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50 Important Historical Images That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Instagram Page
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Today we'd like for you to take a look at an Instagram account by the name of "The History Atlas". This page collects interesting and unseen historic images and shares them with its whopping 81K followers on the platform.
In fact, most of these images are rather rare or previously unseen by the public, as they depict people, places, and fascinating events from the past. For some of the images, the page also includes captions and explanations about the images, providing historical context and background information to quench your thirst for knowledge of the human past.
The article also includes an exclusive interview with a Hellenistic period historian Dr Elke Close, so make sure to keep on reading.
With that being said, if you'd love to see images of the old Cincinnati library before it was demolished, the creation of the central line in 1898, and many other things, then scroll down below!
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#1
A White And A Black Men Leading A Civil Rights March In The Late 1950s
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#2
Police Dog On Duty In Side Car. 1930s
#3
The Old Cincinnati Library Before Being Demolished, 1874-1955
#4
Milk Delivery By Dogcart, Studio City, Ca, Circa 1910
#5
In The 1920s And 1930s, Sheep Were Routinely Introduced Into London Parks To Keep The Grass Under Control And Reduce Mowing Costs
Shepherds competed for the privilege of grazing their flocks on Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Clapham Common and other pastures around the city. Sheep are like a lawn care multi-tool. As they cut your grass, they also aerate the lawn with their hooves and spread fertilizer in the form of urine and manure. Sheep don’t require gasoline and oil changes, and although they are certainly not maintenance-free, grass-fed sheep are a sustainable alternative to lawn mower.
#6
The Soldiers Fed The Polar Bears With Condensed Milk Tins. Soviet Union, 1950
Photo taken during a routine military expedition in Chukchi Peninsula, Soviet Union. It isn’t sure if the Chukchi Peninsula has more people or white bears. The climate is very severe and sometimes weather can be so fierce in winter that the temperature falls 60 C degrees below zero (-76 Fahrenheit).
#7
Snowman On A Soviet Scale. Ussr. Late 1960s
#8
Country Store, North Carolina 1939
#9
Here We See The Creation Of The Central Line In 1898
here are a million fascinating facts and figures about the London Underground, but this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was.
Phasmainmachina 3 years ago
And still is - the new Elizabeth Line had to bore right under the entire city, weaving between and through all of the existing underground network and services, often with centimetres to spare. Thinking about having to bore a tunnel to that accuracy in three dimensions makes my brain want to leak out of my ears! There are several TV programmes about the construction on British television.
#10
Gypsy Children Being Taught To Play The Violin In A Courtyard Of One Of The Poorer Houses. Budapest, Hungary, 1939 By William Vandivert
#11
Charitable Chinese Man Feeding A Criminal In A Cangue. Ca. 1905
Petty criminals were sentenced to wear the canque, often for a couple of months, and display themselves in public places. At best they were humbled by dependence on others to be fed, at worst, they might starve to death. The sign on the cangue describes the man's crime.
#12
Woman Hailing A Cab In New York City, 1956
#13
People Sleeping On The Crowded Platform Of Elephant And Castle Tube Station While Taking Shelter From German Air Raids During The London Blitz
#14
Viet Cong Medics Operate On An Injured Cambodian Solider, 1970
#15
Finnish Cavalry Training 1930s
#16
High School Teenagers 1947
#17
Police Officer Guarding A Pharmacy In High-Flood Waters, Ontario, 1974
#18
An Elevator Parking Lot In New York. C.1920
#19
A Man Standing On The First Cables During The Construction Of The Golden Gate Bridge, With The Presidio And San Francisco In The Background. 1935
#20
Moving A House Using Horses. San Francisco, 1908
#21
Sunday At Coney Island 1949
#22
On Oct. 22, 1895, The Express Train From Granville To Paris
On Oct. 22, 1895, the express train from Granville to Paris was running late.
Hoping to arrive on time, the driver increased the speed of the steam locomotive, which was carrying 131 passengers.
As it entered the Montparnasse terminal, the train was traveling approximately 25 to 37 miles per hour.
The air brake either failed or was applied too late, and the conductor was too preoccupied with paperwork to throw the hand brake in time. The train crashed through the buffers at the end of the track, crossed the 100-foot concourse and burst through the wall of the station, tumbling onto the street below.
A woman on the sidewalk who was minding her husband's newsstand was killed by falling masonry. Five people on board the train were injured.
For four days, the train stood intact outside the station, drawing crowds of curious onlookers.
The driver was fined 50 francs.
#23
Kids Playing In A Fire Hydrant In NYC In The Summer Of 1954
#24
The Barge "Marine Angel" Negotiates A Turn Through The Upraised Michigan Ave. Bridge, Chicago, 1953
#25
A New York Construction Worker Walks Along A Girder High Above The City Streets, Circa 1950
#26
This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850
#27
Couples Dancing In The Grand Foyer Of The Paris Opera House At A Victory Ball
#28
Three Boys Are Fishing For Change During The Great Depression, New York, 1930
#29
Daytona Beach 1903
#30
Delta Delta Delta Sorority Sisters, University Of Texas, Austin, 1944
#31
Kids Playing On The Lower East Side, New York, 1963
#32
Boys Sidewalk Sledding On Steep San Francisco Hill Street, 1952
a fruity dream of delusion 3 years ago
nooo concrete wounds are like one of my worst nightmares 😭😭 it’s like they hurt 2x worse than normal wounds
#33
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
A stunning technological and artistic achievement, opens to the public after five years of construction. On opening day–“Pedestrian Day”–some 200,000 bridge walkers marveled at the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge, which spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and connects San Francisco and Marin County. On May 28, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicular traffic.
