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Yoc:
Hi Gang,
Here's another bunch of pictures that illustrate some important moments in world history.

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#1 - 1942.07-Air Raid Instructions
July 1942. "West Danville, Vermont. Guy Davenport, 11, and Maynard Clark, 14, reading the air raid instructions posted in Gilbert S. Hastings' post office and general store." (Photo by Fritz Henle, Office of War Information)

What it says: What to Do — What Not to Do
        This war is not like any other. It may reach your street -- your home -- at any moment. You may be fighting in this war tomorrow, or next week, or next month. Your government asks of you one simple thing, but one very important thing ... Learn and remember what to do if enemy planes and bombs come.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/18175

COMICS:
Feature Comics (Quality) #53 (February 1942) and True Comics (Parent's) #12 (May 1942).


#2 - 1943-Arlington_Farms
Image: Esther Bubley/Library of Congress from https://historyinphotos.blogspot.ca/

One of a photo essay on new government housing in Washington.

(Original captions) 1943 - Arlington Farms
Wartime government housing, nicknamed "Girl Town"
by Alex Q. Arbuckle

In 1943, 7,000 units of temporary housing for wartime workers were opened at Arlington Farms, just over the Potomac River from the center of government. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt presided over the dedication of the facilities on Oct. 15, 1943.

https://mashable.com/2015/12/07/arlington-farms/#4L0HFH3NXuqO


#3 - 1944.06.06-Navy, Army and Merchant Marine servicemen read the Daily News
(Original caption) UNITED STATES - JUNE 06: Navy, Army and Merchant Marine servicemen read the Daily News for information on D-Day, at Wall St. and Broadway. (Photo by Ed Jackson/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

A bigger vesion can be seen here:
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/navy-army-and-merchant-marine-servicemen-read-the-daily-news-photo/97284767#navy-army-and-merchant-marine-servicemen-read-the-daily-news-for-on-picture-id97284767

COMICS:
Veri Best Sure Shot Comics (Holyoke) #1 bottom right


#4 - 1944.06.06-Invasion On
(Original caption) 'Invasion On'
People gather around a newspaper stand to purchase copies of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Daily Tribune, both of which report on D-Day, the former with the headline 'Invasion On: 4,000 Ships Hit Coast' and the latter with the headline 'Allies Invade France,' Chicago, Illinois, June 6, 1944. (Photo by Gordon Coster/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/51580163


#5 - 1944.06.06-DDay by Barney Stein
(Original caption) NYC newsstands are the place to be for information about the ongoing war. June 06, 1944. (Photo by Barney Stein/New York Post/Photo Archives, LLC)

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#6 - 1945.05.07-VE Day In NYC (Life)
(Original caption) VE Day In NYC
Women eagerly picking up New York World-Telegram newpapers w. the headline NAZIS GIVE UP/SURRENDER TO ALLIES AND RUSSIA ANNOUNCED, at newstand in Times Square as people gather for massive end to war in Europe celebration. (Photo by Andreas Feininger/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)


#7 - 1945.05.07-VE Day In NYC (Life) 2
(Original caption) People eagerly reading New York World-Telegram newpapers w. the headline NAZIS GIVE UP/SURRENDER TO ALLIES AND RUSSIA ANNOUNCED, at newsstand in Times Square as people gather for massive end to war in Europe celebration. (Photo by Andreas Feininger/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/50625862


#8 - 1945.05.08-It's VE Day
(Original caption) It's VE Day
8th May 1945: A publication at a news-stand in America announces the surrender of the last German units on V-E Day, signalling Victory in Europe. (Photo by Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/3095400


#9 - 1945.06-Kids comic stand in Manhattan Project
(Original caption) A young entrepreneur during the days of the Manhattan Project, in Oak Ridge, Tennesee in the 1940s. (Photo by James E. Westcott/DOE)

COMICS:
Four Color (Dell) #75 - Gene Autry and the Wildcat (June 1945),
New Funnies (Dell) #101 (July 1945),
Mutt and Jeff (DC) #18 (Summer 1945),
Blue Bolt (Novelty) v6#2 [58] (August 1945),
Captain Marvel Jr. (Fawcett) #7 (May 19, 1943)

A whole series of photos were taken by James Westcott   He was the first AEC government photographer in Oak Ridge, and the only authorized photographer during the Manhattan Project.

