30 Jaw Dropping Pictures From the Past

A collection of pictures that will instantly transport you to another time and place.

Published 2 years ago in Ftw

A collection of pictures that will instantly transport you to another time and place.

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The last photograph taken of US President William McKinley minutes before he was assassinated. September, 14 1901.

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A photo taken from Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train, as it carried his casket from New York to Washington. 1968

3
Pre-refrigeration days at the Butcher’s Shop (1900)
4
The O’Halloran sisters, armed with poles and boiling water, fended off the officers evicting their family during the Irish Land War, 1889

5
Klansmen riding in a black neighborhood with a noose to warn African Americans not to vote in the elections. Miami, Florida 1939
6
American soldiers waterboarding a captured north Vietnamese soldier near Da nang. 1968
7
A crowd of 40,000 people watch the burning of “un-German” books by authors not considered to conform to Nazi ideology at the Opernplatz in Berlin. May 10, 1933

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The mushroom cloud from an atomic test is seen from Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, 1955
9
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg share a final kiss before being sent to Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The couple were convicted of spying and providing dozens of top secret nuclear and radar information to the Soviets. They would both be executed on the 19th June 1953
10
The 1919 book “America’s Munitions 1917-1918” by Benedict Crowell shows the image of the Remington and Winchester shotguns employed by U.S. troops during the Western Front of WWI. The U.S. use of shotguns in WWI caused protests by Germany for their “inhumane” use in combat.

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Temporary NYPD headquarters at a Burger King near the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001
12
Nazi camp overseer Gerda Steinhoff (center middle) stifles a smile as she goes on trial for torturing and murdering prisoners. Most of the accused female overseers for the Stutthof camp did not take their trial seriously. They laughed and joked throughout the proceedings, Poland, 1946
13
Tokyo residents mourning Hachiko. He would regularly meet his owner, Professor Ueno, at Shibuya Station after he returned from work. Sadly, Ueno died on May 21, 1925 & never returned. However, Hachiko would return to the station every day for 9 years, waiting for him to come back, 1935

14
Segregationists harass 6 year old Ruby Bridges, creating a doll of her in a coffin due to her going into an all white school. Louisiana, 1960
15
Barbara Henry teaches Ruby Bridges in an empty classroom. As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”
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Shell Shocked U.S. marine waiting to be evacuated from the battle zone during the Têt offensive, Hué, Vietnam, February 1968 – by Don McCullin

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Badly burned U.S officer lies on his hospital stretcher in a church in Leyte while there is a mass going on. The church worked as a temporary hospital, Philippines 1944
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Babe Ruth lies knocked out after running into the outfield wall during a game between the New York Yankees and Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium in 1924
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Orland Osgood Saloon, Carter County, Montana (1905)

20
Whitechapel slum in 1888, the year Jack The Ripper struck
21
Citizens of Moscow listen to a historic radio announcement, saying that German forces invaded at 4 AM that morning and that the war started. 30% of male population will perish in the next 4 years (including 90% of men born in 1923) – June 22th, 1941
22
Stolen “Mona Lisa” recovered in Florence, 1913. Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Mona Lisa is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia’s hotel room in Florence. Peruggia had previously worked at the Louvre and had participated in the heist with a group of accomplices dressed as Louvre janitors on the morning of August 21, 1911.

23
22 year-old corporal Leonard Hayworth in the Korean War cries after running out of ammunition and losing most of his men, 1950. He was later killed in combat
24
Council of War”. General Ulysses S. Grant (2nd from left on bench at center left), Gen. George G. Meade, Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana, and numerous staff officers meet at Massaponax Church, in Virginia on May 21, 1864
25
The luxuries of flying in the past as shown here in this Qantas Airways 747 upper deck in 1971

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The bust of Tutankhamun being carried from the tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Photo by Harry Burton.
27
Circus strongwoman Katie Sandwina aka the Lady Hercules holding up three men 1900’s
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Family Portrait Of A Two-Year-Old Elvis Presley And His Parents Gladys And Vernon, 1937

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Marilyn Monroe And Jane Russell During A Break In Filming Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953
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Soviet soldiers raises soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany. 1945