On March 25, 2024, a bridge collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland, after an accident with a container ship.
More than a dozen cars carrying people fell into the water.
Insurance payments for Baltimore's bridge collapse could be among the largest in maritime insurance history, Lloyd's of London Chief Executive Officer John Neal said. It's about multibillion-dollar losses.
2019
Republican and Democratic spending on presidential campaigns
2017
US develops operation to eliminate Syrian President Assad
In September 2020, US President Donald Trump said that in 2017 he advocated organizing an operation to eliminate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but eventually abandoned this idea.
'I thought it was better to eliminate it. We were ready. However, Matttis was against it. Mattis is a highly overrated general, "Trump said in an interview.
A plan to eliminate President Assad was being developed in 2017. Trump noted that in the end he did not regret that it was not implemented, given that there were no guarantees of the success of the plan.
Donald Trump becomes 45th US president
Trump Donald is the 45th President of the United States from January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021.
1994: Budapest Memorandum on Guarantees to Ukraine in Exchange for Renouncing Nuclear Weapons
5.12.1994 Budapest Memorandum was signed by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, the United States, and Great Britain, under the terms of which Ukraine renounced nuclear weapons, and Russia, the United States and Britain pledged to respect its territorial integrity.
Former US President George W. Bush looks at the Capitol from a helicopter as he leaves the inauguration of new President Clinton, 1992.
A white child touches a black police officer's protective shield during a 1992 Ku Klux Klan rally in Gainesville, Georgia.
1991
Man Cannon Shooting at Carnival, Massachusetts, 1991.
1989: Victory over the USSR in the Cold War
On December 3, 1989, US President George W. Bush and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev declared that their countries were no longer opponents. The day went down in history as the official date for the end of the Cold War.
1988
A sudden gust of wind on a sunny day. United States, 1980s.
1987
Agreement with the USSR on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles
On December 8, 1987, a Soviet-American summit was held in Washington, during which Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed an indefinite Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Missiles (INF)
Pennsylvania state treasurer's suicide at news conference
Robert Budd Dwyer has been charged with accepting a bribe from a California audit company awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to the state. He refused a deal with the investigation, which, if pleaded guilty, would have allowed him to receive a 5-year term, and maintained his complete innocence. As a result, the official faced 55 years in prison and a fine of 300,000. dollars
The day before the final decision was made on January 22, 1987, Dwyer called a press conference. In his speech, he called himself a victim of political persecution. Having finished reading the prepared text, the treasurer handed over three envelopes to his assistants. One contained a suicide note for the wife, the second - an organ donor card, the third - a letter for the governor. Then Dwyer took out a revolver, addressed the audience: "Please leave the room if it is unpleasant for you," after which, to the cries of stunned journalists, he pointed the barrel into his mouth and immediately pulled the trigger.
Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer moments before suicide at his press conference, U.S., 1987
No one expected anything special from Dwyre's press conference. She seemed to deserve only a couple of newspaper columns, and it made no sense to shoot her on expensive colour film. So did Associated Press photographer Paul Vatis. A former employee of the agency said: "The New York photo editor in a telephone conversation with Paul found out that he took black and white pictures. It was the last day our photographers could choose which film to use on assignments. From that moment, it became almost impossible to meet a staff photographer or even a freelancer who shot for the AP on black and white film. " Vatis' photos, however, have been featured on the front pages of numerous publications around the world, as well as the World Press Photo Award.
The suicide was filmed on five TV cameras, and several channels showed him on the news without bills, followed by a huge number of complaints from viewers. Spooky video footage also features in the 1993 Category Z film "Faces of Death."
With Budd Dwyer still serving as state treasurer, his family received compensation and insurance payments totaling about $1.3 million. Suicide was the only way to preserve these privileges and ensure a comfortable future for the family. Dwyer's allegations of wrongful prosecution following the investigation were found to be baseless. All subsequent defense petitions were rejected, but disputes over his guilt still arise. Another wave of them took place in 2010, when one of the key witnesses admitted that he had slandered the official for the sake of commuting his own sentence.
1986
US President Ronald Reagan aboard the plane
1986.]]
1985
US President Ronald Reagan talks with Afghan mujahideen commanders at the White House, 1985.
