Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Categories: History |

The phrase "a picture instead of a thousand words" was coined by the American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. These simple words are perfectly suited to many aspects of our life, but especially to historical photographs. Sometimes one simple snapshot can tell much more about the past than long articles and chronicles.

All photos of this issue tell their stories about famous people or events of the past years. Once these pictures were taken to capture the present, and now they are messengers of the past. Many photos become iconic years later, when the public understands their importance and historical context. Perhaps photos of wars, poverty, the struggle for freedom and small miracles from the past will help us learn something in the future?

Photos from the past that are worth seeing
Photos from the past that are worth seeing

1. A woman with a wheelchair equipped against gas attacks. England, 1938.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

2. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

3. Elvis Presley in the army, 1958.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

4. Animals as a means of child therapy, 1956.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

5. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

6. Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, 1916.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

7. The crash of the airship "Hindenburg", May 6, 1937.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

8. Circus hippopotamus harnessed to a cart, 1924.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

9. Annette Kellerman's campaign for the right of women to wear a tight-fitting swimsuit in 1907. Then she was arrested for obscenity.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

10. Annie Edson Taylor is the first survivor who overcame Niagara Falls in a barrel. She did it in 1901 (she was 63 years old!).

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

11. 106-year-old Armenian woman guards the house, 1990.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

12. Children's cages-so that the child living in the apartment gets enough sunlight and fresh air. Around 1937.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

13. The first Ronald McDonald, 1963.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

14. Disneyland employees ' Cafeteria, 1961.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

15. Advertising of atebrin, a drug against malaria, in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. The inscription on the sign: "These guys did not take their atebrin."

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

16. A soldier shares a banana with a goat during the war on Saipan, circa 1944.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

17. A girl with a doll on the ruins of her house after the bombing of London in 1940.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

18. The construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

19. The Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965. "War is hell."

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

20. A bookstore in London, destroyed by bombing, 1940.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

21. Walter Io — one of the first to have plastic surgery and skin grafting, 1917.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

22. Automatic tanning machine, 1949.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

23. Measuring the length of a swimsuit — if it is too short, a woman will be fined, 1920s.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

24. Martin Luther King and his son remove a burned cross from the lawn of their house, 1960.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

25. The owner of the hotel pours acid into the pool in which black people swim, circa 1964.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

26. Lifeguard on the beach, 1920s.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

27. Prostheses, Great Britain, circa 1890.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

28. A mother and son look at a mushroom cloud after a nuclear weapons test in Las Vegas, 1953.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

29. The mother hides her face in shame: she has just put her children up for sale.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

30. An Austrian boy has just received a gift of new shoes. The picture was taken during the Second World War.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

31. Officers and cadets from Hitler's army celebrate Christmas, 1941.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

32. Christmas dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

33. The real Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, circa 1927.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

34. The last prisoners leave Alcatraz, 1963.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

35. Melted and damaged figures after a fire at Madame Tussauds Museum in London, 1930.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

36. Chimpanzee after a successful flight into space, 1961.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

37. Pour illegal alcohol during Prohibition in Detroit, 1929.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

38. Students of Princeton University after a snowball fight between freshmen and sophomores in 1893.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

39. Suicide in style: 23-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on the limousine of a UN employee, 1947.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

40. The first morning after Sweden switched from left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic, 1967.

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