Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 366, click here.
1. The Duke of York, later King George VI of Great Britain on a slide at the Wembley exhibition, England, 1925.
2. A boy on Krampus’s shoulders during a parade, Mitterndorf, Austria on 6 Dec. 1949.
3. Walt Disney filming on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, 1941.
4. Man on a pole at World Pole Sitting Championships, Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands, 9 August 1971.
5. The First Subway Store, 1965.
6. Flight steward Max White at work on board a Qantas Catalina aircraft en route from Suva to Sydney, assisted by young passenger Jennifer Grey, January 1949.
7. East African victim of the Middle-East slave trade has his leg irons removed by a sailor of the British Royal Navy aboard HMS Sphinx, 1907.
8. Danish humanitarian, Helge Meyer, 1992.
When the U.N. gave up on Bosnia, Helge took it upon himself to assist those affected. Using a modified ‘79 Camaro, he ran several tons of aid and supplies. Racking up more than 100,000 miles.
9. General Augusto Pinochet transfers power to democratically elected President Patricio Aylwin, bringing the 17-year-old dictatorship in Chile to an end, 11 March 1990.
10. Onlookers in Marseille watching French battle flags being taken for transport to Africa after the German conquest of France in 1940.
