Rare Historical Photos

<h3>Women's Special Could Be Costing to More Than You Think</h3><br/>Women's hair wasn't shaved. Each poet is absolutely free to design the one-year position however he or she'd like. Find out more about Susan B. Anthony.<br/><br/>Needless to say, this was still a fantastic improvement over nothing! All materials consulted must be dealt with fantastic care. It turned out to be a fascinating time period and you may learn all about it here.<br/><h4 style="text-align: center;">A female Lockheed engineer fixing a P-38 lightning in Burbank, California 1944</h4><br/><img alt="" class="wp-image-17367 aligncenter" height="1060" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/A-Female-Lockheed-Engineer-Fixing-a-P-38-Lightning.-Burbank-California-1944.jpg" width="691" /><br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><h4 style="text-align: center;">The female mason overlooking the city of Berlin, Circa 1900</h4><br/><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17368 " height="869" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/A-Female-Mason-Overlooking-the-City-of-Berlin.-Circa-1900.jpg" width="729" /><br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><h4 style="text-align: center;">Simone Segouin (18 years old) French Résistance fighter during the liberation of Paris, 19 August 1944</h4><br/><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17396 " height="847" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Simone-Segouin-an-18-year-old-French-Résistance-fighter-during-the-liberation-of-Paris.-19-August-1944.jpg" width="614" /><br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><h4 class="thumbnail thumbnail-image" style="text-align: center;">Maud Wagner, the First Female Tattoo Artist in the U.S. (1907)</h4><br/><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17393 " height="704" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Maud-Wagner-the-First-Female-Tattoo-Artist-in-the-U.S.-1907.jpg" width="561" /><br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><h4 style="text-align: center;">Margaret Hamilton lead software engineer of the Apollo Project , (1969)</h4><br/><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17392 " height="743" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Margaret-Hamilton-lead-software-engineer-of-the-Apollo-Project-stands-next-to-the-code-she-wrote-by-hand-and-that-was-used-to-take-humanity-to-the-moon.-1969.jpg" width="585" /><br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><h4 style="text-align: center;">Elderly Armenian Woman Guards Home</h4><br/><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17378 " height="475" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/An-106-year-old-Armenian-woman-protecting-her-home-with-an-AK-47.-1990.jpg" width="710" /><br/><div class="photo_view_caption">A 106-year-old woman sits in front of her home guarding it with a rifle, in Degh village, near the city of Goris in southern Armenia. Armed conflicts took place in and around nearby Nagarno-Karabakh, a territory in Azerbaijan also claimed by Armenia. 01 January 1990</div><br/><div></div><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><h4 style="text-align: center;">Amelia Earhart Became the First Woman to Navigate Across the Atlantic Ocean, 1928</h4><br/><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17376 " height="601" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Amelia-Earhart-Became-the-First-Woman-to-Navigate-Across-the-Atlantic-Ocean.-1928.jpg" width="751" /><br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><h4 style="text-align: center;">The First Woman Was Sworn Into the Marine Corps, 1918</h4><br/><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17398 " height="559" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-First-Few-Women-Sworn-into-the-U.S.-Marine-Corps.-1918.jpg" width="699" /><br/><br/> 

Late 19th-century New York City was a magnet for the world’s immigrants, and the vast majority of them found not streets paved with gold but nearly subhuman squalor. While polite society turned a blind eye, brave reporters like the Danish-born Jacob Riis documented this shame of the Gilded Age. Riis did this by venturing into the city’s most ominous neighborhoods with his blinding magnesium flash powder lights, capturing the casual crime, grinding poverty and frightful overcrowding.<br><br>Most famous of these was Riis’ image of a Lower East Side street gang, which conveys the danger that lurked around every bend. Such work became the basis of his revelatory book How the Other Half Lives, which forced Americans to confront what they had long ignored and galvanized reformers like the young New York politician Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote to the photographer, “I have read your book, and I have come to help.” Riis’ work was instrumental in bringing about New York State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901, which improved conditions for the poor.<br><br><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17108 size-full" height="480" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/be036581-1.jpg" width="614"><br><p data-wp-editing="1"><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17109 size-large" height="843" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200915-1-1024x843.jpg" width="1024"></p>