1984
Pop singer Michael Jackson is visiting U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan. UNITED STATES. 1984
Police officer 'lights' his patrol car from US President Ronald Reagan's limousine, 1984
1982: Explosion of the Soviet gas pipeline and the start of cyber war against Russia
US CIA officers have introduced a bug into Canadian software that managed gas pipelines. Soviet intelligence received this software as an object of industrial espionage and introduced it on the Trans-Siberian pipeline. The result was the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history, which occurred in 1982.
1980
A malfunction in the computer reports a nuclear attack by the USSR on the United States. Peace on the cusp of nuclear war
On June 3, 1980, a computer crashed, which reported a Soviet nuclear attack, and a nuclear alert was declared in the United States. For ten minutes, the world was on the edge of nuclear war.
1979
Police disperse protesters, USA, January 2, 1979.
1978
"The Longest Road," USA, 1978. A 4300-kilometer foot march of Indians to Washington against a law that provided for the closure of reservations, hospitals and schools for Indians.
Swallower. Maryland. UNITED STATES. The 1970th
1976
Photographer looking for something interesting for photography, 1976, USA
1975: Meeting of the head of the USSR Brezhnev and US President Ford in Helsinki
US President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, translator Viktor Sukhodrev and Leonid Brezhnev. Helsinki. 1975 g
"Threesome Meeting" on Construction Site Planning at Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, 1975
1974
Meeting of CPSU Secretary General Brezhnev and US President Ford in Vladivostok
In 1974, US President Gerald Ford came to Vladivostok to visit Leonid Brezhnev.
"As President Ford claimed, Leonid Ilyich liked his wolf vest, which he hinted at. The American understood the hint, gave the vest, and in return received a hat from the head of the Secretary General. Today, this relic is preserved at the Ford Museum in Michigan. "
'I had a lot of respect for that person, it was a very interesting person. He believed in communism! " President Ford recalled of Brezhnev.
CPSU Secretary General Brezhnev and US President Ford. Vladivostok. USSR. 1974.
Cook Galina Kryzhanovskaya says: "Before arriving in Vladivostok, Ford's retinue believed that we had a taiga here and bears walked the streets. But when they saw the city, the new circus, their opinion changed. The Americans really liked my cheesecakes, it turned out that their cooks did not know such a dish. And they also liked the fried tooth. They ordered it twice. "
President Ford in Japan
U.S. President Gerald Ford plays a traditional Japanese game with a geisha during a visit, Kyoto, Japan November 21, 1974.
President Nixon's resignation
The last farewell gesture of the 37th US President Richard Nixon after the announcement of his resignation. 1974.
1973: Oil crisis
A picnic on the highway during the Oil Crisis. UNITED STATES. 1973
1972
US President Richard Nixon is trying to dine with Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. China, 1972
1971: Reagan calls Africans "monkeys"
Ronald Reagan in 1971 called African delegates to the UN "monkeys." He was then Governor of California, and was later elected President of the United States.
Reagan said this in a phone call with then-President Richard Nixon, whose calls were being recorded.
Reagan was outraged that African delegates at the UN opposed Taiwan's independence from China. After the vote, members of the Tanzanian delegation began dancing in the General Assembly.
Reagan asked Nixon if he watched the vote on TV, continuing:... " to see these monkeys from African countries... damn them, they still didn't learn to wear shoes!. " Nixon laughed.
The phone record was discovered in 2019 by history professor Tim Naftali, who ran the Nixon Presidential Library, where all the records of the 37th head of the United States were stored.
Naftali says the recording sheds light on how Reagan "defended" apartheid states in Rhodesia and South Africa in the late 1970s.
1969
Hippies against the Vietnam War
"Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity" is a famous slogan used by hippies during protests against the Vietnam War. 1960s.
Hippies protest against law banning cars
Hippies protest against anti-car law, 1969
Rally against hippie movement under the slogan "Long hair is communism," 1960s, USA
Niagara Falls stop for repairs in 1969
1968
Feminist action at the Miss America pageant
In Atlantic City (New Jersey), the Miss America contest and the timed protest rally are held, at which feminists demonstratively throw symbols of gender subordination into the trash can - bras, stocking belts, false eyelashes, high heels, hair curling tongs. September 7, 1968.
Assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy
Кандидат в президенты Роберт Кеннеди (младший брат убитого президента США Джона Кеннеди) умирает на полу в отеле "Амбассадор" в Angeles after being shot in the head, June 5, 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy sleeps on the floor of a plane during his 1968 presidential campaign.
Sniper kills Martin Luther King
Speaking in Memphis on April 3, King said: "We have some tough days ahead of us. But it doesn't matter. Because I visited the top of the mountain... I looked forward and saw the Promised Land. Maybe I won't be there with you, but I want you to know now - all of us, all of the people will see this Earth. "
On April 4, at 6:01 p.m., King was fatally shot by a sniper while standing on a balcony at the Memphis Lorraine Motel.
Martin Luther King fatally shot by a sniper.
Death of Martin Luther King, April 4, 1968.
The killer was identified as James Earl Rey, who received a 99-year prison sentence. It was officially acknowledged that Rey was a lone killer, but many believe King fell victim to the plot. After the sentencing, Rey said he was not involved in the murder. King's family also believed the killer was not him.
The Episcopal Church of the United States recognized King as a martyr who gave his life for the Christian faith, his statue is placed in Westminster Abbey (England) among the martyrs of the 20th century.
"I am a man": Black American strike in Memphis (Tennessee) March 28, 1968.
Las Vegas Main Tourist Street - Las Vegas Strip, 1968
1967
American servicemen and a makeshift shower made of aviation PTB. Vietnam. Vietnam War. 1967
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko with Robert Kennedy. New York, USA, 1967.
Door to Congressman Bunker in Case of Nuclear War, US, 1960s
An aerial photo showing plumes of industrial waste flowing into the Cuyahoga River. 1967 Ohio, USA.
1966
Ku Klux Klan march in Salisbury, August 1966
White women beat a woman who came out with a poster in support of Negro equality on St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA, 1960s.
The arrest of Timothy Leary is an LSD adept and America's most dangerous man, according to US President Nixon, 1966.
1965
Wyoming Lift Safety Standards, 1965.
1964
The U.S. detonates an underground nuclear device in Lamar County in southern Mississippi, Oct. 22, 1964.
White assault on black people swimming on a white beach to protest segregation. United States, 1964.
Keith Moby during a dental exam. An advertising photo of Marineland Park in Florida, 1964.
1963
Assassination of President Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson president
Funeral of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1963
The day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
22.11.1963 aboard Air Force One, Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as president of the United States, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
About the assassination of US President Kennedy, see Dallas
Boy present during Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech
August 28, 1963]]
President Kennedy with his son in the White House backyard. 1963.
Visit of US President Kennedy to Germany
Fans of US President John F. Kennedy during his visit to Berlin. 1963
White female students opposed to coeducation with blacks, 1963.
A group of American white activists in a car with a stuffed black man and the inscription "Save Birmingham Schools for White Citizens," 1963.
A woman and a mastodon bone discovered in the backyard of her house, USA, 1963.
1962
John Kennedy Jr. plays under his father's desk in the Oval Office, 1962.
John Kennedy on a walk with his daughter Carolina. USA, 1962.
During the Cuban crisis, American missiles on launchers were sent towards the Florida Strait in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez on a trip through the streets of Mexico City, 1962.
Merilin Monroe congratulates John F. Kennedy, 1962.
The actress appeared on stage in a translucent figure-hugging dress strewn with rhinestones. There was no laundry under it. Marilyn herself called her outfit, made by designer Jean Louis, "leather and beads." Later, Edlai Stevenson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, also present at the evening, wrote to Mary Lasker, "I didn't see the beads!"
Monroe, who was noticeably drunk, ran up to the microphone with small steps, which is why many compared her to a geisha. The hair looked unnatural - there is an assumption that she was wearing a wig. When Marilyn began to sing, the hall momentarily froze. The manner of performing the innocent song "Happy birthday" was very erotic - it was hard to believe that this was happening in a huge hall filled with people. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen later described it as: "It's like she's making love to the president in front of forty million Americans."
Repairman on Abraham Lincoln's head at Mount Rushmore, 1962.
1961
Negotiations between the heads of the USSR and the USA in Vienna
First Ladies of the USSR and the USA Jacqueline Kennedy and Nina Khrushcheva, Vienna, 1961
Fidel Castro and Malcolm X, African-American Islamic spiritual leader and black rights activist, 1961.
