Pictures illuminate the shadows of history, revealing the forgotten people and places that otherwise may have faded into oblivion. They help us make sense of the past and, in turn, allow us to understand the present.
So we at Bored Panda decided it would be a nice idea to explore the subreddit 'Rare Historical Photos' — it has 40,000 members constantly digging through the archives and sharing their best finds. Prepare to be transported through time!
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Ojibwe Woman, Ponemah, Minnesota, Photograph Taken By Roland W. Reed C.1908
It really is, please let’s make this number one, her dignity shines through 💕
Load More Replies...Now I’m glad to see this historical / old photo! Not that the others from the 50-70’s aren’t nice to take a look at , either … they’re all cool!But I was hoping to see some pics from this period or older !! Very beautiful!! I’d love to see some of my native tribe represented , as well ! So sad , the suffering endured by so many of our indigenous people. This while beautiful , evokes a sadness for me , as well. Man, I’d love to just have a glimpse into some of these peoples lives, to hear their stories .. people now days don’t always realize the powerful element of what’s been. Taught / handed down thru the generations of our elders of the past . Ppl are so quick to forge ahead or forget the past . They choose to stop reading&learning&let computers do much of the work,where cognitive decline has become very prevalent in most recent years. Doesn’t take long for people to forget or become desensitized to things & autonomous,as they trust the wrong things/let others make their decisions
My thoughts exactly.."right before they stole her ancestral home and rewrote the story of an entire lineage".
Load More Replies...I love these old photos. I have an original tintype of my 4th great grandparents and the paper photo that was printed from it.
A Seaman's Request For An Extraordinary Leave Of Absence, 1967. Reason: “My Wife Is Planning To Get Pregnant This Weekend And I Would Like To Be Present.”
Their son is holding the paper. At least that's what I choose to believe.
Load More Replies...Oh, I'm dying. How I wish I could see the CO's face when he read this request.
i tip my hat to the author of post's title "seaman's request," indeed ... me = 11 y.o. juvenile encased in a pasty 50-plus y.o. meat suit
I always say I have the humor of a 13 year old boy...I'm a 40-ish year old female.
Load More Replies...But who needs history anyway? Some people wonder why we should bother studying it when we could be preparing for the future instead. But think about it: can we be ready for what's coming if we don't know what's happened before? The past gives us all kinds of insights that can help us tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow. Without that knowledge, we could be in for some tough times.
As American historian and journalist Eric Alterman pointed out, since our political discourse is increasingly dominated by sources who care nothing for truth or credibility, we come closer and closer to the situation that Walter Lippmann warned about a century ago, in his seminal 'Liberty and the News.'
"Men who have lost their grip upon the relevant facts of their environment are the inevitable victims of agitation and propaganda. The quack, the charlatan, the jingo ... can flourish only where the audience is deprived of independent access to information,” he wrote.
Renowned Photographer Walter Chandoha Created One Of His Most Famous Photographs Of His Daughter Paula And A Small Kitten Smiling At The Camera At The Same Time, 1955
Neither of them had top teeth. This is one of my favorite old pictures.
A Police Officer Playing Duck Duck Goose With Children In New York, 1970
I wonder how many women officers were employed at this time period.
The NYPD had their first female detectives in 1912 when Isabella Goodwin was made Detective First Class from NYPD Matron (Matrons were female support staff), in 1963 the first NYPD woman was promoted to Sergeant and in 1966 the first female police LT. First woman deputy chief was in 1978
Load More Replies...remarkable / beautiful picture. 1970s NYC was gritty / grizzed / hard luck AF
This is a good one! It's an AI generated image. Look at the bike in the background, the people sitting in the background, the laughing girl's hand, the button without a pocket on the police's shirt, and generally everything is a little smooth. I think the architecture in the background is leaning a little far forward, too.
I hate computer enhancing on old photos like this, the smoothness is off putting, thus gives me uncanny valley
It's not horrible I've seen worse. here's the original: https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/policewoman-9th-precinct-plays-games-community-children-new-york-p2019107
Load More Replies...Wow! She's missing about 30 lbs. of gear, according to today's standards. It's interesting how police uniforms have changed over the years.
A GI Shares His Rations With Two Italian Children, 1944
The children in a warzone are NOT the enemy... looking at the IDF
Given how the Hamas and Hisbollah trained children to be terrorists in the past, I would be careful, too. Child soldiers are sadly a thing in this world. Hell even here in Germany you have to be careful not to get killed by children from that certain culture nowadays
Load More Replies...Next time Bored Panda runs another of its regular anti-U.S. posts, remember how many Europeans died defending American soil.
As an American, hear hear! My dad was in the Air Force and served in the Vietnam War. He didn't talk about his time there very much, but he did tell me that some of his best buddies there were Australians. I think a lot of his friends died over there, so he never wanted to talk about the war, which I can understand. But I have a huge respect for ANYONE who serves to defend innocents, whether they're Ameicans, Europeans, etc. and I am grateful to all of the Europeans who served and died to defend America.
Load More Replies...If all people showed this level of humanity there wouldn't be any wars.
Historian Daniel Bessner agrees. "If Americans don’t seriously invest in history and other humanities disciplines, we encourage the ahistoric ignorance ... Progress depends on studying and arguing about the past in an open and informed manner."
According to Bessner, this is especially true nowadays, when people use history to fight over which vision of the country will dominate the political scene.
A Former Prisoner Points Out The Most Brutal Guard. Germany. 1945
S**t happens when you so enthusiastically join and personify the very very wrong side of history. How TF they thought they would be able to get away with those horrors proves just how gullible, misguided, and downright stupid some people can be—-and still are. Just look at any modern day MAGAt, and you’ll see exactly what I mean. The vast majority of people in the world will NOT put up with that kind of mindset, and will come together to vanquish it, every single time it rears its ugly head.
Load More Replies...My dad's father helped liberate a concentration camp during WWII. I think there's a few pictures left of it. My dad said it really affected his father. I never really knew him very well as he passed when I was about 10 yrs old.
"An SS guard who is said to have mistreated prisoners is identified by a former Soviet Buchenwald prisoner on April 14, 1945 in Buchenwald." Wearing a non-SS uniform to try and blend in and escape the consequences.
