In 1948, Photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colorado, chronicling the day-to-day challenges faced by an indefatigable general practitioner named Dr. Ernest Ceriani. Dr. Ernest Ceriani makes a house call on foot in Kremmling, Colorado in 1948. Dr. Ceriani was the sole physician for an area of about 400 square miles. Dr.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 372, click here. 1. ”Michael”, October 1938. 2. A 19-year-old Al Capone with his father and uncle, 1917. 3. Halloween costumes from the 1920s. 4. Christine Collins was a California mother whose son went missing in 1928. Five months, police found a boy who claimed to…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 371, click here. 1. A female Afghan communist revolutionary during the Saur Revolution, in 1978. 2. Members of the Hitler Youth stand guard over the coffins of five English schoolboys, who died on a hike in the Black Forest in 1936. 3. Australian troops stationed near…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 370, click here. 1. Bedouin Mother, Saudi Arabia, 1948. 2. One of only 2 photographs ever taken of US President Andrew Jackson, 1845. 3. General Pinochet saluting Salvador Allende, in the 1970s. 4. Ella Fitzgerald with Marilyn Monroe, 1956. 5. French civilians erected this memorial to…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 369, click here. 1. A Japanese woman carrying her children in a bucket on her head, Japan, the 1900s. 2. Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, receives Cuban President Fidel Castro during the state funeral of the former Prime Minister, Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal,…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 368, click here. 1. Metallica, 1985. 2. Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, 29 May 1953. 3. The University of Pennsylvania dental students observing surgery in the Oral Surgery Clinic at the former Philadelphia…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 367, click here. 1. Moloch of War, 1966. Photo of a Soviet war veteran near the Eternal Flame on the anniversary of Victory Day. 2. Sharon Tate showing off the baby clothing she had bought in London, UK in 1969. 3. The first wave of Marine…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 366, click here. 1. The Duke of York, later King George VI of Great Britain on a slide at the Wembley exhibition, England, 1925. 2. A boy on Krampus’s shoulders during a parade, Mitterndorf, Austria on 6 Dec. 1949. 3. Walt Disney filming on a beach…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 365, click here. 1. Fred Rogers performing a “bedside solo show” for a 7-year-old Beth Usher during her coma after undergoing surgery for “Rasmussen’s encephalitis” at the John Hopkins Childrens’ Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1987. 2. Jimmy Carter working with his sons on his peanut…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 364, click here. 1. Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a Native American warrior who is credited with helping kill U.S. Army Colonel George Custer during the American Indian Wars in 1876. Custer was responsible for massacring Native American civilians and allowing his men to commit the…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 363, click here. 1. Anita Bryant (“Save Our Children” leader) gets pied by a gay rights activist, in Des Moines, Iowa on 14 October 1977. 2. Ann Arbour, MI, 1996: Teenager Keshia Thomas saves a white supremacist from an angry mob by shielding him with her…… Read More »