31 Vintage Photographs of American Presidential Phone Calls

President William Howard Taft on the phone. Taft was the 27th U.S President serving from 1909 – 1913.
President Woodrow Wilson speaks on the telephone. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th U.S. President serving from 1913 – 1921.
President Calvin Coolidge speaks on the telephone in 1928. John Calvin Coolidge, Jr was the 30th U.S President serving from 1923 – 1929.
President Harry Truman talks on the telephone in his office, Washington D.C., 1945. Harry S. Truman was the 33rd U.S. President serving from 1945 – 1953.
President Dwight Eisenhower conversing by phone at his desk, circa 1954. Dwight David Eisenhower was the 34th U.S. President serving from 1953 – 1961.
President John F. Kennedy is shown as he ends his official day after 7:30 pm with a final phone call to his press secretary from his Oval Office desk at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1961. Spread on the desk are copies of his then newly designated official portrait which he autographed. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th U.S. President serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
President John F. Kennedy stands behind his desk in the Oval Office as he talks on the telephone in 1961. The bandage over Kennedy’s left eye covers a cut suffered when he hit his head on a table while retrieving an item for daughter Caroline. A Navy doctor gave him five stitches. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th U.S. President serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
President John F. Kennedy takes a telephone call at a special installation at Detroit’s City Airport Oct. 6, 1962, before boarding a helicopter for a flight to Flint, Michigan. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th U.S. President serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
President Lyndon Johnson talks on the telephone at the White House in Washington, D.C. on an unknown date. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th U.S. Presdident serving from 1963 – 1969.
President Lyndon Johnson talks on the telephone from the Oval Office in 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th U.S. Presdident serving from 1963 – 1969.
In his Washington office, President Lyndon B. Johnson congratulates astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young after their triple orbit of the Earth, 1965. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th U.S. President serving from 1963 – 1969.
President Richard Nixon speaks to astronauts on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th U.S. President serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
President Richard Nixon on the telephone at his Oval Office desk. Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th U.S. President serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
President Gerald Ford, seated in an armchair with his foot on the desk, talking on the telephone in the oval office, Washington, D.C., 1974. Gerald Rudolph “Jerry” Ford, Jr. was the 38th U.S. President serving from 1974 – 1977.
President Gerald Ford, while at Camp David, MD, speaks by phone to Henry Kissinger on Middle East agreement on September 1, 1975. Gerald Rudolph “Jerry” Ford, Jr. was the 38th U.S. President serving from 1974 – 1977.
President Gerald R. Ford takes a phone call while his daughter Susan Ford adjusts her father’s cummerbund before a white tie diplomatic reception on October 5, 1974, in Washington, D.C. Gerald Rudolph “Jerry” Ford, Jr. was the 38th U.S. President serving from 1974 – 1977.
President Jimmy Carter speaks on the phone in the Oval Office in Washington, DC. James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. was the 39th U.S. President serving from 1977 – 1981.
President-elect Jimmy Carter is pictured at Blair House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 14, 1977 as he talks by telephone with British Prime Minister James Callaghan in London. Carter made the call and others in preparation for vice President-elect Walter Mondale’s upcoming meeting with foreign leaders. James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. was the 39th U.S. President serving from 1977 – 1981.
President Jimmy Carter’s appreciation shows as he thanks Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark from the Oval Office of the White House, Washington on Jan. 31, 1980 for Canada’s help in getting American diplomats out of Iran. Carter said the act was one of ‘personal and political courage’ as he extended the appreciation of Americans to the Canadians. James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. was the 39th U.S. President serving from 1977 – 1981.
President Ronald Reagan telephones Vice President Bush at 5:58 a.m. regarding the Grenada situation from the White House, Washington, DC on October 22, 1983. Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th U.S. President serving from 1981 – 1989.
President George H. W. Bush speaks by telephone from the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1991 in Washington to the ‘March for Life’ rally being held on the Ellipse. The 18th annual rally and march was to memorialize the Supreme Court Roe V. Wade abortion decision. George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st U.S. President serving from 1989 to 1993.
President George H. W. Bush, using a telephone hook-up addresses the demonstrators gathered on the Ellipse behind the White House, January 22nd, 1990. Bush told anti-abortion protesters he stood with them in their efforts to make abortion illegal and urged Americans to consider the “self evident moral superiority” of adoption over abortion. George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st U.S. President serving from 1989 to 1993.
President George H. W. Bush, left, speaks to the orbiting Columbia astronauts with Vice Pres. Dan Quayle from the Oval Office, Thursday, Jan. 18, 1989, Washington, D.C. George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st U.S. President serving from 1989 to 1993.
President Bill Clinton talks on the phone to Russian President Boris Yeltsin from his vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts Tuesday, Aug. 25, 1998. The President discussed the recent political upheaval of Yeltsin’s cabinet. Willam Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd U.S. President serving from 1993 – 2001.
President Bill Clinton speaks via telephone from the Oval Office of the White House to an unidentified member of the House in Washington Thursday, August 11, 1994, lobbying for votes for the crime bill. The White House kept an open telephone line to the Democratic cloakroom so the President could personally woo wavering lawmakers. Willam Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd U.S. President serving from 1993 – 2001.
President Bill Clinton talks on the telephone in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington on March 16, 2000. Willam Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd U.S. President serving from 1993 – 2001.
President George W. Bush speaks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair during a phone call in the Oval Office, Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2003. George Walker Bush was the 43rd U.S. President serving from 2001 – 2009.
President George W. Bush speaks with crew members of the Space Shuttle Discovery during a telephone call from the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, July 11, 2006. George Walker Bush was the 43rd U.S. President serving from 2001 – 2009.
President Barack Obama on the phone in the Oval Office. Barack Hussein Obama II was the 44th U.S. President serving from 2009 – 2017.
President Barack Obama spoke by telephone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — the first direct conversation between leaders in Washington and Tehran since 1979 — raising the possibility a deal can be reached over Iran’s controversial nuclear program, 2013. Barack Hussein Obama II was the 44th U.S. President serving from 2009 – 2017.
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone in the Oval Office. Donald John Trump is the 45th U.S. President and served from 2017 to 2021.