Just wanted to point that one out - no insignia on the lapels means usually SS
Load More Replies...My granfathers family and other farms in the area were assigned soviet POWs. When the Red Army came to liberate Austria from the Nazis, they were asking the POWs how they were treated. My great grandfather treated his POW well, like any other farmhand, fed him well and he was allowed to sit with them on the family table. Their neighbour treated his POW like a slave and he had to sleep with the pigs in the stable. My grandfather said he'll never forget the screams of their neighbour. For over 8 hours the soviets tortured the man before they took him with them. Meanwhile a few of the soldiers had tea with my great grandparents.
I don't know why, just love the image of the soldiers having tea with your great grandparents.
Load More Replies...On the other hand I know of a Nazi guard, who always "lost" his lunch where the kids were housed. I know one of the kids who "found" the lunches and survived the holocaust. I'm not justifying what they did at all, I just think about that sometimes.
This picture may be staged. Not as in: this didn't happen but as in: this happened, but the moment it happen, no camera was ready to capture the moment. The famous video of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Red Army was recorded one day later. I think this picture may have been taken as a symbol, like "Nazi criminals won't go unpunished". Unfortunately, many of them did. First trial of Auschwitz "guards" in Western Germany took place in the 1960s.
Out of 8,000 Auschwitz guards, only 42 ever saw the inside of a courtroom, not to mention the millions of soldiers who killed innocent civillians (burned in barns, mass burials in forests). They all went home, hid their uniforms and bounced grandbabies on their knees. All of them went unpunished.
Load More Replies...The guard cannot even look the man or the cameraman in the eye. F******g coward.
A Baby Lamb Snuggles Up To A Sleeping Boy, 1940
I used to snuggle with the sheep, and afterwards, my mother would pick the ticks off me. Fun times on the farm.
I have a baby goat snuggled up on me in bed right now. Best feeling in the world
So precious, I love this , more of this, animals and children thanks !!!
Girls Sent Home From Mckinley High School For Wearing Slacks And Blue Jeans, Chicago, 1946
Eternal respect to the people who paved and continue to pave the way for gender equality
Bless their hearts. In 1969, Northeast Ohio, our elementary school finally approved girls wearing pants to school. The first day we could, I was one of only three girls in the entire school that wore pants to class. No jeans were allowed though. Two years later, in junior high, we could wear jeans also. Hard to believe now.
I was in Maryland in 69, 7th grade, and we were granted the unspeakable privilege of wearing double-knit pantsuits. And believe me, they were pretty unspeakable! But the door was OPEN!
Load More Replies...Unless you’re Japanese, in which case it’s the ( dare I say it ??) nape of the neck !
Load More Replies...It kills me because not 2 years earlier, women were filling roles left open by wartime: mechanics, construction, so many physically demanding things. But the second the war was over, women were largely relegated to their pre-war clothing, pre-war occupations. I feel like it was a squandered opportunity for positive change, kind of like the world learning so many lessons during lockdown, only to return to business as usual after.
Yes, because the women were used. Oh sure, it was all "your country needs you, step up girls!" Then, it was "thank you ladies, but the boys are back. Remember your place." Women did amazing things. For their country, for the world. Both at home and abroad. Then they were basically ordered to step back and make way for the boys.
Load More Replies...This is one of the reasons every woman should vote. Suffragettes were beaten and jailed during their fight for the right to vote.
You are right. I make it a point to vote ever since I was of age to do so. I am a boomer.
Load More Replies...The Oldest Indian, John Smith, Managed To Live In Three Centuries At Once, Being Born In The 18th Century, Living Throughout The 19th Century And Dying In The 20th Century. It Is Alleged That He Lived For About 137 Years
This seems to be a persistent rumor. His actual age is apparently unknown. It's also believed that he had some sort of skin condition making the deep lines and uneven texture.
The exact age of John Smith at the time of his death has been a subject of controversy. Federal Commissioner of Indian Enrollment Ransom J. Powell argued that "it was disease and not age that made him look the way he did"[2] and remarked that according to records he was 88 years old. Paul Buffalo, who had met Smith when a small boy, said he had repeatedly heard the old man state that he was "seven or eight", "eight or nine" and "ten years old" when the "stars fell"[2] in the Leonid meteor shower of November 13, 1833. Local historian Carl Zapffe writes: "Birthdates of Indians of the 19th Century had generally been determined by the Government in relation to the awe-inspiring shower of meteorites that burned through the American skies just before dawn on 13 November 1833, scaring the daylights out of civilized and uncivilized peoples alike. Obviously it was the end of the world. . . .".[3] This estimate tied to the Leonids implies the oldest possible age of John Smith at just under 100
Load More Replies...He didn't live in 3 centuries at once, he lived in them one at a time.
How many times can BP post this story, knowing that there is really no proof of this age, and actually a good amount of proof that he was younger, far younger. The longest that a person has been verified to have lived is a French woman, Jeanne Calment who lived almost 122 and 1/2. Th elongest lived man was Jiroemon Kimura, who lived 116 year, and lived in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries (1897-2016).
There is a pretty convincing theory that it was actually her daughter that took over her identity when she passed away, to avoid taxes. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-age-worlds-oldest-woman-180971153/
Load More Replies...And some people allege that the earth is flat, which is almost as believable as this guy making it to 137.
Dr. Darren R. Reid, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Dundee and is now a lecturer at Coventry University, explained to Bored Panda for our earlier publication on historical pictures that images are an incredibly important part of how we understand the past.
"They give us a distinct look into how people and societies viewed themselves and each other," Reid said back then. "In the medieval period, for example, Jesus and the saints were often depicted as physically larger than ordinary people — not because they were believed to be taller, but because they occupied a higher status in the minds of the artists who produced these images, and the audiences who consumed them. In later centuries, Europeans (and their descendants) looked to the classical world for inspiration, spending huge amounts of time (and money) on images that were both increasingly realistic and idealized."
A Dog Says Goodbye To His Fallen US Soldier Friend. Afghan War, 2004
Quiet anguish. One thing to celebrate in this photo-- the Photographer saw it- and caught it - for us. That was brilliant, worthy, and thanks are due.
Load More Replies...Only idiots with no empathy whatsoever say animals have no emotions
Load More Replies...God, that is so freaking sad. And poor doggy doesn't understand where his partner went.
He does know. That's the sad part. Animals are more in-tune with things than we can possibly know.