#34
The Grand Prix In Monaco, 1937
#35
R.m.s. Mauretania 1909
Phasmainmachina 3 years ago
Looks like she’s in dry dock, possibly for maintenance; the lower blade on the starboard propeller looks like it’s been damaged.
#36
The Beatles' Rooftop Concert In 1969
#37
Man Standing In The Lumberyard Of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939
#38
Belgium Coal Miners Crammed Into A Coal Mine Elevator, Coming Up After A Day Of Work, Circa 1900
#39
Drive-In Theatre. Chicago 1951
#40
Times Building Under Construction, 1903
#41
Fashion Show On Board The New York, New Haven, And Hartford Railroad's Show Train, 1949
#42
Paris Viewed From The Top Of Notre Dame, 1955
#43
Los Angeles Development Boom Of The 1950s
#44
Second Class Saloon, Nome, Alska, July 1, 1901
#45
Mount Adams Incline And Price Hill Incline. Cincinnati Ohio 1906
#46
30 Men Prove The Strength Of The Dkw 'Front Reichsklasse' Type F7 Car, Amazingly Built By Wooden Coachwork 1930s
#47
Vintage Tennis Photo Women Smoking Cigarettes 1930s
#48
Tourists Sunbathing And Drinking Tea On Top Of The Great Pyramid Of Giza, 1938
a fruity dream of delusion 3 years ago
is it just me or do we see this photo on like every “antique photo” post-
#49
Rms Mauretania (Also Known As The "Maury") Was An Ocean Liner Of The Cunard Line, Launched On 20 September 1906
At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. Mauretania became a favourite among her passengers. After capturing the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season, Mauretania held the speed record for 22 years.
Jods 3 years ago
I used to go to flea markets/house clearances and found a diary given to a passenger travelling on the Mauritania to Canada via New York in 1934. So began my slight obsession with finding out who she was (Miss E C Clough, Holly Lodge Mansions, London N6) and about more the Mauritania. This was before the internet and didn’t get very far. Started searching on line around 2015 and have got such things as passenger lists but Miss Clough remains an enigma. She was born into a poor family so what took her to live in London and then travel as a first class passenger and did she stay in Canada or return to the UK.
#50
Window Cleaners Cleaning High Rise On Madison Avenue. 1957
#51
New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, Right, Watching Agents Pour Liquor Down A Manhole Following A Raid During Prohibition 1921
Giles McArdell 3 years ago
Just picturing a bunch of mobsters at the bottom of the drain filling up barrels and shipping them back to the bar.
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Happy 2023! she/her 3 years ago
That Ted Bundy dude really came with the goal to get the most down votes on a post
Silke 3 years ago
“Ted Bundy” chose his pseudonym with care, but in the end, he’s the type that promises a Big Mac and shows up with a french fry.
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PattyK 3 years ago
Why do so many of these photos show up on every list of historic photographs? Can’t the posters come up with something new?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
BoredPanda sadly doesn’t write a lot of their own content anymore. I think a lot of listicle content on sites like BoredPanda and Buzzfeed is copy and pasted from Reddit and unfortunately not edited for some bizarre reason.,
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Will Cable 3 years ago
I wonder what kind of life these people had, are some still alive today. The beginning of Cheers with the old photos has me doing the same thing
Anonymous X 3 years ago (edited)
Definitely some 60s kids are alive and well (my grandma is one of them) 40s kids are great grandparents, the 20s kids are in nursery homes (and are over 100 now) and the kids born before the 20th century... Aren't around anymore, sadly.
Load More Replies... Happy 2023! she/her 3 years ago
That Ted Bundy dude really came with the goal to get the most down votes on a post
Silke 3 years ago
“Ted Bundy” chose his pseudonym with care, but in the end, he’s the type that promises a Big Mac and shows up with a french fry.
Load More Replies... PattyK 3 years ago
Why do so many of these photos show up on every list of historic photographs? Can’t the posters come up with something new?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
BoredPanda sadly doesn’t write a lot of their own content anymore. I think a lot of listicle content on sites like BoredPanda and Buzzfeed is copy and pasted from Reddit and unfortunately not edited for some bizarre reason.,
Load More Replies... Will Cable 3 years ago
I wonder what kind of life these people had, are some still alive today. The beginning of Cheers with the old photos has me doing the same thing
Anonymous X 3 years ago (edited)
Definitely some 60s kids are alive and well (my grandma is one of them) 40s kids are great grandparents, the 20s kids are in nursery homes (and are over 100 now) and the kids born before the 20th century... Aren't around anymore, sadly.
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