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50 Historical Pictures That Might Teach You Something New About Our World

Adelaide Ross and Indrė Lukošiūtė

Our Instagram feeds are often flooded with photos from the same day or the previous weekend. And while it’s great to have the capability to share information so rapidly, we know what the modern world looks like. We can walk through our front doors or gaze out from our balconies to get a taste of today’s times. But if you’re craving a blast from the past, we’ve got the perfect article for you.

Below, you'll find a list of some of our favorite posts from the… Continue reading

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#1 A Picture Of Dr. Religa Monitoring His Patient's Vitals After Completing A 23-Hour-Long Heart Transplant. His Assistant Is Asleep In The Corner. 1987



#2 Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority, 1974



#3 Nellie Brown, An African-American Cowgirl, C.1880's



#4 An Open Air School In 1957, Netherlands ⁣ In The Beginning Of The 20th Century A Movement Towards Open Air Schools Took Place In Europe



#5 Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy, 1956



#6 As Soviet Troops Approached Berlin In 1945, Zoo Keepers Did Their Best To Take Care Of Berlin Zoo's Animals. This Shoebill Was Temporarily Housed In His Keeper’s Home



#7 Camouflaged Road In Finland During Ww2. The Trees Are Hung Up With Rope So Enemy Watch Towers Don't See The Road. June 27, 1941



#8 Metallica, Circa 1983



#9 The Last Picture Of Now Extinct Tasmanian Tiger In 1933



#10 The Creation Of The Recycling Logo By G. Anderson, 23 At The Time. (1970)

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#11 1956: For A Bet Whilst Drunk, Former Marine Thomas Fitzpatrick Stole A Small Plane From New Jersey And Then Landed It Perfectly On A Narrow Manhattan Street In Front Of The Bar He Had Been Drinking At



#12 Into The Jaws Of Death, 6th June 1944. Normandy Landings



#13 1922: 78-Year-Old Robert T. Lincoln (Son Of Abraham Lincoln) Is Helped Up The Steps At The Dedication Of The Lincoln Memorial In Washington D.c



#14 Nikola Tesla’s Foot X-Ray Taken By Himself On A Machine He Designed (1896)



#15 First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967



#16 Special Effects In The 1960s



#17 San Francisco's Iconic Cliff House, Shortly Before It Was Destroyed By Fire In 1907



#18 Cow Shoes Used By Moonshiners In The Prohibition Days To Disguise Their Footprints, 1924



#19 Hese Daguerreotype Portraits Show The Oldest Generation Of People To Ever Be Photographed, 1840-1850



#20 French Box Bed. In Brittany, The Closed Bed, Or Box Bed, Was A Traditional Piece Of Furniture, Present In Other European Countries

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#21 Painters Atop The Woolworth Building In New York City, 1926



#22 Maori Man From Hawkes Bay District, Photographed In 1870 By Samuel Carnell



#23 Mount St. Helens Photographed From The Same Spot, One Day Before, And Four Months After Erupting



#24 The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944



#25 Poor Children, East London, Circa 1890



#26 Noted Botanist Alice Eastwood Inspects The Clearly Visible Fault Fissure Left Behind Near Olema, California, After The 1906 Earthquake Rattled The San Andreas Fault



#27 The Winter Of 1880-1881 In Minnesota Was No Laughing Matter



#28 The Broughton Flume Was The Fastest And Longest Water Flume In The World From 1923-1986



#29 British Soldiers Of The Irish Guards Regiment Look On As One Of Their Number Faints In London, England (June, 1966)



#30 Aerial View Of Over 400,000 People At The Woodstock, 1969

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#31 A War Veteran Sells Matches On The Street, In Canterbury, Kent. England - Circa. 1930



#32 The World's Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship - The Pamir - Rounding Cape Horn, 1949



#33 The Dalai Lama At Age Two, 1937



#34 Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test, 1946



#35 In The 1930's, Baby-Cages Were Used To Ensure Children Living In Apartment Buildings Got Enough Fresh Air And Sunlight



#36 A Samurai And His Retainers Wearing Mail Armor And Armed With Naginata, 1870



#37 A Coat Sale In Copenhagen, Denmark, 1936



#38 The Roof Of An Old Fiat Factory. Yes, That Is A Track. (Lingotto, Turin - Italy)



#39 Paparazzi Photographer Ron Galella Would Wear A Football Helmet Around Actor Marlon Brando, After Brando Once Sucker-Punched Him, Broke His Jaw, And Knocked Out Five Teeth In 1973



#40 Ann Hodges, The Only Human Being In Recorded History To Be Hit By A Meteorite. 1954

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#41 The Muffin Man In 1910, London. He Would Ring A Bell As He Walked Through The Streets With His Wares On A Tray On His Head



#42 In 1936, 1800 Veterans Of The American Civil War Attended An 75th Anniversary Reunion At Gettysburg, Pa