You can see several more pics from the series at the following link:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/06/the-secret-city/100326/


#10 - 1945.07.07-NYC Mayor La_Guardia
(Original caption) UNITED STATES - JULY 07: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reading Sunday Daily News comics on radio during newpaper deliverymen strike. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.ca/license/97306934

Reading Dick Tracy comic strip over the radio during the newspaper delivery strike, July 1945.

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#11 - 1948.05.15-Woman Buying Newspaper
(Original Caption) The Best News in 2,000 Years. New York: A woman at a lower east side newsstand does a brisk business with Jewish language newspapers May 15, the day after the proclamation creating the new Jewish State of Israel. The flags of Israel and the United States flutter over the stand. (Photo by Bettmann / Contributor)

https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/lower-east-side-of-manhattan-may-15-1948?

COMICS:
Wacky Duck (Marvel) #1 (August 1948) in the box.
Mr District Attorney (DC) #4 (July-August 1948) to the right.


#12 - 1948-Negro Heroes
Promoting Negro Heroes #1 in 1948. The woman 2nd from left is Sadie Alexander, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in the United States (1921), first African-American woman to get a law degree from Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School and was a prominent civil rights activist.  You can read more about here here: http://blackhistorynow.com/sadie-alexander/

And you can read this first issue yourself at this link:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=27254


#13 - 1950.11.30-Newspaper Headlines In New York
(Original Caption) 11/30/1950-New York, NY: Headlines at news stand draw crowd at Grand Central Station. Two soldiers stop to look over the A-Bomb headlines. President Truman today informed the World that the U.S. will, if necessary, use the A-Bomb.

https://www.gettyimages.ca/license/515582084

#14 - 1950-St.Louis photo Gordon Parks
By Gordon Parks who wound up becoming the first African American photographer for Life Magazine.
You can see many of his photos of the south at this link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/gordon-parks_n_6489120

Courtesy and © The Gordon Parks Foundation
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Reading Tim Holt (Fawcett) #7 (July 1949)


#15 - 1952.02.03-Newbold Morris reading the Daily News in an ice cream shop.
(Original Caption) UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 03, 1952: Newbold Morris reading the Daily News in an ice cream shop. (Photo by Fred Morgan/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
This is during the Red Scare era.  The photo was taken days after Morris was appointed special assistant to the Attorney General by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath to investigate possible corruption in the Department of Justice.  The paper he's holding talks about it.  Morris was fired two months later.  He'd run for NYC mayor in 1944 + 1949 and lose both.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbold_Morris

COMICS:
Four Color (Dell) #376 - Bugs Bunny The Magic Sneeze (February-March 1952)
Dagwood (Harvey) #16 (March 1952) on the left.

That's it for this batch, hope you liked them,
-Yoc

Yoc:
Hi Gang,
Here's another batch of history making moments and a final handful of pre-1920s newsstand pics.
Let's start with them first.

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#1 - 1900-01-Waldorf Astoria newsstand - BJ Falk
From the Library of Congress on of the most famous hotels lobby newsstand.  Modest isn't it?   ;)

Title: News stand / Falk, photographer, Waldorf-Astoria.
Creator(s): Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1900, c1901.

Call Number: U.S. GEOG FILE - New York--New York City--Hotels and apartment houses--Waldorf <item> [P&P]

Notes:
Y3111 U.S. Copyright Office.
Copyright by George C. Boldt


#2 - 1902.11-Boston subway newsstand
Date confirmed from a cover for The Century Illustrated Magazine.  See next picture.

Likely a newsstand at the Tremont Street Subway in Boston's MBTA Subway system is the oldest subway tunnel in North America and the third oldest worldwide to exclusively use electric traction, opening on September 1, 1897.


#3 - 1902.11-Century Illustrated Monthly
As seen in previous picture.


#4 - 1908.07-Smallest news & post card stand in New Orleans, 103 Royal Street
A postcard stand on New Orleans’ Royal Street selling postcards, newspapers and magazines, including the July 1908 issue of The Argosy (bottom left).

Found on www.thepulp.net


#5 - 1908.07-Smallest news & post card stand in New Orleans, 103 Royal Street - colourized
Here's the full version of the above image, and colourized.
The Saturday Evening Post in the lower right corner was dated 13 June 1908.

From http://www.shorpy.com/node/9684


#6 - 1920s-Mary Pickford -votes for women
Mary reading about the controversial idea of letting women vote.
Source unknown.

