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32 Vintage Childhood Photos of Barack Obama From Between the 1960s and Early 1970s

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born on an Army base in Wichita, Kansas, during World War II. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham’s father, Stanley, enlisted in the military and marched across Europe in General George Patton’s army. Dunham’s mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, ended up in Hawaii.

Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. grew up herding goats in Africa and, eventually earned a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of going to college in Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama Sr. met fellow student Ann Dunham, and they married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born six months later.

As a child, Obama did not have a relationship with his father. When his son was still an infant, Obama Sr. relocated to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University and pursue a Ph.D. Obama’s parents officially separated several months later and ultimately divorced in March 1964, when their son was two. Soon after, Obama Sr. returned to Kenya.

In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a University of Hawaii student from Indonesia. A year later, the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born in 1970. Several incidents in Indonesia left Dunham afraid for her son’s safety and education so, at the age of 10, Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother and half-sister later joined them.

After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, Barack worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. Obama received national attention in 2004 with his March Senate primary win, his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate. In 2008, a year after beginning his campaign, and after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for president. Obama was elected over Republican nominee John McCain in the general election and was inaugurated alongside his running mate Joe Biden, on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a decision that drew a mixture of praise and criticism.

Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his first two years in office. The main reforms include: the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”), although without a public health insurance option; the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; and the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act served as economic stimuli amidst the Great Recession. After a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, he signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, he increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. In 2011, Obama ordered the drone-strike killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and suspected al-Qaeda operative, leading to controversy. He ordered military involvement in Libya for the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1973, contributing to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. He also ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.

After winning re-election by defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013. During this term, he promoted inclusion for LGBT Americans. His administration filed briefs that urged the Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional (United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges); same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in 2015 after the Court ruled so in Obergefell. He advocated for gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, indicating support for a ban on assault weapons, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning global warming and immigration. In foreign policy, he ordered military interventions in Iraq and Syria in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, promoted discussions that led to the 2015 Paris Agreement on global climate change, oversaw and ultimately apologized for the deadly Kunduz hospital airstrike, continued the process of ending U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan in 2016, initiated sanctions against Russia following the invasion in Ukraine and again after interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, brokered the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran, and normalized U.S. relations with Cuba. Obama nominated three justices to the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were confirmed as justices, while Merrick Garland was denied hearings or a vote from the Republican-majority Senate. Obama left office on January 20, 2017, and continues to reside in Washington, D.C.

During Obama’s terms as president, the United States’ reputation abroad, as well as the American economy, significantly improved. Obama’s presidency has generally been regarded favorably, and evaluations of his presidency among historians, political scientists, and the general public frequently place him among the upper tier of American presidents. Since leaving office, Obama has remained active in Democratic politics, including campaigning for candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, appearing at the 2020 Democratic National Convention and campaigning for Biden during the 2020 presidential election. Outside of politics, Obama has published three bestselling books: Dreams from My Father (1995), The Audacity of Hope (2006) and A Promised Land (2020). (Wikipedia)

Below is a collection of rare and adorable photos show the future President’s early childhood…

**Little Obama is seen playing in the ocean as a child.**

**Barack Obama is seen as a child with his maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham in Hawaii in an undated family snapshot from the 1960s.**

**Barack walks along Waikiki Beach shortly before he and his mother moved from Hawaii to Indonesia to live with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1967.**

Barack Obama on Waikiki beach before his mother married Lolo Soetoro and moved with Barack and her new husband to Indonesia. Here, he’s in a lifeguard stand next to the famous pink Waikiki hotel, The Royal Hawaiian.

A young Barack Obama is shown with his mother, Ann, in Hawaii shortly after his father, Barack Obama Sr., left the two to pursue his studies at Harvard. Barack’s mother was given the name Stanley Ann Dunham because of her father’s strong desire to have a son.

