A selection of interesting and unusual photos from the USA (21 photos)

All the photos were taken in the 20th century and show well how Americans lived in different decades.





Detained black strikers, 1959.

The inscription on the poster confiscated from the detainees: "If Khrushchev can eat here, then why can't we." At that time, black residents could not eat with "whites". Only in establishments marked "colored".



Seven-year-old Ferris, a small newspaper boy. Photographed in Mobile, Alabama, in October 1914.

One of the works of the famous American sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine. From 1906 to 1914, he took pictures on the streets, how and in what conditions children worked delivering newspapers.

On the front page is the news of the approach of German troops to the Belgian Ostend. Autumn 1914.





Teenagers show off tuxedos stolen from a store during the Harlem Riots, New York, USA. 1943.

Walker Roberts, 12, Henry Campbell, 14, and Morris Jackson, 13, show off their new "zoot suits" - tuxedos stolen from a formal wear store during the Harlem Riots of August 1943.



Utah Desert in the 1940s



A boy jumps from a roof into the Hudson River. New York, USA. Summer 1948.



First ride in an elevator. USA, 1948.

Country kids Kemp Savage and his cousin Bruce, captured in this photograph, arrive in the capital Salt Lake City as part of a delegation of schoolchildren from the very small and distant city of Surma.

The fashion was very interesting in those years, such small children, and already in hats.



Snowdrifts in Manhattan, New York City, 1960.

French cellist Maurice Baquet tries to dig out his snow-covered car on January 1, 1960 in New York City.



Men from the Mormon religious sect arrested for polygamy. USA, 1889.

Prominent grooms, all of them as if selected. White shirts with bow ties under prison uniforms look, at the very least, strange.



Sentenced to death in a gas chamber. On the forehead is the advertising logo of the Westinghouse Electric Company. USA, 1945.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation is one of the leading electrical engineering companies in the United States that existed from 1886 to 1999.



Museum staff assemble a dinosaur, USA, 1904.

It's one of the most recognizable dinosaurs, but most people know it by a name most paleontologists stopped using more than a century ago: Brontosaurus.

The museum's "Brontosaurus" took six years to create, using four different specimens collected by paleontologists at the museum in Como Bluff.



Construction of the Empire State building, New York, 1930.

It was the tallest building in the world at the time, the 102-story building held this record for 36 years.



A popular youth game from the 40s, the goal of which was to pass a ring to a partner only with the help of a pencil clenched in the teeth. USA, 1947.



A truck carrying people drives over strongman Galen Gough at a stadium in California. USA, 1935.

Galen Gough, known as the strongman, became a popular figure in the 1930s thanks to his extraordinary physical abilities and performances in various shows.



A girl is arrested for appearing on the beach in a too revealing bathing suit. USA, 1920s.

In the 1920s, police walked along the beaches in France and the USA, measuring the length of bathing suits. If the police were not satisfied with the results, they would expel the "offender" from the beach and issue her a fine.



Elevator porters. New York, 1921.

Before elevator automation, elevator operators had to: open and close the doors manually, control the direction and speed of the elevator, take passenger requests on board, and announce what businesses were located on each floor as they approached.



A 3,500-pound sunfish caught by fishermen on Santa Catalina Island, California, April 1910.



Between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert lies a boulder that is considered the largest stone in the world. October 15, 1951.

Question: how, and most importantly, why did this car drive over it?

In the 1950s, Giant Rock was a gathering place for UFO believers, and it is also considered sacred by Native Americans.

In early 2000, the giant rock split in two, revealing an interior of white granite. The outer surface of the rock is partially covered in graffiti.



US Game Warden George A. with a confiscated 10.9-inch, 250-pound duck shotgun, 1920.

A shot from such a gun could cover a flock of ducks; in the early 20th century, such weapons were banned.



A girl and dogs on a Miami beach. USA, 1977.



Three-year-old Robert Quigley smoking a cigar, 1928.