We came across this selection of astonishing photos from the past, thanks to Reddit user epicnesshunter. Some of these are absolutely mind-boggling, but what makes most of them so powerful is that they were taken in the past century, just one or two generations away from us.
#1. Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938
#2. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
#3. Elvis in the Army, 1958
#4. Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956
#5. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
#6. Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
#7. Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
#8. Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
#9. Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency
#10. Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