**Young Barack Obama, shown in an undated photograph provided by Obama’s half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.**

**Barack Obama rides a tricycle during his childhood in Hawaii.**

**In this 1960’s photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows the Democratic presidential hopeful, Obama, with his baseball bat in Hawaii.**

**Barack Obama is shown in a yearbook photo from Mrs. Morioko’s sixth-grade class in Hawaii. Obama was listed as “Barry” in the book.**

**Barack Obama dressed up as a pirate with his mother in Hawaii, ca. 1960s.**

**Little Barack with his mom and grandmother.**

**Barack Obama in Ms. Sakai’s kindergarten class at Noelani Elementary School in 1967.**

**Barack Obama with his half-sister Maya and her nanny, circa autumn 1970.**

**Barack Obama with his mother, his adoptive father, and his half-sister Maya, circa 1971.**

**This picture shows the only time that the future president met his father, Barack Obama Sr, after his parents’ separation. The picture was taken at Christmas time in a Hawaii airport in 1971.**

**Obama, as a boy, with his parents Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr.**

**Barack Obama with the family of his adoptive father, Lolo Soetoro. The elderly lady is Lolo’s mother**

**Stanley Dunham, Stanley Ann, Maya and Barack Obama in Hawaii in the early 1970s.**

**Barack Obama with his adoptive father, Lolo Soetoro, his mother and his half-sister Maya Soetoro, circa late summer/early autumn 1970, taken in Indonesia.**

**Barack Obama at a Punahou school event in Hawaii, in 1972.**

**Barack Obama, back row, second from left, shown in a seventh-grade yearbook photo from the 1973-74 school year.**

**Obama was “On Strike” during Mrs. Hefty’s fifth-grade class during the 1971-72 school year.**

**Barack Obama, in chair, pictured as a member of the “Pencil Chewer’s Convention” in Mrs. Morioko’s sixth-grade class at the Punahou School in the 1972-73 school year.**

**Barack Obama, then known as Barry Soetoro, is pictured at a classmate’s birthday party in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1971.**

**Obama at a classmate’s birthday party in Jakarta in 1971.**

This 1972 photo provided by Na Opio, the yearbook of Punahou School, shows Barack Obama, in the back row, third from left, posing with his fifth-grade class and teacher Mabel Hefty at the Punahou campus. Obama named Hefty his favorite teacher for her power to make “every single child feel special.” 1972

**Barack Obama with his friend Scott Inoue. This photo was said to be taken in December 1969, at Noelani Elementary School in Hawaii, when little Barry was supposed to be in school in Indonesia.**

**Barack Obama with his mother, half-sister, and grandfather, taken in Hawaii, circa 1972.**

49 Remarkable Photos From The 1900s Showing The Struggles of Child Laborers Volume 2

In 1908 Lewis Hine picked up his camera and became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. It was a start of a long decade, as Lewis traveled across the country, documenting child labor, getting constant threats from factory owners as the immorality of child labor was supposed to be kept away from the public’s eye. However, Hine persisted, adopting many different disguises (such as a fire inspector or a bible salesman) to snap pictures and interview the children working at factories or in the streets.

Lewis Hine used his camera as a tool for social commentary and reform, focusing on the dangerous and appalling conditions that the children had to work in. Risking his own safety, Hine snapped thousands of photographs with one goal – to end child labor. And of course, spreading the photographs, in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines paid off as the federal government eventually had to put out stricter labor laws.