Load More Replies...Vancouver's First Official Lifeguard, Joe Fortes, 1905. Fortes, Who Was Born In Trinidad And Tobago, Was Credited With Saving Dozens Of Lives And Was Known As "Old Black Joe"
There is a high-end (seafood & steak) restaurant in Vancouver called Joe Fortes... I never knew it was named after a historical figure.
Hmmm, different people did different things in different times. Who woulda guessed?
Load More Replies...Saved dozens of lives but everyone called him "Old black Joe"? He got an even worse deal than the guy nobody calls "Giuseppe the bridge builder".
I must assume that not very many drowning folks thought, "I hope its not Old Black Joe who is rescuing me. What will my friends say?"
"You're a better man than I am..." C'mon, am I the only one who remembers?
Shy Young Woman Smiling For The Camera 143 Years Ago
she's inescapably charming -- what a lovely bit of early photography this is
İf the "143 years ago" is correct, that would mean this picture was taken around 1880. Exposure times would still have been a lot longer than they are nowadays but not so long as they were even 20 years earlier than that.
Load More Replies...Reid added that "Native Americans and American colonizers were frequently depicted in classical poses — all deliberate choices that show us how many people perceived the invasion of the Americas and the genocides that occurred there."
"They also include important details (such as items of clothing, hairstyles, etc.) that help us to picture the past. For modern people, this means we can more accurately imagine, and perhaps, empathize with the very different folks who came before us."
Portrait Of A Family. Georgia, USA, Circa 1900
They’re so precious !!! Awe ! Can’t imagine the things they experienced, went through, etc. such a beautiful family.
The Ship "Queen Elizabeth" Arrives At The Port Of New York. On Board Are Soldiers Returning From World War II, 1945
And may God bless those who didn't (make it home... and their families). 😔
Load More Replies...I guarantee the Captain is aware of the distribution of the people, and has some plans for action if they should shift in a dangerous fashion. That many people CAN dramatically affect the attitude of a ship-
Load More Replies...Take a lesson Mr. Trump...this is what a huge crowd coming together to make America great really looks like.
Better on the QE passenger ship than on battleships where there was a bench with 4 toilets back to back (total of 8). And one was painted red for the guys who brought something extra back from shore leave.
Load More Replies...The ship has multiple heads (bathrooms) across multiple decks (floors). It looks a lot more crowded than it probably was because everyone on onboard is trying to cram into the same space.
Load More Replies...A Young Woman Photographed In The 1910s
That's the first thing I thought as well. Her beauty is timeless.
Load More Replies...Natural beauty. Not a boob job or lip filler in sight. Those were the days...
Don't get me wrong, I love black and white photography. It is the best way to capture details and textures that are sometimes lost in color photos, but I would love to see a colorized version of this portrait. Her eyes are amazing.
Five-Year-Old Albert Einstein, 1884
His hair was already trying desperately to be crazy. Soon, Albert, soon.
The eyes! He had that look by 5 years old - like he is bored with the world and might as well do complex thought experiments while standing around.
Albert's love of mathematics began when his mother bought him a coat with 327 buttons.
I read anything I can get my hands on about his life. It's as entertaining as anything in the best sellers racks; and most other adjectives you can think of, too. Did you know Israel asked him to be its first President? Nobody thought that was a good idea- Albert included, of course - but they asked anyway.
He looks less than impressed at getting his photograph taken.
Darren R. Reid highlighted that developing an eye for visual storytelling allows us to detect when someone's trying to bend the narrative.
"The invasion of the Americas was frequently sanctioned and/or driven by governments, but it was the acts of 'ordinary' people that made it possible, and across that continent, a huge body of work was produced to justify, even encourage some really terrible acts," he said.
"American comic books and movies depicted Native Americans as simple, brutish, and savage. This helped to justify genocide and colonization as it was ongoing — and justify it, long after the most violent part of the process was complete. For a great example, check out the awful depiction of Native Americans in Disney’s Peter Pan. They helped to justify the colonial project to generations of children, right up to the present day."
This Is What The Empire State Building Looked Like Against The Background Of Other Buildings, 1941
That photo is at a very specific angle, since there was already a mass of skyscrapers in 1941. An Aerial photo of NYC from 1935: https://www.facebook.com/OldNewYorkImages/photos/a.138588546242154/1464181830349479/?type=3
(Clearing my throat) Maybe, just maybe, this is an extreme telephoto image captured looking eastward across the Hudson River from New Jersey. Possible?
No, this is a faked photograph (just look at the proportions), more likely illustrating the difference between, I’d say, 19th century New York and 1930s New York, when the Empire State Building went up, and the age of the skyscraper (in comparison to the other high rise building to the right) got into full swing.
Holy smoke. So huge against the other buildings. It must have been amazing.
Never have been interested in buildings, a concrete jungle, give me nature, peaceful country, birds and wildlife, country air that smells heavenly !!!
Abraham Lincoln In 1861 And 1865. A Noticeable Four-Year Contrast Against The Backdrop Of War
Try fighting the Civil War and dealing with his son dying, his wife going insane, half of the country hating his guts *AND* reelection. I bet anyone will look like that...
Load More Replies...This has been typical of U.S. presidents. Huge differences in 4 years in almost all of them.
Except for the ones that did nothing but play golf, watch TV and tweet.
Load More Replies...1860 not 61, in 1860 during his presidential campaign he grew the iconic beard
He grew it while he was president-elect, but he did have it by 1861 so your point stands.
Load More Replies...An Old Fisherman Photographed In Bergen, Norway In 1902 By Anders Beer Wilse
"It's only an old salty Swedish sea dog out there from the salty seas, you know."
Or arm wrestling, never underestimate farmers, fishermen, or anyone who uses their muscles daily for hard labour
Load More Replies...New York, 1958. Dancers In A Nightclub Play Chess. Smartphones Haven't Been Invented Yet
... Thanks for clarifying that smartphones hadn't been invented. I was SO confused. /s
I think the point being made is that similar people today would be on their phones idly scrolling rather than using their brains.
Load More Replies...Not sure what smartphones have to do with it. They exist today and millions of people still play chess on chess boards.
I'm interpreting this as 1. Just because these ladies have nightclub dancing as a past time, it doesn't mean they're stupid, and 2. The smartphone comment is a dig at modern society, who'd rather film a Tiktok than do something worth using your brain. 👍
Smartphones hadn't been invented yet, but *mansplaining* was alive and well.
I'm also confused on why intelligence is even mentioned just because they know how to play chess?
