Interesting Historical Photos. Part 2 (20 pics)

1

Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore recording the music of a Blackfoot chief onto a phonograph, 1916

2

Railroad bridge from the years 1901-1904, in the State of Oregon, USA

3

Coney Island on July 22, 1940, as photographed by Weegee

4

The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927

5

Mongolian shaman, c. 1909

6

MIT graduating class of 1875, shown 50 years later in 1925

7

Wyatt Earp at home in Los Angeles, 1923

8

Russian spy laughing through his execution in finland during The Winter War, 1939

9

First pig to fly, 1909

10

Inside The Old Metropolitan Opera House 1937

11

Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint, one of four events in which Owens won gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, while Nazi propaganda was using the Games of that year to promote concepts of “Aryan racial superiority”. August 3 1936

12

Halloween in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, c. early twentieth century (exact date unknown)

13

An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France. British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right – in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917

14

Loading 5MB of Memory into a Pan am Jet, 1956

15

The statue of Liberty surrounded by scaffolding as workers complete the final stages in Paris c. 1885

16

Ex-slaves attend reunion convention. Washington D.C. – October, 1916

17

Emperor Meiji in full court dress, 1872

18

The Cologne cathedral stands tall amidst the ruins of the city after allied bombings, 1944

19

Opium Den, Singapore – 1941