**Two Of The Boys On Night Shift At The More-Jonas Glass Co., Bridgeton, New Jersey**

**Fruit Vendors, Indianapolis Market, Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. Indianapolis, Indiana**

**A Young Doffer Working In Central Mills. Sylacauga, Alabama**

**Elsie Shaw, A 6 Year Old Cartoner During The Summer. Eastport, Maine**

**Israel April, 9 Yr. Old Newsboy, Washington, D.C.**

**Spinners In Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, North Carolina**

**The “Carrying-In Boys,” Midnight At An Indiana Glass Works. Indiana**

**Noon Hour In An Indianapolis Furniture Factory. Aug., 1908. Indianapolis, Indiana**

**Messenger Boy Working For Mackay Telegraph Company. Said Fifteen Years Old. Waco, Texas**

**Newberry Mills, South Carolina, Noon Hour. All Are Working Here. Witness, Sara R. Hine.**

**Lillian Dambrinio, An Eleven-Year-Old Shrimp Picker In Peerless Oyster Co. Bay St. Louis, Mississippi**

**Boys Working In A Cannery, Indianapolis, Unloading Freight Cars Full Of New Tomato Cans.**

**A Little “Shaver,” Indianapolis Newsboy, 41 Inches High. Said He Was 6 Years Old. Aug., 1908.**

**Postal Telegraph Messengers, Indianapolis, (Indiana Has No Age Limit For Mes’grs.)**

Carrying-In Boy At The Lehr, Glass Works, Grafton, W. Va. Has Worked For Several Years. Works Nine Hours. Day Shift One Week, Night Shift Next Week. Gets $1.25 Per Day. Location: Grafton, West Virginia

**“Teaching The Young.” The Boss (Who Began At 10 Years Of Age, And Has Been At It For 30 Years) Showing A Beginner (Who Is Apparently 9 Or 10) Morgantown, West Virginia**

**Two Little Pickers. Manuel Alvez – 12 Years, Marion Alvez, 8 Years. She Picks 19 Measures. He Picks 10 Measures. Location: Falmouth – Baker Bog, Massachusetts**

**Fruit Peddlers. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Boston, Massachusetts**

**Oldest Girl, Minnie Carpenter. Makes Fifty Cents A Day Of 10 Hours. Gastonia, North Carolina**

**Tenjeta Calone, Philadelphia, 10 Years Old. Been Picking Cranberries 4 Years. Browns Mills, New Jersey**

**Boys Going To Work, Merrimac Mills, Noon-Hour. Huntsville, Alabama**

**Hyman Lapcoff, A Ten Year Old Newsie, Washington, D.C.**

**Mary Christmas, Nearly 4 Years Old. Picks Cranberries Sometimes. She Is Now Picking Up Berries Spilled At The Barrels By Grandfather. Falmouth, Massachusetts**

**Salvin Nocito, 5 Years Old, Carries 2 Pecks Of Cranberries For Long Distance To The “Bushel-Man.” Browns Mills, New Jersey**

**Dave, A Young “Pusher” At Bessie Mine, Alabama.**

**John Tidwell, Doffer In Avondale Mills. Birmingham, Alabama**

**Girls Working On Ice Wagon. New York**

**10:30 P.m. At Center Market. 11 Yr. Old Celery Vendor Gus Strateges. He Sold Until 11 P.m. And Was Out Again Sunday Morning Selling Papers. Washington D.C.**

**Young Doffers In Mollahan Mills, Newberry, South Carolina, Dec. 3, 1908.**

**In The Alexandria Glass Factories, Negroes Work Side By Side With The White Workers. Alexandria, Virginia**

**Girls Running Warping Machines In Loray Mill, Gastonia, North Carolina**

**A.D.T. Messenger Boy, Indianapolis, Indiana, 10 P.m.**

**S.D. Ison And Family. Father Works Some. Both Boys On Right Of Photo Have Been In Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va., For Four Years.**

**Children Thrashing Corn During School Hours On A Farm Near Dublin, Georgia. Many Such Light Occupations Fall To The Lot Of The Georgia Child.**