Because there are no men to tell them what to do.
Load More Replies...Today, 66 percent of the global population and 97 percent of the U.S. population use the internet where they are under a constant barrage of content. Hopefully, places like the subreddit 'Rare Historical Photos' will help them navigate the overwhelming amount of information.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau Carries The Country's Future Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Under His Arm. Ottawa, 1973
Lots of parents carry their kids like this. I don't see a problem here.
Load More Replies...Judging by the facial expressions, there is about to be a "come to Jesus" meeting.
Yeah, the only reason you carry your kid like that is when they don’t want to be carried! And his face says, “Just wait till we get home!”
Load More Replies...this, and the pirouette are my favorite of PT. Love him or hate him, the man was photogenic
no he was't...up until justin he was the worst prime minister Canada has ever had
Load More Replies...Daddy dropping him on his head 30 seconds after the photo was taken would explain what we see in Canada today.
You'd expect a guy from texas to have a tantrum over all the freedom they have in Canada
Load More Replies...With Her Husband At War, Mom Works On The Car, 1944
That's the kind of woman my daughter turned out to be. She spent hours under a car with me when she was little, strictly out of curiosity. Today she can change her own oil and brakes and changing a flat tire is child's play to her.
Me too. Everyone should know how to change a tyre if nothing else
Load More Replies...My generation was raised by women like her. We were very fortunate to have such role models. We were taught to be resourceful and adaptable. Not bad traits at all
I'm sad this is such a staged photo, and badly staged at that. No one is working on a car with a sledgehammer and gardening equipment. So many exceedingly competent women held down the home front during the war, and many did the "dirty" work of car maintenance, lawn care, and many held very physically demanding jobs. I've always felt these staged images were so sexist. Yes, they show women doing "a man's job", but in nice clothing and full makeup.
A Lady From High Society. Ottoman Empire, 1900s
she looks so much like Melissa Gilbert from Little House on the Prairie.
How much makeup did they wear back then?? is this just her natural beauty??
Man With Down’s Syndrome, 1890s
I'm surprised and pleased that he was thought worthy of having his photograph taken.
Load More Replies...He's almost as handsome as my 9mo grandson who also has DS. They are sweet, happy, lovely people. Our family is over-the-moon-happy to have been chosen to receive such a gift.
He was very lucky. Most kids with Down syndrome ended up in orphanages and died soon after from neglect.
Yes. He recently spoke out about a monologue given on Saturday night live.
Load More Replies...I'm sick of people saying how there weren't people who had Downs, ADHD, Autism when they were young. There were as many if not more but they were sent to large 'homes' and parents were advised this was for the betterment of the child. I remember when this thinking started to end and we actually saw more people living in the community with us and how positive that was for everyone. But there's still the idiots who don't get it..
Young Couple Standing At A Speed Limit Sign. Oklahoma, 1920s
I grew up in SE Oklahoma Would really like to know where this little town is/was.
Bruh, I'm a former English/Creative Writing major with a degree in English/Creative Writing and I can tell you that NO ONE likes a pedant.
Load More Replies...Republican Party Supporters And Democratic Party Supporters Fight With Snowballs In Front Of The Capitol. January, 1921, Washington, USA
OMG...global warming threatens this method of resolving arguments, too. That makes climate change even more horrible.
Goes with my philosophy that political disputes should be settled via Mario Kart.
Today one side would build a fort wall. This is far more civilized as Terri says below.
Queue For The Premiere Of The Star Wars Film. Vancouver, 1977
I went to the Denver premier, it was a long line there too. It was awesome.
Took my kids, 5 & 7 to see it in Woodland Park Colorado, small town back then and almost zero line.
Load More Replies...Wonderful memory! Everyone was rapt. No giggling or bad behavior. We'd never seen anything like this. One of my best teen memories!
I only saw this because my 54 year old mother demanded I drive her there. She would watch any movie Alec Guinness was in. (Smart lady.)
Interesting that the majority of people in the queue appear to be male. Males me wonder if it was due to the appeal of the movie, the split between the genders in terms of ability to spend time queuing or other reason?
You had to be a member of FNVC (Future nerds of Vancouver, Canada).
Load More Replies...I am old enough to remember this. I was only 8 but wow, I'd never seen anything like it.
We went. Me, my parents and my sister. We weren’t able to all sit together. I sat with my dad, and my mom and sister sat together. It was packed.
Load More Replies...I went on my first date to see Star Wars! This is when I found out that I have a strange condition, where I will fall asleep during any movie, no matter how loud or how much I am enjoying it. There was no second date.
OMG. I do too, even if I'm not tired and am enjoying the movie. It's so embarrassing on a date. I never could explain it.
Load More Replies...I saw "Star Wars" on its second day of release. At a very old and elegant movie theatre in Ithaca, NY.
What was that like? I can’t imagine. It was so new, so groundbreaking at the time. It must have been mind blowing really.
Hair and clothing just absolutely scream it's the 70's. Ask me how I know.
Early Use Of A Selfie Stick In The 1940s
Yeah, they probably could have sold at least a couple before the patent ran out. To people too dumb to find something to poke the shutter release with, since it's not actually holding the camera that's on a tripod.
Load More Replies...American Soldier Returning Home From The Great War, Ca 1918-19
It was also called "The war to make America safe for democracy". Yeah right to that, too.
Load More Replies...Sad that all those who returned home and started rebuilding the population were just creating the cannon fodder for the next one.
Wholesome and tragic at the same time. The soldier seems reasonably well and unharmed, at least physically. Wonder what happened to the family. The son is of the right age to fight in WW2.
Was is meant as „good”? I thought it means „big” in this context.
Load More Replies...Lady in the hat behind looks like Miss Gulch on her way to Kansas 😂 watch out Toto! Always loved they called it the Great War such positive thinkers
I can't imagine the sheer joy and relief they would have experienced after all those years
A Youthful Marine, Da Nang, Vietnam, August 3, 1965
Nor drink alcohol? At least with today's laws? Dunno how it was then?
Load More Replies...I wanted to say he looks brave, but then I looked closer at his eyes and all I see is fear. My heart goes out to him.
Being brave means doing your job even if you are afraid
Load More Replies...He may have been! Not uncommon for boys under the age limit to fake their ages to go fight.
Load More Replies...Yes, fortunately he lived! In the original Reddit post, there’s a picture of him nowadays holding this picture, and in that picture, he’s smiling.
