20 historical photographs that bring the past to life
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By Vika https://pictolic.com/article/20-historical-photographs-that-bring-the-past-to-life.htmlProbably everyone, at least once, dreamed of going back in time and seeing what life was like then. There is no such thing as a time machine, and all we can do is enjoy photographs of the past. Some of them can tell us a lot of really interesting things.
20 PHOTOS
1. Women in "short shorts" in the 1950s.
2. Young girl saying goodbye to a soldier, Connecticut, 1945.
3. A Dutch boy with a pillow tied to his back to cushion his fall while skating.
4. Belgian miners, 1900
5. Excavation of the Sphinx, circa 1850
6. Ice table: low tide on the beach in Rokane, Netherlands, in the harsh winter of 1963.
7. Cyclomer amphibious bicycle, Paris, 1932
8. Boys play in a traffic accident with 2 pedal cars and a tricycle, the Netherlands, 1935.
9. An ostrich "reads" the caretaker's newspaper, 1951
10. Trader's car. Netherlands, the 1930s.
11. The first photograph was ever taken from space, 1946.
12. A giant pyramid of liquor barrels to be burned during the ban, 1924
13. Masked waiters, Germany, 1933.
14. The boy plays with a radio-controlled toy car. Almelo, Netherlands, 1957.
15. Children on a sled pulled by a car on a snowy road in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, year unknown.
16. Football on motorcycles at the Crystal Palace football field in London, England 1923.
17. Excavation of a statue of Antinous in Greece, 1894.
18. A woman milking a cow with an elephant's head - April joke in Het Leven magazine, 1932.
19. Sunbathing with folding reflector, Netherlands, 1961
20. Small trouser press exhibited at Westminster, England, 1936.
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