**Helper On A Dairy Wagon. Bowling Green, Kentucky**

**Young Boy On Warping Machine Elk Cotton Mills. Fayetteville, Tennessee**

**Picking Over Ash Barrels. Boston, Mass., Oct. 1909. Boston, Massachusetts**

**A Midnight Scene In A N.j. Glass Works. Bridgeton, New Jersey, 1909**

**Small Boys Work At And Around These Machines Some Of Which Are Dangerous. Baltimore, Maryland**

**A Typical Fisher Boy At “T” Wharf. Boston, Massachusetts**

**Noon Hour In A Furniture Factory, Indianapolis, Aug., 1908.**

**Boy Making Melon Baskets, A Basket Factory, Evansville, Indiana**

**Boys At Lehr, Economy Glass Works. Morgantown, West Virginia**

**Vendor In Boston Market. Boston, Massachusetts**

**8 P.m. Harry Laudeman, 13 Years Old. Has Sold Papers For 7 Years. Brother, Morris, 7 Years Old 46 Inches High. Hartford, Connecticut**

57 Vintage Photos of Sydney, Australia in the early 1900s Volume 1

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia’s east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as “Sydneysiders”. As of June 2020, Sydney’s estimated metropolitan population was 5,367,206, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state’s population. Nicknames of the city include the ‘Emerald City’ and the ‘Harbour City’.

Indigenous Australians have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and thousands of engravings remain throughout the region, making it one of the richest in Australia in terms of Aboriginal archaeological sites. Around 29 clan groups of the Eora Nation inhabited the region at the time of European contact. During his first Pacific voyage in 1770, Lieutenant James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to chart the eastern coast of Australia, making landfall at Botany Bay and inspiring British interest in the area. In 1788, the First Fleet of convicts, led by Arthur Phillip, founded Sydney as a British penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Phillip named the settlement after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Penal transportation to New South Wales ended soon after Sydney was incorporated as a city in 1842. A gold rush occurred in the colony in 1851, and over the next century, Sydney transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural and economic centre. After World War II, it experienced mass migration and became one of the most multicultural cities in the world. At the time of the 2011 census, more than 250 different languages were spoken in Sydney. In the 2016 Census, about 35.8% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. Furthermore, 45.4% of the population reported having been born overseas, and the city has the third-largest foreign-born population of any city in the world after London and New York City. Between 1971 and 2018, Sydney lost a net number of 716,832 people to the rest of Australia but its population has continued to grow, largely due to immigration.

Despite being one of the most expensive cities in the world, Sydney frequently ranks in the top ten most liveable cities in the world. It is classified as an Alpha Global City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and throughout the world. Ranked eleventh in the world for economic opportunity, Sydney has an advanced market economy with strengths in finance, manufacturing and tourism. There is a significant concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations in Sydney and the city is promoted as Australia’s financial capital and one of Asia Pacific’s leading financial hubs. Established in 1850, the University of Sydney was Australia’s first university and is regarded as one of the world’s leading universities. Sydney is also home to the oldest library in Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, opened in 1826.

Sydney has hosted major international sporting events such as the 2000 Summer Olympics. The city is among the top fifteen most-visited cities in the world, with millions of tourists coming each year to see the city’s landmarks. Boasting over 1,000,000 ha (2,500,000 acres) of nature reserves and parks, its notable natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, Royal Botanic Garden and Hyde Park, the oldest parkland in the country. Built attractions such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the World Heritage-listed Sydney Opera House are also well known to international visitors. The main passenger airport serving the metropolitan area is Kingsford Smith Airport, one of the world’s oldest continually operating airports. Established in 1906, Central station, the largest and busiest railway station in the state, is the main hub of the city’s rail network. (Wikipedia)

**Bridge Street, from Government House gates**

**Electric Tram, George Street, David Jones Corner**

**Electric trams, George Street, David Jones corner**

**Elizabeth Street showing Jewish Synagogue**

**Exchange corner, Pitt Street, Sydney**

**George Street, looking north from GPO**

**George Street, looking south from Hunter Street**

**King Street looking east from George Street**

27 Amazing Photos of the Wreck of the Titanic When It Was First Discovered in 1985

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, which made the sinking possibly one of the deadliest for a single ship up to that time.[a] It remains to this day the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. The disaster drew much public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works.

RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, who was the chief naval architect of the shipyard at that time, died in the disaster.

Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants, and opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger “marconigrams” and for the ship’s operational use. The Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors. The ship was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each of which were capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48 boats; the Titanic carried only 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch while the ship was sinking. Together, the 20 lifeboats were capable of holding 1,178 people—which was only about half the number of passengers on board, and only one-third of the number of passengers that the ship could have carried at full capacity (this was consistent with the maritime safety regulations of the era). In addition, when the ship sank, many of the lifeboats that had been lowered were only about half full.

Titanic had departed from Southampton on 10 April 1912, then stopped at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, before heading west towards New York. On 14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time. The collision caused the hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard (right) side and laid five of her sixteen watertight compartments open to the sea; she had been designed to survive the flooding of up to four compartments. Some passengers and crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a “women and children first” protocol for loading lifeboats. At 2:20 am, the ship broke apart and foundered, with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene, and took on board an estimated 710 survivors.

The disaster was met with worldwide shock and outrage, both at the huge loss of life and at the regulatory and procedural failures that had led to it. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to major improvements in maritime safety. One of the most important results of the inquiries was the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which still governs maritime safety today. In addition, there was an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications that had increased the number of fatalities, and as a result, several new wireless regulations were put in place around the world.

The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 by a Franco-American expedition sponsored by the United States Navy. The ship was split in two and is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (2,069.2 fathoms; 3,784 m). Thousands of artefacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, depicted in numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only being surpassed by her sister ship HMHS Britannic; however, she is the largest sunk while in service as a liner, as Britannic was in use as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97. (Wikipedia)

Today, the Titanic rests, disintegrating at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 12,405 feet below the water’s surface. Take a look at a collection of amazing underwater images of the ship.

**A view of the bow and railing of the RMS Titanic.**

Two of Titanic’s engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in “rusticles”—orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria—these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth.

**A view of the bow of the RMS Titanic.**

**A view of the bow of the Titanic from a camera mounted on the outside of the Mir I submersible.**

**A view of the steering motor on the bridge of the Titanic.**

**A view of the bathtub in Capt. Smiths bathroom. Rusticles are observed growing over most of the pipes and fixtures in the room.**

With her rudder cleaving the sand and two propeller blades peeking from the murk, Titanic’s mangled stern rests on the abyssal plain, 1,970 feet south of the more photographed bow. This optical mosaic combines 300 high-resolution images taken on a 2010 expedition.

Detached rusticles below port side anchor indicating that the rusticles pass through a cycle of growth, maturation and then fall away. This particular “crop” probably was in a five to ten year cycle.

**Rusticle hanging from the stern section of the RMS Titanic showing secondary growths during maturation.**

**Rusticles growing down from the stern section of Titanic.**

**China dishes are part of the debris left from the wreck of the Titanic, as she lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.**

This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows a pair of shoes, lying in close proximity, are, while the visible remains of the victim have disappeared, suggestive evidence of where a victim of the Titanic disaster came to rest.

**An officer’s cabin window on the Titanic’s boat deck starboard side.**

**Starboard wing propeller from Titanic shipwreck.**

**The low pressure cylinder head of the port steam engine of the shipwrecked Titanic.**

**Cooking pots from Titanic shipwreck.**

**An electric meter for the electric light from the compass of the Titanic was recovered from the shipwreck.**

**The stoking ports of a boiler in the debris field of the shipwrecked Titanic.**

**The insides of a power turbine of the Titanic lie on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.**

**The prow of the Titanic, as she lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.**

**An intact glass pane from the window of Captain Edward J. Smith’s cabin hangs open on the Titanic.**

**A ceramic bowl and other debris from the Titanic litter the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.**

**A hull fragment from the Titanic lies on the ocean floor.**

**An opening on the starboard side of the ship’s hull could be damage from the Titanic’s collision with an iceberg on April 14, 1912. About 1,500 people died when the ship sank, breaking in two.**

31 Vintage Photos Showing Women During the 1940s

46 Amazing Fashion Photos From the 1950s and 1960s

From 1951 to 1955, German photographer Rico Puhlmann studied fashion design, art design, and art history at Berlin University of the Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin). Initially, he had worked as fashion styler for magazines such as Burda Moden, Constanze, and the Textil-Report since 1955. Simultaneously, he worked as fashion photographer. His fashion photos were published in leading German and international fashion magazines and journals such as Stern, Petra, Constanze, Brigitte, and the French Vogue since the early Sixties.