Load More Replies...In Vietnam, the average age of the combat soldier was nineteen. So Paul Hardcastle informed us in the ‘80s.
After 6 months they are considered veteran soldiers.
Load More Replies...My cousin who I played with as a toddler, moved to America from the UK when his mum married a US soldier. At age 19 he was sent to Vietnam. I was the same age and an immature mummies boy and the thought of being there horrified me. I was still mucking about with mates like a kid.
Poor guys, sent off to war as heroes, but things changed so much that by the time they got back, they were called baby-killers and spat on.
I sure hope that he made it back home (and is doin' good to this day).
A Cowboy, 1890s
🤠 Greatest comment I've read today! Thanks for the hearty laugh! 🏆 😆
Load More Replies...Is that a banana in his pocket? I think he might have been a bit excited at the photo opportunity.
Goodyear Illuminated Tires, 1961
They probably don’t last long, but I would love to have these on our car and on my bicycle!
Yup… “The tires also performed poorly in wet conditions and tended to melt when drivers braked too heavily”
Load More Replies...https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/why-goodyears-bright-idea-for-illuminated-tires-didnt-shine-for-long/
A neighbor of mine has them and they are unbelievable bright. I read that a nearby state has made them illegal and I hope more states do the same.
Load More Replies...Pictured Is Paul Overby, One Of Two Drivers Trapped In The Cab Of The Truck. He Is Pulled By A Rope In The Pit River Bridge Over Lake Shasta Near Redding, California, May 3, 1953. Both Overby And His Partner Hank Baum Were Rescued Before The Car Plunged And Caught Fire
That would’ve been a terrifying several minutes. I’m not sure I’d make it out of the cab trusting just a rope and a handful of people
Me neither but who knows! When a tiny rope is your only hope of survival, it's worth a try.
Load More Replies...We had a very similar situation in Louisville last month: https://apnews.com/article/truck-dangling-bridge-ohio-river-louisville-b9fe7c5e13ba3f7315c83c49384754ca Driver was safely rescued.
I thought of that when I saw this picture. Both the driver and the responders were incredibly brave! The woman was able to stay calm until she was safe and then she was able to release her emotions...I think I would have been unable to hold it together the way she did, even to my own detriment. On a side note, I partially grew up in Redding and the surrounding areas and Lake (and Mount) Shasta are absolutely beautiful. Nature in the northernmost part of CA is spectacular and tends to be overshadowed by the hyper-commercialized regions of central and southern California.
Load More Replies...Wow!!!!! Scary doesn’t even begin to describe what that would’ve been like to experience! But they were certainly relieved once it was over and they were safe ! Wow.
A Typical American Family In 1950s, Detroit, Michigan
I was born in Detroit and lived for a few years in a house that was almost exactly like the one pictured. Detroit is still full of them.
This is a time when one person could work, get married, have children, buy a house and a car! All on one salary!! Sadly, I think those days are gone. Forever.
Don't kill me, but... I usually find these photos a little creepy. I don't know how to explain it. They are too perfect: a perfect family in front of their perfect house, with their perfect kids... as if they are trying to hide something. Perhaps I've watched too many crime shows.
Don't know why you got downvoted. I think it's because they were usually very good at showing their "perfect" image and no one would know what was really going on. If they were unhappy, ill, abusive... it all used to be swept under the rug.
Load More Replies...This is what's wrong with housing today. You can raise a family in 1000 sq ft but people think they have to have 3000 sq ft or their house is "too small".
What's wrong with housing today is that it's not affordable and there's not enough of it, not that it's too small
Load More Replies...Airmail Pilot, William “Wild Bill” Hopson Of The U.S. Mail Service In Omaha, Nebraska, 1926
FYI. "Hopson died instantly on October 18, 1928, at the age of 41, near Polk, Pennsylvania, in a plane crash while flying on his contract airmail route between New York City and Chicago. Hopson's plane was carrying about US$100,000 in diamonds. Only about US$65,000 of the diamonds were recovered."- Wikipedia
Here is an October 19, 1928 newspaper article detailing the accident and its aftermath: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-herald-news-herald-19-oct-1928/25384258/
Load More Replies...That's a Omaha nebraska,winter flying, postal airmail pilot. He and many others performed a huge over and above especially when it came to ferrying meds,etc across country in the worst weather imaginable. Look them up.
Looks like he's just finished an aerial dogfight with the Red Baron
A Mexican Baker, 1880-90s
He f*****g looks like Gandalf! But I'm not sure if Gandalf's hat isn't going to assign you to Hufflepuff.
Load More Replies...+1. Chef's kiss. Sorry I didn't see yours, when I made my comment, but you nailed it.
Load More Replies...Mexican here. The caption reads "Cake maker from Tacubaya". Tacubaya was a village (now a neighborhood) Southwest of Mexico City. It has always been famous for its bakers and pastry makers, some of them of Italian or French origin. In 1839, during some of the Mexican riots and rebellions of that time, a French baker of Tacubaya had his shop destroyed, and when the government refused to pay him, he complained to the French Emperor, starting a war that was known as the Pastry War.
A Victorian Home Being Moved Via Horse Power. San Francisco, California, USA. 1908
The big Victorian villa I flatted in as a student was moved like that. It used to be next to the local university and was moved by horse and dray to a suburb about 4 km away in 1902. Apparently it operated as a brothel for a while (a decade before I moved in!). It had a ghost in the living room and another one on the front porch. I met my partner when we both rented separate flats on the lower floor; after a year we moved into the very large flat upstairs with other flatmates and 37 years later we are still together (in our own home)
And your partner still teases you by claiming to have met in a brothel, right?
Load More Replies...It was a time when the house had more value than the land it sat on. It could probably do well in an earthquake if it would withstand this.
Amazing how it was accomplished, without the knowledge, tools and technology of today! Surely there was a team of other horses not in the picture! I can’t imagine only two for the job!
Service At The Track Restaurant In Los Angeles, 1950s. Food Was Delivered Via Conveyor Belt Directly To Cars
Bottom to top (right to left): 1951 Buick, 1951 Chrysler, 1950 Dodge, 1940 or 1941 Chrysler, 1948 DeSoto Sedan, 1948 Ford Convertible, 1935 Chevrolet.