Refueling Motorized Commercials by Sales Agent Mike Dreschler, Hartford, USA, 1961.
1960
The future 35th President of the United States J.F. Kennedy during the 1960 election campaign. Logan County, West Virginia.
Two protests on the street of the city. Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, 1960.
Trampoline inventor George Nissen jumps on his brainchild with a kangaroo. United States, 1960.
1959
Protests against the admission of 9 black students to Central High School in front of the Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1959. Posters show "Race Mixing is Communism"
A day on which only Negroes go to the Memphis Zoo. 1959
The boy with the poster "Who Needs Niggers?." United States, 1959
Automobile cinema, USA 1950s.
1958
Clown during a smoke break. United States, 1958
Train travel to the United States, 1950s
In the sofa car of the Pacific Express. United States, 1950s
Youth trend of the 1950s in the USA: if a girl wears a dog strap on her left ankle, she has a boyfriend, if on her right, she is in search
Bold necklines of the 1950s, USA.
1957
Reporters observe a nuclear explosion during Operation Plumbob, Nevada, in 1957.
Mannequins at the Nevada nuclear test site, 1950s.
The door leading to the anti-nuclear bunker for US congressmen. United States, 1957.
Cold air supply to the vehicle. UNITED STATES. Photo of 1957.
A hunter with the head of a bear he killed. Kodiak National Preserve, Alaska, United States, 1957.
1956
Whalers at Work, South Georgia, 1956.
1955
Atomic bomb tests. Nevada, 1955.
Dancer against the background of a nuclear explosion. USA, Nevada, 1950s.
This is how babies were transported on airplanes, USA, 1950s.
1954: Castle Bravo is the most powerful Qasl of a US nuclear bomb
Castle Bravo is an American test of a thermonuclear explosive device on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll (Republic of the Marshall Islands, associated with the United States).
Tests of 15 megaton nuclear bomb at Bikini Atoll, 1954.
The first in a series of seven "Operation Qasl" tests. During this test, a two-stage charge was blown up, in which lithium deuteride was used as a thermonuclear fuel. The energy release from the explosion reached 15 megatons, making Qasl Bravo the most powerful of all US nuclear tests. The explosion led to severe radiation contamination of the environment, which caused concern around the world and led to a serious revision of existing views on nuclear weapons.
Bed and mannequins in the house during nuclear tests conducted by the American Army, USA, 1954.
1953: Eisenhower - US President
January 20, 1953 the first inauguration of US President Dwight D. Eisenhower was held
1952
A couple inspects their beach home destroyed by a storm, South Carolina, March 1952.
1951: Thermonuclear bomb tests
Operation Greenhouse is the fifth series of American nuclear tests and the second in 1951. The operation tested nuclear charge designs using fusion to increase energy output. In addition, the impact of the explosion on structures, including residential buildings, plant buildings and bunkers, was investigated.
The operation was carried out at the Pacific Test Site. All the devices were detonated on tall metal towers simulating an air explosion.
On April 8, 1951, the first sample of the Mk-6 bomb was tested.
Mk-6. In the 1950s, it was the main weapon of US strategic aviation and was in service until 1962. In 1956, 90 Mk.6 bombs were remade in Mk.18. In total, about 1,100 bombs of this type were made.
At 06:34 on April 8, 1951 (local time), the first Mk-6 sample was tested at Eniwetok Atoll (Marshall Islands). The bomb was dropped from a 100-meter tower, the explosion raised 250,000 tons of soil to a height of 10 km.
VIP watchers on the patio of the Officers Beach Club on Parry Island (Eniwetok Atol) are illuminated by the explosion of an 81-kiloton nuclear bomb, the explosion of which was part of Operation Greenhouse, on April 8, 1951 (Photo from the Ryerson Black Star collection)
1950
Hat as a defense against a nuclear explosion, 1950.
Future US President John F. Kennedy and his future wife Jacqueline Bouvier, 1950.
The boy "rejoices" in the first place in the competition for high-speed eating pies, USA, 1950.
1949
Hus Valdorf holds a boxing match against a bear. United States, March 1949
Testing of new refractory construction material. New Haven, 1949.
