Amazing Historic Photos

: Amazing Historic Photos

These are great.....several have been around before but most were new to me.

You will find these pictures quite interesting

 

 

 

The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861

Hippo cart in 1924. The hippo belonged to a circus and
apparently enjoyed pulling the cart as a trick

Charlie Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27

Suntan vending machine, 1949

Annie Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to
survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She
did it in 1901 becauseshe needed money, and after
doing it said she wouldn't recommend it to anyone!

 

Only known authenticated photo of Billy the Kid,ca. 1879

Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan,
ca. 1944

Jesse James, approximately 16 years old

Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Sign

was put up at the 363rd station hospital in Papua,
New Guinea during WWII

How could parentsensure that their children were getting
sunlight and fresh air when living in apartment buildings?
The baby cage, ca. 1937

Hotel owner pouring acid in the water when black people
swam in his pool, ca. 1964

Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940

Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her
bomb damaged home, London, 1940

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Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956

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Artificial legs, United Kingdom, ca. 1890

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Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965

1920's lifeguard

1928 fashion show at the beach

Former slave showing whipping scars

Measuring bathing suits in the early 1920s. If they
were too short,the women would be fined

A space chimp poses for the camera after a
successfulmission to space in 1961

Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923

A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic
test 75 miles away, Las Vegas, 1953

Walter Yeo, one of the first peopleto undergo advanced
plastic surgery. His eyelids were damaged in World War I,
and he got a skin transplant to replace them.

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition,
Detroit 1929

Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

 

The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

Children eating their Christmas dinner during the
Great Depression: turnips and cabbage

Annette Kellerman promoted women's right to wear
a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… She was
arrested for indecency.

Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores
snowball fight in 1893

Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side
removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960

The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963

 

Apollo I crew members rehearsing their water landing
in 1966

President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while
visiting China in 1972

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1908

Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865

Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911

Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

A penniless mother hides her face in shame after
putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

Putting on a crinoline (skirt support), 1855

Recovering bodies after the Titanic disaster,
April 1912

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A most beautiful suicide - 23 year old Evelyn McHale
leapt to her death from an observation deck (83rd floor)
of the Empire State Building, May 1, 1947.  She landed
on a United Nations limousine…

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

Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at
Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, 1930

New York City fire station, ca. 1912

Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by
airplanes to America in 1975

Polish children examined by German officers to see if
they qualify as Aryan, and would be allowed to live

Santa Claus in New York, ca. 1900

Smallpox victim, New York, 1881

5:00 P.M., September 3rd, 1967
Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving
on the right - this was the result

Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty
delivered June 17, 1885