[GreenKeys] Fw: Some history through photos

Tue Feb 18 18:16:54 EST 2014

Great  photos,  and  neat one that we really  liked  here  was  of  Charlie 
Chaplin and Helen  Keller.

Ed Sharpe archivist  for SMECC  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  

In a message dated 2/18/2014 1:57:08 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
gil at baudot.net writes:

And, Mae Questel, Betty Boop, more recently was Aunt Bethany on National  
Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.  Also not often recognized is Rusty from  the 
same movie, who is now Leonard on The Big Bang Theory.

gil

gil smith, AF7EZ
greenkeys moderator
_gil at baudot.net_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) 

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Subject:  [GreenKeys] Fw: Some history through photos
From: Glen Galati <_eldim at att.net_ (mailto:eldim at att.net) >
Date: Tue, February 18,  2014 3:42 am
To: Glennon Galati <_eldim at att.net_ (mailto:eldim at att.net) >

Here's a GREAT WALK back in time.  Enjoy!
Blessing in Christ's Peace.
Glen in Rainy Tacoma, WA

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Some  history through photos    

Miss  America 1924

 (http://i.imgur.com/t97uADo.jpg) 

Helen  Keller Meeting Charlie  Chaplin

Leather  gloves worn by Lincoln to Ford's Theater on the night of his  
assassination. Blood stains are visible  at
the  cuffs.

Phoebe  Mozee (aka: Annie Oakley). Famed for her marksmanship by 12  years 
old, she once shot the ashes off of Kaiser Wihelm II's  cigarette at his 
invitation. When she outshot famed  exhibition marksman Frank Butler, he fell 
in love with her  and they married. They remained married the rest of their  
lives.

Very  Young Lucy Lucille Ball around  1930

Amy  Johnson, English aviator 1903-1941 One of the first women to  gain a 
pilot's licence, Johnson won fame when she flew solo  from Britain to 
Australia in 1930. Her dangerous flight took  17 days. Later she flew solo to India 
and Japan and became  the first woman to fly across the Atlantic East to 
West, she  volunteered to fly for The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in WW  2, 
but her plane was shot down over the River Thames and she  was killed.

Prison  Garb 1924. Belva Annan murderess whose trial records became  the 
musical " Chicago ."

Female  photojournalist Jessie Tarbox on the street with her camera,  
1900's.

 (http://i.imgur.com/agkV2pq.jpg) 

Roald  Amundsen was the first person to reach the South Pole. At  
approximately 3pm on December 14, 1911, Amundsen raised the  flag of Norway at the 
South Pole and named the spot Polheim  — “Pole Home.”

The  extraordinary life of Maud Allen: Seductive US dancing girl  who was 
sued for being too lewd, outed as a lesbian, and  fled London after being 
branded a German spy who was  sleeping with the prime minister's  wife.

John  Fitzgerald Kennedy

Caroline  Otero, courtesan, the most sought after woman in all of  Europe . 
She associated herself with the likes of Prince  Albert I of Monaco, King 
Edward VII of the United Kingdom,  Kings of Serbia, and Kings of Spain as 
well as Russian Grand  Dukes Peter and Nicholas, the Duke of Westminster and 
writer  Gabriele D’Annunzio. Six men reportedly committed suicide  after their 
love affairs with Otero ended. Two men fought a  duel over her. She was 
famed for her voluptuous  breasts.

Wedding  day photograph of Abraham and Mary taken November 4, 1842 in  
Springfield , Illinois after three years of a stormy  courtship and a broken 
engagement. Their love had  endured.

Billie  Holiday at two years old, in  1917

Washington,  D.C.,  circa 1919. " Walter Reed Hospital flu ward." One of 
the  very few images in Washington-area photo archives  documenting the 
influenza contagion of 1918-1919, which  killed over 500,000 Americans and tens of 
millions around  the globe. Most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia  
following influenza virus  infection.