Houses on the hillside overlook smoking steel mills. Pittsburgh, 1949.
1948
The result of a lost bet on the outcome of the US presidential election. 1948
Ku Klux Klansman and his family, 1948.
Divorce court. The man asks his wife to forgive him. United States, 1948.
1947
Two future US presidents George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018), with his 9-month-old son George Walker Bush. Yale University. UNITED STATES. 1947
Las Vegas in 1947.
A croupier horse at the El Rancho Vegas Hotel to attract customers. The horse leans to the table in roulette, pushes the chip to the number with his nose. 1947, USA.
Women's poker. Photo Nina Lin. United States, 1940s
1946: Nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll
In July 1946, the United States used Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) for two tests, as part of Operation Crossroads, of atomic bombs similar to the Fat Man bomb. On July 1, a bomb was dropped in the lagoon of the atoll on 73 obsolete warships. On July 25, an underwater explosion of a nuclear power plant was carried out there.
Atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946.
Albert Einstein teaches at Lincoln University at Penn State, 1946
Nuclear explosion of an American bomb over Nagasaki. 1945.
On August 9, 1945, the Fat Man atomic bomb equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT was dropped on the city of Nagasaki by US pilot Charles Sweeney, commander of the B-29 Bockscar bomber. The total death toll in Nagasaki ranged from 60 to 80 thousand people.
1942
This is how erotic comics in the United States watched. 1942.
A fire-resistant suit with a hood and body armor for the American Women's Volunteer Service. United States, 1942.
1941: US enters war after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The United States of America entered World War II on December 7, 1941, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
Lumberjack Competition, Oregon, USA, 1941
Old Car Cemetery. Irwin, Pennsylvania, 1941.
On Main Street - the main street in the town of Twin Falls (Idaho), May 1941.
Rehearsal with a circus lion. United States, 1941.
Picnic lovers in Sarasota, Florida, United States, 1941.
1940
A. Einstein accepts US citizenship
Albert Einstein and his stepdaughter become US citizens, October 1940.
"Karapuz Races," USA, 1940
Mule and his host entertain the audience at the rodeo. State of New Mexico, June 1940
A group of girls demonstrate different types of protective masks. United States, 1940.
Paid shaving machine, USA, 1940.
Rain in Pittsburgh. 1940, USA
1939
A portrait of a family near Muskogee, Oklahoma, during a drought, August 1939.
Igor Sikorsky controls his apparatus, 1939
An African American drinks water. The inscription on the tank: "For colored." Oklahoma, July 1939.
Ku Klux Klan atrocities
Member of the Ku Klux Klan during a march through the "black" neighborhoods of Miami, USA, May 1939.
Bees without a sting
Demonstration of a breed of bees without a sting. USA, 1939.
Mount Rushmore during construction. 1939
Family bike with sewing machine (USA, 1939)
1938
Mississippi pearl catcher prepares for another "run" to the bottom. As a helmet - an old fuel tank from a car. In such an apparatus, he could dive to a depth of 21 meters. 1938.
Water walking device, USA, 1938.
Cabin in the Cumberland Gap neighborhood, Virginia, 1930s
The girl drinks tea in the company of her doll and lion. United States, 1930s
1937
American Farmer's Kozlomobil, 1937.
Crash of the Hindenburg airship. 35 victims
On May 6, 1937, completing the next transatlantic flight, while landing at the main aeronautical base of the US Navy at Lakehurst, the Hindenburg filled with fire-hazardous hydrogen caught fire and crashed.
Explosion on the Hindenburg airship, 1937.
Which killed 35 of the 97 people on board, as well as one member of the ground team.
The death of the Hindenburg airship, marking the end of the era of airship building, May 6, 1937
The crash of the Hindenburg airship, USA, 1937.
And although in terms of the number of victims, Hindenburg is not the largest disaster of the airship, the death of this aircraft received a great resonance.
The crash site of the Hindenburg airship, May 1937.
After the crash of the Hindenburg airship, a surviving passenger smokes while being carried away from the scene of the tragedy. 1937.
1936
The airship LZ-129 the Hindenburg at Lakehurst Airfield, New Jersey, USA, 1936.
A rare photo of the back of Hoover Dam, before it was hidden by water, in 1936.
Train "Mercury," USA, 1936.
1935
Tennessee. 1935.