You can read about the women's suffrage movement here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage

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#7 - 1953.03.05-Stalin Dead
People Reading Headline Announcing Death of Stalin
(Original Caption) Sgt. and Mrs. Dennyson Webb (left) and PN3/C George Hodil, Jr. read the headlines announcing the death of Josef Stalin, March 5th, at a newsstand in Times Square. The leader of world communism for over 30 years died within the the thick-walled Kremlin. His heart 'stopped beating,' the Moscow radio announced.

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/514953080


#8 - 1954.05.01-Italy newsstand
Three Women Near A Newspaper Kiosk
(Original Caption) Three women talking outside a newspaper kiosk. Italy, May 1954. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/174303272


#9 - 1954.08.12-Sidewalk newspaper and magazine stand - George Marks
https://www.gettyimages.ca/search/stack/105772955?assettype=image
Credit: George Marks
Creative #: 57539554

COMICS:
Foxhole #1 (October 1954), Gang Busters #41 (August-September 1954), Astonishing #35 (October 1954), Superboy #35 (September 1954), Hopalong Cassidy #93 (September 1954), Gene Autry #90 (August 1954), Archie #70 (September-October 1954), Four Color #581 - Walt Disney's Chip 'n' Dale (August 1954), Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #154 (August 1954), Marge's Little Lulu #74 (August 1954), digests, Bugs Bunny's Vacation Funnies #4 [June](1954), Walt Disney's Vacation Parade #5   ([July] 1954)

Rack far left, middle-
Jet Magazine August 12, 1954
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/jet/3#i128


#10 - 1954.08.12-Sidewalk newspaper and magazine stand - George Marks
Different angle of the same stand as the previous picture.


#11 - 1960-A view of children receiving blood transfusions - Bob Gomel
Credit: BOB GOMEL
Creative #:tlp890024
Licence type:Rights-managed
Collection:The LIFE Picture Collection

https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/view-of-children-receiving-blood-high-res-stock-photography/tlp890024

Original source unknown.

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#12 - 1961-Ham the Space Chimp
(Original Caption) A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961.

"On the morning of January 31, 1961, in south Florida, a 5-year-old chimpanzee — dubbed "Ham" by his handlers — ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk, vitamins and half an egg. Then the unassuming 37-pound primate went out and made aeronautic history: Aboard a NASA space capsule, traveling thousands of miles an hour almost 160 miles above the Earth, he became the first chimp in space."  -Life Magazine

Read all about Ham at this link:
http://nightflight.com/meet-ham-the-three-year-old-astrochimp-was-the-first-american-in-space/


#13 - 1963.11.22-NYC-JFK shot - Wayne Miller
(Original Caption) USA. New York City. November 22nd, 1963. Reaction to the assassination of John F. KENNEDY.

NYC31027
(MIW1963019W00002/14)
© Wayne Miller/Magnum Photos

http://pro.magnumphotos.com/Asset/-2K7O3R3JOFDM.html


#14 - 1968.06.06-Bobby Kennedy shot
(Original caption) View of an unidentified news seller at his stand in Union Square, New York, New York, June 6, 1968. Among the periodicals for sale are copies of the New York Post newspaper that reports on the shooting of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy earlier in the morning; he died the following morning. (Photo by Bev Grant/Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/939586206


#15 - 1969.07.21-Moon landing
The Washington Post on Monday, July 21, 1969: "'The Eagle Has Landed'—Two Men Walk on the Moon"
Originally uploaded by User:Rufus330Ci on 23 January 2006 to wikipedia

(Wiki Caption) "This is a picture of my mother holding the Washington News Paper on Monday, July 21st 1969 stating 'The Eagle Has Landed. Two Men Walk on the Moon'. The photo was taken by my grandfather." -- the original uploader

https://kids.kiddle.co/Image:Land_on_the_Moon_7_21_1969-repair.jpg


#16 - 1973.01-Comic Reading -Vietnam
(Original Caption) Comic Reading

January 1973: A Vietnamese child reading a comic bought by Vietnamese soldiers. (Photo by John Downing/Express/Getty Images)

Reading Sgt. Fury (Marvel) #98 (May 1972)


That's it for this batch, hope you liked them,
-Yoc

SuperScrounge:
#9
The unknown between Gang Busters & Superboy is Astonishing #35 https://www.comics.org/issue/11619/cover/4/

Unknown western is Hopalong Cassidy #93 https://www.comics.org/issue/11530/cover/4/

After Bugs Bunny's Vacation is Walt Disney's Vacation Parade #5 https://www.comics.org/issue/11394/cover/4/

Yoc:
Thanks again SS!
I've added your info to the listing.

-Yoc

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