Old history photos

Good old Leon and Levy where would I be without them. There is a Police Officer standing on the traffic island in the middle of the photograph, he is probably from POW. On the left is a hoarding surrounding the building site for what was then known as the New Government Offices and is now The Treasury; work was started in 1899 and completed in 1915 so I may be on the cusp here. Lovely bonnets Ladies.

Pictures hold something truly special—a speck of time that once was and shall never be again. They’re the closest thing we have to a time machine, allowing us to glimpse through a window of film and into the past.

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Construction Workers Lunchtime 1931 St Johns Bridge N. Portland Oregon historic bw photo by Ray Atkeson

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Social History, Politics, Asia, The Partition of India and Pakistan, pic: 1947, Muslim refugees from India at a refugee camp

WORKPLACE SAFETY, 1926 Photographer Unknown via Ovadia & Sons on Tumblr Seen here are painters atop the Woolworth Building in New York City in 1926. Just looking at this ph…