Here’s some of his amazing work:

(Photos by Rico Puhlmann)

57 Stunning Photos of Brigitte Bardot during the 1950s

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French animal rights activist and former actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated personae with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the late 1950s and 1960s. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.

Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), and also caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, which described her as a “locomotive of women’s history” and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. She won a 1961 David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award for her work in The Truth. Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (1963). For her role in Louis Malle’s film Viva Maria! (1965) she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.

Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985. After retiring, she became an animal rights activist and created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. Bardot is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defense; she has been fined twice for public insults. She has also been a controversial political figure, having been fined five times for inciting racial hatred when she criticised immigration and Islam in France. She is married to Bernard d’Ormale, a former adviser to Marine Le Pen, France’s main far-right political leader. Bardot is a member of the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme and has received awards from UNESCO and PETA. Los Angeles Times Magazine ranked her second on the “50 Most Beautiful Women In Film”. (Wikipedia)

Take a look at the beauty of young Brigitte Bardot from the 1950s through these stunning color photos.

45 Amazing Photos of Bristol, England during the Early 1970s

Bristol is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire, to the north; and Somerset, to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in South West England.[6] The wider Bristol Built-up Area is the eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom.

Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English “the place at the bridge”). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts; however, it was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.

Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.

Bristol’s modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the UK; the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.

One of the UK’s most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was named the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and won the European Green Capital Award in 2015. (Wikipedia)

Before Amazon, We Had Bookmobiles: 74 Rare Photos Of Libraries-On-Wheels

A bookmobile or mobile library is a vehicle designed for use as a library. They have been known by many names throughout history, including traveling library, library wagon, book wagon, book truck, library-on-wheels, and book auto service.[1] Bookmobiles expand the reach of traditional libraries by transporting books to potential readers, providing library services to people in otherwise underserved locations (such as remote areas) and/or circumstances (such as residents of retirement homes). Bookmobile services and materials (such as Internet access, large print books, and audiobooks), may be customized for the locations and populations served.

Bookmobiles have been based on various means of conveyance, including bicycles, carts, motor vehicles, trains, watercraft, and wagons, as well as camels, donkeys, elephants, horses, and mules. (Wikipedia)

**The First Bookmobile Of The Public Library Of Cincinnati, 1927**

**A Mobile Library In Kurdistan, Iran, 1970**

**One Of The Library Bookmobiles, 1948.**

**A Bookmobile In Indonesia, Early 20th Century.**

**The Bookmobile In Columbia Park, 1940**

**An Impatient Queue For A Dutch Bookmobile**

**The Library’s Bookmobile On Compton Road, 1933**

**Craig Medvigny (left) And David Sutton Enjoying A Book; Eleanor Mann Substitute Traveling Branch Librarian, 1920s**

**Mrs. Josie Sanders, Richard Sanders, Jerome Sanders And Two Younger Children. 1950s**

**A Horse-drawn Cart In Washington In The 1900s. It Was One Of The First American Bookmobiles, Built In 1905, But Was Hit And Destroyed By A Train In 1910**

