Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 103, click here.
1. German fraternity mirror selfie, 1912.
2. Testing a bulletproof vest. September 13, 1923.
3. A cowboy of the American Frontier in Bonham, Texas, June 1910.
Colorized by Jared Enos.
4. Westminster Bridge with trams, London, 1918-1919.
5. B-17G Fortress.
This B-17G Fortress saw no service during World War II but was purchased from a surplus in 1947 and installed at this gas station in Oak Grove, Oregon with only 37 total hours on the engines, photo circa 1959.
6. A grief-stricken American infantryman is comforted by another soldier in the Haktong-ni area, Korea, August 28, 1950.
7. A liquidator dons a lead apron as he prepares to clear radioactive debris from the roof of Reactor Number Four, Chernobyl, 1986.
8. A young woman is picking up coal that has fallen off factory trucks in an effort to sell it in Dublin, Ireland in 1972.
9. A lone soldier stands knee deep in shell casings during the Great War , c. 1917.
10. Rosa Parks & Martin Luther King – Montgomery, Alabama. cca 1955.
That bomber isn’t there anymore 🙁