Historical images - Images that made history

[Candlelight Desolation]

Justice Clarence Thomas having a laugh:

 

[General Patton]

A Coroner’s van transports the bodies of Phil Hartman and his wife from their home. Encino, California. May 28, 1998.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Their kids were sleeping in the house when the murder took place.

 

[General Patton]

Their kids were sleeping in the house when the murder took place.

I still remember the news coverage when it was live and it showed the children being taken outside.

 

[Soso]

A painting of Victoria learning about her accession to the throne.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

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A painting of Victoria learning about her accession to the throne.

Her Majesty Victoria smiling:

 

[General Patton]

A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, during the Famine (1845-1852)

 

[General Patton]

Double post for obvious reasons.

Radium girls:



A young "Radium Girl" paints glow-in-the-dark, radioactive radium on clock faces at a U.S. Radium Corporation factory. Orange, New Jersey, 1916.

Catherine Donahue:

 

[The Last Stand]

Silent actress (at the time) Norma Shearer in front of the White House on July 24, 1929. Herbert Hoover was recently inaugurated a few months prior; the significance of that tidbit is that it was considered a moment of "peace" before the Great Depression.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Authentic plague doctor mask which has survived to the modern day in a German museum in Berlin:

 

[General Patton]

Marie Antoinette's final note, written at 4.30am on the morning of her execution, 16th October 1793.

Translation: ‘My lord, have pity on me! My eyes have no more tears to cry for you my poor children; farewell, farewell!’

 

[General Patton]

Double post.



A woman drinking tea, 1940, in the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Nicholas II of Russia hanging around with the family. During his trip he wrote a letter to her beloved wife, Alexandra with the following.

"I walked up and down the platform, thinking of you and the girls. I was struck by the stillness which reigned around—I was expecting all the time to hear the wild shrieks of Anastasia or Marie, plaguing Mordvinov. ... It was such real happiness, those six days at home!" —

Nicholas II to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, Mogilev, 26 October, 1916 [The Letters of the Tsar to the Tsaritsa, 1914-1917]

 

[The Last Stand]

A woman flexing her stocking adjustment while modeling next to Goodyear's illuminated tires circa 1961.



Say Myrna Loy wanted her wheels to glow orange, she could've done so. I don't think this passed the concept stage as A)the illumination could've been distracting on the road, B) you drive enough, the tires would be too dirty to even see the lights, C) they did not have enough traction in the rain.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

They were also probably radioactive.

 

[The Last Stand]

They were also probably radioactive.

Not as radioactive as this woman's lips:

Radium girls:



A young "Radium Girl" paints glow-in-the-dark, radioactive radium on clock faces at a U.S. Radium Corporation factory. Orange, New Jersey, 1916.

Two boys playing Pong.

 

[General Patton]

Paul Simonon from The Clash about to smash up his bass during a show at The Palladium, New York City on 21 September 1979.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Palestinians from the era of the ottoman empire.

 

[The Last Stand]

Gloria Swanson with a young Michael Jackson at Studio 54 before or after a play. AGELESS is right, she looked gorgeous then.



Doris Day candidly dancing on the set of Move Over, Darling (1963.)

What's most haunting about today is that not only it is Doris Day's birthday, but it's also the death date of Gloria Swanson.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Franz Ferdinand in Cairo, 1894