“Be A Witness To The Events That Changed Mankind”: 40 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

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Long Before Color-Sensitive Film Was Invented, Russian Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Took 3 Individual Black And White Photos, Each With A Filter (Red, Blue And Green) To Create High Quality Photos In Full Color. This Self Portrait Is Over 110 Years Old

Long Before Color-Sensitive Film Was Invented, Russian Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Took 3 Individual Black And White Photos, Each With A Filter (Red, Blue And Green) To Create High Quality Photos In Full Color. This Self Portrait Is Over 110 Years Old

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Oh wow that is really sharp and clear for the equipment he had.

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“Be A Witness To The Events That Changed Mankind”: 40 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

Long Before Color-Sensitive Film Was Invented, Russian Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Took 3 Individual Black And White Photos, Each With A Filter (Red, Blue And Green) To Create High Quality Photos In Full Color. This Self Portrait Is Over 110 Years Old

On August 23, 1989, About 2 Million People From Latvia, Estonia And Lithuania Formed A Human Chain That United All 3 Countries To Show The World Their Desire To Escape The Soviet Union And The Communism That Brought Only Suffering And Poverty. This Power Stretched 600 Km

Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority, 1974 (Colorized)

Rosa Parks Sits At The Front Of A Bus Following The End Of Racial Segregation By The Transit Company, Circa 1965

Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

World War One Memorial In Vácrátót (Hungary)

A Dapper Group On Their Way To Church, Chicago 1940s

German Soldier Helps A Little Boy Sneak Across The Berlin Wall, 1961

The Level Of Detail On The Column Of Marcus Aurelius In Rome Which Was Completed Around Ad 193

Negotiation Between The Zoo Director And Escaped Chimpanzee. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988

Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin, 1961

20-Year-Old Helen Mirren Dressed For Her Role As Cleopatra In A Theatrical Production, 1965

A Motor Home In 1922

Us Cavalry Soldiers Pose In Front Of A Tree Known As The "Grizzly Giant" 1900. The Tree Still Stands

Pablo Picasso Painted This When He Was 15 Years Old

Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, Is Greeted By His Family, Returning Home After More Than Five Years As A Prisoner Of War In North Vietnam. Burst Of Joy Is A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photograph By Associated Press Photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, Taken On March 17, 1973 At Travis Air Force Base In California

Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989

The Sioux Nation Of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across The Great Plains In 1800s (Image Believed To Have Been Taken In The Dakota Territory)

Star Wars Characters Together From Left To Right : Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker And R2-D2, 1977

There Was A Time When You Could See The Core Structure Of The Twin Towers. (1970, During The Construction)

Silent Film Actress, Delores Costello, Drew Barrymore's Grandmother, 1928

World War I Field: More Than 100 Years Later

A Rare Example Where An Engineer Thought About The Mechanic. (Daf-Domburg Diesel From 1949. Made In The Netherlands)

Niagara Falls Froze Over In 1883

150 Million Year Old Dinosaur Footprints In France

Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Earl Leaf 1950

The First Photo Of Chernobyl On The Morning Of The Nuclear Disaster (April 26, 1986). The Heavy Grain Is Due To The Huge Amount Of Radiation In The Air That Began To Destroy The Camera Film The Second It Was Exposed For This Photo. Photo Taken By Igor Kostin

Three Generations Of Women Outside Their Stone Cottage In Ireland 1927

Bruce Lee And His Family In 1970

Nan Wood Graham And Dr. Byron Mckeeby Pictured In 1942 Recreating Their Original Poses For The Iconic ‘American Gothic’. She Was The Painter’s Sister, And He Was Their Dentist

The Seal Of Tutankhamun's Tomb (On The Third Golden Shrine) Before It Was Opened In 1923. It Was Unbroken For Over 3000 Years

Shoemaker’s Lunch, 1944. Photo By Bernard Cole

American Soldiers At Mass In The Rubble At Cologne Cathedral, March 1945

The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944

A 'Knocker-Up' In London (1929). Before Alarm Clocks, People Were Paid To Wake Clients Up For Work By Knocking On Their Doors And Windows With A Stick

