Images Of Well-known People In Unusual Settings

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie

 

Lincoln's last photograph, taken in natural light on the white house balcony March 6, 1865, by Henry F. Warren.

 

Thanks for the photo @Joe Riley . He looks so tired and worn out.

 

H.F.Warren's Photos
"In addition to a number of photographs of candid crowd scenes containing the president taken on March 4th, there were three notable photographs taken by Henry F. Warren on March 6th on the balcony of the White House.

"President Lincoln granted Mr. Warren’s request for a brief impromptu photo session on the White House balcony. Lincoln carried a chair out himself. Perhaps Lincoln believed that some photographic record of his inaugural was in order and Mr. Warren was at the right place at the right time.

"The first photo was a standing shot, which is noted in Warren’s papers, although the negative and print have never been seen. The remaining two were quick photographs of the chest and head of a seated Lincoln. Both of these photographs, O-112 and O-113, the last taken of Lincoln when alive, show him looking haunted and even more emaciated and haggard than during his last portrait O-116 from the session a month before on February 5th.

"Much of his visible exhaustion was surely due to the hectic activities surrounding his inaugural. However his more advanced weight loss and deteriorating physical condition is evident. The war was still not over and the final details must have weighed heavily on Lincoln.

"Although these two Warren photos were posed, they could hardly be called a formal portrait. They are fascinating because of their spontaneity and how well they reveal the tension of the moment. They are also very sad images and are not the way most people wish to remember Abraham Lincoln”.

 

Such an interesting pair! Marie Curie died at age 66 in 1934. Einstein would have been 56. I bet that picture was taken in the early 30's.

Albert Einstein's voice.



Marie Curie in one of the cars she developed, with radiological apparatus which could be used in medical units in WW1, known as Les Petites Curies (Little Curies)



"Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, believed to be caused by prolonged exposure to radium. ... She attributed her illness to the high X-ray exposures she had received during the war. ... A sampling of her remains in 1995 showed her body was indeed free of radium."

"Because of their levels of radioactive contamination, her papers from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to handle. Even her cookbook is highly radioactive. Her papers are kept in lead-lined boxes, and those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing."

 

Eleanor Roosevelt and Eisenhower in Hyde Park, New York - 1945

 

President Richard Nixon taking an unscheduled coffee break at the Keystone Drug Store in Houston, TX, with waitress Marie “Shrimp” Hamilton, 1974



"Shrimp had just been talking about Nixon to a customer. He said, ‘What are you going to do if the President comes in here?’ she recalls. I told him, ‘Shoot, man, you’ve got to be kidding. He ain’t about to come by this little old place.’ Then I looked up and there he was. Flanked by an aide and a Secret Service agent, the President strode to the store’s lunch counter, sat down and ordered coffee."

Continued

 

@Nancy Hart
Despite all the devisive orature against him, as well as the Watergate mess, I have always rated Nixon above par for having pulled our young fighting men out of the quagmire called "Viet Nam".
Frank

 

Ernest Hemmingway and some of his cats

 

FDR & Katheryn Hepburn January 30, 1940 (FDR's 58th Birthday)

 

Josephine and Wyatt Earp with dog, Earpie, at a mining camp in Vidal, Calif., about 1920