Rare And Thought-Provoking Historical Photographs
Ever since French inventor Nicéphore Niépce captured the first photograph in 1826, the ability to give history a visual record has provided people with a much clearer image of the way things were. Still, with the abundance of photos surviving into modernity, there are a great number of pictures that most people have never seen before.
Thankfully, we have cameras now and many of the most important moments in the last hundred years or so have been captured on film, as well as images that simply depict what time was like through recent history.
S.S. Normandie
The S.S. Normandie was seized by US authorities during World War II. After being renamed to the USS Lafayette, it began being converted into a troopship in New York. During this process, the ship caught fire and capsized at pier 88. The restoration proved to be too costly so it was scrapped.
Queens Guard
A guard of honor passes out from heat exhaustion as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during the Trooping the Colour parade, 1970.
Warm Welcome
Actress Marlene Dietrich welcomes a soldier home from World War II with a kiss, 1945.
Looks pretty serious to me
Women boxing on a roof in L.A in 1938
From a comment by one Gill Colclough “This is from the golden age of Hollywood. They are chorus girls. The building is the Ball Building at Paramount Studios. The original photo is titled Radio Pictures Chorus Girls.”
A different side
A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian mother, 1941
Montparnasse Derailment
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on October 22, 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it entered the station too fast and the train air brake failed. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall; the locomotive fell onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry. The engineer was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.
Air Hostess Uniform Check
12th January 1959: Swedish stewardess Birgitta Lindman, who is with the Swedish SAS airline, examines a showgirls costume after rumors of shorter skirts for air hostesses.
The innocence of kids
A KKK child and a black State Trooper meet each other, 1992.
Tense meeting
American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell confronting Martin Luther King Jr., 1965.
Haka
Maori Battalion haka in Egypt, 1941.
Effects of war
Berlin at the end of the War, 1945.
Defection
Conrad Schumann defects to West Berlin, 1961.
Coming Home
Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945.
Messy Genius
Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death.
Elephant-mounted machine-gun
An American corporal aims a Colt M1895 atop a Sri Lankan elephant in 1914.
Feeding the locals
Feeding polar bears from a tank, 1950.
All from here:
http://www.90skidsonly.com/1067111/rare-thought-provoking-historical-photographs/
Ever since French inventor Nicéphore Niépce captured the first photograph in 1826, the ability to give history a visual record has provided people with a much clearer image of the way things were. Still, with the abundance of photos surviving into modernity, there are a great number of pictures that most people have never seen before.
Thankfully, we have cameras now and many of the most important moments in the last hundred years or so have been captured on film, as well as images that simply depict what time was like through recent history.
S.S. Normandie
The S.S. Normandie was seized by US authorities during World War II. After being renamed to the USS Lafayette, it began being converted into a troopship in New York. During this process, the ship caught fire and capsized at pier 88. The restoration proved to be too costly so it was scrapped.
Queens Guard
A guard of honor passes out from heat exhaustion as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during the Trooping the Colour parade, 1970.
Warm Welcome
Actress Marlene Dietrich welcomes a soldier home from World War II with a kiss, 1945.
Looks pretty serious to me
Women boxing on a roof in L.A in 1938
From a comment by one Gill Colclough “This is from the golden age of Hollywood. They are chorus girls. The building is the Ball Building at Paramount Studios. The original photo is titled Radio Pictures Chorus Girls.”
A different side
A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian mother, 1941
Montparnasse Derailment
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on October 22, 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it entered the station too fast and the train air brake failed. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall; the locomotive fell onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry. The engineer was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.
Air Hostess Uniform Check
12th January 1959: Swedish stewardess Birgitta Lindman, who is with the Swedish SAS airline, examines a showgirls costume after rumors of shorter skirts for air hostesses.
The innocence of kids
A KKK child and a black State Trooper meet each other, 1992.
Tense meeting
American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell confronting Martin Luther King Jr., 1965.
Haka
Maori Battalion haka in Egypt, 1941.
Effects of war
Berlin at the end of the War, 1945.
Defection
Conrad Schumann defects to West Berlin, 1961.
Coming Home
Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945.
Messy Genius
Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death.
Elephant-mounted machine-gun
An American corporal aims a Colt M1895 atop a Sri Lankan elephant in 1914.
Feeding the locals
Feeding polar bears from a tank, 1950.
All from here:
http://www.90skidsonly.com/1067111/rare-thought-provoking-historical-photographs/
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