Pictures can tell stories worth a thousand words. This is especially true for historical ones. Just by carefully studying the setting, objects, and people in them, we can learn what everyday life was for people in the past and how it’s different from today. Images, just like written diaries or letters, are primary historical sources that can be examined, providing insights into the past that words can’t even begin to describe.
Today’s collection of photos from the days gone by is brought to us by the Historical Capsule subreddit. Let’s all celebrate the beauty of the past by scrolling down and marveling at the thought-provoking and mesmerizing images in this list, and be sure to upvote the ones that you believe everyone should see!
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Dewey The Cat, Who Died In 1910, And Meant Enough To His Owner To Be Honored With A Gravestone That Stands Today Over 113 Years Later
Aninals are so much better than people, they'll love you unconditionally. When I ended up on the street last year, my dog stayed with me, still loyal to me even though I could tell she suffered just as much as me. I don't care about my birthday, but will never stop celebrating hers as well as our adoption anniversary. She saved me more than I saved her. Whenever she will leave (hopefully not too soon), I will celebrate her even more and never stop to be grateful for her and everything she means to me.
I had my kitty's paw print tattooed on me after she passed. I still miss her everyday.
In 1969, When Black Americans Were Still Prevented From Swimming Alongside Whites, Mr. Rogers Decided To Invite Officer Clemmons To Join Him And Cool His Feet In A Pool, Breaking A Long-Standing Colour Barrier That Had Existed In The United States
Was told he'd be hated for doing it but did it anyways, he was so far ahead of the land he lived in
Jeez... I was a teenager then. Makes me feel sad that blacks were still segregated so recently. Sadly, there are still way too many white Americans who still have a problem with their black American countrymen.
I remember...it wasn't a big deal in our house. Of course, we were a white Republican family.
Last Picture Of Hachiko, The Faithful Dog Who Waited For Over 9 Years Outside Shibuya Station For His Master To Return Even After He Had Died. (Colorized, 1935)
Marley, my furry companion accepts me with all my flaws unconditionally. I realize he is my strength that gives me reason to continue living
Load More Replies...How painful it must have been to hope every day that the owner would come and never did
Why didn't they let him see his body? This makes me so mad and heartbroken for that baby
It’s no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly creeping into various aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, the same can be said about historical photos that people are starting to fake using this tool.
While obviously forged images like Napoleon giving a TED Talk or Mata Hari taking a selfie with an iPhone don’t pose any threat and are created for humor and artistic expression, others, which can pass as authentic historical photographs, are crafted to deceive people.
Female Students From Afghanistan In Kabul, 1975
Incredibly sad that NOW they cannot do this, and we think we progress as humans.
Even worse. Couple of weeks ago they forbid women to speak publicly
Load More Replies...It has happened before, then and there. We must not allow it to happen again, here, now. No theocracy.
Just shows you how religion can get ugly if used to control society. They never saw what was coming.
Tuskegee Airmen In Italy, 1944
The squadron that was praised for their excellence by the bomber crews, who didn't even know the men were "negr0s". Now the USAF honor this squadron by giving the latest acquisition, the Boeing-Saab T-7 Red Hawk, the distinctive red tail that the Tuskegee Airmen sported during WWII
And now Italian politicians make monkey noises at black members of government...
1920: Women Line Up To Vote For The First Time In New York After The Passage Of The 19th Amendment
Is the 19th amendment the one that gives women the right to vote? Sorry, not American and not familiar with your amendments.
Yes, but in reality it only worked for white women until the 1960s when the Civil Rights Act was passed.
Load More Replies...I am glad that when India got independence, women got the right immediately.. of course it took decades for us to get many other rights...
It was despicable that men attacked women who were trying to vote.
Yay, right to vote, and joining the men in the involvement of furthering corruption and choosing the lesser of two evils, unless the evil benefits them. Politics is contemptible.
Just last May, the Facebook account Past Perspectives shared a photo of Henry Ford with his first car in 1896. “Henry Ford sits in his first automobile the Ford Quadricycle. Ford made three Quadricycles in total. Ca. 1896,” the caption writes.
However, the suspiciously clear black-and-white picture doesn’t show Ford or even accurately depict the first car he manufactured. The image also had certain defects, like his right hand seemingly going through the steering wheel, which gave away the image's forgedness.
Even though the image was fake, the page doesn’t provide any information that it’s AI-generated, letting people believe that what they see is an authentic piece of history.
Barack Obama Dressed As A Pirate With His Mother Stanley Ann. 1960s
Her father's name was Stanley. Evidently he wanted a son. She was called Ann by everyone who knew her.
