Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
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Confederate general Robert E Lee.
Did you know that when Lee joined the confederacy, his farm was taken and later became Arlington National Cemetery?
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William, Diana, Harry
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Edgar Allan Poe poses with Abraham Lincoln in Mathew Brady’s Washington ,D.C. studio, 1849
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Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer during World War I, 1918
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Mark Twain, aged 15, 1850
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Mother Teresa, What a find…!!!
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@Dr_Manhattan Those are some remarkable photos/pictures you have posted. Reminds of the times that took place in those days. We will never see those days again. Maybe, in some perspective - that is a good thing.
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“A farewell to Arms” was based on this experience.
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Lunch atop a skyscraper
A worker relaxing during the construction of a New York skyscraper in the 1930’s
Steel Worker on Socony Mobil Building, 1955
Remember that photo of the construction workers having lunch on a unfinished New York skyscraper? Well here’s the photographer Charles Ebbets. 9/20/1932
Pan American building, 1962, NYC construction.
Dinner with a view: These workers atop the frame of the Waldorf-Astoria in 1930 enjoyed some of the hotel’s legendary five-star service before construction was even complete
A 1900s cameraman looks a bit unsteady as he hovers one foot over the hedge while walking across steal girders of a skyscraper
These four men are hoping to pass a test to get jobs as painters at the Brooklyn Bridge. Their first task was to climb to the top of one of the pillars. An estimated 27 workers died building the bridge
1932,” of construction workers in New York City taking a much-deserved break
Construction workers on the Woolworth Building, New York 1920s
“Gangsters”
Other Historical photos that include the dark past of prohibition created some interesting characters that still fascinate people today.
The Forgotten gang “The Genna Brothers”
Angelo Genna
His funeral
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1920: Francesco Ioele (1893 - 1928), better known as Frankie Yale, was a Brooklyn vice lord and Al Capone’s first employer, ca. 1920s. He later fell victim to Capone’s violence. Yale was a leading figure in 1920s New York crime and got his start with Johnny Torrio with the notorious Five Points Gang.
When he was shot and killed
His funeral
Capone’s arch nemisis besides George “Bugs Moran” is Dean O’Banion
O’Banion funeral
Hymie Weiss
One the most gruesome events to happen in American Gangland history and eventually changed the tide to turn public opinion against the gangster era, was the event of the St. Valentines Day Massacre
Reenactment photo as several men raise their hands
On April 19, 1929, Coroner Herman N. Bundesen, right, and Lt. Col. C. H. Goddard with machine guns used in St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
The dog that witnessed it and lived (if only dogs could talk)
Capt. William ‘Shoes’ Schoemaker shows four machine guns at the inquest for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on April 19, 1929.
Mrs. Alphonsine Morin, who lived across the street from the garage saw a couple of ‘policemen’ coming out of the garage after hearing the gunshots. She received a letter a few days later telling her to “keep your mouth shut.” Morin, seen here around February 1929, left Chicago the minute she received the letter.
led by Coroner Herman N. Bundesen, left, at the inquest for the Clark Street St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on Feb. 15, 1929. The coroner said 20 to 25 bullets were found in each of the seven bodies.
The Werner Storage Company building located at 2122 N. Clark St., shown here in 1953 is the scene of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre on Feb. 14, 1929. The building was torn down December 1967.
Surrounded by his watchful lieutenants, Chicago’s crime boss Al Capone, right, and his 12-year-old son, Al Jr., gets Chicago Cubs’ Gabby Hartnett to autograph a baseball just before the Cubs defeated the White Sox, 3-0 on Sept. 9, 1931, in Chicago. Seventy years after Capone’s death, the world’s most famous gangster still draws a crowd in Chicago and visitors from all over the world come to search for anything Capone.
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