A Creative Mind is a Moving Target: Interesting photographs

Subject: Interesting Photographs Taken Throughout History

An eclectic collection, to say the least.

An eclectic collection, to say the least. And you must realize the professional photographers were carrying a 4x5 speed graphic camera and probably 25 - 4x5 plate holders that held only 2 - 4x5 sheets of film. Here is a photograph that young photographers have only seen in a photographic museum like the Eastman House in Rochester, NY. Yes we old timers photographed a wedding carrying this 8 pound behemough of a camera and used 4x5 graphomatic packs that held 6 sheets of 4x5 film. A big wedding was photographed with 18 graphomatics holding 100 sheets of film. Yes you needed an assistant just to carry your film. And just maybe he would have to unload and reload a # of packs with fresh film in a black changing bag so you could finish your wedding. Now, you tell me, is that Nikon that heavy?

Testing football helmets in 1912

WOW, this is sure an elaborate scientific evaluation for testing this players brain waves for concussions.

The Titanic in dry dock 1912

Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896

The smallest shop in London – a shoe salesman with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900

A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach. England, c. 1920

Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945

13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beer
for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created,
strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields.
Flying at 12 000 feet chills the brew to perfection

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

A man trying to sell his car after losing all in the Great Crash of 1929

Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps.
Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945

Leonard Siffleet, captured Australian commando who fought in WWII,
moments prior to being beheaded by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1943

Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran, 1960

A shot from atop Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning during game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
The Pirates defeated the Yankees with a walk off home run by Bill Mazeroski.
Photo was taken moments after the home run