Part of Hoover Dam Turbine. UNITED STATES. 1933-1935.
Paint advertising, USA, 1935.
Ice Cream Ad, Virginia 1935.
1933: Repeal of Prohibition
Celebration of the end of Prohibition, USA, 1933.
Celebrating the Repeal of Prohibition in the United States, December 5, 1933
A lawyer who wants to remain anonymous at a court hearing. USA, 1933
"The Great Scat" or "Great Manta," which was caught by Captain Kahn. 1933 USA
1932
"A strong rope is urgently needed to hang themselves, or accommodation for my wife, the baby we are expecting and me." Great Depression, United States, 1932
Cable Road Bridge, 1932, USA
1931
American inventor H. L. Bowdin with his deep-sea wetsuit with 1,000-watt shoulder lamps, August 15, 1931.
Portable radio in a hat, USA, 1931.
1930
School "bus," Alaska. United States, 1930.
A group of Eskimos drags home a walrus, Alaska, in 1930.
A man in search of work during the Great Depression, 1930.
Children eat watermelons. New Orleans, USA, 1930
Miss Beautiful Eyes contestants. USA, Florida, 1930.
1929
Parked cars on Nantucket Beach, Massachusetts, U.S., 1920s.
Dangerous Area Tram, United States, 1920s
Racing in the Dome of Death involving a lion. Revere Beach. UNITED STATES. 1929
"Flight to Mars." The cost is 10 cents. UNITED STATES. 1920s.
1927
Stamping Press, USA, 1927.
Evolution of women's swimsuit from 1875 to 1927. UNITED STATES. 1927
1926
Crocodile farm worker, USA, 1926.
Ku Klus Klan at the 1926 Colorado Fair.
1925
Prohibition protests. Inscriptions: "We want a beer." USA, 1925.
Alcohol prepared for burning during Prohibition in the United States, 1920s.
A man tries to dial into a glass of moonshine poured from a window by a federal agent during the Prohibition era, USA, 1925.
Ladies supporting Prohibition in the SS
The inscription on the poster: "Lips touching alcohol will not affect ours." 1920s]]
Native American Helen is a telephone exchange operator. Montana, USA, 1925.
Police mores. Measuring the length of the swimsuit. UNITED STATES. 1925
Ivan Anger and Gladis Roy play biplane wing tennis, USA, 1925.
1924
Freak Congress. Barnum and Bailey Circus. 1924 United States.
A man against the background of huge plants. Hawaii, 1924
1923
1920s American postcards wishing good luck and well-being.
Making a posthumous mask, USA, 1920s.
1922
Ku Klux Klanovtsy are pilots. Virginia. March, 1922.
Einstein in the Grand Canyon among Indians. 1922
Chief John Smith, nicknamed the White Wolf, claimed to be the oldest Indian to ever live. White Wolf died at the age of 137 in 1922.
American with a cane for alcohol during Prohibition. UNITED STATES. 1922
Aerial acrobat Lillian Boe
Don't try again. USA, 1922]]
Aerial acrobat Lillian Boer, USA, 1922.
A National Guard tank destroys moonshine equipment, United States, Kentucky, on February 20, 1922.
One of the first electrophens. United States, 1920.
Eight-year-old Sammy Reshevsky is a famous chess prodigy at a simultaneous game in France. 1920
Monocycle in Ohio, 1920
Baptism of the smallest member of the far-right Ku Klux Klan organization. United States, 1920.
Ku Klux Klan racing team car breakdown
Kansas, 1920.]]
"Motorists, attention! We rely on your honesty. There are no road cops in the Fresno area, so please don't exceed 30 mph (50 kph) so they won't be needed going forward. " - road sign in the USA, 1920.
1919
Alfred Greb is considered the pioneer of automotive radio, who had to install a large antenna in the form of a laundry dryer on the bumpers.
That's what the first radio in the car looked like. United States, 1919
Alfred Greb
In an auto repair shop, 1919, USA.
1918
Living Statue of Liberty. 18,000 people are involved. Iowa. UNITED STATES. 1918.
People scatter from an exploding balloon, Oklahoma, USA, April 1918.
Postmen in the United States. 1918 Internal combustion-powered scooters. Predecessors of motor scooters.
