]

Wow. I went onto Telluridemuseum.org and saw these shots. Its amazing. I recognized them as being things I had seen on my trip there!
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/9-14-07%20Colorado/Colorado9-14-07315.jpg

[SOAZ]

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/9-14-07%20Colorado/Colorado9-14-07108.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/9-14-07%20Colorado/Colorado9-14-07109.jpg

[SOAZ]

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/9-14-07%20Colorado/Colorado9-14-07095.jpg

[SOAZ]

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/9-14-07%20Colorado/Colorado9-14-07091.jpg
And the same falls before the old power generating home/building.

[Lost Canadian]

Who could forget this classic.
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/caine/vj.jpg

[hks3sgte]

Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5028/chs10505ko0.jpg (http://digarc.usc.edu/search/controller/proxyServer/chs-m19181/CHS-10505?v=hr)

[Moody]

Wow, I have never seen that photo before. I am adding that to my collection.

Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890

[Moody]

Topaz Japanese Internment Camp. Topaz, Utah
I went out with a fellow history teacher to see the site, about 2 hours out of SLC.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1398.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1397.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1390.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1392.jpg

[Moody]

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1386.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1387.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1399.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/reugmood/IMG_1400.jpg

[Scofco]

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/akimages/stairscl.jpg

:REExeSquatsHL1:

[DaJudge]

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/thebee41/WaldorfMine1940s.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/thebee41/WaldorfMcClellanMt1900s.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/thebee41/Argentine_Central_Summit.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/thebee41/Argentine_Central_Shay.jpg

These are all from around Waldorf, Colorado. South of Georgetown. This is a special place for me because it is the first place I wheeled out west. One of the reasons I moved out here.

[shahram]

This is my grandfather, Don, age fifteen, on his brother Bobby's scooter, Sunland, CA, circa 1944. Bobby, a devout Jehovah's Witness, was a conscientious objector during the war, and had been remanded by a judge to a work camp. He refused to go, and so the judge sent him to San Quentin for the duration of the war. His older brother John was fighting in Europe. John passed away three weeks ago.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/shahram358/grandpaonscooter.jpg

This is my maternal great grandmother, in her last year of high school. She became a wardrobe and set designer on lots of movie and television productions before her death in the late '60s. She was also an avid photographer, as was my great grandfather, who was best boy/grip at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. Together, they amassed a few large boxes of candid set photos picturing lots of big (and little) names in film, and later TV. I've been converting them to digital and repairing the images as best I can.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/shahram358/greatgrandma.jpg

This is a shot of Clint Eastwood and Sheb Wooley eating lunch on the set of Rawhide.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/shahram358/clinteastwoodrawhide.jpg

A lot of the photos are sort of spur of the moment shots, not posed. Lots of them are overexposed, or blurry, but I think what she was trying to convey was a sense of her daily life. Some of the photos are of random, every day objects, other crew members, executives, office workers, etc. There are pictures of company picnics, wild parties, location scouting expeditions, and some of actors goofing off. Lots and lots of Hal Roach-era stuff, with Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase...most of the time, you spend a minute looking at the pictures saying "Who the hell is this guy?"

[IH8RDS]

The First Expedition
The expedition travelled with a Thornycroft vehicle: a six-wheel, two and a half ton truck which had been donated by the manager of Thornycroft Motors. This was packed full of supplies for the journey and loaded onto a railway truck at Darling Harbour to be transported to Alice Springs. The expedition set out from Alice Springs on 21 July 1930.

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/images/discover/history_nation/lasseter/lass2_a1809059.jpg

1930 'CAGE' expedition led by Lasseter, Central Australian Gold Exploration [and the later search for him]

Photograph, PXA 633/58

[Ursidae69]

Topaz Japanese Internment Camp. Topaz, Utah
I went out with a fellow history teacher to see the site, about 2 hours out of SLC.


I'd like to go here, thanks for the photos. I like having a history teacher on board. :coffeedrink:

[Brett M]

Wow. I went onto Telluridemuseum.org and saw these shots. Its amazing. I recognized them as being things I had seen on my trip there!
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/soaz/Trips%20and%20Adventures/9-14-07%20Colorado/Colorado9-14-07315.jpg


Now that one is cool to me. What was the building used for back in it's boom time?

[cruiseroutfit]

Now that one is cool to me. What was the building used for back in it's boom time?

Pretty sure that the old mill as you drop into Silverton (Ouray area). They started with raw ore at the top and had it broken down to a concentrate by the bottom. Built on steep hills to take advantage of gravity. Lots of different designs and styles, stamp mills, some had furnaces to actually melt concentrate.

[77blazerchalet]

One of my favorite before n' after pics, From Dow Helmers' Historic Alpine Tunnel book, drove my VW GTI there in 1998. A favorite of others, too http://denver.yourhub.com/Columbine/Stories/Local-History/Then-Now/Story~20487.aspx Marvelous place to visit http://www.narrowgauge.org/alpine-tunnel/html/index.html

[SOAZ]

One of my favorite before n' after pics, From Dow Helmers' Historic Alpine Tunnel book, drove my VW GTI there in 1998. A favorite of others, too http://denver.yourhub.com/Columbine/Stories/Local-History/Then-Now/Story~20487.aspx Marvelous place to visit http://www.narrowgauge.org/alpine-tunnel/html/index.html
WOW. Looks like it was taken yesterday and then the train vanished...

[teotwaki]

That particular cannon is known as "The Dictator" 13in. diameter if I remember correctly. Look at the cannonballs. The size of two grown mens heads. Intimidating.


I didn't know the name...interesting! Technically it is a mortar and not a cannon, IIRC.

GREAT thread!

[slooowr6]

Great thread, couple photos really struck me..........

[hks3sgte]

Figueroa St. 1936 (Now California State Route 110) (Dodger Stadium will be built just to the right of where this photograph was taken.)

http://digarc.usc.edu/search/controller/proxyServer/chs-m210/CHS-31049