Oh, you're one of those! lol. I have a son who can do this. Me? True story- when my mechanic wanted to know the make and model of the pickup I needed him to work on- my answer was... "Jeff. You know me. It's... brown."
Load More Replies...The past lived in the future, much more than the future did. It amazes me every time.
We had a similar one in 70's. A train brought orders out via round track. It was called Loves drive in.
A Lady Walks Around Renting Out Books As A “Walking Library.”
I loved the Bookmobile when I was a kid! Except it was in a bus, not on someone's back. :)
Load More Replies...I think she would draw the line at lugging the complete Encyclopedia Britannica
Awe !!! That’s cool !!! I was in the hospital for 2 months not too long ago and I genuinely appreciated one service that was being provided by some volunteers at The Hospital, where they’d daily come around to each patient and bring a good bit of reading material , along with hot chocolate, Hershey kisses to drop in the hot chocolate & little hand made get well cards. They’d talk with patients , just brought me a great deal of cheer and comfort! I imagine that lady brought people the same kind of joy! I also appreciated that at the hospital, we were able to keep whatever books we picked out, as they don’t wanna subject patients to spread of germs, but yeah, I just greatly appreciated having that to look forward to & pass the time. Between that & having my precious daughter visit, it helped alot. She’s 22 & works hard & is finishing college , so I of course was thankful anytime she was able to visit ! I just felt so blessed & thankful in such a scary / painful time. Made my heart smile
Cab Drivers In Madison Square Garden, New York, 1900
Hansom cabs, named after Joseph Hansom who promoted them though they were designed by John Chapman. The drivers sit behind the cab.
Riders can't jump out, unseen, without paying the meter, this way
Load More Replies...Interesting. A close up of the same women was posted here as "Two Ladies of Paris around the 1900s".
Re the comment about modern day obesity: Their waists were probably cinched with massive corsets. That's why ladies would faint if they got excited... they simply couldn't breathe!
I'm hardly looking at the cabs. The ladies on the left don't even look real. Hard to imagine people walking around dressed up like that anymore.
The ladies look regal and lovely, but they must have been SO uncomfortable!
This picture is colorized somewhere and when you look at it and see the dappling of the leaves on the sidewalk, you can just feel the cool morning air.
Drexel Institute Girls’ Rifle Team. Philadelphia, USA
Better not mess with them especially if they have a goose with them 😳
Maybe she's just shy, but she looks like she's trying to look extra mean!
Load More Replies...It is probably historically accurate. We have come a long way and have a long way to go, Using what we now know is the appropriate name would not highlight how far we have come . Ignoring our past could be detrimental to moving forward.
Load More Replies...All of them except possibly the 3rd from the right look like they're just itching to shoot something.
Crossing Over The Thames. Photo By René Groebli, 1949
People Sit On A Curb Amid Confetti And Papers After Celebrating The End Of World War II In New York City On August 14, 1945
Oh man, it took me a while to remember you're literally a cat for me to figure out what you meant by that.
Load More Replies...I've thought exact thing on certain occasions! Glad you posted this! 💗
Load More Replies...The famous New York Tickertape Parades were created by Grover Whelan, while he was working for Wanamaker's Department Store, as publicity stunts. He went on to serve a term as New York Police Commissioner, where he was largely despised by his men, though he did create the 'Police College' to provide thorough, detailed training for would-be detectives. He is most famous for spearheading the 1939 New York World's Fair and serving as it's President. He is mentioned in Groucho Marx's song 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady'.
Comforting to know that even back then new yorkers threw their trash in the streets.
People are so strange. A horrible war ends so let's celebrate by MAKING A HUGE MESS!
Downtown Boston, 1910
Damn that's cool. I wonder if I can get a high res version because I'd love that as my desktop background.
Biggest I could find: thfmxqosnpu31.jpg
That's not downtown Boston--it's a former Boston & Maine depot in Salem, MA.
Does anybody know what is going on in this picture. Looks like some kind of explosion.
Image was not shot in 1910, or has been manipulated. No color like this in 1910
Most old photos are colorized now. People complain if they aren't. They also coloured pictures with hand tinting back then.
Load More Replies...A Fashionable Young Woman Exiting A NYC Streetcar In 1912
A Gentleman Tips His Hat To A Group Of Ladies, 1920s
I love 1920s and 1930s fashion. There are so many outfits that I want to be brought back.
Only genuine Cowboys do that when meeting a lady or ladies, here in the South. I'm so glad they've kept that gesture alive. Most use "Ma'am" and "Sir" when speaking too.
I used to work for an oil company when I left school, there was a southerner who addressed me as ma'am, I swear I just melted
Load More Replies...I hate how this gesture has been claimed by the incels 😔 I think it’s charming and romantic
Photo Of Marilyn Monroe First Wedding, She Was 16 Years Old, 1942
She had been through several foster homes, where she was sexually abused. She married the neighbor's son to avoid being sent back to the orphanage. The photos of Norma Jean when she was discovered at a wartime factory show a young woman with thick, curly reddish brown hair.
She also had several miscarriages, and suffered from endometriosis. She really had a tough life. It's no wonder she used d***s to cope in the days before effective mental health treatment and therapy.
Load More Replies...Just hours before that photo, she was Miss Norma Jean Mortenson. She was very smart and extremely beautiful.
I wonder what that young man's life was like after their brief marriage. They didn't even bother with his name.
His name was James Dougherty. He was a career Los Angeles police officer and was the very first Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT). He married two more times and by most accounts was a stable, "average Joe" kind of guy, who was generally well regarded.
Load More Replies...My parents wedding photos from later in the 40s look very similar(my mother's hairstyle was almost identical).
I'm in my mid-early-thirties. I can't imagine allowing a marriage at 16. In America, child marriages are still allowed in 43 states. You can follow this petition to help end it: https://chng.it/jDq9CSrhKd .
My oldest brother was married at 16. He got his girlfriend pregnant. There were only a couple of choices back then. We need to never go back, keep women in control of their bodies.
Load More Replies...Passengers Onboard The Staten Island Ferry. New York, USA. 1895
No cell phones. I wonder if distant folks lamented the advent of newspapers.
Yes. The father at the breakfast table with his nose in a newspaper was almost archetypical; the father who peers past the newspaper to be a part of a family is a symbol of warmth or connectedness. Rockwelll was always so good at communicating emotion. What does this wife say to you? https://imgc.artprin...u-l-pc71900.jpg
Load More Replies...As long as we don't have to squeeze into the corsets too!