The Killen Strait three-track tractor, developed by American engineer William Strait at a demonstration show at Wormwood Scrubs. Great Britain, 1910s.
A fire crew with a steam pump goes to extinguish the fire. UNITED STATES. 1910s.
The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Before that, they remained neutral.
Frozen Fountain, Detroit, 1917.
1915: First prototype traffic light
The first prototype traffic light in Portland, USA, 1915.
Steam Locomotive Cable Crossing the Rio Grande River Canyon, New Mexico, 1915 photo.
Boy amid two giant lobsters caught off the coast in New Jersey, 1915
1914
A little girl from the Philippines who was shown at the Coney Island Zoo with animals, 1914. She was placed among monkeys and lizards, tied with ropes, and willing visitors threw peanuts at her.
Immigrants from Romania arrived in the United States. Photo August Sherman 1902-1914.
United States, 1914.
1913: Woodrow Wilson elected President of the United States
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President Woodrow Wilson led the United States from 1913 to 1921. Photo: AP]]
U.S. law allowed children to be mailed until 1913
U.S. Civil War veterans tell stories from the past at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg. 1913.
Union and Confederate soldiers shake hands. Meeting at Gettysburg in 1913.
1912: Attempt on Theodore Roosevelt
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran for president of the United States, and at one of the meetings with voters, an attempt was made on him. The bullet hit his chest, piercing through a steel spectacle case and a 50-page speech he held in his inner pocket. Roosevelt continued to speak for another hour and a half. Through his experience as a hunter, he realized that the wound was not dangerous. After that, it turned out that the bullet went deep into the chest, but it was more risky to remove it than to leave it, and Roosevelt lived with it all his life. He lost this election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Edison with his invention. USA, 1912
Photography. Atlantic City. New Jersey, USA. 1912
"Low Social Responsibility" Woman from the Wild West, New Orleans, 1912.
1910
Replacing lamps on American streets, USA, 1910.
Bicycles for riding on railway tracks. United States, 1910
1909
John Wilson Webb and his mother. The Malysh weighed 54.5 kilograms at 2 years and 10 months. April 17, 1909 Pittsburgh. UNITED STATES.
Dach Harbor wharf with lifting structures. Andreyan Islands, Atka Island, Alaska, USA. 28 Feb 1909
1908
Native American from the Ojibwe people on the hunt. Minnesota, USA, 1908
The photographer is determined to take photographs of the Grand Canyon, 1908.
Enos B. Petrie Captain Design Diving Suit. United States, 1900s
1907
In 1907, American biologist and physician Duncan McDougall "proved" the existence of the soul by weighing a person before and after death - it turned out that the soul "weighs" 21 grams.
1906
Beach in Atlanta City, New Jersey, 1906
Girls ride a train in America, 1906.
Ice harvesting at Horn Pond Reservoir, Massachusetts, 1906.
1905
Leaders of the Sioux People, USA, 1905.
Cast iron bookshelves in the main hall, Cincinnati Public Library, USA, early 20th century.
Negotiations on the results of the Russo-Japanese War
US President Roosevelt (center) is negotiating with Russian and Japanese diplomats) on a peaceful settlement of the Russo-Japanese War, 1905
1904
Orville Wright on his Flyer II aircraft, USA, circa 1904
Workers clear snow from railroad, Alaska, 1904
1903: Wright brothers make first powered glider flights
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first powered glider flights. Longest at 60 metres at 3 metres
Wilbur Wright clings to a damaged aircraft after a failed flight attempt. December 14, 1903, Kitty Hawk
R. Elwood Ranch, near Carney, Nebraska, 1903
1902
Working day in the office. Detroit, 1902.
1901: Assassination of the 25th U.S. President William McKinley
Moments before the 25th U.S. president, William McKinley, was shot dead by anarchist Leon Cholgosh, 1901.
A way to combat vagrancy in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tramp was caught and put in a chair, then left outside for 10 hours or more. He especially got from children and weather conditions. After this, the vagrants preferred to leave the city.
Aleutian hunters in traditional headdresses and waterproof clothes from the guts. Alaska, early 20th century.
American Indian Long Otter. Picture taken in the early 1900s
1900
Gold mining on the beach. Alaska, 1900
Two horsepower American ferry. Horses walk on some semblance of a modern treadmill from a gym set at an angle to the horizon. At the same time, the shaft is rotated, on which the rowing wheels are fixed. 1900.
