25 photos that will change your perception of world history

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

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When you read something about history, be it a memoir, a textbook or an article, your own unique idea of how it was develops in your head: fantasy itself completes the entourage, details, colors, sounds and smells. And sometimes we can't even really imagine what it was like back then. Fortunately, photography has been around for a good century and a half, and it is possible to at least visualize some places and moments that are forever in the past.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

A group of tourists sunbathe on top of the Great Pyramids in Giza.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Happy Walt Disney on the opening day of Disneyland in 1955.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The luxurious main dining room of the Titanic.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The shadow of a man after dropping a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles in 1925.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1973.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The construction of the World Trade Center towers in New York began in 1971.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

A group of tourists in Las Vegas from the front row watching the tests of a nuclear bomb in 1953.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

A couple shows their newborn children to their grandparents on the other side of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

An American Indian on the roof of Alcatraz Prison in 1971, when the prison was invaded by Indians.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The left hand of the Statue of Liberty is collected in Paris in the winter of 1882.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The destroyed wall of the Empire State Building after the collision of a B‑25 bomber in 1945.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

A Japanese man on a sailing boat against the backdrop of Mount Fuji, 1890s.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

London is in ruins after a German air attack on December 29, 1940.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Empty halls of the National Gallery in London during the Second World War: all the paintings were hidden from the Nazis.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Fireworks on Red Square in Moscow in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Unfinished Tower Bridge in London at the end of the XIX century.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Sculpting on Mount Rushmore in the 1930s. At that time, 500 thousand tons of granite were removed from the mountain.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Archaeologist Howard Carter studies Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus after opening his tomb in 1923.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Hooverville in New York's Central Park during the Great Depression.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The water was "turned off" at Niagara Falls in 1969 for research related to soil erosion.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Men fishing against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction in San Francisco in the 1930s.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

Construction of Madison Square Garden in New York in 1966.

25 photos that will change your perception of world history

The Capitol building in Washington is still without a dome, 1859.

Keywords: History | Sights | Events | Moments | Historical pictures | XX century | XIX century

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