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50 Rarely Seen Historical Photos That Might Teach You More Than School Ever Has
It was Confucius who said, “Study the past if you would define the future”. Historical pictures allow us to do just that. They depict some of the most important moments of the days gone by, which we can turn back to and analyze one image at a time. And learn something new with each one of them, whether it’s an old photo from a family album or a snapshot that made it to the history books.
The Facebook page “World Historical Pictures” presents an abundance of such noteworthy images. Their posts range from covering everyday people to events of great historical significance, which allows the roughly 37 thousand followers to get acquainted with different aspects of our past. We have gathered some of the most impressive shots here for you to enjoy. Scroll down for the pictures, and make sure to check here and here for more.
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#1
World War One Memorial
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The Full Tiananmen Square Massacre ‘Tank Man’ Photo, Is More Powerful Than The Cropped Version
#3
The Sioux Nation Of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across The Great Plains In 1800s
#4
A Picture Of Dr. Religa Monitoring His Patient's Vitals After Completing A 23-Hour-Long Heart Transplant. His Assistant Is Asleep In The Corner. 1987
#5
A Photo Of An Engineer Wiring An Early Ibm Computer, 1958. (Photo By Berenice Abbott)
#6
An American Mother And Daughter Hold The American Flag In The Early 1900’s
#7
Ladder 118 Fire Truck Crossing The Brooklyn Bridge To The World Trade Center On September 11, 2001. Every Firefighter On The Truck Died Shortly After
#8
David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility
ScarletRos 3 years ago
Most of the kids look upset, but I like how the kid closest to the left looks kind of in awe.
#9
Unknown Soldier In 1965
#10
This Young Boy Was Born In 1924 And He Is 2 Years Old In This Photo. He Died In 1944 In France On A Us Tanker. His Name Is Lonzo Hudgins And He Received A Purple Heart In Ww2. He Was My Mom's 1st Cousin. I Love This Vintage Photo Of My Cousin
#11
Over 3,000 Workers Who Build The Chase Manhattan Bank In New York City Pose For A Photo Near The End Of Constructional Work, August, 1964
#12
Silent Film Actress, Delores Costello, Drew Barrymore's Grandmother, 1928
#13
Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, Is Greeted By His Family, Returning Home After More Than Five Years As A Prisoner Of War In North Vietnam
#14
Remember That Photo Of The Construction Workers Having Lunch On An Unfinished New York Skyscraper? Well Here's The Photographer Charles Ebbets. 9/20/1932
#15
The Huffy Radio Bicycle From The 1950s
#16
American Athlete Jesse Owens Fills Up A Car At A Petrol Station In His A Uniform Of Cap, Shirt And Bow Tie. Owens Worked As A Petrol Pump Attendant To Help Finance His Studies At Ohio State University. (United States, 1935)
Wang Zhuang 3 years ago
This is the year before he went to the Munich Olympic Games and embarrassed the Nazis by winning four gold medals
#17
Kids These Days Don't Know The Struggle (1990s)
Wang Zhuang 3 years ago
It was for this reason that I refused to get a portable CD player while I was in high school. I stayed with cassettes for a long time! lol
#18
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) And His Long-Time Friend John T. Lewis (Probably Twain's Inspiration For The Character "Jim" In "Huckleberry Finn"), Standing Together At Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York - 1903
Skara Brae 3 years ago
I wish we had someone like him today. His humor in general, and in particular, his ability to skewer bad politicians.
#19
Blackfoot Native Americans On The Roof Of The Mcalpin Hotel, Refusing To Sleep In Their Rooms, New York City
#20
An Immigrant Family At New York's Ellis Island Is About To Embark On The Chase Of Their Dreams. The 1900s
#21
Thirteen Sisters In The Brooks Family View Their Only Brother Leslie Benjamin, Following His Birth At Home In Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1954)
#22
Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Sam Shaw In Amagansett, New York, 1957
#23
New York. 1957
#24
Mount St. Helens Eruption, 1980. (Photo By R. Lasher)
Jrog 3 years ago (edited)
Photo by Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee with a passion for photography. He overslept the day he planned to go seeing the smoking volcano and maybe have a bike ride around Spirit Lake. Luckily for him, it exploded while he was some distance away. He run out of the car and took some photos, but the cloud was overtaking him. He jumped on the bike and tried to get away, reaching the town of Randle before the cloud hit. The next day he rode back to recover his car, took some photos but was found by security officers and airlifted out of the striken area, spending the night in jail.
