re: Interesting historical pictures thread (add captions please)

One for the engineers.


Image from Maurice Hartung's 'Teaching Guide for Slide Rule Instruction' (Pickett & Eckell, 1960).





and the foresters

Virgin loblolly-shortleaf pine-upland hardwood stand near Crossett, Ark., in 1934. Some of the larger trees were 34 to 36 inches in diameter.

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first picture ever taken, 1826

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Oldest surviving picture ever taken.

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Dude, gfy...you argued about stupid shite post after post with someone.

The stadium posts were interesting, start your own thread if you want to make up rules. If not, stfu gfy diaf...

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Ok fair enough, the stadium stuff was interesting to someone who doesn't realize that there's nothing interesting or unique about how it was done, so I'll concede that I was out of line.
But I'm sure even you'll agree that the a-hole with the 9-11 conspiracy crap can go frick his own mother.

And I only argued two posts, one of them I was telling some tin foil hat dumbass living in his parents' basement to take that crap elsewhere, and the other I was telling an Ohio State fan that nobody cares about the extremely standard process by which their stadium was built, what governor broke ground, who the university president was, etc. Seemed reasonable to me to want to avoid every annoying fan on here from all over the nation posting boring history about how crap on their campus was built.

So I guess I should make my own thread that way I can dictate the rules, because clearly that's how this forum works.


(In case you couldn't tell from my condescending tone, I think you're a smidge above the minimum intellectual capacity to avoid being declared a ward of the state. Maybe you should use more abbreviations and try to convince me otherwise.)

One of my all time favorites.
A POW returns from Vietnam and is greeted by his family on March 17, 1973, at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., by Slava Veder, the Associated Press. Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize.

opening the mona lisa after WWII.

Fearless worker on the Golden Gate Bridge during mid-phase of construction. 1934.


German air rade on Moscow, 1941.


A US Marine stops to give candy to a child at an internment camp on Tinian, 1944


German U-boat at Hastings, 1918.


Japanese night raiders are greeted with a lacework of anti-aircraft fire by the Marine defenders of Yontan airfield, on Okinawa. In the foreground are Marine Corsair fighter planes of the “Hell’s Belles’ squadron. ca 1945


Adolf Hitler, age 35, on his release from Landesberg Prison, on December 20, 1924. He had been convicted of treason for his role in an attempted coup in 1923 known as the Beer Hall Putsch.

This is actually a damaged photo we have at our house. It is of my SO's grandfather meeting JFK and Jackie. He was somewhat of a local hero after Hurricane Audrey. Ironically enough, the photo sustained damage from Hurricane Rita.

From the website Abandoned Baton Rouge
a more recent 'historical' photoblog on the old
Alex Box Stadium

Motorcade of President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline on his Inauguration Day, Washington, DC, by Al Fenn, 1961


International forensic experts examine dozens of bodies in a mass grave in the Serb entity of Pilicer, Bosnia, in a Sept. 18, 1996.


Workers restoring the newly relocated temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1968