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[Crispy75]

Not world-shaking history or anything, but this one has a personal connection:

This is my Great-great-grandfather, his wife, a camel and two Egyptians in front of one of the pyramids at Giza, around 1890-something. He's mildly famous in the church music world and was head organist and choir trainer at St. Paul's Cathedral. He was also responsible for the now canonical arrangements of some famous Christmas carols.

I like the way Mrs. Stainer merges into the camel.

 

[Xe4]

Cetshwayo kaMpande the last king of the independent Zulu nation.

 

[Pandaman]

They tried 2 times to put the flag, first one was on April 30th at night, so they couldn't take the photo. germas fight back and finally on May 2d they took the picture. The edit was small, they only ereased a watch.

why the watch?

 

[GurgleBot20]

why the watch?

It was looted.

 

[alfredofroylan]

At the end of the World War 2, more than 11 million germans were expelled or fleed from countries controled by the Soviet Union and others like Neatherlands to Austria and Germany.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

why the watch?

He wears two watches, which indicates he stole at least one of them.

 

[Mad Season]

This one is tough, it won a Pulitzer prize but only the little girl survived. There was a fire in the apartment complex and the fire escape failed while they were trying to get to safety. A newspaper photographer captured it and AFAIK there was a huge debate on whether or not to run the photo in the newspaper.

this one is rough....

 

[Mad Season]

I remember being in classroom when challenger exploded. I remember all the teachers crying

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis arrested for participating in Occupy Wall Street

 

[C00kie M0nster]

17-year-old Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician, Asanuma, by stabbing in Tokyo, 1960.

German soldiers execute a defiant communist in Munich, 1919.

Every time a plane landed on the wrong carrier, it was tradition to graffiti it before sending it back.

A mother in Las Vegas watching the mushroom cloud from atomic testing 75 miles away.

A French radiographer in his protective gear in 1918.

The inside of the Cathedral of Amiens during World War II.

A bloody boxing match between Ray Campbell and Dick Hyland in 1913.

Mockups from U.S. intelligence of what Hitler might look like if he went into hiding.

A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler showing the blue color of his eyes.

Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945.

A photo of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, taken the morning of April 15, 1912 from board of the ship “Prinz Adalbert”, before knowing the Titanic had sunk. The smear of red paint along the base of the berg (bottom right) prompted the chief steward to take the picture.

Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947. Her landing position appeared disarmingly placid and composed, as if asleep.

Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942.

A young Adolf Hitler cheering the start of World War One, 1914.

Eiffel Tower being constructed.

Underwater detonation of 15 kiloton nuclear weapon.

In WWII the Mona Lisa was packed up and moved 5 times to protect it from looting during the German occupation of France.

Testing an American Football helmet.

A female motorcyclist in the 60s.

Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972.

Testing the first bulletproof vest, 1923.

Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, 1937.

Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916.

Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924.

Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961.

Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s.

Lifeguard on the coast, 1920′s.

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

Face of Statue of Liberty uncrated on Liberty Island (Bedloe's Island) 1885.

 

[PopeReal]

I remember being in classroom when challenger exploded. I remember all the teachers crying

I was on a long flight from Beijing to San Francisco with my little brother. We were heading back from living in China for a year. When we landed and I was trying to figure out where to go (the Chinese airlines attendant did not help us like they were supposed to since we were kids) I noticed everyone was reading newspapers with explosions on the front.

I didn't know what was going on until a distant cousin picked us up and told us.

 

[KingGondo]

Awesome stuff C00kie M0nster!

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942.

Holy shit

 

[KingGondo]

This one blew my mind:

Really looks like it could be an advertisement for a mattress, until you look closer at what she's laying on.

 

[Ithil]

German soldiers execute a defiant communist in Munich, 1919.
.

Well let it never be said this guy didn't go out like a boss.

 

[maniac-kun]

Not a picture but here is Berlin / Munich in ~1900 in color and hd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

 

[CrazyDude]

Hungarian security police being cut down by rebel fire
as they pour out of a Communist headquarters

The rest are also from the same uprising in Hungary.

