78 Of “The Most Beautiful, Classic And Iconic, Historical Pictures Ever Taken”, Shared By This FB Page

Things happen everywhere, all the time—events big and small, ordinary and extraordinary, that shape our world in ways we often don't notice until the ripple effect spreads all around.

Over the years, the Facebook page 'Historical Pics' has collected an extensive gallery of these moments. From a black-and-white shot of the Iron Curtain to a color snap of a street in the United States during the sixties, each image invites us to come and marvel at history frozen in a single frame.

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Female Workers During A Strike At Citroen, 1930s. Photograph By Willy Ronis

Historic black and white photo of a woman speaking passionately to a large crowd, a classic and iconic moment captured.

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78 Old Pics Showing The World That We Will Never See In Real Life

Female Workers During A Strike At Citroen, 1930s. Photograph By Willy Ronis

Three Former Directors Of The Global Smallpox Eradication Program Read The News That Smallpox Had Been Globally Eradicated, 1980

A Newly Born Lamb Snuggles Up To A Sleeping Boy, 1940

Susan Kare, Famous Apple Artist Who Designed Many Of The Fonts, Icons, And Images For Apple, Next, Microsoft, And Ibm. (1980s)

Frida Kahlo Wearing A Suit In Her Family Portrait In 1927. She Was 19 Years Old

The Oldest House In Hamburg, Germany In (1898). · It Was Built In 1524, And Demolished On December 8th, 1910, Despite Protests From Locals

Pope Leo XIV In 1982

Mark Twain At Tesla's Lab

2 Girls Smile From Their Fantastic Snow Fort, Circa 1910

Lost In The Moment At A School Dance, 1950’s

The Original Addam's Family Set Photographed In Colour

Polio Victim Gwinn Hinkle On His Porch While His Former Class At Sunshine School Sings Christmas Carols. Published In The News & Leader On December 21, 1952. Springfield, Missouri

Women On An Italian Street, 1951

Grocery Shopping (1890s) Before Aisles Existed : A Lady Gives The Clerk Her Orders, And He Collects Everything

Scandinavia's Indigenous Sami People In Norway, 1928

Downtown Rotterdam In 1940 After The Debris Had Been Cleared

Nikola Tesla In His Laboratory Testing His “Magnifying Transmitter”, (1904)

Bob Ross Without An Afro In The Military Circa 1960

The Real Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin, The Boy And His Bear, Who Inspired The Fantastic Stories!

West Berliners Waving To Relatives Over The Berlin Wall, Christmas Day, 1961. Photo By Leon Herschtritt

Family Portrait Taken 120 Years Ago, 1905

Milkman Making His Deliveries After A Night Of Bombing, 1940

Couple On A Subway, New York City, 1946. Photograph By Stanley Kubrick

A Photo Of Mount St. Helens Erupting During A Local Baseball Game On May 18, 1980

Image Of Godzilla Power Washed Onto Japanese Dam

Spanish Bride In 1973

In 1991-1993, Eight People Sealed Themselves Inside A Giant Glass-And-Steel “Closed World” In The Arizona Desert To Test Whether Humans Could Live In A Self-Sustaining Habitat, Often Framed Like A Prototype For A Moon/Mars-Style Colony

Miss Universe Of Yugoslavia, With A Mig-21f, 1968

A Woman In 1903 Having Her First Photograph Taken

The King Of Norway On A Tram During The Oil Crisis In The 70s. He Was Going Skiing Like A Normal Guy, And Wanted To Pay For A Ticket. The Conductor Didn’t Want To Take His Money

A Little Girl Hands A Posy Of Lilies To A Police Officer On Duty At The Porte Saint-Denis In Paris, Circa 1920

Portrait Of Three Ladies Modelling The Latest Fashion By Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix (C. 1908)

A Child's Gas Mask During WWII

Excavation Of The Sphinx, CA 1850

Central Park During The Great Depression (New York, 1933)

Bruce Lee Playing With His Son Brandon, 1966

This Farmhouse Once Stood In Manhattan Where 84th Street And Broadway Now Cross. (1879)

The Gutted Interior Of The White House, May 1950

This Enormous Pile Of Holiday Packages At London’s Mount Pleasant Post Office In 1952

Times Square, 1978

Ladies Doing Some Mountain Climbing In Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, Circa (1908)

Chicago North Line Rail Accident Between Harrison Street And Wabash Avenue On, 1953. Chicago Tribune Historic Photo

Mod In Swinging London, 1967

Chicago, 1969

Karolina Olsson “Fell Asleep” As A Teenager On A Tiny Swedish Island And, 32 Years Later, Woke Up Remembering Her Life Before It As If It Were The Same Day

June, 1966: Women Use Compact Mirrors In Packed Crowd To Catch Sight Of The Queen In London, England

Telephone Engineer In London, 1925

An Ambrotype Portrait Of A British War Veteran And His Wife, Circa 1855. He Is Wearing A Military General Service Medal (Mgsm) With Five Clasps, Indicating That He Fought In Five Battles During The Napoleonic Wars

Two Youngsters Casually Photographed In Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. (NYC, 1976)

This Italian Woman Curiously Inspecting The Kilt Of A Scottish Soldier. Colosseum, Rome In 1944

An Lcm (Landing Craft Mechanized) Loaded With Troops Shoves Off From The Troop Transport And Heads Toward The Shore At Iwo Jima 6 March 1945

A Group Of City-Slicker Santas Cruising Down The Streets Of New York City In 1969

A Debris Of Dishes Found On The Wreck Of The Titanic, 1985

New York City, 1953. How Quaint!

An Advertisement For Asbestos, 1960s

A North Vietnamese Army Officer Laughs At The Peace Symbol Necklace Of A Captured American Soldier, North Vietnam, 1973

Men Waiting In A Line For The Possibility Of A Job During The Great Depression

The Lincoln Memorial In Washington, Dc, Photographed In 1917

Mug Shot Of Australian Criminal Sydney Skukerman, Arrested For Having "Obtained Goods From Warehousemen By Falsely Representing That He Is In Business" (1924)

Hollywood Boulevard In Los Angeles, Circa 1950

A Salesman Has His Motorized Roller Skates Refueled. Connecticut, 1961

People Having A Picnic In The Middle Of A Highway During The 1973 Oil Crisis

Tourists And Their Guides Clambering Up The Rock Slabs Of A Pyramid, Egypt, Circa Late 1800s

A Woman Paying For Her Groceries With A Check, 1970s

Elvis Presley Is Vaccinated Against Polio While Serving In The Army. Tennessee, 1958

Rush Hour, New York City, 1909

Fancy Christmas Tree 1960s

In The 1940s, Men Dressed In Shorts And Cowboy Boots Served Up To Women At A Drive Through In Texas

The Immortal Ten, A Group Of Militant Abolitionists In Kansas, 1859

LED Zeppelin Concert At Oakland Coliseum, 1977

Park Avenue, NYC. 1964

The Noonans, A Family Of 15 Living In Lawrence, Massachusetts In The 1920s

Times Square, New York City, 1967

Children Pose With Their Snow Fort/Tower Before Going To School. Winter Of 1961, Baltimore Maryland

Jefferson Davis Is Inaugurated As President Of The Confederate States Of America, 1861

Stepping Out In New Shoes, CA. 1940s

The New York Post Office Decided To “Go Big” To Keep Up With Holiday Demand In 1955

Disneyland Opening Day, 1955

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