25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 91

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 90, click here.

1. River Phoenix, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman and Wil Wheaton at the premiere of Stand by Me in Beverly Hills, 1986.

2. Tsar Nicholas II, 1899.

3. 1916 billboard encouraging Colorado women to vote against Woodrow Wilson since he was against national woman’s suffrage.

4. White farmers, father, and son, Zimbabwe, June 15, 1986.

5. Shell-shocked soldier in a trench during the Battle of             Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive, 1916.

6. A family is forced to leave their home during the Great Depression, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, June 1938.

Photo by Dorothea Lange.

7. Ronald Reagan walks through a trash-filled South Bronx lot while on the campaign trail, August 1980.

While the purpose of the visit was to denounce Jimmy Carter’s failure to fix urban blight, he was heckled by the locals who saw it as just a photo op.

8. Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930’s.

9. The crew of the light cruiser HMAS Perth (D29) astride one of the ships 152mm guns, 1941.

10. 11th US President James K. Polk and his wife and First Lady Sarah Polk, 1840’s.