Photographers very beautifully capture several moments which become a memory for us. Some photos fascinate us because of the idea and message that photographer is trying to convey us through images while some images are interesting simply because of the captions that photographers use to explain their work. In the same manner photographers have very beautifully captured past in images that reveals several interesting stories to us. These photos give us an idea about the people and their activities at that time, and also make us understand that how the culture and civilizations were in the past for people. We can explore several places just by simply looking at pictures and get to know about our history in a way that books or other documentations can never elaborate.
Historical Photos From Past
Here we go with some reviews of historical photos.
Woman with a Gas Resistant Pram, England, 1938
Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956
Elvis in the Army, 1958
Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990
The original Ronald McDonald, 1963
Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961
Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940
Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940
Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917
Suntan vending machine, 1949
Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920’s
Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
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
A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961
First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967
