Usually, when you read a history article or story, it's mostly just dry facts and your imagination. But an amazing photo gives something a bit different. It shows you how it all actually looked, letting you understand the historical moment more intimately. Whether it would be a historical landmark, a famous person or random old pictures of the past - they all have fascinating stories behind them, and we're just about to show you.
The brave photojournalists that took these interesting pictures saw the morbidity of wars, documented the creation of an atomic bomb and shot stills of most magnificent constructions being built. You might not be aware that the city of Tel-Aviv used to be just plain dunes or how someone looks after literally falling from space. Keep on scrolling to take a look at Bored Panda's list of rare historical photos that might shine a new light on how you saw these crucial moments.
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Dorothy Counts - The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States - Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
This picture was taken after the war, in 1946. ""New Shoes" by Gerald Waller, Austria 1946 Six year-old Werfel, living in an orphanage in Austria, hugs a new pair of shoes given to him by the American Red Cross. This photo was published by Life magazine."
I wish some kids now would appreciate sweets. People now take sweets for granted like nothing special.
Please look at the condition of his worn out shoes. I saw this picture as a child and everytime I'm able to buy new shoes I see his feet in those paper thin lace ups. We are so lucky.
I've never seen a child so filled with joy over receiving a pair of shoes. So wonderful!
Oh the joy on his face is priceless. So cute and so thankful for new shoes.
That poor boy... I've read extensively about WWII, but even with the wartime pics of both battles and downtime didn't effect me as much as this adorable little boy who has a new pair of shoes, and he's so happy you'd think they were gold. It's sad how much we take for granted. For this boy, it was probably the happiest day he had in a long time.
I would have been so glad too if I could have had shoes during the war. No such luck.
This is what is wrong with our youth of today, they have never had to go without. The appreciation on the little boys face is so telling.
The problem with the youth of today is they expect the same things their parents devour. The boomers are all self obsessed arseholes and wonder why the kids are similar? Difference is we'll be cleaning up your mess long after you revert ro compost.
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I saw this photo years ago... In my fathers wallet. Today my father is in the hospital. I have my little girl... Memories ????
A precious deed. Worth savouring. A good picture glance @ 1:17hours
It looks mostly like new pair of Dr. Marten's shoes. BTW, if it's real Austrian boy, his old shoes don't look so bad, if you realize what Polish children have wore because of German (and Austrian too) in WW2 times. He also sittig on stairs to house which isn't look cheap.
I gave info further down the thread, but I'll repeat it here for you: ""New Shoes" by Gerald Waller, Austria 1946 Six year-old Werfel, living in an orphanage in Austria, hugs a new pair of shoes given to him by the American Red Cross. This photo was published by Life magazine."
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A sad photo to me. This child is not to blame, and he was poor, but he was fed and had clothes while his government systematically and willfully starved and killed children of the same age for being Jewish.
I saw this picture twice. And the original word is "Pure happiness after receiving a new pair of shoes."
Well at least he had shoes during WWII. This is suspect to me, it could easily be a German propaganda picture to show how Germany cared for its people. New shoes were a luxury back then. Germany and Austria were just wrecked from all the air rades. I wouldn't be surprised if those shoes were stolen from Jews sent to the camps.
Pure joy on his face. Children today want instant gratification.
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Don't want to rain on your parade, but those shoes were most probably, in all seriousness taken from killed yewish or slavic boy. Soaps made from people killed at concentration camps were also distributed among German and Austrian people. And I will stop here because there are even worse things that were made.. You see, there is other side to to this story, a side that's almost never mentioned, as a descendant from one of the concentration camps survivor, I know it would be so easy for me not to exist today if that boy got another bar of soap during the weak. So you see a smile on his face, I see something very different on this picture, truth is never easy but also it shouldn't be pushed under the carpet, especially in this times when history is slowly starting to repeat itself again.
I don't think children are that honest. They see adults lying so learn to lie themselves. They soon learn to say what keeps them out of trouble. They believe the nonsense lying and gossiping parents tell them and then pass it on. Animals on the other hand are much more authentic.
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A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
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Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
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First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
That's cool, very dramatic. I think he lost the poker game though.
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
They look both relaxed and unsure. This is such a simple, yet interesting glimpse into the past.
7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From The Now Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Alien, 1978
The Most Beautiful Suicide - Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Technically, it's cosmonaut because he's from Russia. Astronaut is for Americans
Hats In New York, 1930
Men always wore a hat back then. My grandmother has often commented on this and how it's some different than today.
A German Child Meets Her Father, A WWII Soldier, For The First Time Since She Was 1 Year Old, 1956
Explanation - the soldier was held a prisoner in Siberia concentration camp after being captured by the soviets.