#25
Telephone Tower, Before They Figured Out Bundling Lines Into Cables. There Are 5000 Lines In This Tower (1890)
#26
Madison Square, New York City Ca.1900
#27
Homecoming Prisoner Of War - 1946
#28
This Is George W. Mclaurin In 1948 Being Segregated From The Rest Of His University Class
#29
Federal Reserve Bank, New York, 1959. Photo Ormond Gigli
#30
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Photographed In New York City By Richard Avedon, 1963
#31
1984 New York City Subway Ride
#32
In 1938 1800 Veterans Of The Civil War Attended An 75th Anniversary Reunion At Gettysburg, Pa. The Youngest Was 88 Years Old, And The Oldest Claimed To Be 112 Years Old
#33
The Teenage Daughter Of A An Impoverished Arkansas Farmer Cooking On An Old Stove While Her Mother Was In A Tuberculosis Sanitarium During The Great Depression. Red Cross Photo From Ca. 1930
#34
An Italian Child Arriving At Ellis Island, Early 1900s. (Us)
#35
Men In Suspenders Posing On The Brooklyn Bridge
#36
May 1922: 78-Year-Old Robert T. Lincoln (Son Of Abraham Lincoln) Is Helped Up The Steps At The Dedication Of The Lincoln Memorial In Washington D.c
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Lincoln was assisted by a young Marine. The soldier in the dress whites was assisted by a photographer with a retouching pen.
#37
A Dangerous Playground From The 1970s
#38
A Man Recording A Cassette Tape At A Music Festival In The 1980s
#39
An Immigrant Family On The Dock At Ellis Island After Having Just Passed The Rigid Examination For Entry Into The Country, Looking Hopefully At New York's Skyline While Awaiting The Government Ferry On August 13, 1925
#40
A Well-Dressed Young Lady In The 1930s. Almost Looks Like It Could Have Been Taken Yesterday
#41
A Victorian Home Being Moved On Steiner Street Via Horse Power, 1908, San Francisco
#42
One Of The First Traffic Signals In New York City, 1922
#43
Somewhere Along The Pacific Coast Highway Between Malibu And Palisades, Ca. 1910
#44
Sophia Loren Gives Jayne Mansfield The Side-Eye. 1957
#45
Kitchen Retro. Combo Sink/Stove/Fridge
Vasha 3 years ago
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#46
Traveling Knife Sharpener With A Customer. United States, Early 1910s
#47
A 16-Year-Old Arnold Schwarzenegger At His First Body-Building Competition
#48
The Arrival Of The Statue Of Liberty On June 17th 1885. The Statue Of Liberty Was A Gift Of Friendship From The People Of France To The People Of America
#49
“People Decorating A Saguaro Like A Christmas Tree In Southern Arizona, Circa 1930s.” Arizona Historical Society
#50
Christmas Early 1900's
#51
Michael Jordan's Iconic 'Free Throw Line' Dunk, 1988
#52
Stop When Pedestrians Are In The Crosswalk!
#53
The Right Day To Hang Laundry In New York City (Lower Manhattan). 1902
#54
In March 1888, A Massive Blizzard Hit The East Coast Of The United States, Stretching From Chesapeake Bay To Canada
The photograph shows an unidentified young man standing in a shoveled area on Madison Avenue and 40th Street in New York City.