Load More Replies...One of the best Presidents , good to the core!! Of course we were reprimanded for voting for such a fine man. It was called cadet bone spur to punish us. Hopefully we can move beyond with Kamala. God Bless Us All!!!!!
So wait, his mother was an American? But that would mean that he was a Natural Born American Citizen and it wouldn't matter where he was born, even though Hawaii was a US territory at the time and all people born there were automatically citizens. I guess the trump was spouting BS even before he spewed hate to get into the oval office
Hawai'i became a state in 1959, two full years before Obama was born
Load More Replies...What a cute pic! He does resemble his mom in some facial features. He was a very cute little pirate, and hit mom looks so young! Great picture
The Bread In This 1952 Episode Of I Love Lucy Was Real And Custom-Made By A Los Angeles Bakery. After Filming, It Was Shared With The Cast, Crew, And Audience
Bruce, no weirder than the plot of any other episode. ;o)
Load More Replies...Love the smell of bread baking. In the 70s, my mother used to bake bread. So much better than store bought.
Fashion In Pre-Revolutionary Iran: Pahlavi Era 1950s-1970s
Strongly recommend reading Marjan Kamali’s books if someone is interested in the transition and its complexities.
This is what freedom for women looks like: the freedom to be as modest or revealing you wish to be, without judgement, without legislators attempting to control your body, without any negative implications behind the reason to dress a certain way. I hope Iran can get back to this eventually (I know the women there are literally dying to make it happen), and that the U.S. learns from this lesson.
The one lady on the end in black and white dress has Farrah Fawcett 'do - sorta.
Thank you America for helping overthrow the monarchy and install the religious theocracy that torments them still to this day. (Sarcasm)
In another instance, the Animals Are Amazing Facebook page shared a photo that looks like it could have been taken in the 19th century, depicting several men standing next to a giant horse. But if one took a closer look, a few things start to raise eyebrows. Like the enormous fingers of a man standing behind the horse or the blurry people’s faces. It was later found out that the image was created as a joke, but at that time it was already shared more than 10,000 times and picked up by other pages as it was real.
Mom With Her Psychedelic Baby Pram, London, 1967
It has been shown that exposure to bright colours is stimulating for the baby's brain. The modern trend for muted colours, pastels and beige for babies has been shown to be negative. Grown-up aesthetic being forced onto children.
Is it cringe to want to wear this and push my cat around in that pram
Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy, 1956
It reminds me somewhat of the Iron Lung, so my (uneducated) guess is that the girl might have had polio. Cute ducklings btw.
There is a small lake near my house and whenever I've had a tough day I always go and look at the ducks for a bit. I've never left that lake not feeling significantly better. What I'm saying is that I'm convinced ducks have magical healing power.
I believe that's a very small version of an iron lung, which is a negative pressure ventilator.
Load More Replies...In 1940, The Lascaux Cave Paintings, Estimated To Be 17,000 Years Old, Were Discovered In Southwestern France
If you go to Lascaux now, you will go to Lascaux II, which is essentially a perfect copy. Go anyway, because it is beautiful and thrilling.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Some people go as far as creating new historical events that never happened and illustrating them with AI-generated images to pass them as reality. Like the “Infamous Blue Plague Incident” of the 1970s in the Soviet Union, the “July 2012 solar superstorm and blackout” in the U.S., or “the 1993 Eruption of Mount Rainier.”
When Every Soft Drink Bottle On The Shelf Was Still Glass, 1980s
I can still feel the foam "ish" labels on those bottles, plus pop just tasted better out of glass.
Wow. I forgot all about those labels - but the moment I read your reply, I instantly 'felt' them as if I'd never forgotten and had one right in my hand. This was the coolest and most unique memory unblock l've had to date.
Load More Replies...We used to have to pay 10p deposit on each bottle, which would be refunded on return.
We have that system here in Germany for plastic bottles, too - ranging from 8 cent for beer bottles to 25 cent for PET bottles
Load More Replies...And this is a horror picture for everyone working in retail - children in proximity to glass bottles
As a little kid in the 80's I once bumped in to a shelf of glass mayo jars in the grocery store. A bunch of them fell and shattered everywhere. I was very upset about the mess I made but the people in the store were just glad I didn't get injured. That's all I can think about any time I see glass jars lined up like this. :)
I may not be old enough for pop in glass containers, but I AM old enough to remember when mayo, mustard, peanut butter, and jams/jellies were all in glass jars, and I literally cringed when I read this. I would have been in SO much trouble with my parents had this happened to me, and I really hope that wasn't the case with you.
Load More Replies...Except the second row from the top is all plastic bottles. As is the Pepsi bottle in the cart.
