Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 237, click here.
1. A Cowboy resting with his horse, 1910.
2. U. S. President John F. Kennedy, after beginning his presidency with a speech that declared “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” celebrated with his wife Jacqueline at his Inaugural Ball, 1961.
Photo by Paul Schutzer.
3. Sir Ian McKellen in London, 1969.
4. The World Record for the Most Passengers on a Commercial Airplane is achieved when 1,122 refugees are lifted from Ethiopia on an El Al Boeing 747, 24 May 1991.
Five babies were born aloft during several flights.
5. Frida Kahlo posing with one of her Xoloitzcuintles, 1944.
6. A U.S. Military Police soldier standing on a pile of Italian rifles and helmets after the capture of Palermo, Sicily, July 1943.
7. Country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, N.C. Note rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for the porch roof, July 1939.
Kerosene pump on the right.
8. Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris’ Le Bourget Field, completes the world’s first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight, 21 May 1927.
9. The unknown elegant lady in Nazareth, circa 1940.
10. An angry kangaroo is seen knocking out a woman for trying to photograph him, the 1960s.
