It’s virtually impossible to feel how fast time flies until it passes right behind us, leaving the sense it was only yesterday we had our first day at school or said ‘I Do’. Present moments sneakily turn into memories, and it’s a never-ending cycle.
But thanks to the invention of photography and people who stood behind the lens, not everything gets lost in history. People, places, events that happened years, decades and hundreds of years ago are all made immortal by the camera.
One such mesmerizing gallery is curated by the Lost In History Twitter account dedicated to sharing photos that they say “throw light on our past.” Below, we selected some of the most incredible and interesting photos shared there, so pull your seat closer!
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I read a lot of mystery books about the Orient Express, and it is described as very luxurious and beautiful. I can see now why
Some time ago, Bored Panda spoke with Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. We found out about the cultural and societal significance of old photos, as well as the meanings behind them. It turned out that old photographs can tell us more about life in the past than you will ever learn from history books.
Amazing, rising literally from the ashes. I do hope she didn't die horribly of radiation poisoning...
First and foremost, it’s important to understand that old photos affect our perception of time in unique ways. According to Lisa, they do that “by making abstract historical events visually concrete, giving us an emotional connection to eras we might not otherwise know very much about, exactly, through books or family stories.”
She gave an interesting example: “I was really taken by images of Japanese-Americans in WWII U.S. internment camps, young people protesting low wages for teachers in the Great Depression, female engineers working for the Space Race, and little kids protesting Daylight Savings Time—my own son especially appreciated that one…"
What are the cannibals going to eat? They're nothing but bones. What a horrific picture.
And a 100 years later young girls are sent home from school because you can see their shoulders...
It's things like this picture and your comment that remind me of so much still wrong with the world that still isn't fixed
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"The sexiest thing a woman can wear is confidence!" Also, "How dare you go out and be confident showing the same skin men do all the time?! Women should be demure and modest!"
Just change the caption date to 2022 and change swimsuit for termination of pregnancy...
I guess this'll be next on the Supreme Court's docket.
I've been thinking the exact same thing. It's just a matter of time until the Y'alliban gets around to dictating what women can wear in public.
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How else would they spend their time if not playing at war games and regulating what womxn do? That would leave time for actual beneficial activities to take place. They can't have that. Making sure womxn are nothing more than breeders that never leave the house, and assuring that PoC can't vote and return to the fields is all they're concerned with.
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It's your choice how you want to dress, provided you are conscious of the presence of children. It shouldn't be a crime. I'm afraid the US is creeping its way back to these times.
Kinds have no problem with nudity at all. Untill they learn it is supposed to be a problem.
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Straight men must live a horrible life...being always at war with themselves. Part of the time they so desire the female body and part of the time they are scared shitless of the female body.
No one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.....stra8 males like having seggs with female anatomy but they fully hate womxn. Stra8 males would be thrilled if their seggs holes just shut TF up.
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OH NO, your suits are too short! Men might get the wrong idea and... commit a crime... so that's illegal... FOR YOU!
It's amazing how this still exists. In Scandinavia, going topless on the beach is totally normal. I'm hetero, and over there we can appreciate the female body without going nuts over it.
Yeah....bodily autonomy and not acting like a rabid animal when they see a female body is not something Americans are very good at.
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Look at that woman dragging the other to the back Mariah... With a dude in a tank top watching
And you can tell by the way she's fighting back that she's a true Chicago woman 😂 Chicago women hit differently, LITERALLY.
Brute force, violence and r@pe. That's the holy trinity that provided males with power.
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October, right. When do equal rights start. You know every guy there remembered that day with a dirty smile
I could be mistaken, but it even looks as if that's another woman dragging the one from the building. Such a shame. :(
We are still told what to wear and what to do with our bodies to this day.
Honestly that's not bad compared to the cloths related arrest of today.🤦
I would like to answer you, but if I did, I'd be banned within hours.
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I bet the arresting officer (center) was dreaming about a moment like this when he first thought of getting into law enforcement.
Are you kidding? I can think of 2 specific pictures burned into my mind of women wearing literal mesh dresses that completely showed private parts so they may as well have been walking around naked... Lizzo going to a party and Zoe Kravitz with the comment, "It's just a body"... and the many pictures out there of "what you see at Walmart"... in today's society there is zero policing of women's clothing!!!!! Society has changed... if you were uncomfortable with it before, you have had this pushed into your face so strongly that you are just used to it now and built up a numbness to the shock so it just doesn't bother you like it used to.
Really??? Except in 3rd world hell holes that the liberal new world order choose to ignore seriously, so many of you are so freaking negative. No one in Western culture objects to anyone's fashion choices. I have seen so many wonderful photos of high school prom wear by all kinds of kids and it's celebrated. If you don't have anything good to say..... I'm fed up with boredpanda negativity.
Another way old photos alter our perception of time is by showing that people in the past had just as rich and complex lives as we have today. Lisa explained that “we tend to assume that in the past, women were limited to work as wives and mothers, and we certainly see a number of images here celebrating women’s work in the home.”
But the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. “We also see women doing all sorts of work in the public sphere as well—everything from attending school graduations and working on supercomputers to taking back the streets of postwar London and bouncing drunks out of bars,” the professor explained.
The part in Schindlers List which upsets me the most is when they are told to carefully write their names on their suitcases as they will get them back when they get off the train. You then see the suitcases being brought to the sorting areas and the contents being put into various piles like this. The fact that they gave these prisoners a glimer of hope (that their possessions would be returned to them) while knowing what was in store for them is just heartbreaking 😥
Moreover, old photographs remind us of something we tend to forget: “that people in the past have had many of the same challenges and triumphs as we have, and that we can look to them for inspiration regarding how to make sense of the present and build new futures,” Lisa concluded in this in-depth interview we had.
TIL goats like bananas. Looked into it, and in addition to hay and grains, I learned they also eat "foods like fruits, dried fruits, veggies, graham crackers, cheerios, Cheetos, and even corn chips."
... And it wasn't just Germans who were brainwashed by Nazism. Let's not forget that.
Terrible working conditions. It's literally what Zorro rescues "the disappeared ones" from in the movies.
Note: this post originally had 42 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
"The past was a different world." I forget which SciFi author said that.
Not one “Illuminating” photo of an African American. I guess we were not apart of history.
Native Americans were not represented either, but it's because there is still no change that can be described with the word "illuminating ". Maybe a pic of an indigenous school, but they were still killing kids up into the 1970's. Hardly the past
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Chool pics. Comments make me a bit angry thou. Mostly comments against forestry, nazies and old traditions. People seem to have only one and same mainstream braincell
"The past was a different world." I forget which SciFi author said that.
Not one “Illuminating” photo of an African American. I guess we were not apart of history.
Native Americans were not represented either, but it's because there is still no change that can be described with the word "illuminating ". Maybe a pic of an indigenous school, but they were still killing kids up into the 1970's. Hardly the past
Load More Replies... Chool pics. Comments make me a bit angry thou. Mostly comments against forestry, nazies and old traditions. People seem to have only one and same mainstream braincell