Yep. Those are the early 2-liter plastic bottles that had the "cap" covering the bottom to provide a flat bottom for the bottle. Those didn't last very long, so this is very close to pre-plastic, but it's definitely not close enough.
Load More Replies...2 liter bottles were already switching to plastic by 1980. They hadn't designed feet for them yet, so they all had black plastic bottoms glued on so they'd stand up
A 'Conversation Pit' From The 1960s
That table is a perfect place to put a bowl for everyone to put their keys into.
Load More Replies...This house is not from the 1960s. It is the Irwin and Xenia Miller house located in Columbus, Indiana. Design work was started in 1953, and construction was completed in 1957. This photo has been on Bored Panda several times, and it is always labeled wrong.
That is something I'd definitely trip over at night, half asleep, and fall into, lol, but it is nice.
We need to bring these back. It's basically what people are doing anyway when they 'square' their couches in the middle of the room.
Duke Kahanamoku, The Man Who Made Surfing Popular Around The World, Hawaii, 1920
The faking of historical pictures and events was popularized with the creation of a program called Midjourney. It allows anyone to create AI-generated photos from text descriptions. Co-creators Brodbeck and de Barbuat fed content to the machine for several weeks so it could recreate snapshots from the 20th century. The AI-image generator has extremely improved since its first version and now is the most realistic AI model so far.
Charging An Electric Car In The Garage, 1911
Everyone complaining saying that it sucks need to look at the first gas powered cars, they sucked too. But time and R&D and money were put into them and they improved. So if that same amount of effort was put into electric it would have gone somewhere. Tesla found out how to produce free electricity for the grid but it wasn't done because the people with the money wanted to make more money.
The oil tycoons. They also killed off electric streetcars in favor of buses in the 1950s.
Load More Replies...My great great grandparents had that model, but with right hand steering for left hand traffic, even though Denmark had right hand traffic since 1758. Someone who was envious at them owning a car, reported to the police that my great great grandmother was driving even though she didn't have a licence (which was made mandatory in 1908) because he'd seen her sitting on the left side of the car when they were out driving. The police issued a fine which was delivered by mail. Which prompted my great great grandfather to drive to the police station which was quite a distance away. The fine was cancelled, and the police had to host my great great grandparents while the car was recharging do they could get home again. To think that range anxiety was already an issue in 1912 🔌🪫
if you can find the old photos. some of the first delivery trucks in new York were not much more that a converted buck board wagon with electric motor and a string wheel.
Few things, at that time there was only 1 model electric car with a range of over 20 miles, and that was Edison's electric car. Had a range of 100 miles and took 48 hours to fully charge, and the battery replacement cost in 1911 the same as 6 Model T fords, making it impractical
Magazine Advertisement From 1996 - Nearly 30 Years Ago
I eat in. I don't drive and I don't go anywhere. I fared better than I thought I would
No, they were wrong, because people are eating out and driving even more than they did back then.
A Samurai With Long Bow, From Satsuma Domain. Japan, 1860
Depends on the period i think, but certainly the katana was NOT the main weapon on the battlefield, in close combst most would have started of using a polearm like the naginata, or even more common: the Yari (spear), I have been told...
Load More Replies...I am Japanese-American every Japanese has at least one samurai ancestor.
Experts are highly worried about how this can affect our history and our perception of it. “The potential impact of such posts cannot be overstated. The more these fake images circulate, the harder it becomes to separate fact from fiction. Each new post or share distorts the truth a little bit more, until we're left with a version of the past that bears little resemblance to reality,” says digital colorist and bestselling author Marina Amaral. Not to mention the malicious people who can intentionally manipulate history to fit their own political agenda.
Punks In Poland, 1990
As peeps already know, we had these in the 70s/80s, too (my first BF was one, lol - I was a New Romantic - we didn't last, but remained friends), and the clothes/hairstyles haven't changed much.
I did add a (70s) photo, but when I edited a typo, it disappeared 😑, so added it here: it-was-alr...2b6e86.jpg
This Is Ash From The Erupting Mt. St. Helens Raining Down On Robert Landsburg. He Took This Photo, Rewound The Film, Tucked The Camera In A Backpack And Laid Over It While Being Buried In The Ash. His Body Was Found 17 Days Later
I've read that the ash gets into your lung, and as it dries out, it basically turns into concrete.
He refused to leave and wanted everyone to remember the devastating event.
Wow. So sad. I'm surprised he was found so soon after the eruption.
My aunt has a bottle of ash that had fallen in her yard from this. She lives in Eastern Washington. My mom and dad lived in Tacoma and said there was so much ash everywhere and it was dark out from the plume.
