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
A Newly Born Lamb Snuggles Up To A Sleeping Boy, 1940
Three Former Directors Of The Global Smallpox Eradication Program Read The News That Smallpox Had Been Globally Eradicated, 1980
Frida Kahlo Wearing A Suit In Her Family Portrait In 1927. She Was 19 Years Old
Susan Kare, Famous Apple Artist Who Designed Many Of The Fonts, Icons, And Images For Apple, Next, Microsoft, And Ibm. (1980s)
Pope Leo XIV In 1982
The Oldest House In Hamburg, Germany In (1898). · It Was Built In 1524, And Demolished On December 8th, 1910, Despite Protests From Locals
This isn't exactly extremely old in Europe. Nearby where I live in Italy, some buildings still have original walls 2,000 years old.
Grocery Shopping (1890s) Before Aisles Existed : A Lady Gives The Clerk Her Orders, And He Collects Everything
In India still this concept exists. Most grocery shops work this way. We have supermarkets with ailes. We have supermarkets with ailes and assistants at each aile also.
Women On An Italian Street, 1951
Family Portrait Taken 120 Years Ago, 1905
Mark Twain At Tesla's Lab
2 Girls Smile From Their Fantastic Snow Fort, Circa 1910
Bob Ross Without An Afro In The Military Circa 1960
Lost In The Moment At A School Dance, 1950’s
The Original Addam's Family Set Photographed In Colour
Couple On A Subway, New York City, 1946. Photograph By Stanley Kubrick
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
Downtown Rotterdam In 1940 After The Debris Had Been Cleared
Nikola Tesla In His Laboratory Testing His “Magnifying Transmitter”, (1904)
Milkman Making His Deliveries After A Night Of Bombing, 1940
Yeah, I mean yes he was a real milkman delivering milk, but this particular shot was staged for propaganda purposes. Keeping up morale and all that.
West Berliners Waving To Relatives Over The Berlin Wall, Christmas Day, 1961. Photo By Leon Herschtritt
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
Chicago North Line Rail Accident Between Harrison Street And Wabash Avenue On, 1953. Chicago Tribune Historic Photo
A Little Girl Hands A Posy Of Lilies To A Police Officer On Duty At The Porte Saint-Denis In Paris, Circa 1920
The Gutted Interior Of The White House, May 1950
A Photo Of Mount St. Helens Erupting During A Local Baseball Game On May 18, 1980
Central Park During The Great Depression (New York, 1933)
Miss Universe Of Yugoslavia, With A Mig-21f, 1968
Bruce Lee Playing With His Son Brandon, 1966
So sad about Brandon. The Crow was one of my favourite films, too 😞
Times Square, 1978
Scandinavia's Indigenous Sami People In Norway, 1928
A Woman In 1903 Having Her First Photograph Taken
Spanish Bride In 1973
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
Forgive me, but it looks like the young lady next to him is texting about it. My modern brain was interpreting incorrectly.
This Farmhouse Once Stood In Manhattan Where 84th Street And Broadway Now Cross. (1879)
Portrait Of Three Ladies Modelling The Latest Fashion By Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix (C. 1908)
Reminds me of that skit with key and peel trying to win the “coolest hat” competition. Jokes aside, the hats are cool and so are the dressed! Just impeccably cool. We should bring those back. Guys can go for the Landsknecht or desert Bedouin attire, Ya know, to access equally imposing headwear!
A Child's Gas Mask During WWII
The Real Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin, The Boy And His Bear, Who Inspired The Fantastic Stories!
Excavation Of The Sphinx, CA 1850
Which iswhy most of the Sphinx is still intact, including the dream stela.
Image Of Godzilla Power Washed Onto Japanese Dam
Chicago, 1969
My mom lived in Chicago in 1968 and 1969. She was 20 when she moved. She's always said it was the best time of her life. I'm slightly jealous.
Hollywood Boulevard In Los Angeles, Circa 1950
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
A Group Of City-Slicker Santas Cruising Down The Streets Of New York City In 1969
Ladies Doing Some Mountain Climbing In Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, Circa (1908)
New York City, 1953. How Quaint!
A North Vietnamese Army Officer Laughs At The Peace Symbol Necklace Of A Captured American Soldier, North Vietnam, 1973
US Army Specialist Richard Springman was released by the Viet Cong on February 12th 1973 after 3 years as a POW. This photo was taken at the time he was released.
Men Waiting In A Line For The Possibility Of A Job During The Great Depression
Henry Ford mutilated and 💀d men. Just disposable replacable monkeys to them Elon is also the same. Anyone who questions him, fired.
Mod In Swinging London, 1967
Fancy Christmas Tree 1960s
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 Advertisement For Asbestos, 1960s
Absolutely fantastic building material. Until you try to cut it.....
A Salesman Has His Motorized Roller Skates Refueled. Connecticut, 1961
A Woman Paying For Her Groceries With A Check, 1970s
Two Youngsters Casually Photographed In Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. (NYC, 1976)
The Lincoln Memorial In Washington, Dc, Photographed In 1917
This Italian Woman Curiously Inspecting The Kilt Of A Scottish Soldier. Colosseum, Rome In 1944
Park Avenue, NYC. 1964
Rush Hour, New York City, 1909
Tourists And Their Guides Clambering Up The Rock Slabs Of A Pyramid, Egypt, Circa Late 1800s
This Enormous Pile Of Holiday Packages At London’s Mount Pleasant Post Office In 1952
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
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 Debris Of Dishes Found On The Wreck Of The Titanic, 1985
Times Square, New York City, 1967
Elvis Presley Is Vaccinated Against Polio While Serving In The Army. Tennessee, 1958
Mug Shot Of Australian Criminal Sydney Skukerman, Arrested For Having "Obtained Goods From Warehousemen By Falsely Representing That He Is In Business" (1924)
Children Pose With Their Snow Fort/Tower Before Going To School. Winter Of 1961, Baltimore Maryland
The Noonans, A Family Of 15 Living In Lawrence, Massachusetts In The 1920s
LED Zeppelin Concert At Oakland Coliseum, 1977
Stepping Out In New Shoes, CA. 1940s
People Having A Picnic In The Middle Of A Highway During The 1973 Oil Crisis
The New York Post Office Decided To “Go Big” To Keep Up With Holiday Demand In 1955
Disneyland Opening Day, 1955
Kudos to BP for resisting the temptation to include historical pictures from the 21st century
Kudos to BP for resisting the temptation to include historical pictures from the 21st century
