Mark Shaw’s photographs of the lovely Audrey Hepburn. The photos were taken circa 1953 in miss Hepburn’s house in Los Angeles and on the back lot of Sabrina. This entire collection have lingered forgotten for more than fifty years in a box at the home of Mark’s first wife and were rediscovered again in 2008.
A view taken from Dresden's town hall of the destroyed Old Town after the allied bombings between February 13 and 15, 1945. Some 3,600 aircraft dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the German city. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 square miles of the city center, and killed more than 22,000.
Very clever (for the time) play on words here. They do like their cartoon images of the enemy dont they?
Hey I only wanted to get something from the shops and the wife was asleep! Dont lay a guilt trip on me. Every single thing in those days was targeted for the war effort.
Interesting photo in the way it shows you how many soldiers filled the boats on the D-Day landings. The more famous photos and movies show smaller boats holding 30 max soldiers getting out, here its around 400 Canadian men ready for the invasion ahead. Posing for the picture waving looking rather happy!
Group photo of some British troops from the trenches in WW1. Very interesting photo as it seems they all wearing various types of headwear, including a german helmet!
Pretty standard WW2 poster, fighting in the Pacific meant alot of racial slurs on Asians and poster like this were common.
Looks appealing right? recruiting fellow Aussies ANZACs calls (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) Gallipoli,Turkey 1915. If only they knew of the bumbling idiots that would be leading them into certain death there.
Leeds has alot of history surrounding it but not many folks realise its the place where the 1st films in the world were recorded by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the Le Prince single-lens camera made in 1888. It was taken in the garden of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain, possibly on October 14, 1888. It shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley, (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley. The 'actors' are shown walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera. It lasts for less than 2 seconds and includes 4 frames.
This is very close to where I live!
Filmed on paper filmstrips, this is Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince's second known film, produced in October 1888. Only photographic copies of it survive today. The Leeds Bridge was filmed because it provided action.
Battle of the Somme ( 1 July–18 November 1916). Trench life! Cheshire regiment. One of the best photos I have found, showing a lot of detail of the harsh conditions, men getting a sleep/nap wherever and whenever they can.
Yes I know its a photo site, but this is possibly my favorite video on YouTube. Not only the music and chilling scenes from the Somme but the feeling of a brutal, desperate, horrific place engulfs you as you watch the video. I always feel intrigued by the Somme, so much went wrong and was unnecessary, it cost lost of lives.
I know this is yet another photo from San Fransisco but to me this is a real special find. If you press on it for the full size, its really detailed and interesting. Families packed ready to leave their houses as the fire moves into the street. Crowds gather watching the carnage invading and slowly destroying the city that the quake did not take. Spot the police man on the roof of a building get a better view!
Workers on the Liberator Bombers, at Consolidated Aircraft Corp., in Fort Worth, Texas, in October of 1942. Some really interesting characters in the photo, the women near the front with the space age classes!
A farewell in Leningrad, in the spring of 1942. The German Siege of Leningrad caused widespread starvation among citizens, and lack of medical supplies and facilities made illnesses and injuries far more deadly. Some 1.5 million soldiers and civilians died in Leningrad during the siege - nearly the same number were evacuated, and many of them did not survive the trip due to starvation, illness, or bombing.
WW1 1916 Poster from London UK. For me this is a really strange poster, maybe nearly a 100 years later we see things differently now but the option to die away from home by a bullet it meant to encourage people to enlist into the War? Stopping air raids is a fine message to leave with people though!
Another WW1 poster, aimed at the troops either at home or away. Stay away from "Good time" girls, yes indeedy you have more important things to be doing.
This hardy soul sure it earning his money. Perched on the top of a chimney stack knocking it down, the rest of the building destroyed by the blitz in WW2. Did they have risk assesment in the 1940's? lol
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