He couldn't. He only had time for this, to record his death. Sometimes you just have to accept what's happening.
Load More Replies...My Father Returning Home From World War II In Europe: March 1945, Queens, NY
My dad and four of his brothers were in the 442nd, famed Japanese-America combat team. They all returned from Italy in 1945 and each earned a purple heart for wounds they received. Two of his brothers also received a silver star.
Even though authorities are trying to solve the issue, the change is happening relatively slowly. In the meantime, what we can do to protect ourselves from historical misinformation is to learn how to identify fake AI-generated images.
Mother With Children 1800 Years Ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt
This is mosaic, isn't it? The ancient Romans were masters of this technique.
No. It's gold glass - basically a thin layer of gold between two sheets of glass which is then fused together. Mosaic tiles or tesserae is a totally different medium.
Load More Replies...Interesting how the mom is wearing makeup, but not the daughter. Did women have to be married to wear makeup - was that a status symbol? Or was it simply by age. Curious :)
Is this about the thicker eye lines on the woman in the back? The mother looks to be the one with the pearls, and I am not seeing anything distinctly makeup on her that isn't also on the daughter bar the heavier lines on the daughter's eyes.
Load More Replies...These remindsme of the Fayum portraits of Romans in Egypt. In Fayum these were something called "encaustic" painting and my understanding is that these portraits were used on the mummies of the individuals. The Romans, apparently , took to the idea of mummification when they moved in to Egypt. I dont know that these are the same but the style is the same.
The lady on the right is Honoria of Rome first wife of Emperor Constance III in about 1600 years not 1800 years ago. Little is known of him before he left Roman Britain to fight various campaigns in Gaul, Hispania and what was to become Italy. No record of him ever having anything to do with Egypt. (Unless my daughter's archaeology books from uni have lead me astray!)
This Photo Was Taken In The Late 1800s And Shows An Ancient Maya Zoomorphic Stone
My Grandparents On Their Wedding Day, 1940's
Well, if young people looked older back in the day, my guess is they are 18 yrs old. They look quite charming.
Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, a historian who specializes in debunking fake historical images, recommends looking at hands. “Most AI programs still have problems with hands, and you often see that people have too many fingers or they just look weird.”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 11. April, 1945. He Would Die Of A Cerebral Hemorrhage At The Age Of 63 The Following Day
He was ill with polio for quite a long time. I have pictures of 80 yr old relatives from that time who look about the same as he does
Load More Replies...He died in the company of his long-time mistress, much to the displeasure of his wife.
Yes. He was actually sitting for a portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff when he suffered the cerebral hemorrhage. Lucy Mercer Rutherford (the long term "friend") was reportedly in the room at the time.
Load More Replies...Poor man looks very ill. A great " statesman ", in my opinion. Don't make 'em like this any more.
Feelin’ Groovy: Fascinating Vintage Color Picture Of High School Fashion Across America In 1969
The big convertible is an incredibly rare and sought-after 1946 to 1948 Chrysler Town and Country. The body is solid wood (not wood over metal). Now a $100,000 plus car.
The Port Of Carthage, In Modern-Day Tunisia, As It Would Have Appeared In The 3rd Century Bce And How It Looks Today
When the Romans decided "Carthago delenda est", it put a bit of a cramp in the city's style.
“Then I put them through a reverse image search to try and find when and where they were uploaded first, this often tells us more about the source. I also regularly use AI detection software, it's pretty good although AI creation software is improved all the time so it doesn't always work with newer versions,” Teeuwisse adds.
A Woman Walks Her Dog At The Bois De Boulogne In Paris, 1910
There's a meme in the way the gent is looking at her derriere. Ooh la la.
If only there was also a woman staring at him angrily :D
Load More Replies...An Azerbaijani Wedding, 1965
Now if this was the movies then there would be a tree bough ahead. She would duck under it and he would jump over it and land on his horse again.
If it were a comedy action, she would duck and he'd be knocked off his horse.
Load More Replies...Two Women Showing Uncovered Legs In Public Place For The First Time, Toronto, 1937
"Are your pants caught on a fire hydrant?" "No, I was just glad to see them!"
Wearing bright white, too. Clearly trying to draw attention to themselves.
Before Smartphones And Online Streaming, 40 Years Ago - Sony Watchman (1984)
I can't recall ever seeing one of these, tbh, and I would have loved one, back then, lol. Were these global, or only available in the USA?
I have this exact model. It's unique because the electron gun in the picture tube fires from the bottom onto the front of the phosphor screen. I also have a newer color LCD model from Casio.