1899
Transportation of the house. Nebraska, USA, 1899.
1898: Klondike Gold Rush
Up to 100 thousand people tried to reach Klondike during the Gold Rush in 1897-1898, 30-40 thousand succeeded, but only about 4,000 managed to make money on gold.
A line of prospectors at Chilkut Pass during the Gold Rush. 1898. U.S. state border of Alaska and Canada. The Klondike River flows just there.
Everything had to be carried, and there was a shortage in place: for example, salt was bought for golden sand at a weight of 1:1. According to estimates, prospectors spent several times the cost of the extracted gold on travel, supplies and tools, not including the cost of labor.
1897
Captain Petrie's diving suit with electrical charging and overpressure protection systems. United States, 1897
1895
SEALs are slaughtered to death with sticks, St. Paul Island, Alaska, 1895
1892
Georgian cavalrymen at the Wild Wild West show. United States, 1892
Passenger train from the Wild West. USA, the second half of the 19th century.
1890
The Indian leader gives an interview on the recorder, 1890.
1889
Railroad workers near Sargent, Nebraska, USA, 1889.
1886
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1885
Union Pacific Railway locomotive crosses Dale Creek, 1885, Wyoming, USA
1882
Tom Torlino, a Navajo Indian before entering the Carlsley Industrial School (1882) and three years into his studies. This school was one of several founded by the federal government to attract Indian children into "white" culture.
A detachment of volunteers assembled to fight the invasion of caterpillars, Massachusetts, 1869.
1868
An American Native looks down at a newly built section of the transcontinental railroad, Nevada, 1868.
1867: North American United States buys Alaska from Russia
The agreement on the sale by Russia of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands was signed on March 30, 1867 in Washington.
On May 3, 1867, the treaty was signed by Emperor Alexander II. According to the treaty, the entire Alaska Peninsula, the Alexander Archipelago, the Aleutian Islands with Attu Island, the Near Islands, Rats, Foxes, Andreyanovsky, Shumagina, Trinities, Umnak, Unimak, Kodiak, Chirikova, Afognak and other smaller islands passed to the United States; islands in the Bering Sea: St. Lawrence, St. Matvey, Nunivak and the islands of Pribylov - St. George and St. Paul. Together with the territory of the United States of America, all property located in Russian possessions in Alaska and the islands was transferred.
On October 18 of the same year, a ceremony was held to officially transfer Russian America to the North American United States in exchange for a check worth $7.2 million in gold. In the capital of the Russian colony Novoarkhangelsk (Sitka), the Russian garrison gave way to the American, the US flag was raised over Sitka.
An 1867 map of Northeast America showing the territories transferred by the Russian Empire to the North American United States.
1865: End of the Civil War. The Murder of Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate States of America on April 9, 1865. The country was to carry out the Reconstruction of the South and begin the process of integrating blacks into American society.
American Civil War engineering fixture, 1865.
Five days after the end of the war, on Good Friday Day, April 14, 1865, at the play "Our American Cousin" (at the Ford Theater), Southern supporter actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and shot Lincoln in the head. The next morning, without regaining consciousness, Abraham Lincoln died.
Abraham Lincoln funeral crew. United States, 1865.
1864
Office of a slave trader in Atlanta, United States, 1864
1863
War reporter, United States, 1863.
1862
U.S. President Lincoln with Major General McClernand and Alan Pinkerton, 1862. (painted photo)
US President Lincoln meets with Army General, Entity, Maryland, September 1862.
Abolition of slavery
On June 19, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln passed legislation to abolish slavery throughout the United States.
Preparation of a slave for sale, XIX century. UNITED STATES.
1861: Inauguration of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
Inauguration of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, 1861
Soldiers from the Civil War smoke on the brudershaft. UNITED STATES. 1861
1857: James Buchanan - President of the United States
The first ever photograph of a presidential inauguration in the United States is the inauguration of James Buchanan, March 4, 1857.
1776-1853: Annexation of territories
Accession of territories to the United States in the XVIII and XIX centuries
Virginia Volunteer Regiment commander Colonel Hamptramck. Mexican-American War. 1846
