Well-known iconic photographs

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Skinhouse and Inuit , St Lawrence Bay , Siberia , 1922…

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Judge Roy Bean
 
Evel Knievel’s Feb. 28, 1971, jump over 19 Dodge vehicles (18 cars, one van) at Ontario Motor Speedway

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Evel Knievel’s Feb. 28, 1971, jump over 19 Dodge vehicles (18 cars, one van) at Ontario Motor Speedway

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Watching him used to give me the collywobbles .
 
Moody Jacobs showing a bruise on the side of his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to be struck by a meteorite. 1954…

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collywobbles
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That is such an awesome word. 😁

I didn’t think anyone could actually pull off saying it in real life, unless maybe you’re Mary Poppins. 😆

ETA: Now I remember where I last heard that word…it was Nanny Mcphee. ❤️
 
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Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters
 
This photo is very dramatic, but less so for those who happened to see it on live television. I did not see it myself as I was just finishing chores and had just entered the house and heard the rest of my family let out a huge gasp.
 
Perhaps the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t 840 feet above Manhattan with nothing but a thin beam keeping them aloft. That comfort is real; the men are among the construction workers who helped build Rockefeller Center. But the picture, taken on the 69th floor of the flagship RCA Building (now the GE Building), was staged as part of a promotional campaign for the massive skyscraper complex.

Looking at it gives me the collywobbles . 😉

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A slum in Moss Side , Manchester .

Although the image was taken during the height of the Swinging Sixties, the pictures taken by photographer Nick Hedges show a different side to Britain.

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11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke
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Nobody needed to “sneak a smoke” in those days! They could light up openly without worrying about glares of disapproval. Smoking was an okay thing to do.
 
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Boston Police Strike 1919.

It propelled Calvin Coolidge into a more recognisable figure.
 
Boulevard du Temple, Paris , taken by Louis Daguerrein late 1838, was the first-ever photograph of a person. It is an image of a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is a man in the bottom left corner, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show up in the picture…

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First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967…

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