Wounded Combat Dog During Action On The Orote Peninsula, 1944
Frida Kahlo Dressed As A Boy, 1924
A Mother Shows A Picture Of Her Son To A Returning Prisoner Of War, 1947
Scottish Piper In A Kilt On The Battlefield During World War One
The bagpipe is the only musical instrument deemed a weapon of war because it inspired its troops to battle and instilled terror into the enemy
Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Is Returned To The Louvre After WWII
It's commendable when people risk themselves to save art and history during war times, and then return it.
These Are Titanic Survivors Boarding The Carpathia In 1912
Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1932
A Rare Shot Of A Young Winston Churchill, 1895
The First Bananas In Norway, 1905
Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck And Albert Einstein In The Front Row Of A Session Of The Physical Society In Berlin On July 28, 1931
About 100 People Participate In A Lottery To Divide A 12 Acre Plot Of Sand Dunes, That Would Later Become The City Of Tel Aviv, 1909
Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s.
Tsar Nicholas II Allows His Daughter, The Grand Duchess Anastasia, To Smoke
Marilyn Monroe Filming Her Iconic Scene In The Seven Year Itch. This Shot Was Taken In New York In Front Of A Large Crowd Of Bystanders And Press To Create Hype, 1954
Poor Marilyn... Produs al mass-media şi copil al Hollywood-ului. Trist.
Bob Dylan With Mick Jagger And Keith Richards At Jaggers 29th Birthday Party, July 1972
These jokers are almost my dad's age and still rock so hard! I love these guys!
The Last Public Execution By Guillotine, 1939
Hungarian Jews Being Selected By Nazis To Be Sent To The Gas Chamber At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Album May-June 1944
Columns Of Hoover Dam Being Filled With Concrete, February 1934 (Looking Upstream From The Nevada Rim)
US Coast Guard Cutter Spencer Destroys The Nazi Submarine U-175, April 17, 1943
Vladimir Lenin's Last Photo. He Had Had Three Strokes At This Point And Was Completely Mute, 1923
Eduard Bloch, The Jewish Physician Of The Hitler Family In His Office C. 1938. Bloch Was Later Called A ‘Noble Jew’ By Hitler And Stood Under His Personal Protection
Soviet Troops Scrawled Graffiti In The Reichstag After They Took Berlin In 1945
A Jewish Woman Who Is Concealing Her Face Sits On A Park Bench Marked "Only For Jews", Austria, 1938
The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, 1945
I can't get over how casually he sits next tobit. He might as well be eating a sandwich. Just because we have the ability to make suck weapons of mass destruction, doesn't mean we should. :-(
Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police On April 10, 1924 For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks
Crew Of The Japanese Carrier Zuikaku Give One Final Banzai Cheer Before The Ship Sinks, 1944
Boxing Match Aboard The U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899
Finalizing The Fat Man Atomic Bomb, Which Was Dropped On Nagasaki On August 9, 1945. On Its Nose It Had Stenciled The Acronym “Jancfu”- Joint Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up
A Young Hitler Cheers The Start Of World War One, 1914
i dont think thats him. his iconic mustach was trimmed that way because he still wanted facial hair, but also needed it to fit under a gas mask
The Eiffel Tower During The Nazi Occupation, 1940
An American Evacuee Punches A South Vietnamese Man For A Place On The Last Chopper Out Of The US Embassy During The Evacuation Of Saigon In 1975
A Group Of Men Posing In Front Of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852
WOW... these are outstanding pictures... # 20 is absolutely unbelievable!
Very interesting article. Must have taken some time to find all those photos
These pictures were fascinating! Thank you for making this collection to share.
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An unusual pictorial article. It should appear in letters. Mohammad Baqer
Great collection of images that reflect human history. The good and the bad.
Most of these photos just prove we've done terrible things as humankind and never learn from any historical archive depicting so. :( Still, wonderful to learn so much from visuals of another era.
Nah. The very fact that you found the cruel ones troubling proves that we DID learn and are indeed improving. Maybe slowly, but certainly.
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yes, yes it was. fact - www.vintag.es - it was only around last week or so it was posted. just look for it, or search.
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WOW... these are outstanding pictures... # 20 is absolutely unbelievable!
Very interesting article. Must have taken some time to find all those photos
These pictures were fascinating! Thank you for making this collection to share.
Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to complete the Boston marathon in 1966. She also completed it in 1967, an hour ahead of Switzer.
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An unusual pictorial article. It should appear in letters. Mohammad Baqer
Great collection of images that reflect human history. The good and the bad.
Most of these photos just prove we've done terrible things as humankind and never learn from any historical archive depicting so. :( Still, wonderful to learn so much from visuals of another era.
Nah. The very fact that you found the cruel ones troubling proves that we DID learn and are indeed improving. Maybe slowly, but certainly.
Load More Replies... yes, yes it was. fact - www.vintag.es - it was only around last week or so it was posted. just look for it, or search.
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