There’s nothing quite like looking back on days gone by, so we’ve compiled this incredible collection of old photos to give you a glimpse into the amazing past. The following pictures from great moments in history are thought provoking as they explore humanity’s capacity for both good and evil.
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#1. The Man That Refused To Give The Nazi Salute, 1936
#2. Nikola Tesla In His Laboratory, Sitting Behind His “Magnifying Transmitter”
#3. The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband Seperated By A Wall, Holland, 1888.
#4. Austrian Boy’s Moment Of Pure Happiness After Receiving New Shoes During WWII
#5. Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
#6. The Unbroken Seal On Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 (3,245 Years Untouched)
#7. Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1932
#8. Unknown Soldier In Vietnam, 1965
#9. First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
#10. Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy, 1956
#11. The Kiss Of Life – A Utility Worker Giving Mouth-to-mouth To Co-worker After He Contacted A High Voltage Wire, 1967
#12. Annette Kellerman Promotes Women’s Right To Wear A Fitted One-piece Bathing Suit, 1907. She Was Arrested For Indecency.
#13. Grotto In An Iceberg, Photographed During The British Antarctic Expedition, 5 Jan 1911.
#14. 106-year-old Armenian Woman Guards Home, 1990
#15. Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, Ny
#16. Painter Of The Brooklyn Bridge,1914
#17. The Last Known Photo Of The Titanic Above Water, 1912
#18. Disneyland Employee Cafeteria In 1961
#19. Massive Crowds Gather For The First Woodstock, 1969
#20. The Real Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin, 1927
#21. Women Delivering Ice, 1918
#22. Hannah Stilley, Born 1746, Photographed In 1840. Probably The Earliest Born Individual Captured On Film
#23. The Beatles Play For 18 People In The Aldershot Club, December 1961. They Were To Become Superstars In One And A Half Year.
#24. The First Ever Underground Train Journey, Edgware Road Station, London, 1862
#25. Customers At A London Music Store, 1955
#26. Woman With A Gas-resistant Pram, England, 1938
#27. Elvis In The Army, 1958
#28. Baby Cages Used To Ensure That Children Get Enough Sunlight And Fresh Air When Living In An Apartment Building, 1937
#29. Measuring Bathing Suits, If They Were Too Short, Women Would Be Fined, 1920’s
#30 Salvador Dali Kisses The Hand Of Raquel Welch Wearing a Bikini After Finishing His Famous Portrait Of Her, 1965
#31. Little Girl With Her Doll Sitting In The Ruins Of Her Bombed Home, London, 1940
#32. Georges Blind, A Member Of The French Resistance, Smiling At A German Firing Squad, 1944
#33. “wait For Me Daddy,” By Claude P. Dettloff In New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940
#34. Sailor Kissing Nurse, Times Square, August 14, 1945
#35. Audrey Hepburn Shopping With Her Pet Deer “ip” In Beverly Hills, Ca, 1958
#36. Three Men Run In The Marathon At The First Modern Olympic Games, 1896
#37. Newspaper Boy Ned Parfett Sells Copies Of The Evening Paper Bearing News Of Titanic’s Sinking The Night Before, April 16, 1912
#38. Coca-Cola Comes To France, 1950
#39. Mother Hides Her Face In Shame After Putting Her Children Up For Sale, Chicago, 1948
#40. Norway Receive Their First Ever Shipment Of Bananas,1905
#41. Salvador Dali and Coco Chanel sharing a cigarette lighter.
#42. Using a bear to treat back pain in Romania, 1946.
#43. Lax safety precautions when setting a new world speed record in 1948.
#44. Shocked young ladies in a 1929 sex education lesson.
#45. Lumberjacks in the 1900s showing off their work.
#46. William Harley and Arthur Davidson testing out the first Harley Davidson motorcycles.
#47. An early 20th century gun used for duck hunting.
#48. Military electricians monkeying around in 1918.
#49. Filming the furry face of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
#50. Testing out the latest rugby helmet in a highly scientific way, 1912.
#51. A pilot casually restarting a stalled propellor mid-flight.
#52. Drew Barrymore lighting a cigarette for Stephen King.
#53. Young women out and about in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1970s.
#54. Ernest Hemingway drinking in a bar.
#55. The last photo ever taken of a now-extinct Thylacine, snapped in 1933.
#56. The models used by Grant Wood for his famous painting, American Gothic.
#57. Bianca Passarge, aged 17, dances on wine bottles wearing her cat costume in Hamburg, 1958.
#58. Upper-class and working-class children in Britain, 1937.
#59. July 1954’s Miss World competition in Long Beach, where miss New Zealand fell unconscious.
#60. A 2-year-old Dalai Lama in 1937.
#61. The manliest way to shave your beard back in 1940.
#62. Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen poses with his wife in 1947. He’d lost a leg to frostbite back in 1926.
#63. A penguin introduces himself to a little girl.
#65. The original Michelin man, 1910.
#67. The biggest horse in the world, 1928.
#68. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
#69. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
#70. Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
#71. Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
#72. Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
#73. Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
#74. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
#75. Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940
#76. Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
#77. Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
#78. Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
#79. Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
#80. Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