Downtown Anchorage, Ak After 1964 Quake
The USAF sent a mach 2 reconnaissance jet to map the damage. 14 hours after the quake, these pictures were on the president's desk
All Chevrolets. The blue one at front is a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Aire, the red car is a 1959 Chevrolet, and the light green is a 1958 Chevy.
4th Avenue. I was there 8 years later and the road was still a mess, though not as bad.
I remember this so well - I was about 10 then, so many photos in LIFE magazine. It was terrifying. It was such a big quake that it caused a tsunami to hit No. California in a city I'd been to before and I was afraid it would hit where I lived, too, near San Francisco (because a kid's imagination can go wild, of course).
Woman On A Cart Pulled By Two Buffalo, 1910
They were universally referred to as “Buffaloes” until sometime in the ‘90s.
Load More Replies...I actually know someone who owns bison because they make mozzarella cheese to sell. It's totally weird to drive up and see the massive animals in their front yard! (Behind a fence obviously)
Load More Replies...A Louisiana Creole Family. Probably From The Early 1900s
Not surprised after 9 kids-she must have been near permanently up the duff for 20 years!
Load More Replies...An American Soldier Who Lost His Legs In World War 1
Poor lad. Shame a few more politicians aren't confronted by the consequences of their actions. They might not call injured soldiers 'losers' like Mango Mussolini did.
Gavrilo Princip shot him. He was a peasant. I'm not justifying that the common people should fight, of course I'm not, lots of my ancestors died in both wars on both sides. I'm just saying it wasn't a royal dispute, it was a political assasination that lit the tinderbox called Europe.
Load More Replies...Desmond Thomas Doss & His Wife Dorothy After Receiving The Medal Of Honor From President Harry Truman On October 12, 1945
From Wikipedia: a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II. Due to his religious beliefs, he refused to carry a weapon. He was twice awarded the Bronze Star Medal for actions on Guam and in the Philippines. Doss further distinguished himself in the Battle of Okinawa by saving an estimated 75 men, acting on his own, becoming the first of only three conscientious objectors to receive the Medal of Honor for this and other actions
All these locations in the Pacific theatre are murderous. Wow.
Load More Replies...His story is amazing. Subject of the film "Hacksaw Ridge", which is grisly but gripping.
this man is the epitome of a f****n badass war hero. Saved at LEAST 75 men whilst carrying no weapons. Desmond Doss is the war hero we need to celebrate and advertise, BE LIKE DOSS!
Not to mention, Desmond Doss and Dorothy Doss are both badass names
A Well-Dressed Young Lady In The 1930s. Almost Looks Like It Could Have Been Taken Yesterday
Can we at least name her for pete's sake?! This is Edie Bouvier Beale, aka Jackie O's first cousin
Little Edie Beall, Jackie Kennedy's cousin. Sad life.
Load More Replies...Seems like people were so much more nicely groomed and dressed in those days, unless you were unemployed during the Great Depression, and had to live hand to mouth in a shanty town.
This Behemoth Of A Flip Cut, 1960s
My mum said that backcombing her hair (esp for the Beehive), gave her so many split ends that her hair, when naturally straight, looked frizzy, due to "constantly going against the grain".
I had some big hair in the 80's but this one definitely wins the contest. :)
A Mother And Her Child In Spitalfields, One Of The Worst Slums In London, 1903
No. She just had a so much harder life than you can possibly imagine and it aged her horribly.
Load More Replies...She looks to be in her 80s, but probably only 30 - ish due to the dreadful living conditions.
My Grandfather In His Youth As A Soldier In Yugoslavia 1971
Ross Sisters Do A Small Tower. Around The 1940s
Just off the sly, imagine the jokes these sisters must have cracked during practise 😂 me and my sister wouldn’t be able to resist giving each other a bit of shít. They look like fun girls
I visited a performing arts school in Havana where they teach circus arts, including contortionism. A girl there did this pose with all her body weight resting on a little stand under the roof of her mouth
I don't know any sisters who would want their faces at the crotch of the other.
Well, this was 80 years ago.They've probably lost some flexibility by now.
Load More Replies...Athelte Ivy Russell (Surrey, England 1907) Does A Bent Press With 47 Kilos At 57 Kilos Herself., Around 1930s
Lordy that is some sexist writing. 'typically female tasks' with body measurements. Yikes.
Metal Suit, Said To Enable A Diver To Descend To A Depth Of 1,200 Feet, 1938
no, it's the person who processed the print fixing the low contrast between the image and the sea behind the guy. He's adding a shadowing demarcation line, it's not uncommon in that era of early photos going to print publications.
Load More Replies...Getting a man down there is easy. Getting him back up alive - I don't like his odds much.
