Little-known photos of great events of the past
From the joy of the liberated Jews to the indignation of the Indian who saw the railway, these pictures will tell about what history is "silent" about.
There have been many great events in history, some of which became known only thanks to the invention of such a useful device as a camera. After tens (and almost hundreds) of years, we — contemporaries of our era — can look at the pictures that came to us from a distant (seemingly) history, and be surprised, smile, sympathize and rejoice with the people depicted on them. We invite you to look at quite rare photos taken at different moments in different places in the past.
9 monarchs in one photo.
A Japanese family returns home (Seattle, Washington) from a Japanese internment camp in Idaho, May 10, 1945.
A native American looks down at a newly built section of the Transcontinental Railroad, Nevada, circa 1868.
Such "cow" shoes were worn by American moonshiners during prohibition, so that the police could not figure them out by their tracks, 1922.
"Take this room and get out!" shouted marathon organizer Jocky Sam when he noticed a woman among the runners.
The captured Jews saw the Allied soldiers and realized that they were free, April 1945.
The last four couples to reach the final of the dance marathon in Chicago, 1930.
Microsoft employees, December 7, 1978.
A New Yorker reads a newspaper, the headline reads: "Nazi army 75 miles from Paris," May 18, 1940.
Electricity is provided to Russian peasants, 1920.
Teresa grew up in a concentration camp, after the war she lived in a boarding school for children with developmental disabilities. In the photo, she draws her house.
The very first known photograph of a man drinking beer, Edinburgh ale, 1844.
The first passengers of the first New York subway, 1904.
Headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party, 1934.
Three students of Princeton University after the traditional first-year "battle" in snowballs, 1893.
A British sapper is approaching a suspicious object, the date is unknown.