Rare Historical Photos Collection #4

'Thou Shalt Not', photography created by A. L. "Whitey" Schafer (1902/3–1951), in 1940 to protest the Hays Code. Legends say this poster was to be found backstage at the paramount and other studios, showing a symbolic violation of every main point of the infamous Hollywood censorship.

"This Land Is Your Land" is a song written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie on February 23, 1940. He was an anti-fascist.

Senegalese Tirailleurs at Saint-Ulrich, France, 1917. Photo taken in Color

Czechoslovak soldiers stand guard on the Trans-Siberian Railway with mosquito nets around their heads, Russia, c. 1920

Constance Markievicz poses with a revolver in her Irish Citizens Army uniform, Ireland, c. 1915. A year later she would wear this same uniform in the 1916 Rising.

Passengers travelling by bus on the London-Calcutta route, such journeys were offered by several companies from the 1950s to the 1970s. The route was 16 000 km one way and took 50 days. The bus, sometimes double-decker, had sleeping bunks and a kitchen.

80 years ago today, a German civilian looks at a large poster portrait of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin - June 3, 1945 [Colorization]

Harold Bride, junior wireless operator aboard RMS _Titanic_, is carried ashore from RMS _Carpathia_; his feet were badly frostbitten. April 18, 1912

Irish Free State forces shell IRA positions in the Four Courts on the first day of the Irish Civil War, Ireland, 1922.

14 year old Osama Bin Laden in Oxford during his visit to Britain, far right. 1971.

Looking north from the top of the Washington Square Arch at 5th Avenue in Manhattan, on a quiet afternoon in 1910. This photo was taken by the Wurts Bros. and in it can be seen several historic lower 5th avenue structures. Some of which remain (many that don't).

Former Mt Vernon slave and Cane carver, Jim Mitchell, with his wares. Shown here in 1870.

Two men playing chess, Persia/Iran, 1860s. Caption in comments

The last public execution by guillotine. June 17, 1939 at Versailles France.

American soldiers evacuate a catatonic Filipino woman and Spanish nun from the ruins of Manila during the infamous battle. February 1945.

Douglas SBD-5 bombers of VB-16 on USS Lexington's (CV-16) flight deck after returning from missions on Gilbert Islands targets, September 18 1943.

British Soldiers, a tank and an armoured car block protestors supporting an IRA hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison, Ireland, 1920.

Lieutenant Audie Murphy,the most condecorated man of US army history,1945

1861 portrait of Italian "Father of the Fatherland" Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia from 1849 to 1861 and then of a united Italy from 1861 until his death in 1878. He was the first monarch of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century.

New York City, 1977

Cork City Centre soon after being burnt by the British Army, Ireland, 1920

Free woman of color with banjo, Circa 1865

Japanese woman walking through the garden setting of a tea house (Chashitsu) - in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan - at the beginning of the 20th century (c. 1900).

Das-Luca, Skro-Kit, Shus-El-Day. White Mountain Apaches, 1909.

Mock-up of Surveyor 1, which landed in the Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon June 2, 1966, becoming the first US built spacecraft to soft-land on another world (photo taken 1966).

A USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator takes off over the wreckage of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress at the recently captured airfield on Iwo Jima during 1945.

An aged Civil War veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic is assisted during a parade, San Francisco, 1903.

2nd June 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

Swedish mathematician Per Enflo winning a live goose for solving a 1936 math problem posed by Polish mathematician Stanisław Mazur. This math problem was part of the famous “Scottish Book” of the Lwów School of Mathematics. (1972)

Albert Einstein, Stephen Wise, and Thomas Mann attend a preview of the American anti-totalitarian documentary, "The Fight for Peace" (1938)

Argentine dentist Ricardo Barreda during his trial on August of 1995 for the 1992 murders of his wife, two daughters, and mother in law in the city of La Plata. He committed the murders with a rifle after reportedly being insulted. He was released from prison in 2011.

The Roman Forum around 1910

Photo of Poles in a train cart before being deported to Siberia or Central Asia from Soviet occupied eastern Poland. This second wave of mass deportations mostly included women and children, carried out by the NKVD. (April 1940)

Photo of Heinrich Himmler, leader of the German SS, talking with Waffen-SS soldiers after crushing the Warsaw Uprising. (October 1944)

Count Alexey Alexeyevich Ignatyev wearing a 17th century dress for a ball in the Winter Palace. Saint Perersburg, Russia. February 11-13, 1903

Frida Kahlo and Diego rivera,two of the most important artists of Mexico history on their aniversary photo,1930

Nanking Road, Shanghai during the Cultural Revoltion (1967)

The Beatles arriving in America - 1964

Joy White stands next to the empty crib meant for her newborn daughter. Her baby, Carlina, was 19 days old when she was kidnapped from a hospital in Harlem, New York. The girl was found alive over 20 years later, 1987.

Mahatma Gandhi with British politician Lord Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1946. The source of the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on Indian banknotes.