#history footage

[coloradomartini]

Eisenhower Highway: 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy

The Transcontinental Motor Convoys 1919 was a vehicle convoy of the US Army of truck trains, Harley and Indian motorcycles, passenger cars, and heavy equipment that crossed the United States to the west coast.

The Transcontinental Motor Convoys 1919 was a vehicle convoy of the US Army of truck trains, Harley and Indian motorcycles, passenger cars, and heavy equipment that crossed the United States to the west coast. The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy was from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco using the incomplete Lincoln Highway. A young Dwight Eisenhower was one of the officers in charge and it…

[blueiscoool]

Footage of the Giza Pyramid Complex Being Built in Egypt c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC.

An archaeologist has found ancient film in a hidden vault under the great pyramid of Giza.

This explains everything! 😉

[weirdlookindog]

¡Que viva Mexico! (1932)

[pattern-53-enfield]

Lydia Spivak, "Ballerina of the Brandenburg Gate"

[doll-elvis]

bringing this back because I’m still not over how he pulled the second girl in 😩

courtesy of dontbeecruel on twitter

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

Dancing on the Standart.

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

125 Years Ago: Newsies Go On Strike

“Ye don’t sell no more World ’r Joinal ’r ye git yer face punched in — see?” [source]

B. West Clinedinst, “The Hottest Strike of Midsummer. The newsboys of New York, who struck against the price charged by some of the one-cent newspapers, attacked the men who took their places and destroyed the boycotted newspapers–Scene on Frankfort Street, near Newspaper Row,” Leslie’s Weekly, Aug. 12, 1899. [source]

On July 18, 1899 the newsies of Long Island City, Queens tipped over a Evening Journal distribution wagon in protest against the continued wartime price of 60 cents per hundred newspapers. The price change had been implemented during the Spanish-American War of the year before to profit off of increased wartime sales. But now that the war was over, the newsies wanted price to be returned to it's prewar 50 cents per hundred. On July 19, three hundred newsies met in City Hall Park and pledged to strike against the New York World and the Evening Journal.

Over the next two weeks, the strike would not only spread to all five boroughs, but to the newsies of a number of cities and towns across the northeast, all refusing to sell the World and the Journal. [source]

The strike would end with a compromise; the World and Journal would keep the price of their papers at 60 cents, but any unsold papers could be bought back. This compromise was accepted on August 2.

The Newsboy's Strike of 1899 would inspire several other child labor strikes in the years to come. [source]

Delivering Newspapers, 1899. [source]

[hooked-on-elvis]

[theworldofwars]

A Mark IV Tank crossing a pit on the Testing Ground, Tank Corps Central Stores, September 1917.

[shannonsketches]

I wanted a bigger version of this so I made one.

Also a transparent version, for your memeing needs.

[kootyl]

Footage behind the photograph -

I love the famous picture of Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia and Alexei Romanov playing on The Polar Star in 1906 but have you seen the footage behind that photograph?

[crispycreambacon]

Friendly reminder that the Substitute/Hologram Professor will be 2 years old

[vox-anglosphere]

Decades later, Winston Churchill's funeral still touches the British heart and soul. The background music is all the narration you need.

[ltwilliammowett]

Wreck footage

[wutheringmights]

Legend of the Galatic Heroes framed it's lore dump episode as a character watching an in-universe documentary, and I cannot emphasize enough how hard they not only committed to the bit but how funny that bit actually is

[crimescrimson]

Ada Wong & Leon S. Kennedy: The History [ Resident Evil 4 (2023) ]