An Elevator Parking Lot In Chicago, 1930s

The Roof Of An Old Fiat Factory. Yes, That Is A Track (Lingotto, Turin - Italy)

A 32 Year Old Mom Trying To Start A New Life In California, March 1937

Monica Bellucci And Gianni Versace, 1995

Residents Of Hanoi Wait In Chest-Deep Sidewalk Shelters For The All Clear Signal, During An Air Raid Alert. Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1967

In The Final Stages Of The Vietnam War In 1975, President Ford Ordered The Mass Evacuation Of Vietnamese Orphans From Saigon. Operation Babylift Saved More Than 3,000 Orphans

Vintage Photo Documenting The Discovery Of An Ancient Maya Statue Deep Within The Jungles Of Honduras (1885)

A Summer Day, 112 Years Ago. Autochrome Taken By Paul Bergon C.1910

Homecoming Prisoner Of War - Vienna, Austria.1946. Photo By Ernst Haas

The Original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel In New York City, Demolished In 1929 To Serve As The Site For The Empire State Building

Brigitte Bardot, 1950

Abraham Lincoln At Antietam During The Civil War. Left: Allan Pinkerton, Right: Gen John Mcclernand. 1862. (Colorized)

In 1864 Group Of Samurai Went On A Tourist Tour In Egypt And Took A Photo In Front Of Sphinx. They Were Members Of Ikeda Mission (Second Japanese Embassy To Europe)

Piles Of Rifles Surrendered By German Soldiers After The End Of The Second World War, 1945

Children Working In Coal Mines In Pennsylvania, 1911. (Photo By Lewis Hine)

On Set Of Jaws Movie, An Effectsman Repairs The Shark's Teeth. 1974

Fixing The Antenna On The World Trade Center, New York City, 1979. Photo By Peter B. Kaplan

Egyptian Men Watch As The Graf Zeppelin Floats Over The Great Pyramids Of Giza, Egypt, While Atop The Great Pyramid Of Khufu. 1931

A Civil Servant With A Manually Operated Traffic Signal, Philadelphia, 1922

1300 Years Old Tree, Cut Down In 1891. Note The Events Correlated With The Tree's Circles

Sir Winston Churchill, In 1895, Age 20

Helen Keller Teaching Charlie Chaplin The Manual Alphabet. The Two First Met In 1918 Where Keller Would Communicate With Chaplin By Reading His Lips With Her Hand, Feeling The Movements Of His Jaw And Vibrations Of The Throat

Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, And Lee Van Cleef On The Set Of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

How The Chevy Vega Was Shipped In 1971

Benjamin Bowden Showing Off His Spacelander Bicycle On September 17, 1946

A German Officer And An Nco Wearing Portable Sound Locating Apparatae To Detect Enemy Aircraft (This Was A Type Of Early Radar). Western Front, 1917

Size Of Flag Flown On A Spanish Ship During The Battle Of Trafalgar, 1805.this Flag Was Flown On The San Ildefonso. The Ship Carried 80 Cannons And Howitzers. It Was Captured By The British Royal Navy During The Battle

Huntington Beach, California, During The Oil Boom Of 1928

Street In Hong Kong - 1950s. Photo By Fan Ho

Robert Wadlow, The Tallest Person In Recorded History For Whom There Is Irrefutable Evidence. (1940)his Height Was 8 Ft 11 In (2.72 M) While His Weight Reached 439 Lb (199 Kg) At His Death At Age 22

American Troops On Board A Landing Craft Heading For The Beaches At Oran In Algeria During Operation 'Torch', November 1942. (Colorized By Spektonz)

Arnold Schwarzenegger Meeting Soviet Fans In Moscow, 1988

Outdoor Gymnasium And Playground, Chicago, 1903

A Young Woman Taking In The Scale Model For The Newly Planned World Trade Center. Late 1960s

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