I don't know about this specific suit, but suits similar to this were used in very early diving expeditions - if you believe Wikipedia, mostly for salvaging sunken ships, since 'explore the bottom of the ocean' wasn't high on people's priority lists yet.
Load More Replies...My Great Grandfather On The Eastern Front (1943-4)
Maybe he's an officer, they all dress like that don't they? Or maybe he was just posing in ot during a lull in the fighting
Load More Replies...Two Women In Front Of An Anti-Women’s Suffrage Poster In Zürich, Switzerland, 1947
"Men - Brothers - Sons, save us from politics. Our home is our castle (figurative translation) and should remain so. Therefore vote double no to women's suffrage." Last line obscured.
'If You Talk Too Much, This Man May Die!'; Fort Hood, January 1943
That was definitely not the version one of my uncles told me XD
Load More Replies...Inhabitants Of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1926. The Islands Had Been Inhabited Since Antiquity, But Would Be Evacuated In 1930
Sadly they drowned all the dogs and left the cats to die when they evacuated. :(
They eventually shot the cats to protect the sea birds. :'(
Load More Replies...American Servicemen Salute A Soviet Traffic Controller At The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 1945
I'm curious about military protocol here. Should American service personnel be saluting a) a Soviet and b) a traffic controller?
There are at least two kinds of salutes - one acknowledging a superior officer of your military organization and the other making a respectful greeting to forces of an allied nation. The second kind applies here.
Load More Replies...Public Men’s Toilet. France, 1920s
That picture could be made today , nothing really changed in some places in France
I have a picture my dad took showing a urinal (in use) built into the side of a building.
Load More Replies...Something a bit more open than an American public toilet, lol.
U.S. Army Corporal Larry Matinsk Puts Cigarettes Into The Extended Hands Of Newly Liberated Prisoners Behind A Stockade In The Allach Concentration Camp. April 30, 1945
"You just escaped death, so, here, let me put your life back in danger!"
Have an upvote. Some people have no sense of humour. Or irony.
Load More Replies...I read somewhere that pictures like this used actors to portray prisoners because the real victims were too weak and emaciated to be photographed.
Because there was a lot of disease in those camps due to the terrible conditions they were kept in. Also kept them safe from the surrounding population who had wanted them dead. Also meant that food rations could be distributed properly without being plundered. All sorts of reasons.
Load More Replies...“Graf Zeppelin” Flying Over The Pyramids Of Giza, Egypt, 1931
OK, fill it with hydrogen, now light my cigarette whilst I check everything else is fine.
The Graf Zeppelin flew around the world without trouble. Zeppelin airships would have used helium, only the only source for it at the time was the USA and the USA wouldn't sell bulk helium to Germany. Also, the Graf Zeppelin (airship, not the actual count) did have a smoking room on board, held at slightly higher pressure than the outside to ensure no hydrogen got in if there were any leaks.
Load More Replies...Hand-Powered Carousels, 1990s, Cuba
A Young Boy And Girl On The Way To School For The Start Of A New Term In The 1920s
When I was a kid I wished I had been born in a different time because I always wanted to wear my hair in sausage curls like this. :)
World's Highest Standard Of Living. US, During The Great Depression, 1937
I don't think it did, many were affected, of all skin colours,
Load More Replies...Oldreive's Iron Horse's New Tricycle, California. 1882
trying to bike up and down a hill would be really no fun, though.
Load More Replies...My Great Grandmother And Her Sister - 1920s
Yes nothing to see here. (I think it's a helicopter but I think helicopters weren't invented then
Load More Replies...That thing in the sky could be an autogyro, which was in use in the 1930s. Or leaves falling off a tree.
Kmart Employees In North Carolina Watching The Moon Landing. Photo Taken In July 16, 1969
They're probably watching the launch on the 16th.
Load More Replies...Sorta related, if you want to watch it there's a website. Apolloinrealtime.Org
The TV we had at home when I was a kid, looked like that, lol.
NASA wanted to fake the moonlanding. They hired Stanley Kubrick to make the film. But he decided to film it on location...
Load More Replies...Heath Ledger’s Polaroid Selfie With Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Julia Stiles On The Set Of 10 Things I Hate About You, 1999
San Francisco After Its 1906 Earthquake
My great grandmother could see the light of the fire in the sacto valley. It was huge.
Load More Replies...And the enormous fire that happened just after the earthquake. Earthquakes don't reduce things to ashes by themselves.
he's a frightened, fragile man who needs a diaper change. Ignore.
