50 Amazing Historical Photos You've Never Seen Before

One of the main advantages of photography is its ability to quickly send the viewer back in time. Of course, a photograph represents only a moment captured by a photographer, but it can tell a lot about people of that time, their way of life, important events.

These old photographs, which tell a story better than any textbook, will allow you to experience a wide variety of emotions. Even if you have seen some of these pictures, they are worth looking at them again!

Girls walk ducklings in a drinking bowl. Washington, 1927

Igor Sikorsky. In 1912, he built the world's first four-engine giant aircraft, calling them "Grand" and "Ilya Muromets".

Little Dutch immigrants, 1910

Flowers at Buckingham Palace in London in memory of the deceased Princess Diana. 1997

Living Statue of Liberty. 18,000 people are involved. Iowa. USA. 1918

A Czech soldier kisses his daughter as he leaves for war, 1938.

Rifles of surrendered Soviet soldiers.

Nuclear explosion over Nagasaki. 1945

Actress Audrey Hepburn and actor Anthony Perkins on the plane. Great Britain. 1962

Hot summer in the city. Italy. Early 80s.

The Queen Elizabeth liner delivers American soldiers to New York, 1945.

Jumping into the Thames, 1934, London

I'm back, mom! 1960

Paris, 1962.

Bear is the mascot of the German tank battalion "Baren Abteilung" (Bear Battalion). Lgov. Kursk region. Winter 1942.

Medal-winning figure skaters. Diane de Leeuw-Netherlands, Dorothy Hamill-USA gold, Christine Errat-GDR. Innsbruck. 1976

A man removes a book from a shelf in the Cincinnati Main Library, 1874.

Steam locomotive IS20-16. The most powerful in the history of Soviet locomotive building. 1937

A true friend. The photo was taken in 1920

This is how Formula 1 was filmed before. 60s

Pipe. 1982

A University of Southern California teacher explains the physics of surfing to students, 1970s, Los Angeles, USA.

Burmese women in London, 1935

Bruce Lee and Ip Man, 1955.

Abandoned tank. Massawa, Eritrea. 1991

Teenage girls posing in swimsuits. Potsdam. Weimar Republic. March 1928

Advertisement for the Moskvich-427 car, 1971

Cleaning a canal in Venice. 1956

Paris, 1920

A harsh American childhood. The girl uses a crocodile instead of a horse. USA. late 19th century

Woodstock rock festival, 1969

German soldiers give Belarusian children rides, 1915.

Children build a makeshift Berlin Wall. West Berlin. October 1961

Visitors view a ship from Lake Nemi. Lazio region. Kingdom of Italy. 1930s

Dalai Lama XIV, Tibet, 1950

Golden Gate Bridge during construction in 1935

A lonely baby cries on a city street after a Japanese air raid. Shanghai. Republic of China. August 28, 1937

Children play basketball on a makeshift court in Soviet Russia, 1957

Sex symbols. Leonid Yarmolnik and Alexander Abdulov. 1978

Telephone tower, Stockholm. 1890s

Dr. Robert Bruce and his heart disease diagnostic simulator. 1852 USA

Nikola Tesla is a swimming instructor. NY. 1900

The sailors of the cruiser HMS Hermione gathered around the ship's cat "Convoy". Mediterranean Sea. 1941

Tony Curtis holds Jack Lemmon during the filming of Some Like It Hot, California, 1958.

22 students fit into a phone booth and set a world record in 1959.

A little girl buys balloons. Berlin. 1935

First World War. A British soldier fraternizes with a cat. France. 1917

Sentry, 1925.

Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot, 1968.

Margaret Hamilton, chief software engineer at NASA. And next to it is the Apollo mission control program that she wrote.

"Tot racing" was very popular in the 1940s in the United States.