Lightning and Thunder 3 years ago
That looks like how much we got this year. Flagstaff az has gotten 12 feet since October
#55
In The Victorian Era, A Woman’s Hair Was Often Thought To Be One Of Her Most Valuable Assets. Hair Was Long In The Victorian Age. Haircuts Weren’t Exactly A Thing Yet For Women
#56
United Airlines Stewardess In 1970
#57
A Woman Stands In Her Summer Undergarments In The 1940’s
#58
Kids Playing Lower East Side, NYC 1963. Photo By William Carter
#59
21,000 Us Soldiers In The Shape Of Then-President Woodrow Wilson, September 1918
#60
New York City, Easter 1956
#61
Coca-Cola Delivery. Note The Three And Four Digit Phone Numbers On The Side
M O'Connell 3 years ago
I have an advertising yardstick from a lumberyard, their phone number is simply listed as "7"
#62
New York Subway, 1984
#63
Elvis Plays Catch In 1959
#64
Jeanne Bauer Walks With A Dynatac Mobile Phone On 6th Avenue In New York, Accompanied By John Mitchell, The Motorola Engineer Behind The Phone. (1983)
#65
Boys With Boom Box, 14th Street, New York, 1983
#66
The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944
#67
Miss America 1924, Ruth Malcomson, Ms. Philadelphia
#68
Rita Hayworth, 1941. This Was One Of The Most Popular Pinup Photos Among American Soldiers And Sailors During World War II
#69
Fixing The Antenna On The World Trade Center, New York City, 1979. Photo By Peter B. Kaplan
#70
Broadway And Fifth Ave, New York City 1905
#71
A Construction Worker Making Preparations For The Removal Of The Original Statue Of Liberty Torch In 1985
#72
A Taxi In New York City In 1901
#73
A Santa Monica Beach In 1898
#74
Beautiful Abandoned Church In Us
Thomas Bentley 3 years ago
Why do they have mega churches, when these are just waiting for people to turn up.
#75
Jodie Foster And Robert Deniro At The Cannes Film Festival In France In 1976, Likely Promoting Taxi Driver
Chewie Baron 3 years ago
So,E of the films she did with Disney when she was a teenager are brilliant. Her version of Freaky Friday is the original and best.
#76
A Stewardess From 1972 (Southwest Airlines Of Texas)
#77
A Woman Lights The Candles On Her Christmas Tree In The 1920’s In Us
#78
Fifth Avenue And Central Park At Fifty-Ninth Street, New York City Ca.1910
Skara Brae 3 years ago
Nearly empty streets makes it looks like an idyllic, uncrowded place to live, when it really just shows how few could afford cars.
#79
Spring Break In California, 1947
#80
Superman In The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. New York City, November 21, 1940
#81
Participants In The Beautiful Leg Contest Wear Pillow Cases Over Their Heads So That The Judges Can See Only Their Legs. New Jersey, Us, 1951
#82
Pinball Machines Being Destroyed During The Pinball Prohibition. They Were Banned In NYC As Well As Other Major Us Cities Like Chicago And Los Angeles Between The 1940s And 1970s
#83
The Washington Monument
nooneimportant 3 years ago
Was this way for 20 years +/- from lack of funds after the Civil War
#85
The Flatiron Under Construction, New York City Ca.1902
#86
The New York Theater, Time Square, New York City 1908
#87
Elvis And His Entourage Arrive In Las Vegas, Date Unknown. Look How Dashing He Looks!
#88
Mike Tyson Before His Professional Boxing Debut In 1985. Behind Him: Coach Cus D’amato Who Saw The Troubled Young Heavyweight As His Greatest Prospect
#90
New York City 1917
#91
Marilyn Monroe Approximately Four Months Pregnant In July 1960
Molly Whuppie 3 years ago (edited)
She wasn't actually pregnant apparently. She had endometriosis which can cause a bloated stomach like that. She had previously had several miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy however.
#92
Broadway And Hotel Victoria, New York City Ca.1905
Madame Beajou 3 years ago
Every one of these photos looks like air pollution was there even in 1905. Scary
#93
A Knife Grinder In New York City, 1896
#95
Columbus Circle, New York City Ca.1905
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Gergely Kiss 3 years ago
"95 Rarely Seen Historical Photos That Might Teach You More Than School Ever Has" At this point I'm used to Bored Panda's extreme clickbait titles, but this one is straight up insulting to schools.
August 3 years ago
More like historical photos of NYC with a couple others thrown in lol
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Gergely Kiss 3 years ago
"95 Rarely Seen Historical Photos That Might Teach You More Than School Ever Has" At this point I'm used to Bored Panda's extreme clickbait titles, but this one is straight up insulting to schools.
August 3 years ago
More like historical photos of NYC with a couple others thrown in lol
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