Load More Replies...The Bank of Italy was in SF at the time of the earthquake and fire. The owner of the bank decided the best place for the bank's money was in Oakland rather than leaving it in the safe in SF. Genius move, because after the fire the rest of the bank vaults were too hot to unlock. The Bank of Italy was the only bank that had cash to lend. They invested their portfolio in lumber floated down from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington so that SF could rebuild. The Bank of Italy grew to become the west coast Bank of America.
Wow! I had no idea only liberals would die during a catastrophic earthquake! That's absolutely incredible! /s But seriously, get a life.
Load More Replies...Apache Warrior, Arizona, USA, 1916
Genuine question - was this person actually a warrior, or was he simply a member of the Apache people?
There were criteria within the different nations on what constituted a warrior. I mean, he could be a chief, too. The Apache had a HUGE range, like the Commanche, because they were still hunter gatherers for the most part, so they were forced into agriculture by American colonialism/genocide, and basically the complement of diet change, lifestyle change, etc., really took a toll.
Load More Replies...False equivalences rarely make for a good argument.
Load More Replies...Adolf Eichmann Walks Around The Yard Of His Cell, Israel, 1961
They are not just responsible for death of millions but he and that other Nazi made the name Adolf extremely rare today.
I have a very old customer at my work called Adolf and he loves me and then my coworker (I’m kinda new) told me he’s a full Nazi supporter. Which I found funny cos I’m Romani / eastern euro Jew (born in aus). So I just love that he loves me so much 😂 I feel my grandad would find it just as funny
Load More Replies...Death by hanging. Far too easy way out, if you ask me. As a German, I cannot say how much I hate these abominal human beings.
The only person ever executed by the state of Israel, officially at least.
Load More Replies...In the Hispanic community in South Texas, it remains a fairly common name. I've worked with an Adolph who would be in his late 30s now, and have been acquainted with 3 more. Apparently it's a traditional family name.
Photo Taken In Prison In Ulaanbaatar Ope, Mongolia, 1913
Photographer Taking A Photo Above Fifth Avenue, Looking North. New York City, 1905
I wonder if there's a photograph of the photographer photographing this photographer?
Maybe that photographer is taking a picture of a more daring photographer.
Load More Replies...A giant sack of Nopes. #Vertigo triggered just by looking at this.
Pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures...
Launching Of The Steamer Frank J. Hecker. St. Clair, Michigan, September 2, 1905
Just to giva bit of context, this picture is from a Bored Panda article (https://www.boredpanda.com/old-pictures-famous-people-colorized-part-2-mario-unger/) and here is the before and after colorization picture. That article is full of great colorized pictures, which I think is a great thing to give us better sense of the fact that this black and white world was closer tou our world than we imagine.
Miners Digging For Coal In Wales, 1931. 18% Of Coal Miners In 1900 Were Younger Than 16
My grandfather on my mum's side was a Coal Miner (UK, too), and my grandmother had always suffered bronchial asthma since childhood. She sadly passed when she reached 40, and was bedridden before that for as long as my mum could remember. My grandfather is still alive, and thankfully avoided Black Lung.
In 1900, in England and Wales, education was compulsory between the ages of 5 and 12. Once a working class child turned 12, they would become part of the work force. Most families were not rich enough to allow a child to remain in school. They needed the wages the child could earn. In 1918, the age was raised to 14. In 1947 to 14, and 16 in 1972.
Has anyone seen that report of some moron complaining about a photo of miners, claiming they were in "blackface"? https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-best-reads/2019/02/15/photo-coal-miners-drives-debate-over-blackface/2875921002/
Reading the caption of this one felt like I was having a stroke
Load More Replies...A Drawing Of Elvis Presley By A Young Jimi Hendrix After Seeing Him In Concert, 1950s
I'm an Australian in case anyone wants to drag US politics into my comment, but that looks more like Trump
How Lumberjacks Used To Cut Trees In 1946!
Flattening Hills To Build Seattle, 1910s
Hard to build on and in earthquake prone Seattle, it was dicey for emergency services (not as much now)
Load More Replies...this is the Jackson Street Regrade. The downtown was flattened with water cannons. Crazy. The way we remember streets downtown Jesus Christ Made Seattle Utterly Perfect Jackson, James, cherry, columbia (at the bottom, there was a Thai restaurant to die for), madison, marion, spring, seneca, university, union, pike pine. I biked a lot of hills, working on Union by the viaduct.
How are people supposed to live and work if they don't build homes and businesses?
Load More Replies...A Family At Their Newly-Built Log Cabin In Knott County, Kentucky, 1914
No windows - that I can see, but I suppose it kept the warmth in.