36 Vintage Photos Showing People Posing With Their TVs in the 1950s

Television is the first audiovisual device that changed the way people see entertainment. It opened the realm of recreation and mass communication. It made possible for people and families to watch live events in the comforts of their drawing room.

By 1950s, the aftermath of World War II had faded away. Economy was booming again and people had cash in their wallets. It was the popular period of television. Popularity of radio and print media began to fade away gradually, as television set its hold on people’s life.

Here is an interesting collection of retro photos that shows people posing with their televisions in the 1950s.

42 Rare Vintage Photographs of The Quarrymen (aka The Beatles) From the Late 1950s

The Quarrymen are a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which eventually evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of Lennon and several school friends, the Quarrymen took their name from a line in the school song of Quarry Bank High School, which they attended.

Lennon started a skiffle group that was very briefly called the Blackjacks, but changed the name before any public performances. Some accounts credit Lennon with choosing the new name; other accounts credit his close friend Pete Shotton with suggesting the name. The Quarrymen played at parties, school dances, cinemas and amateur skiffle contests before Paul McCartney joined the band in October 1957. George Harrison joined the band in early 1958 at McCartney’s recommendation, though Lennon initially resisted because he felt Harrison (still 14 when he was first introduced to Lennon) to be too young. Both McCartney and Harrison attended the Liverpool Institute.

The group made an amateur recording of themselves in 1958, performing Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day” and “In Spite of All the Danger”, a song written by McCartney and Harrison. The group moved away from skiffle and towards rock and roll, causing several of the original members to leave. This left only a trio of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, who performed under several other names, including Johnny and the Moondogs and Japage 3 before returning to the Quarrymen name in 1959. In 1960, the group changed its name to the Beatles, and went on to have an extremely successful recording career.

Here’s a gallery of 42 rarely seen photographs of the band from the late 1950s.

33 Vintage Photos of Passengers on Trains During the Early 20th Century

Trains were one of the main and essential means of transportation in the early 20th century. Not only important for the military, transportation of goods, it was also popular for traveling.

These interesting snapshots show what passengers on the trains in the early 20th century looked like.

CWC2J7 Passengers in an American Pullman railroad car in 1905. At the car’s rear are two African American Pullman porters.

56 Stunning Photos of Actress Virna Lisi From the 1950s and 1960s

Stunning Italian actress Virna Lisi, a brief but lovely Hollywood import in the 1960’s, was merely one of a plethora of European movie beauties who proved over the course of their long careers, that they were capable of more than just visual performances.

Born Virna Lisa Pieralisi on November 8, 1936, she began her film career as a 17-year-old teen with a co-starring part with the musical drama …e Napoli canta! (1953) (Naples Sings!). Cast initially for her photographic beauty, she gained more experience in such early pictures as Lettera napoletana (1954) and La corda d’acciaio (1954) before earning her first top-billed movie lead in Piccola santa (1954) opposite Rosario Borelli. Other late 50’s/early 60’s films that helped steam up her image included New Moon (1955), Eighteen Year Olds (1955), La rossa (1955), The Doll That Took the Town (1957), Lost Souls (1959) opposite Jacques Sernas, Don’t Tempt the Devil (1963) (Don’t Tempt the Devil), Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961) (His Excellency Stayed to Dinner], the Italian-made spectacle, Duel of the Titans (1961) and an innocent role in the French-made Eva (1962) starring the scheming Jeanne Moreau in the title role.