Load More Replies...Now everyone is on the ferry with their cell phones in their hands.
See, this is a pic I enjoy ! Has that Edwardian look going on, not too many years before the titanic took its first & final voyage & reminds me of what people would’ve been wearing then. Cool pic
Pete Davidson and Colin Jost along with his wife Scarlett Johansson own the Staten Island Ferry, which they purchased in 2022 for $280,000. The two Saturday Night Live co-stars are Staten Island natives,
They own a decommissioned ferry, not the enterprising itself. Also, Davidson’s father was one of the firefighters who were killed on 9/11.
Load More Replies...John D. Rockefeller Gifting A 5-Cent Coin To A Child, 1929
Average wage at the time was around $1 per hour. That's a toddler. He, much like everyone else in the world, is not required to give anyone, any of his money. Yet he just happens to be one of the most accomplished philanthropists in history, having given away $550 million in his lifetime, which is the modern equivalent of 10's of billions. Still not good enough for you though, is it?
Load More Replies...That's about.90 in today's money. That was probably a lot to them at that time. Every penny counted
Not to Rockerfeller, him and his family plundered as much as they possibly could out of every enterprise they went into and never paid a penny in tax. Not just him but many, many other wealthy robber baron families of that time, such as the VanderBilts, Roosevelts, Kennedys, Carnegies etc etc .... Those families are still extremely rich today due to the parsimony of their forebears.
Load More Replies...I was thinking the kid's face looks like, "but I wanted a cookie."
Load More Replies...Little Leonardo Dicaprio And His Parents George And Irmelin, 1976
He kicked her repeatedly in utero at an art museum while she was viewing a DaVinci piece, thats how he was named Leo
Dad was living dangerously, holding an unprotected cloth diaper like that!
look closer, you can see the tape on the disposable
Load More Replies...Looking at his parents faces, both can not deny he is theirs. Sometimes kids look more like one parent then the other but I think you can see him in both their faces.
You see a little bit of his facial structure is like his dad. And anyway not everyone has to look like their dad. He just happened to take more after his mom.
Load More Replies...The Last Photo Of Nikola Tesla. 1942
An absolute stonking genius. From The Oatmeal (a favourite cartoonist) comparing Tesla to Edison (who doesn't come out of it so well). https://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
He didn’t look after himself throughout his life too well, he struggled with a lot of mental illness, hallucinations and with all his science-ing, he probably barely ate, slept or did anything for his health in a routine fashion, then at old age he just looks ragged
Load More Replies...Unless you count that one that will show up in about 14 years...
A Photo Before Going Off To War Of Three Friends - 1943
I want to make an Italian war joke but I shouldn’t 😂 too out of date (I worked for some dark humored old veterans for a bit from this era)
Load More Replies...If you click through to the original post (name under photo) the OP says in a comment that his grandfather is in the middle and made it home, as did the guy on the right, but the guy on the left did not. According to OP he died in 1945 fighting to liberate the Phillipines.
I have a similar photo of my grandfather and his friends, he was the only one who came back home.
Pope John Paul II Talks With The Turkish Terrorist Who Shot Him (Wounded In The Arm And Stomach), Mehmet Ali Agca, 1983
Very sad that all the other comments are either negative or snarky. I’m not a religious individual, but certainly support this as a powerful image about forgiveness and trying to come to a peaceful resolution with one’s enemies
They told the Brezhnev that Pope John Paul aimed to see an end to communism. Brezhnev responded, "how many divisions does the Pope have?" But Brezhnev got a little worried, anyway. We may never know for certain that Agca was a KGB. His Grey Wolves ultra-nationalist connections make for a good cover for the KGB, but doesn't explain his motives, nor the assistance he received from low-level Bulgarian bureaucrats. Unfortunately, his confession of being KGB has been recanted (after KGB Putin came to power), but there's moderately strong evidence elsewhere.
Load More Replies...There was a CRAZY terrorist attack planned for the 90s that involved assassination of the Pope. It's called the Bojinka Plot and involved simultaneously blowing up planes all over the world at the same time and flying hijacked planes into many buildings. Luckily it got discovered and stopped but basically 9/11 was part of the original plot and the only part that happened.
I had forgotten about the name Mehmet. We had a boy in my class through primary school, but I've never met one since.
A Family Of A Migratory Fruit Worker From Tennessee Camped In A Field Near The Packinghouse At Winter Haven, Florida, 1937
Wherever there is a child holding a pair of scissors...
Load More Replies...I'm sure you're being sarcastic. Migratory workers were not illegal aliens in the states...it means they traveled from state to state, wherever there was work to be had.
Load More Replies...Times Square, NYC, Dec. 27, 1947
Jackie Kennedy At Her Husband's Funeral, 1963
After the shooting, she refused to change out of her bloody clothing. "I want them to see what they have done to Jack." She wore the suit at Johnson's swearing in.
And the prick didn't want to wait before he was sworn in; they did it during the plane ride, right after JFK died. He and his wife are both smirking too.
Load More Replies...Abraham Lincoln With His Son, Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, The Fourth And Youngest Son Of The 16th President Of The United And His Wife Mary Todd Lincoln. Thomas Died At The Age Of 18
Unclear - either pneumonia, pleurisy, congestive heart failure or tuberculosis.
Load More Replies...Christmas In Marion, Indiana, USA, 1958
You'll shoot your eye out kid...how about a nice football
Load More Replies...Soviet Basketball Player Arvydas Sabonis At The World Cup Final In Spain, 1986
It's not Spud Webb in the foreground, it's Muggsy Bogues, who was 5'3".
Bogues was the shortest player in NBA history; for a while, his teammate was Manute Bol, the tallest player in NBA history (7'7", or 231 cm).
Load More Replies...He’s not my Vydas. He’s not your Vydas. He’s Arvydas. - ESPN in the 90s while he played for the Portland Trailblazers
Driver Of Combine Threshing Oats, 1940
Ahh he's driving a cute little Farmall. I've driven that exact same model tractor.
"cute" Farmall...sorry nothing cute about it my best friends grandpa had a couple, you have actually tried to hold the clutch on one of those leviathans before it sucks, are you Ray(Paul Bunyan)Ceeya by chance 🤔
Load More Replies...Workers Stand Atop Ladders Working On The Frame Of The Uss Macon Airship. May 1932. Goodyear Airdock, USA. It Launched In April 1933 And Crashed In 1935
Akron and Macon. The USA's two largest rigid airships. They're gone but those hangers are still around. They held the record for largest open indoor space for years.
