History in reverse

History in reverse

Categories: History

We have all seen many truly great photographs that capture historically significant moments. Have you ever wondered how these events looked from the other side? To look not at the speaker in front of people, but through his eyes, to see not the beginning of something great, but its end? Now you have such an opportunity.

(Total 23 photos)

History in reverse

History in reverse

1. Opponent of racial discrimination Martin Luther King delivers his famous speech "I have a dream."

History in reverse

2. Neil Armstrong. Emotions after the first ever walk on the moon.

History in reverse

3. On the very first weekend after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a traffic jam formed at the Brandenburg Gate.

History in reverse

4. Jacqueline Kennedy at the first televised debate of her husband, not yet a very confident speaker.

History in reverse

5. Shooting the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screensaver.

History in reverse

6. Tiananmen Square, 1989 A brave unknown stands unarmed in the way of a column of tanks. Another angle of the famous moment.

History in reverse

7. Hollywood was originally Hollywoodland. That's the time.

History in reverse

8. Opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen. Archaeologist Howard Carter saw her first. 1924

History in reverse

9. American soldiers learned about the surrender of Japan. 1945

History in reverse

10. General George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln in the general's tent in Antitam. 1862

History in reverse

11. So the day of victory over Japan was celebrated in New York.

History in reverse

12. Signing of the Treaty of Versailles and the end of the First World War. 1919 The curious climbed as high as possible to see it with their own eyes.

History in reverse

13. Screening of a film about concentration camps to German citizens.

History in reverse

14. The funeral of Gandhi. They were attended by thousands of people. And not only on earth.

History in reverse

15. African Americans mourn the death of Abraham Lincoln.

History in reverse

16. After the crash of the Hindenburg airship, a surviving passenger smokes while he is carried away from the scene of the tragedy. 1937

History in reverse

17. Another angle on the speech of John F. Kennedy "I am a Berliner." 1963

History in reverse

18. Opening of the Empire State Building. View from the roof of the building. 1931

History in reverse

19. An Indian looks at the newly built transcontinental railroad. 1868

History in reverse

20. The day before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

History in reverse

21. The first day of the already opened Golden Gate Bridge. 1937

History in reverse

22. Rockefeller Center's first Christmas tree. 1931

History in reverse

23. Kennedy's funeral at the Capitol.

Keywords: Moments | Angle | Event | Photography

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