The pert and sexy star later made a decorative dent in late 1960’s Hollywood as a tempting blue-eyed blonde opposite the likes of Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), Frank Sinatra in Assault on a Queen (1966) and Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don’t! (1966). Confined once again to the same type of glamour roles (she turned down the title role of “Barbarella”), she returned to Europe within a couple of years but hardly fared better with such nothing special movies as Anyone Can Play (1967), The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No (1968), The Christmas Tree (1969), The Statue (1971), Bluebeard (1972) and White Fang (1973) and its sequel Challenge to White Fang (1974).

Come middle age, however, a career renaissance occurred for Virna. She began to be perceived as more than just a tasty dish and was given a wide variety of quality mature performances. As the stature of her films improved, she began winning foreign awards right and left for such European pictures as Beyond Good and Evil (1977), The Cricket (1980), Time for Loving (1983), Merry Christmas… Happy New Year (1989) and Va’ dove ti porta il cuore (1996) (Follow Your Heart). It all culminated in the lifetime role of the malevolent “Caterina de Medici” in Queen Margot (1994) for which she captured both the César and Cannes Film Festival awards, not to mention the Italian Silver Ribbon award.

Virna continued reigning supreme on TV as a character lead and support player into the millennium with parts in such TV movies as the title role in Anna’s World (2004) and Donne sbagliate (2007) (Steel Women) as well as Italian TV series work. Starring as the matriarch in the excellent family film drama The Best Day of My Life (2002), Virna would find her last excellent movie role in the award-winning dramedy Latin Lover (2015). Having passed away on December 14, 2014, at age 78, of lung cancer, the actress received a couple of award nominations posthumously for her work here. Survived by her son Corrado, her longtime husband (from 1960), architect Franco Pesci (1934-2013), died a year earlier. (IMDB)

41 Vintage Photos of Warsaw, Poland Just Prior to World War 2

The city of Warsaw, capital of Poland, flanks both banks of the Vistula River. A city of 1.3 million inhabitants, Warsaw was the capital of the resurrected Polish state in 1919.

Before World War II, the city was a major center of Jewish life and culture in Poland. Warsaw’s prewar Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted about 30 percent of the city’s total population. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in both Poland and Europe, and was the second largest in the world, second only to New York City.

Following the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Warsaw suffered heavy air attacks and artillery bombardment. German troops entered Warsaw on September 29, shortly after its surrender.

Take a look at the capital of Poland in the 1930s to see everyday life of Warsaw before World War II.

68 Stunning Photos of Wedding Gowns in the 1950s

After the shortages of World War II, women were ready for a little luxury. And brides didn’t want to skimp on the lace or fabric.

In 1947, French designer Christian Dior caused a sensation when he introduced his “new look,” hour-glass dresses with long, flowing skirts – skirts made of yards and yards of cloth.

The billowing skirts and wasp-waist designs evolved in the 1950s and may have peaked around 1956. There are also many other notable designs in this period.

Check out these glamorous photos to see what brides looked like in the 1950s.

17 Haunting Mugshots of Women in the Early 1900s

Alice Caush arrested for larceny, 31st October 1903
Annie Anderson arrested for alleged theft of a watch, 25th August 1903
Catherine Buck arrested for stealing sheets, 3 February 1905
Catherine Mackenzie arrested for larceny, 15th February 1904
Catherine O’Brien arrested on 11th November 1903
Charlotte Branney arrested for larceny, 5th January 1904
Isabella Scott arrested for larceny, 27 September 1904
Jane Forbes arrested for larceny, 26th January 1905
Jane Thompson, alias Gordon, arrested for stealing a pair of boots, 13th July 1904
Kate Stobbs arrested for stealing from her landlady, 11th June 1903
Mabel Smith arrested for larceny, 28th September 1903
Mary A. Butts arrested for larceny, 20th December 1904
Mary Johnson arrested for larceny, 8 August 1904
Mary Scott, alias Wilson, arrested for stealing clothes, 14th December 1903
Nora Jane McCartney, alias Marcella Turnbull, alias Bulman, arrested for larceny, 4 April 1905
Sarah Patterson arrested for trying to steal money from a gas meter, 14th March 1904
Susannah Adamson arrested for stealing a man’s purse, 15th February 1904

(Photos from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)

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