#43 Female Worker Bottling Ketchup At The Original Heinz Factory Circa 1897



#44 Federal Reserve Bank, New York, 1959



#45 US Soldier With Pictures Of His Girlfriend Attached To His Helmet, Vietnam 1968



#46 The Ss Princess May Was A Steamship Built In 1888



#47 A Young Chinese Woman From One Of The Imperial Japanese Army's "Comfort Battalions" Is Interviewed By A British Royal Air Force Officer In Rangoon After Being Liberated In August 1945



#48 Two Abandoned Space Shuttles From The Scrapped Soviet “Buran” Space Program



#49 Salesman Having His Motorised Roller Skates Filled Up In 1961



#50 Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen Stands Next To His Third Wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale. 1947

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#51 An Old Photo Taken By Max Van Oppenheim Of An Ancient Roman Bridge That Spans The Wadi Al Murr Near Mosul, Iraq, In The 1920s



#52 The Nemi Ships, Built Almost 2000 Years Ago By Emperor Caligula, Discovered In 1929 And Destroyed By Fire In 1944 During World War II



#53 In The Victorian Era, The Woman’s Hair Was Considered An Important Part Of Her Appearance And It Marked Her Status And Her Femininity



#54 The Legendary Soviet Georgian Water Polo Player Petre Mshvenieradze With His Grandson, 1990



#55 Two Boys Sit Inside Willamette, An Iron Meteorite Weighing 14500 Kg



#56 A Man Recording A Cassette Tape At A Music Festival In Poland, 1980s. (Taken By Krzysztof Wójcik)



#57 Coal Miner's Wife And Three Of Their Children. Company House In Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938



#58 Princeton Students After A Freshman vs. Sophomores Snowball Fight, 1893



#59 Planes Fly Between The Towers And Pedestrians Cross As Part Of The Celebration Of The Opening Of The Golden Gate Bridge In May Of 1937



#60 This Shockingly High-Res And Colorized Photo Was Taken Over 100 Years Ago, And Shows A Crew Of Men Unloading A Banana Boat In New York

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#61 Fixing The Antenna On The World Trade Center, New York City, 1979. Photo By Peter B. Kaplan



#62 Residents Of Hanoi Wait In Chest-Deep Sidewalk Shelters For The All Clear Signal, During An Air Raid Alert. Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1967



#63 Two Young Ladies Inline Skating With A Sail In Berlin, 1923



#64 Girls Making Petrol Bombs During The Battle Of The Bogside, Ireland, 1969



#65 J.k. Rowling Writing Harry Potter At A Café In Scotland (1998)



#66 Street In Hong Kong - 1950s. Photo By Fan Ho



#67 Inside Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower), London, 1920s



#68 Coal Miner's Child Using A Hole In The Door To Enter A Bedroom With A Smoking Pipe In One Hand And A Gun In The Other In Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Photo By Marion Post Wolcott. 1938



#69 Jack Milford, Player With The Wembley Monarchs Ice Hockey Team, Invented A Carrying Device So That His Baby Can Join His Wife And Himself On The Ice, 1937. (Photo By L. C. Buckley)



#70 Fisherman Edward Llewellen With The World's Record Black Sea Bass (425 Lbs / 192kg)

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#71 Winston Churchill Is Carried From A Nursing Home Following Being Struck By A Car In New York City, 1931



#72 Illegal Alcohol Being Poured Out During Prohibition, Detroit, 1929



#73 Miners In The Serra Pelada Gold Mines In Brazil, 1980s. (Salgado)



#74 "Human Fly" John "Jammie" Reynolds Balancing On A New York Rooftop, 1910s



#75 This Picture Of New York In 1933 Looks Like It's From The 2070s. The Giant Hole In The Ground Directly Across 5th Avenue Is The Construction Site Of The Future Rockefeller Center



#76 "Horse With A Gas Mask, United Kingdom, March 27th, 1940"



#77 Madonna For Versace (1995)



#78 British Brigadier General J V Campbell Addressing Troops Of The 137th Brigade (46th Division) From The Riqueval Bridge Over The St Quentin Canal, France, October 2, 1918



#79 Window Cleaners In New York City, Circa 1958



#80 Two Men From The 363rd Field Artillery Battalion Near Okinawa. June 10, 1945

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#81 The World's Longest Manned Flight Was 64 Days, 22 Hours And 19 Minutes In This Cessna 172



#82 Lieutenant Commander Donald D. Sheppard, Of Coronado, California, Aims A Flaming Arrow At A Bamboo Hut Concealing A Fortified Viet Cong Bunker On The Banks Of The Bassac River, Vietnam, On December 8, 1967



#83 Soviet Soldiers During The Siege On Stalingrad (1942-1943)



#84 In 1986, The Charity Organization United Way Of Cleveland Released 1.5 Million Balloons




50 Historical Pictures That Might Teach You Something New About Our World