**A Boston Public Library Bookmobile, 1963**

**Utah State Library Bookmobile On The Road, 1970**

**Children Gathering At The Bookmobile, 1912**

**Children Gathering At The Kern County Free Library Bookmobile At Aztec School, 1947**

**A Very Fine Bookmobile Owned By The New Castle County Free Library**

**A Circulating Library In A Streetcar In Munich, Germany**

**Bookmobile At Anne Arundel County Fair, 1973**

**The Book Caravan, One Of The First Traveling Bookshops, 1920.**

**Books Free For Everybody, Right At The Door – If You Vote “yes”**

**Library Bookmobiles In Front Of Union Terminal**

**The Library’s Bookmobile In Sharonville, 1938**

**California State Library Bookmobile, 1950**

**Bookmobile, Southgate District, 1920s**

**The Cincinnati Library’s First Bookmobile, 1927**

**Onboard The Connecticut State Library’s Bookmobile With Margaret Sullivan And Marcella Finan, 1967**

**Chris Junapa Standing In The Kern County Bookmobile, 1980**

**Patrons Visiting The Anne Arundel Country Bookmobile**

**Patrons Visit The Bookmobile In 1962. Mrs James B. Wilson, Librarian, Performs Readers’ Advisory Service At Far Right**

**Carolyn Herntz Assists Patrons Visiting The Bookmobile, 1958**

**A Photo Of The Bookmobile From Washington County (MD) Free Library**

**Presentation Of The New Bookmobile At The Paris Colonial Exposition Held In Paris France, 1931**

**Multnomah County Library Bookmobile, 1925**

**Multnomah County Library Bookmobile Interior, May 1927**

**Multnomah County Library Bookmobile, 1930s**

**Multnomah County Library Bookmobile, 1924**

**Kids At Multnomah County Library Bookmobile**

**A Tram In Berlin With 2400 Books In Berlin, 1952**

**The Bookmobile Of Providence Public Library, 1967**

**Paul Buttars, Former Manager Of The Utah State Library Bookmobile Program, In One Of The “older” Bookmobiles. Taken In Chesterfield, Ut, 1975**

**The Bicentennial Bookmobile In Utah, 1976**

**Kern County Library Bookmobile, 1950**

**Patrons Visiting The Bookmobile In 1962**

25 Vintage Photos Showing Beatlemania in Los Angeles From 1964 to 1966

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time[1] and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music’s recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era’s youth and sociocultural movements.

Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles evolved from Lennon’s previous group, the Quarrymen, and built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after their first hit, “Love Me Do”, in late 1962. As their popularity grew into the intense fan frenzy dubbed “Beatlemania”, the band acquired the nickname “the Fab Four”, with Epstein, Martin and other members of the band’s entourage sometimes given the informal title of “fifth Beatle”.

By early 1964, the Beatles were international stars and had achieved unprecedented levels of critical and commercial success. They became a leading force in Britain’s cultural resurgence, ushering in the British Invasion of the United States pop market, and soon made their film debut with A Hard Day’s Night (1964). From 1965 onwards, they produced records of greater sophistication, including the albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and enjoyed further commercial success with The Beatles (also known as “the White Album”, 1968) and Abbey Road (1969). Heralding the album era, their success elevated the album to be the dominant form of record consumption over singles; they also inspired a greater public interest in psychedelic drugs and Eastern spirituality, and furthered advancements in electronic music, album art and music videos. In 1968, they founded Apple Corps, a multi-armed multimedia corporation that continues to oversee projects related to the band’s legacy. After the group’s break-up in 1970, all principal members enjoyed success as solo artists and some partial reunions have occurred. Lennon was murdered in 1980 and Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr remain musically active.

The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide. They hold the record for most number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart, most number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and most singles sold in the UK (21.9 million). The band received many accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 film Let It Be) and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and each principal member was inducted individually between 1994 and 2015. In 2004 and 2011, the group topped Rolling Stone’s lists of the greatest artists in history. Time magazine named them among the 20th century’s 100 most important people. (Wikipedia)

Beatle fan frenzy in Los Angeles peaked each August from 1964 to 1966. The band performed at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 23, 1964, In 1965 they again performed at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 29th and 30th. On Aug. 28, 1966, they performed at Dodger Stadium.