Have you ever imagine what the world looked before 1820’s? That was the time when people could only learn about other parts of the world through drawings or paintings. They were deprived from the privileges of knowing the world a bit better. They lived their entire lives without ever having had their appearance, recorded. However, with the inception of the first photograph taken in the late 1820s, fleeting moments from history were captured like no other. Now we can actually see real-life events as they happen, and connect with past events in ways that were impossible for most of human existence. Scroll on to see some of the rarely seen historical photos that will take you back to the time of simplicity and emotions. Enjoy peeps!
#2 Incredible Photograph Of A German Soldier Going Against Direct Orders To Help A Young Boy Cross The Newly Formed Berlin Wall After Being Separated From His Family, 1961
#3 Charles Thompson Greets His New Classmates At Public School No. 27 In September 1954, Less Than Four Months After The Supreme Court Ruled That Racial Segregation Was Unconstitutional. Charles Was The Only African-American Child In The School. Photo By Richard Stacks For The Baltimore Sun
#4 Princess Diana Shakes Hands With An Aids Patient Without Gloves, 1991
#5 A Policeman In San Francisco Scolds A Man For Not Wearing A Mask During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, 1918
#6 Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
#7 Members Of Dutch Resistance Celebrate The News Of Adolf Hitler’s Death, April 1945
#8 Margaret Hamilton And The Handwritten Navigation Software She And Her Mit Team Produced For The Apollo Project, 1969
#9 Statue Of David By Michelangelo, Encased In Bricks To Prevent Damage From Bombs, During World War 2
#10 An American Soldier Cradles A Wounded Japanese Boy And Shelters Him From The Rain In The Cockpit Of An Airplane During The Battle Of Saipan While Waiting To Transport The Youngster To A Field Hospital. July, 1944
#11 A Serbian Soldier Sleeps With His Father Who Came To Visit Him On The Front Line Near Belgrade, 1914/1915
#12 Louis Armstrong Playing For His Wife, Egypt, 1961
#13 Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960)
#14 A Man Rides A Bus In Durban, Meant For White Passengers Only, In Resistance To South Africa’s Apartheid Policies, 1986
#15 Ruby Bridges, The First African-American To Attend A White Elementary School In The Deep South, 1960
#16 Young Queen Elizabeth As A Mechanic During WW2 (C. 1939)
#17 A Man Arrested For Cross-Dressing Emerging From A Police Van, New York, 1939
#18 Albert Einstein, His Secretary Helen (Left), And Daughter Margaret (Right) Becoming U.S. Citizens To Avoid Returning To Nazi Germany, 1940
#19 Soldiers Returning Home From WWII, 1945
#20 Freddie Mercury With His Mother, 1947
#21 When Nazis Asked Lepa Radic Who Were Her ‘Accomplices’ Before They Hanged Her She Responded: ‘You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.’ Young Serbian Girl Was Hanged At The Age Of 17 Near Gradiska In 1943. During The Battle Of Kozara, She Lost Her Father, Brother (15) And Her Uncle
#22 David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility
#23 A German Soldier Returns Home Only To Find His Family No Longer There. Frankfurt, 1946
#24 WWI. A Canadian Soldier Tries To Comfort A Little Belgian Baby, Who Was Hurt And Whose Mother Was Killed By An Artillery Shell. November 1918
#25 May 20, 1910: The Nine Kings Of Europe Photographed Together For The First And Only Time
#26 A Hired Reader Reads To Cigar Makers Hard At Work In Cuban Cigar Factory (Ca. 1900-1910). Because Many Cigar Factory Employees Were Illiterate Lectors Were Hired To Read Novels, Poetry, Nonfiction Works, And Newspapers Determined By Consensus
#27 “The Drunk Basket.” In The 1960s, Bars In Istanbul Would Hire Someone To Carry Drunk People Back To Their Homes
#28 Russian Inmate Points An Identifying And Accusing Finger At A Nazi Guard Who Was Especially Cruel Towards The Prisoners In Buchenwald Camp
#29 A French Women Welcomes An American Soldier Two Days After Liberation. Strasbourg, France, 22 November 1944
#30 September 3, 1967: The Day Sweden Switched From Driving On The Left To The Right Side Of The Road
#31 7’3” (221cm) Jakob Nacken, The Tallest Nazi Soldier Ever Chatting With 5’3” (160cm) Canadian Corporal Bob Roberts After Surrendering To Him Near Calais, France In September Of 1944
#32 18-Year-Old Keshia Thomas Protects A Fallen Man, Believed To Be Associated With The Ku Klux Klan From An Angry Mob Of Anti-Clan Protestors. Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. 1996 By Mark Brunner
#33 Rosa Parks’s Booking Photo Following Her February 1956 Arrest
#34 Here Is How An Ukrainian Immigrant Celebrated Stalin’s Death, 1953
#35 Into The Jaws Of Death, 6th Of June, 1944
#36 Crowd In Times Square, New York City Celebrating The Surrender Of Germany, May 7th, 1945
#37 Fire And Fury: B-25s Are Pictured Flying Past Mount Vesuvius In Italy As Lava And Ash Spews From The Top Of The Volcano. The Eruption Killed 57 As It Destroyed The Village Of San Sebastiano And San Giorg In March 1944 While Allied Forces Were Battling For Supremacy In The Skies
#38 Nikola Tesla, The Last Photo Ever Of The Famous Scientist, 1st Jan 1943
#39 A Nurse With A Sick Child During Smallpox Epidemic, Wrocław, Poland, 1963
#40 Ruth Lee, A Hostess At A Chinese Restaurant, Flies A Chinese Flag So She Isn’t Mistaken For Japanese When She Sunbathes On Her Days Off In Miami. Dec. 15, 1941
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