Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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 photographs 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

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Elvis Presley in the army, 1958.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Animals as a means of child therapy, 1956.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, 1916.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Circus hippopotamus harnessed to a cart, 1924.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

The first Ronald McDonald, 1963.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Disneyland Workers' Cafeteria, 1961.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

An advertisement for atebrine, an anti-malaria drug, in Papua New Guinea during World War II. The inscription on the sign: "These guys did not take their atebrin."

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

The construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

A bookstore in London, destroyed by bombing, 1940.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Automatic tanning machine, 1949.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Lifeguard on the beach, 1920s.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Prostheses, Great Britain, ca. 1890.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Christmas Dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

The last prisoners leave Alcatraz, 1963.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

A chimpanzee after a successful flight into space, 1961.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Pouring illegal alcohol during prohibition in Detroit, 1929.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

Princeton University students after a snowball fight between freshmen and sophomores in 1893.

Photos from the past that are worth seeing

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

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

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