The “Historical Photos” Facebook group shares photos rarely seen in history books.Here are 110 of the most remarkable photos

Cheryl Adrienne Browne was born in New York City in 1950 and studied dance at LaGuardia High School in Manhattan. After she graduated from high school, she moved to Decorah, Iowa, where she studied dance at Luther College. After she won her Miss Decora contest, on June 13, 1970, she defeated her 19 white contestants to win Miss She Iowa and the 1971 Miss She America crown. qualified to compete for

Sherrill became the first black woman to compete for the title of Miss America and the first African-American to reach the finals, despite the 1930s-era Seventh Law. The White Race’ was abolished in her 1940, thirty years earlier.

This was another one that was cracked, but the damage was not a significant area and I was able to duplicate a few images from the photos taken at the same time.From my collection of glass negatives

Many of these people were born in the 1700s, and some survived the American Revolutionary War.

In 1960, photojournalist Ormond Gigli assembled 43 women, dressed them in sophisticated and colorful costumes, and placed them in 41 windows in front of a classic New York City brownstone. Years later, this image became his most famous artwork.

This powerful image has stood the test of time and continues to go viral more than 70 years later.

Helen Konek is now 91 years old. But she was 17 when photographer Richard Harrington asked her to photograph her family near Arbiat, Nunavut. This is inside a huge igloo built by her father Pipkanak.

The Endurance was trapped in ice for 492 days and sank, forcing her 28-man crew to reach uninhabited Elephant Island using lifeboats. Seeking the rescue of the remaining crew, Crean made the 800-mile (1,300 km) journey from Elephant Island to South his Georgia Island in a small boat, James Caird, with his six men. was one of his crew members. Upon reaching South Georgia after 17 days at sea, three men, including Tom Crean, crossed the island to a whaling station on the north side of South Georgia. There they were able to organize a rescue operation for his three men left south of the island and the rest of Elephant Island’s crew. The entire Endurance crew returned home without loss of life.

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Carl Mydans was a photographer who worked for the federal government during the Great Depression. He took some heartbreaking photos, especially of rural Southern families. This family was photographed near Benton County, Tennessee.He titled it “Country Mother”

This was no fashion statement. It was he at the 1912 Olympics and Jim, his American native from Oklahoma, represented the United States in track and field.

On the morning of the competition, his shoes were stolen. Luckily, Jim finds two shoes in the trash. That’s the pair he’s wearing in the picture, but one of his shoes was too big, so I had to put on another pair of socks.Wearing these shoes, Jim won two gold medals that day.

My maternal great-grandmother is on the far left, wearing a black dress with a ribbon in her hair. The period is the mid to late 1800s.she lived to the ripe old age of 103

They lived off the land, kept bees, grew tobacco, dried it, twisted it, and made molasses. you name it

I always knew he was happy and content. No particular reason.

true grit.

1912-2002

His elite social events were known for presenting the latest couture creations to the public, but no one had ever seen fashion like this before. A brown-clad spectator called the three women “monsters” and accused them of being half-naked and having defiant décolletés. *But it was these three dresses that changed the fashion of the day forever and launched the silhouette of the 20th century. Well, no one remembered her name…
But perhaps you’d like to know who it is, Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix, under her name, was a young Parisian designer who took over her mother’s long-established couture maison and made her way to Paris at the turn of the century. was beginning to gain popularity. …
Long before lycra and spanx, she soon began making dresses made of stretchy, stretchy silk jersey that contoured her hips and thighs and slimmed down her figure. To debut her work in society, she hired three beautiful models of hers and chose the 1908 Paris racecourse for her catwalk.