30 Little Pictures with a Big History
Strange, cool, and fascinating photos from the past.
By Mr_Incognito
Published 10 years ago in Wtf
Strange, cool, and fascinating photos from the past.
1
Halftime at the very first Super Bowl. Pictured: Len Dawson, Kansas City Chiefs QB 1967.
2
During the 1900's indigenous people were brought in to be put on display at entertainment venues.
3
Gilbert's Surgical Amphitheater, Medical Class and Staff, 1910.
4
Hitler asking a frostbitten and snow ravaged soldier not to salute him, but to instead rest and recover. Year unknown.
5
Jackie Kennedy kisses the casket of JFK in the Capitol rotunda. Nov. 24, 1963.
6
A young girl who had just escaped from East Germany.
7
Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961.
8
An injured survivor of the Hindenburg disaster calmly smokes a cigarette as he is moved to a hospital from the field at Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937.
9
Secret Service agents walk on both sides of President Theodore Roosevelt's carriage during his inauguration on March 4, 1905. He was the first President to be provided Secret Service Protection.
10
IRA girls searching a man, location and year unknown.
11
Slave Cells. Alexandria, Virginia c. 1865. Photograph shows interior view of a slave pen, showing the doors of cells where the slaves were held before being sold. Building address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA.
12
This is how it was done in Montana, 1901.
13
French soldier walking in a trench in devastated terrain of the Somme, 1916.
14
Mahatma Gandhi's worldly possessions, ca 1948.
15
Cheyenne woman, Oklahoma, c. 1890-1904.
16
Navajo medicine man, Southwest U.S., 1904.
17
Zeppelin over The Pyramids, 1931.
18
Chinese prisoners are used as live targets in a bayonet drill by their Japanese captors, during the Nanking Massacre, November 7, 1938.
19
Medical students with cadavers, date unknown.
20
WWII: A B-17 bomber under construction, Seattle, Washington, Dec. 1942.
21
Ancient Roman ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbeck, Lebanon, c. 1870-1885.
22
The 140-kiloton Chagan nuclear test, Soviet Union, 1965. Hiroshima's" Little Boy" 13-18-kiloton, Nagasaki's "Fat Man" 20-22-kiloton.
23
Paula Hitler, younger sister of Adolf, arrested and interrogated by US intelligence officers. Germany. July 12, 1945.
24
A young Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys Oktoberfest with a friend in 1967, Munich, West Germany.
25
A Ringling Brothers Circus elephant walks out of a train car as young children watch in the Bronx railroad yard in New York City, April 1, 1963.
26
The 7.Panzer-Division in France, 1940.
27
Training activists not to react to provocation, Civil strike, Core group, Virginia, 1960 by Eve Arnold.
28
Shipwrecked survivors of HMAS Armidale clinging to a raft and waving at a Catalina flying boat. Unable to land on violent waters, the survivors were not seen again after this photograph was taken. Coast of East Timor, December 8, 1942.
29
Ty Cobb "sliding" into home,1920.
30
A woman disguised as a war refugee is exposed as a Gestapo Informer. Dessau, Germany, 1945.
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