Wilhelm Hippert Showing Off The High-Altitude Oxygen Apparatus Used By German Pilots During World War I, 1917
It's amazing that WWI pilots few to over 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) without oxygen.
Aids, The Homosexual Disease Threatening American Families. 1983
It's hilarious, it may be the same bunch that would protect themselves with masks against a virus that is not transmitted through air than the ones who didn't want to wear a mask during Covid.
It's not hilarious. The whole "gay panic" thing must have been really, really horrible for gays at the time - not only were your friends dying inexplicably, but the hate-mongering bigots were using the unknown illness to whip up hatred against you and your dying friends. Thankfully that phase was brought to an end fairly quickly here in the UK, for all that the hate-mongering right-wing press fanned the flames. The gay-AIDS-panic business was what made me understand about bigotry for the first time in my life.
Load More Replies...This is the same sheer stupidity that we see today. Let's just apply some simple logic. Assume that AIDS is a 'homosexual disease'. In what way, then, could it threaten a heterosexual family?
So they are suggesting that a family like the one being depicted... "interact" with homosexuals, so they are in danger of getting aids? Uh.
Tourist Crowd Inside The Crown Of The Statue Of Liberty, 1980s
I am surprised. I thought the head would have been at least twice the size.
I read that this is a common feeling, and that when a film features the head e.g. rolling down a road after an alien attack, they actually make the head larger than real life otherwise it doesn't look believable.
Load More Replies...The Bee Gees, Formerly The Brothers Gibb, Gaze Through The Window Of A Rolls Royce Showroom In 1967
No, they're Aussies. So their reflection shows up on the other side of the world.
Load More Replies...I am and always was a rock / hard rock guy. But the Bee Gees... I have the highest respect for them. Great music, great performers.
People Struggle To Board A Plane In Nha Trang During The Withdrawal Of Us Troops From South Vietnam. April 1, 1975
Funny (not) how the same happened a very few years ago leaving kabul and Afghan people to their fate
reminded me of that too. I can't imagine how desperate you would have to be to be handing your baby over a fence to a complete stranger in the desperate hope that they'll get an okay life.
Load More Replies...September 14th 1956 Ibm Introduced Its 305 Ramac Computer. The 1st Commercial Computer To Use Magnetic Disks
The first unit was installed at Chrysler's MOPAR division, that HUGE hard disk drive had 3.75 megabytes capacity. So it would be enough to store one single low resolution digital photo.
A single low-res digital photo, lossily compressed, can fit inside 30 kB.
Load More Replies...I think it's a stack of discs, but I'm about as tech savvy as a caveman.
Load More Replies...Disneyland Parking Lot Opening Day July 17, 1955
Construction Of The Airship USS Akron (ZRS–4), USA, 1930
Sadly, it was destroyed in a thunderstorm off the coast of New Jersey on 4 April 1933, killing 73 of the 76 crewmen and passengers. The accident involved the greatest loss of life in any airship crash
Charlie Chaplin And Italian Boxer Primo Carnera, 1930
Insulin Production In The 1950: 4,535 Kg Of Pig Pancreas Was Required To Produce 0.45 Kg Of The Medication
“Banana Inspection” - Longshoremen Load And Unload Ships. Working On The Docks Meant Stiff Competition For Employment, An Intense Few Hours Of Dirty, Heavy Labor, Followed By Hours Of Waiting. Ca. 1910 [location Unknown]
This photo sings hey Mr tally man, tally me banana. Daylight come and me wan go home.
Bill Monroe, Considered The Father Of Bluegrass Music, Was Born On This Date (Sep 13). Pictured With His Blue Grass Boys, Circa 1945
This not my type of music but Mr. Monroe was very accomplished musician.
Sept 15th 1942. The Most Successful Torpedo Attack In History
The fact that it was successful is not subject to point of view, it is an objective statement of fact.
Load More Replies...Rag Collectors. NYC, 1896
U.S. Marines Take A Last Look At A Pin-Up Girl Before Landing On The Japanese Held Island Of Betio In The Tarawa Atoll On November 20th Of 1943
Afghan Military Officers Celebrate One Year Of Daoud Khan's Coup D'etat, 17 July 1974
So could any military photo haha. The Nazis had lots of different coloured uniforms. SS+Gestap black, Luftwaffe+Kreigsmarine blue, Wehrmacht+SD grey.
Load More Replies...Computer Showing The Expired Gym Account Of 9/11 Hijacker Ziad Jarrah (September, 2001)
If he was one of the hijackers on 09/11/2001, how did he manage to make his last attendance at the gym on 09/19/2001, 8 days later?
Maybe that was when the account was last accessed and the software countes lookups as attendance?
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