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Advertisements

• Odd Ads of the Past
  • Andrews Liver Salt, 1947
  • Chuck Norris’ Action Jeans, 1980′s
  • Schlitz Beer, 1952
  • Scotch Tape, 1940′s

Americana

• Dancing School, ca. 1905
• Disneyland’s backstage cafeteria, 1961
• “Got wings? Let’s Fly!” Airshow, 1938
• Swimmers on Lake Michigan, 1925

Animals

• Animals Driving Cars
• Bison & Crane, 1987
• Boy and Dog, Coney Island, ca. 1885
• Calf Pulling Boy in Sled, 1915
• Hotel de Chipmunk – 1933
• Mother Cat Stops Traffic, July 29, 1925
• School Children with Bison, 1899
• Zookeeper Feeding Bears in Chicago, 1900

Art

• Dali and his anteater
• LIFE Goes to the Louvre, 1953

Beauty Contests

• Diaper Queen, 1947
• Miss America
• Miss Atomic Bomb

Cold War Years

• School Bomb Drill

Great Depression

• Bound for California, 1939

Holidays

• Halloween
  • Halloween in the White House
  • Halloween Promotional Photos (Hollywood)
• Thanksgiving
  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: Part II
  • Thanksgiving Cheer, 1918
• Christmas
  • Christmas on the USS Lexington, 1944
  • Christmas with the Presidents
  • Home for the Holidays, 1944
  • “The True Spirit of the Season”
  • U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail
• New Year’s Eve
  • New Year’s Eve in Pictures

Hollywood

• “3D Film Audience”
• Bette Davis: 1939
• Marilyn Monroe meets Queen Elizabeth II
• “Marlene Dietrich – 1952″
• Mickey Consoling Kermit, 1990
• Shirley Temple giving Claudette Colbet her Oscar

Immigration/Migration

• Great Western Migration – 1886
• “Lace House Dry Goods Co. (1909)”

Inventions

(Odd Inventions: See Inventions)

• Bicycle for Four
• Bike for Two – 1886
• Testing Bulletproof Vest, 9/13/23

Labor

• 100,000th Fordson Tractor on Final Assembly Line, 1920
• Assembling Dolls, Philadelphia, 1912
• Draping Stockings, 1936
• Candy Factory
• Ford Model T Truck Hauling 8,000 Pounds of Hay, 1921
• “Lounge section of dining car, Erie Railroad Company” (1949)
• Soda Jerker, 1939
• Spinning Glass Wool, 1937
• Workman on the Empire State Building

Landmarks

• Grand Canyon
  • Cutting a Fire Line, 1934
  • Naturalist Edwin McKee with Nuthatch, 1929
  • Stubborn Mule, 1910
• New York Public Library Lions, 1948
• Yosemite National Park
  • Tourists on Overhanging Rock

Literature

• Mark Twain

Medicine

• Ducks, Medical Therapy, 1956
• Free Chest X-Rays for Tuberculosis, 1955
• Horse-drawn Ambulance, 1912
• Nurses, Iron Lung, 1958
• Operating Room of the MA General Hospital, Boston (c.1907)

Mother Nature & Other Disasters

• Flood Victims Lined Up, 1937
• “Ice Fountain,” Detroit, 1917
• Snow Rabbit, 1978
• Snow Roller, Caribou, ca. 1930

Music

• Blind Musician – 1944
• Vintage Mugshots of Musicians

NASA

• Astronaut Survival Training, 1963
• Neal Armstrong On The Moon, 1969
• President Nixon Welcomes Apollo 11 Astronauts, 1969

Odd and Weird Photographs

• Around the Clock, 1930.
• Attempting the World’s Largest Omelet, Washington, ca.1929-1932
• Balancing an egg, 1939
• Clown Bathing, ca. 1955
• Geene Courtney, Sausage Queen, 1955
• Girls Dressed as Appliances, 1936
• “Spruce Girls,” 1929

Old West

• Baking Slapjacks, 1874
• Cowboy Round-up, Oregon, ca. 1912
• “A True Girl of the West”

Presidents

See History: Presidents

Prohibition

• Illegal Distillery, Detroit, 1929
• Prohibition in Seattle, 1925
• We Want Beer

Segregation/Civil Rights Movement

• “Hate Bus,” 1961
• Lynching Flag, New York, 1938
• Margaret Bourke-White: Segregation in South Carolina

Sports

• 1887 Baseball Cards
• Football Players, 1939
• Motorcycle Madness as Daytona, 1948
• Charley Paddock (1920 Olympics)
• Charles Radbourn Giving the Finger, 1886
• “Women Bowling,” ca. 1900

Women’s Rights Movement/Suffrage

• Bathing Suit Arrests, Chicago, 1922
• “Girls Are Strong” - ERA March, 1982
• Women Voting in New York City, 1917 & 1920

Other

• 100th Anniversary of the Titanic & the story of Ned Parfett
• “Raising the Flag at Ground Zero”