This is a “Punt Gun”- used for duck hunting, it had the potential to kill 50 birds in one fell swoop- it was banned it the late 1860’s.
Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864
Photo captured of a girl in the early 1900s at a gravesite. It wasn’t until years later that the abnormality was discovered
The World’s Record black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellen. It weight 425 lbs. He bought it in alone. 1903
Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency
Turkish official teasing starved Armenian children by showing bread during the Armenian Genocide, 1915
Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s
Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920
Prohibition- Alcohol barrels to be burned (1924)
Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
The night they ended Prohibition, December 5th 1933
Shooting practice for German soldiers in 1935.
The original prototype of Mt. Rushmore in 1941- this was before funding ran out.
Little Kids React to the Revealing of a Villain in a Puppet Show – 1944
A beautiful suicide – 23 year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947
Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite. 1954
Laika, the first dog in space, has her capsule built around her. No provisions were made for her return, and she died in orbit. 1957
Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South (Nov. 14th, 1960)
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (1961)
Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
Wonder Woman – Linda Carter 1977
Street Skateboarding in Venice 2010
