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A few of these you may have seen, but probably
very few.
Miss
America 1924
Helen
Keller Meeting Charlie Chaplin
Leather
gloves worn by Lincoln to Ford's Theater on the night
of his assassination. Blood stains are visible at the cuffs .
Phoebe
Mozee (aka: Annie Oakley). Famed for her marksmanship by
12 years old. When she outshot
famed exhibition marksman Frank Butler,
he fell in love with her and they married.
Very
Young Lucy Lucille Ball around 1930
Amy
Johnson, English aviator 1903-1941 One of the first women to gain
a pilot's licence, Johnson won fame when she flew solo from Britain
to Australia in 1930. Her dangerous flight took 17 days.
Later she flew solo to India and Japan and became the first woman
to fly across the Atlantic East to West, she volunteered to fly for
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in WW 2, but her plane was
shot down over the River Thames and she was killed.
Prison
Garb 1924. Belva Annan murderess whose trial records became the musical
"Chicago."
Female
photojournalist Jessie Tarbox on the street with her camera, 1900's .
Roald
Amundsen was the first person to reach the South Pole. At approximately
3pm
on December 14, 1911, Amundsen raised the flag of Norway at the South Pole
and
named the spot Polheim — "Pole Home."
The
extraordinary life of Maud Allen: Seductive US dancing girl who was sued
for
being
too lewd, outed as a lesbian, and fled London after being branded a German
spy
who was sleeping with the prime minister's wife.
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
Caroline
Otero, courtesan, the most sought after woman in all of Europe.
She
associated herself with the likes of Prince Albert I of Monaco,
King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Kings of Serbia, and Kings of Spain
as
well as Russian Grand Dukes Peter and Nicholas, the Duke of Westminster
and
writer Gabriele D'Annunzio Six men reportedly committed suicide after
their
love affairs with Otero ended. Two men fought a duel over her. She was
famed
for her voluptuous breasts.
Wedding
day photograph of Abraham and Mary taken November 4, 1842
in
Springfield, Illinois after three years of a stormy courtship and a broken
engagement.
Their love had endured.
Billie
Holiday at two years old, in 1917
Washington,
D.C., circa 1919. "Walter Reed Hospital flu ward." One of the
very
few
images in Washington-area photo archives documenting the influenza
contagion
of 1918-1919, which killed over 500,000 Americans and tens of millions
around
the globe. Most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following
influenza
virus infection .
Filming
the MGM Logo
Amelia
Earhart
Mae
Questel ca. 1930's, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, Minnie Mouse,
Felix
the Cat (for three shorts by the Van Beuren Studios), Little Lulu,
Little
Audrey and Casper, the Friendly Ghost
Bea
Arthur (née Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45
WW
II Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash DC,
then
air stations in VA and NC. Best remembered for her title role in the TV
series
"Maude" and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls".
In
1911, Bobby Leach survived a plunge over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel.
Fourteen
years later, in New Zealand, he slipped on an orange peel and died.
Emily
Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister. In 1856 she married
Benjamin
Helm, a Confederate general. After Helm's death in 1863
Emily
Helm passed through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House.
This
caused great consternation in the Northern newspapers. Emily Helm
took
an oath of loyalty to the Union and was granted amnesty
Three
days before his 19th birthday, George H.W. Bush
became
the youngest aviator in the US Navy.
Market
Street, San Francisco after the earthquake, 1906.
All-American
Girls Baseball, 1940's
1943
: Breast Protectors for War Workers
Mary
Ellen Wilson (1864-1956) or sometimes Mary Ellen McCormack
was
an American whose case of child abuse led to the creation of the
New
York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. As an eight-year
old,
she
was severely abused by her foster parents, Francis and Mary Connolly.
Sacajawea.
Stolen, held captive, sold, eventually reunited the Shoshone Indians.
She
was an interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark in 1805-1806 with her
husband
Toussaint Charbonneau. She navigated carrying her son, Jean Baptiste,
on
her back. She traveled thousands of miles from the Dakotas to the Pacific
Ocean.
The
explorers, said she was cheerful, never complained, and proved to be
invaluable.
She
served as an advisor, caretaker, and is legendary for her perseverance and
resourcefulness.
Zelda
Boden, circus performer, ca. 1910.
A
Confederate and Union soldier shake hands during a celebration at
Gettysburg
in
1913. Image from the Library of Congress. July 1-3, 2013 marks
the
150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Geraldine
Doyle, who was the inspiration behind
the
famous Rosie the Riveter poster.
Vintage
Baked Potato Cart. A legitimate fast food lunch option back in the day.
Black
physicians treating in the ER a member of the Ku Kux Klan
Sergeant
Stubby (1916 or 1917 - April 4, 1926), was the most decorated war dog
of
World War I and the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat
America's
first
war dog, Stubby, served 18 months 'over there' and participated in
seventeen
battles
on the Western Front. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas
attacks,
found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy
by
the seat of his pants (holding him there till American Soldiers found
him).
Nightwitches
- Female Russian bombers who bombed
Germany
during WW 2. They had old, noisy planes &
the
engines used to conk out halfway through their missions,
so
they had to climb out on the wings mid-flight to restart the props.
To
stop Germans from hearing them & starting up the anti aircraft guns,
they'd
climb to a certain height, coast down to German positions,
drop
their bombs, restart their engines in midair & get the hell out of
dodge
Their
leader flew 200+ missions & was never captured.
Marilyn
Monroe meets Queen Elizabeth II, London,
in 1956 and both women are 30 years old.
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