history's forgotten images

Bonnie & Clyde’s car after following the shootout that ended the two outlaws in 1934.  The gunfire barrage was so loud that many members of the posse

experienced temporary deafness.

Civil War veteran Samuel Decker poses with the prosthetic arms he made for himself... Somehow.

Inmates at Attica play chess

American soldiers hunker down in a trench less than a mile away from the detonation of a 43 kiloton nuclear bomb in 1953.

Mark Twain smoking a cigar & relaxing at the porch in 1905

LA police officers went undercover dressed up as women in 1960 to catch purse snatchers.

Children in iron lungs before the advent of the polio vaccine in 1937.

A man browsing for books in Cincinnati’s cavernous old main library. The library was demolished in 1955.

The first known sports team photo ever taken, The 1858 Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, Hoboken, New Jersey.

Eisenhower and Patton examine a trove of stolen artifacts that the Germans hid in salt mine in 1945.

American field hospital in the bombed out remains of a French church in 1918.

Waiting in line following the Louisville flood of 1937.

John F. And Bobby Kennedy in 1960.

A group of school children visit a bison in 1899.

Old Pony Express and the future of mail delivery.

First ambulance: Bellevue Hospital Center, NY, 1869

Abraham Lincoln inspects the battlefield in 1862.

A mountain of bison skulls ready to be ground into fertilizer in the 1870's.

Michigan loggers in 1890.

Civil War veterans and survivors of Gettysburg shake hands in 1913.

The Rivoli Theater in 1975.

A car crash in Washington DC in 1921.

Prohibition begins and alcohol is poured down the drain in 1921.

12th Street in Miami, Florida in 1908.

Albert Einstein visits The Grand Canyon in 1922.

A lull in the fighting during the Civil War.

Alabama school house in 1935.

Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill pose together in 1885.

Road leading to Woodstock in 1969.

Powell, a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.  He was hanged in 1865.