Rarely Seen photos

Rarely Seen photos     Mark Twain in Tesla��s lab, 1894   A 10 x 15-foot wooden shed where the ��Harley-Davidson Motor Company�� started out in 1903   Testing football helmets in 1912   Helmets again: A Pyramid of captured German ones in front of the NYC Grand Central Terminal, 1918   A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began,1920   Mount Rushmore Before Carving, 1920s   Traffic jam in New York, 1923   A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, Florida, 1926 (UPDATE: well, an alligator farm of course, as Roy notes in the comments below)   World economic crisis, 1929   Central Park in 1930   Last four couples standing at a Chicago dance marathon, ca. 1930   Meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, early 1930s   Confederate and Union soldiers shake hands across the wall at the 1938 reunion for the Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg   When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their sacks, 1939   NY, Coney Island, 1940   The thirty-six men needed to fly and service a B-17E in 1942   A man begging for his wife��s forgiveness inside Divorce Court. Chicago, 1948   Three young women wash their clothes in Central Park during a water shortage. New York, 1949   19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he crossed the finish line. (UPDATE: As Peter notes in the comments below, ��Tanaka was not exactly ��a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima�� �X when the bomb was dropped, he was at home, about 20 miles from the site. He saw a light and heard a distant rumble, but was personally unaffected by the bomb.��)   Florida��s last Civil War veteran, Bill Lundy, poses with a jet fighter, 1955   NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1960��s   Muhammad Ali��s fists after the fight with Cooper, 1963   New York firemen play a game after a fire in a billiard parlor, 1969   An abandoned baby sleeps peacefully in a drawer at the Los Angeles Police Station, 1971   Boy hiding in a TV set. Boston, 1972 by Arthur Tress   A spectator holds up a sign at the Academy Awards, April 1974   Robert De Niro��s cab driver license. In order to get into character for the film Taxi Driver, he obtained his own hack license and would pick-up/drive customers around in New York City.   Nancy Reagan sits on the lap of Mr. T, dressed as Santa, 1983     Ronald Reagan wearing sweatpants on Air Force One, 1985