Images through History

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Navy Seals: Submersible canoes being launched by OSS Maritime Unit personnel during training operations in the Pacific Theater in the 1940's

Winston Churchill out for a swim.
Elvis in the Army.
Albert Einstein looking “fabulous.”

Einstein's report card!

The first McDonald’s
The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.
Hitler in Paris.
Google begins.
The construction of Disneyland.
A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.
The 1912 World Series.
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.
A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.
The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.
A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941
Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He’s second from the right.
Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.
Child laborers in 1880.

Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.
Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 … awaiting orders.
California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.
Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.
The original Ronald McDonald — played by Willard Scott.
The Microsoft staff in 1978.
A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.
A different angle taken of “Tank Man,” the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.
The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.
The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.
Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975.
Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.
Times Square… in 1911.
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.
Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884
Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.

Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.