 (http://i.imgur.com/cK31m7l.jpg) 

Filming  the MGM Logo

Amelia  Earhart

Mae  Questel ca. 1930’s, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl,  Minnie 
Mouse, Felix the Cat (for three shorts by the Van  Beuren Studios), Little 
Lulu, Little Audrey and Casper , the  Friendly Ghost

Bea  Arthur (née Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45  WW II. 
Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash  DC, then air stations in 
VA and NC. Best remembered for her  title role in the TV series “Maude” 
and as Dorothy in  "Golden Girls".

In  1911, Bobby Leach survived a plunge over Niagara Falls in a  steel 
barrel. Fourteen years later, in New Zealand , he  slipped on an orange peel and 
 died.

Emily  Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister. In 1856 she  married 
Benjamin Helm, a Confederate general. After Helm's  death in 1863 Emily Helm 
passed through Union Lines to visit  her sister in the White House. This caused 
great  consternation in the Northern newspapers. Emily Helm took an  oath of 
loyalty to the Union and was granted  amnesty

Three  days before his 19th birthday, George H.W. Bush became the  youngest 
aviator in the US  Navy.

 (http://i.imgur.com/txCibKt.jpg) 

Market  Street, San Francisco after the earthquake,  1906.

All-American  Girls Baseball, 1940's

1943  : Breast Protectors for War  Workers

Mary  Ellen Wilson (1864–1956) or sometimes Mary Ellen McCormack  was an 
American whose case of child abuse led to the  creation of the New York 
Society for the Prevention of  Cruelty to Children. As an eight-year old, she was 
severely  abused by her foster parents, Francis and Mary  Connolly.

Sacajawea.  Stolen, held captive, sold, eventually reunited the Shoshone  
Indians. She was an interpreter and guide for Lewis and  Clark in 1805-1806 
with her husband Toussaint Charbonneau.  She navigated carrying her son, Jean 
Baptiste, on her back.  She traveled thousands of miles from the Dakotas 
the Pacific  Ocean . The explorers, said she was cheerful, never  complained, 
and proved to be invaluable. She served as an  advisor, caretaker, and is 
legendary for her perseverance  and resourcefulness.

Zelda  Boden, circus performer, ca.  1910.

 (http://i.imgur.com/kt3Pwvz.jpg) 

A  Confederate and Union soldier shake hands during a  celebration at 
Gettysburg in 1913. Image from the Library of  Congress. July 1-3, 2013 marks the 
150th Anniversary of the  Battleof  Gettysburg.

Geraldine  Doyle, who was the inspiration behind the  famous
Rosie  the Riveter poster.

Vintage  Baked Potato Cart. A legitimate fast food lunch option back  in 
the day.

 (http://i.imgur.com/2mHXnzj.jpg) 

Black  physicians treating in the ER a member of the Ku Kux  Klan

 (http://i.imgur.com/S3kVMQq.jpg) 
Cyclists  ride in the first running of the Tour de France, in  1903.

Sergeant  Stubby (1916 or 1917 – April 4, 1926), was the most  decorated 
war dog of World War I and the only dog to be  promoted to sergeant through 
combat. America's first war  dog, Stubby, served 18 months 'over there' and 
participated  in seventeen battles on the Western Front. He saved his  
regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and  comforted the wounded, and 
even once caught a German spy by  the seat of his pants (holding him there 
till American  Soldiers found him).

Nightwitches  - Female Russian bombers who  bombedGermany during WW 2. They 
 had old, noisy planes &the engines used to  conk out halfway through their 
missions,so they  had to climb out on the wings mid-flight to restart the  
props.To stop Germans from hearing them &  starting up the anti aircraft 
guns,they’d climb  to a certain height, coast down to German positions, drop  
their bombs, restart their engines in midair & get the  hell out of dodge. 
Their leader flew 200+ missions & was  never captured.

Marilyn  Monroe meets Queen Elizabeth II,  London,

Chief  Petty Officer Graham Jackson plays “Going  Home”as FDR’s body is 
borne past in Warm  Springs , GA , where thePresident was scheduled  to attend 
a barbecue on the day he died.   April, 1945.

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