Old Pictures

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Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe, and Clark Gable photographed during a

publicity shoot in 1960 for the 1961 film The Misfits. This would be the last completed film for both

Clark Gable (who died in 1960 before the film was released) and Marilyn Monroe (who died in 1962).

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End of 1888

 

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Vivien Leigh, 1935

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Women of a migrant family peeling potatoes.

The Great Depression, Near Henrietta, Oklahoma in 1939.

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"In vegetable canneries the young worker is one of the chief assets." No location given, 1912.

Photographed by Lewis Wickes Hine, for the National Child Labor Committee.

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This is spring 1905 and the Steeplejack firm of W. Larkins Co Ltd. are at work cleaning Nelson's Column for the

first time since it was erected in 1843 .  The Column is being cleaned in anticipation of the celebrations on 21st October 1905

for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

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Wolseley Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in early 1901 by the Vickers armaments combine in conjunction with Herbert Austin. It initially made a full range, topped by large luxury cars, and dominated the market in the Edwardian era. The Vickers brothers died and, without their guidance, Wolseley expanded rapidly after the war, manufacturing 12,000 cars in 1921, and remained the biggest motor manufacturer in Britain.

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JULY 1950 - ADVERTISEMENT for Grumman, featuring the PANTHER,

the U.S.Navy’s jet fighter, in the TIME magazine issue of 31 July 1950.

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The 1955 Le Mans disaster is, and likely will always be, the deadliest event in motorsport history. It totaled 84 deaths and upwards of 170 injuries from a single crash.

Contains a few 'graphic' photos.

Links:

http://www.ewilkins.com/wilko/lemans.htm
http://jalopnik.com/just-how-horrifying-was-the-worst-crash-in-motorsports-1589382023

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6 hours ago, pipedreams said:

This is spring 1905 and the Steeplejack firm of W. Larkins Co Ltd. are at work cleaning Nelson's Column for the

first time since it was erected in 1843 .  The Column is being cleaned in anticipation of the celebrations on 21st October 1905

for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Unfortunate that John Paul Jones has not received recognition in proportion to his impact on the American Revolution that Nelson has received. 

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6 hours ago, pipedreams said:

JULY 1950 - ADVERTISEMENT for Grumman, featuring the PANTHER,

the U.S.Navy’s jet fighter, in the TIME magazine issue of 31 July 1950.

I remember building the Panther Jet model. One of my first.  That jet was sooooo Cooooool back in the day.  It was the ultimate fighter.

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Rod LaRocque as Frank Devereaux with

Barbara Stanwyck as Ann Carter in The Locked Door (1929)

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Captola Ulalah Cook, from the Pamunkey Reservation in King William County, Virginia - Pamunkey - circa 1919
{Note: Captola Ulala Cook was born in 1893, in King William County, Virginia, the daughter of Wahansacook (aka George Major Cook) & Theodora Octavia Dennis. Later, Captola Ulalah Cook married Issac Henry Miles. Mrs. Captola Ulalah (Cook) Miles died in 1973.}

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16 hours ago, pipedreams said:

Number of other brands of stamps. Quality. Top Value (which I believe was backed by Kroger). Then more regional ones.

Redeeming them was interesting. Some redemption centers seemed to be open a few hours every February 29. When they were open they were out of whatever item you wanted. 

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colourised photo of a chamber in Tutankhamun's tomb,

discovered in 1922

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Marilyn Monroe entertaining U.S. troops in Korea, February, 1954

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The Phillips cross-head screw was originally the brainchild of John P. Thompson of Oregon, who, in 1933, patented (#1,908,080) a recessed cruciform screw and in 1933, a screwdriver for it. The importance of the X-shaped crosshead screw design lies in its self-centering property, useful on automated production lines that use powered screwdrivers.
Thompson wasn't trying to make life with hand tools easier. He was trying to solve an industrial problem. To drive a slot screw, you need hand-eye coordination to line up the screwdriver and the slot. If you're a machine, specifically, a 1930s machine, you ain't got no eye, and your hand coordination may depend on humans.
And not only does a power Phillips driver get engaged fast, it stays engaged and doesn't tend to slide out of the screw. Another advantage: It's hard to over-screw with a power tool. The screwdriver will likely just pop out when the screw is completely fastened. The recessed slot was shallow enough that the driver did pop out when the screw was fully tightened, which prevented over-torquing and damage to the screw, the driver and the product being assembled. As such, it had great potential for the air-driven fastening tools then being introduced into automotive assembly lines.
After Thompson took out a U.S. patent, over the next six months he approached many screw manufacturers, all of which said his screw was impossible to reproduce because the punch needed to create the recess would destroy the screw head.
Thompson decided the whole idea was not manufacturable until he revealed his idea to a Portland acquaintance named Henry Frank Phillips who became intrigued with the idea and offered to buy the rights to the patent.
In 1934, Phillips approached the American Screw Company of Providence, Rhode Island, the oldest (founded 1837) and largest screw manufacturer in North America where a new president named Eugene Clark had taken over. Clark was captivated by the design despite his engineers' reservations. By 1936, after some significant modifications by Henry Phillips (U.S. Patent #2,046,343, U.S. Patents #2,046,837 to 2,046,840) American Screw agreed to underwrite the development of a cold form process to produce cruciform screws.
Phillips formed the Phillips Screw Company in 1934. After refining the design for the American Screw Company of Providence, Rhode Island, Phillips succeeded in bringing the design to industrial manufacturing and promoting its rapid adoption as a machine screw standard.
One of the first customers was General Motors who used the innovative design in 1936 for its Cadillac assembly-lines.

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20 Mule Team Hauling Ore From Borate Through Mule Canyon (Calico) To Daggett, Circa (pre-) 1890s)

These "big teams" pulled massive wagons hauling borax from the Harmony Borax Works near Furnace Creek to the railhead near Mojave, a grueling 165 mile, ten day trip across primitive roads. Although the teams only ran for six years - 1883 to 1889 - they have made an enduring impression of the Old West.
This is primarily due to a successful advertising campaign promoting 20-Mule-Team Borax Soap. Today you may see two of the last remaining wagons in Death Valley. One is in front of the Furnace Creek Ranch and the other is at Harmony Borax Works.

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H-4 Hughes Hercules, the 'Spruce Goose' being moved from Culver City Plant to Long Beach - 6.11.1946

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1927 Versare Gas-Electric Bus.

Montreal Tramways Company Bus #800, the "Atwater Street Monster". This Versare gas-electric bus was used in the 1920s and 1930s on the Atwater Avenue bus route.

Versare Car Company was a bus and trolley bus maker founded in 1925 and originally based in Watervliet, New York. Among their early work were experimental buses that utilized diesel and electric engines that could be run alone or together, a technique that could be seen as a very early ancestor to dual-mode vehicles of the modern day.
In 1928, the assets of the company were purchased by the Cincinnati Car Company and the company's base was moved from Watervliet to Cincinnati, Ohio. The Versare nameplate returned in 1931 and remained until its demise in 1938.
 
Expo: Tribute to Workers from Past to Present, Société de transport de Montréal, archived from the original on 2002-08-18, retrieved July 8, 2013, “In the years following the appearance of buses on Montreal's streets, the company tested a number of bus models, including a gas-electric hybrid model made by the Versare Company. Because the excessive distance between the axles prevented the driver from turning corners easily on the narrow streets of the time, this bus could be used only on the Atwater Avenue route. Seven years later, the aptly nicknamed "Atwater Street Monster" literally broke in two in the middle of the street.”