A Rare Photo Of North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung, Showing A Tumor On His Neck. Photographers Were Prohibited From Photographing The Right Side Of His Face. Late 1980s
A Unique Photo From 1938 - A House Made Of Redwood. Well, Who Could Build Such A Miracle? Of Course, He Was A Genius Or A Giant!
We killed those beautiful old trees to build this stupid house.
Load More Replies...More pics of this building: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/world-largest-log-cabin-portland/
...JFC; have you ever seen a Redwood from the NW coastal states or Canada?
Load More Replies...Flatiron Building, New York, 1902
It looks really unstable! I’m sure it isn’t, but it looks like it needs buttressing.
Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 1972
People Gathered In Front Of Stores In A Small Town. Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1880
LOVE LOVE LOVE this small town!! Worth visiting!! The Basin Hotel, all the little hotel/motels are worth staying at. Good food!! Just stay away from the Jesus statue!! creepy as heck!!
I see a lot of grocery stores and no women, not making a point just pointing out what I see 😂 there’s like 80 people in the town, why 4 grocery stores?
New York At Night, 1933
Future Leader Of The Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro In Central Park In New York, USA, 1955
Poor Cuba... forever to be punished by the capitalists for having the guts to stand up to them... tithe Cuban Missle Crisis is ancient history. They pose ZERO threat to the US. Lift the embargo NOW! 🇨🇺❤️🇺🇸
No, they mean the future leader of the Cuban revolution - the communist part was the only side he could pick to keep the gangsters out of Cuba
Load More Replies...Farmers In Front Of The Post Office On Saturday Afternoon. Linwood, July, 1940
Evicted Sharecropper Family In Temporary Camp. Butler County, Missouri, 1939
The wife is in the head scarf, second from the left..
Load More Replies...Migrant Farm Worker With His Wife And Ten Children, 1936
She looks more like her husband's mother, not his wife. Sad how women were used up like that.
Load More Replies...This would have been standard in those days and before. More children meant more hands to work farms, plow fields, tend to livestock, hunt, make food, make clothes, etc. And sadly those would be the 10 that were still alive at the time the photo was taken.
You can tell the little ones listen really well. Look at their arms straight down by their sides.
Orson Welles As Macbeth, 1947
Hot potatoes, orchestra stalls, puck will make amends!!
Load More Replies...Variant Of The Uniform For Flight Attendants On Scandinavian Airlines, Copenhagen, 1960s
I love how the lady in the left’s face just screams “i’m not wearing this” 😂
Load More Replies...Look like good dancing shoes to me.
Load More Replies...That's practically a swimsuit, simply for putting a female form on titillating display for lascivious male gratification. In no way is it a 'uniform' meant to carry on work and make all workers look identical and efficient. How insulting and degrading, however you entitle it.
Robert F. Kennedy Playing Football, December 1967
I know they are known for their youthful looks but even Robert F Kennedy didn't look that young in 1967. I think they mean Robert F Kennedy Jr
Robert F Kennedy Jr. I bet his father is absolutely seething and ready to jump up out of his grave and slap the s**t out of his son.
Load More Replies...Polygamous Prisoners In Utah's Sugar House Prison, 1889
The word should be *polygamist.* From the University of Utah archives: Photograph of a group of Polygamist prisoners including George Q. Cannon, Sylvester Jones, Simon Topham, Joseph Barney, Lorenzo Watson, William Buttler, Francis Lyman, and Francis Webster; The Utah Territorial Prison (Sugar House Park ), taken about 1886.
Polygamous is the adjective form of polygamy and describes the condition of being married to more than one person at the same time. The men in the photo are polygamists which by definition makes them polygamous.
Load More Replies...My 3rd great-grandfather is in this picture - second row from the top, on the far left.
im sorry but could i get an explanation on the polyamorous description?
What polyamorous description? It says 'polygamous', a very different thing.
Load More Replies...Powerful Baseball Player Weighing 204 Kg. Citizen Team Player. City Of Emporium, Pennsylvania, 1910s
No but calling him powerful is a bit beside the reality, isn't it?
Load More Replies...He was objectified, no mention of his name. Much like a bearded lady, siamese twins or other human being turned into entertainment and mockery.
That's not much less than what I weigh, and I can barely move.
Russia's First President, Yeltsin, Leaves The Kremlin And Hands It Over To Putin. Russian Federation, December 31, 1999
Hard to say when the trouble started but it was way before Putin.
Load More Replies...Sadly, yes he does. They voted for him and ignored all the signs, and a huge percentage are behind him today. Even those living in the West. This I know from the Russians I have worked with in the past. Many agree with him, while enjoying the perks of living in Canada.
Load More Replies...If that day could be changed....but what other ripples would that cause
Fans At A Stadium In Chicago Await A Hockey Game. USA, 1930s
The old Chicago Stadium was the loudest arena I ever visited! It had the largest organ in the world -- the pipes were built into the walls of the stadium, so the sound was incredible. Legend has it that the sound of the organ could shatter the windows and light bulbs if turned to full volume.
Yes, quite a few I hadn't seen before.
Load More Replies...Historical pictures, yes. Nice, yes. Quite a number of them -like pretty women (possibly retouched) are not suited to change any of my perspectives on the past, though.
I see that the one with Putin in it has been deleted. Reasonable, i suppose, that an outfit in Lithuania doesn't really want to p**s off Putin.
The archives of old photographs are vast, and folks need to know that it's still a small minority of pics that have been digitized and made widely available. Having dug through some myself- yes, a great many are badly flawed; out of focus down to incomprehensible- but - there are jems waiting to be found.
Yes, quite a few I hadn't seen before.
Load More Replies...Historical pictures, yes. Nice, yes. Quite a number of them -like pretty women (possibly retouched) are not suited to change any of my perspectives on the past, though.
I see that the one with Putin in it has been deleted. Reasonable, i suppose, that an outfit in Lithuania doesn't really want to p**s off Putin.
The archives of old photographs are vast, and folks need to know that it's still a small minority of pics that have been digitized and made widely available. Having dug through some myself- yes, a great many are badly flawed; out of focus down to incomprehensible- but - there are jems waiting to be found.
