When I think of rare pictures, I think of vintage. Photography is the only way we can stop time. I love old photos… So I drudged up a few from my husbands stash. He has so many of these, I could have kept posting them. However I didn’t want this to get ridiculously long.
Nope that isn’t one of the Twin Towers, that is the Empire State Building after A United States military plane crashed into in 1945 killing 14 people.
Here is a picture of Kennedy you probably never saw. That is him standing next to my husbands grandfather Joe (on the left side). Grandpa Joe told Dan that Kennedy shook so many hands that day, that by the time he got to Grandpa Joe, Kennedy’s hand was limp because of all the handshakes he had to give.
Jimmy Stewart signing autographs for local fans 1945.
Civil War veteran Jacob Miller had lived with an open gunshot wound to the forehead. He was quoted as saying “17 years after I was wounded, a buckshot fell out of my wound, and 31 years after two pieces of lead fell out”. (1899)
Dorthey and the Munchkins between takes - 1938
St. Louis Riverfront 1904
This St. Louis Forest Park during the Worlds Fair 1904. The park and buildings surrounding it were built specifically for the fair. Today that building in the background no longer stands there, our art museum replaces it. The hill it stands upon is Art Hill, famous for sleigh riders in the snowy winter days for decades now. The buildings were made of plaster of paris and easy to take down.
Inventor Hugo Gernsback models his television goggles for LIFE magazine, 1963.
Douglas Fairbanks (center of picture, dressed in white) directing Robin Hood with giant megaphone for giving instructions to crowds of extras, 1922.
The new World Trade Center district under construction, 1966.