18 Fascinating Photos From History

A cool collection of fascinating photos from the vault of history.

Published 4 years ago in Wow

A cool collection of fascinating photos from the vault of history. Don't waste your time worrying about the present when you can take a trip through the past.

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Mother and baby of family of nine living in field on U.S. Route 70 near the Tennessee River, March 1936

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A contact Soviet boy reports on the German position in 1943

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An Inuit man warms up his wife’s feet in Greenland, 1890s
4
Filming an episode of “The French Chef” with Julia Child, 1963

5
The heroes of Chernobyl, who saved Europe from nuclear fallout. Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, Boris Baranov, 1986
6
Relatives of Titanic survivors waiting for their loved ones at Southampton, 1912
7
A Soviet political commissar of the 220th Infantry Regiment calling soldiers to an assault, Eastern Front, in Soviet Ukraine, 12 July 1942. it has been said that the subject of this photo died minutes after it was taken.

8
FDR using help to get out of his car, One of the few photos that show his paralytic illness, journalists and photographers avoided showing the president in this weak state especially during WWII, taken in the 24th of September 1932
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Force working in west point cotton mills. west point, miss, may 1911. by Lewis Hines
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Coal miner and his family in their home. Scott’s Run, West Virginia. March 19, 1937

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A Red Army soldier firing from a bathtub during the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942
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Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
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Rare photo of general and former U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant behind him is a posture brace to help prevent movement during a photo session, sudden movements would cause blurring due to long exposure time. early 1860’s

14
Meet the “Night Witches”, fearless Russian female pilots who bombed nazis by night, 1941
15
100,000 Iranian women March against the hijab law, tehran 1979
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Opium addicts in Beijing, 1908

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John Wilkes Booth (left) dressed as Mark Antony in an 1864 play of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” whose assassination influenced him in killing Lincoln.
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Victorian England – 1901