Hungarian water polo player at the Olympics in 1956 after a match against the Soviet team. This was after the revolution.

 

[Zona]

The surface of Venus, taken by a Soviet probe. Temperatures are a balmy 887ish °F (475ish °C) and atmospheric pressure is around 90 bar, or the equivalent to the pressure you get half a mile under water.

 

[kess]

Mockups from U.S. intelligence of what Hitler might look like if he went into hiding.

The Canadian version of this is even more amusing

 

[Az]

Shoutout to all of you including descriptions to your photos. Great thread.

 

[Mad Season]

did Adolf have a statement with his short mustache or was that just a style?

 

[CrazyDude]

did Adolf have a statement with his short mustache or was that just a style?

In WW1 he had to make his mustache shorter so that it wouldn't get in the way of his gas mask.

 

[NyMartin90]

In WW1 he had to make his mustache shorter so that it wouldn't get in the way of his gas mask.

This is a common argument of recent revisionist historians (exemplified in the dramatisation in "The World Wars"), however some historians maintain that it was more accurately and partly continued to be worn by Hitler due to the style of his admiration for Charlie Chaplin. Also it was believed to be a changing of form or sense of maturity by Hitler after the failures of World War One to remake himself.

 

[UnforgivenTwin]

Not a picture but here is Berlin / Munich in ~1900 in color and hd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

Very cool. I believe that the last few shots were of German troops mobilizing for WW1.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

A liberation army soldier on the eve of South Sudan's independence from Sudan in 2011. South Sudan is the latest nation in history to achieve independence.

 

[Breakage]

Some stunning photos in this thread.
That German rail gun reminds me of Shinra's Mako cannon in Final Fantasy VII.

 

[Dai101]

Cetshwayo kaMpande the last king of the independent Zulu nation.

Now that's swag.

 

[maniac-kun]

Very cool. I believe that the last few shots were of German troops mobilizing for WW1.

Thats right. And Kaiser Wilhelm II is in this too.

 

[MisterFalcon]

I really wonder what these two were chatting about.

The WW2 floating drydocks are amazing feats of engineering and may not be as impressive as a railroad gun but its impact on the war is much, much higher.

 

[kinn]

Amazing pics. So many emotions seeing them.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

The Beatles first concert on the US.

 

[ElTorro]

German soldiers execute a defiant communist in Munich, 1919.

Wow. Only 1 in 100 could pull off such a boss pose in the face of certain death.

 

[0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55]

Well let it never be said this guy didn't go out like a boss.

i know right... damn, balls of steel

 

[Always-honest]

Wow.. Amazing stuff in here.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

The one day a week that black people could visit the zoo in Memphis in the 1950's.

 

[RumblePuff]

This is just chilling. I've never seen a picture before, only read descriptions

I'm sure I read somewhere that they were able to calculate the exact hight and location the bomb detonated at by cross referencing the shadows.

 

[The Albatross]

Picture from the 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics.
a lot of historical brain power gathered in one place




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference

Currently reading American Prometheus, the book about Robert Oppenheimer, and it's very interesting to see photos of all of the individuals in the book who play some prominent roles.

 

[HankToms]

Ghandi’s letter to Hitler, 1939

If Ghandi was alive:

"Why did you call Hitler your friend?"

 

[Nivash]

Looked around for photos from Sweden around the turn of the last century. These days Sweden is a wealthy country, but not back then. The country had suffered repeatedly from famine in the late 19th century, leading to an exodus of Swedes to America among other things, and industry had not taken off on the same level as it had in the greater powers. Considered somewhat of a backwater, the times are still referred to as "poverty-Sweden". In the coming decades Sweden would do its utmost to advance and break away from this state (especially after escaping the two world wars) but in the early years the contrast is remarkable.

Here are a few good ones:

Latrine man. A shit job and all that.

Rat hunt in Stockholm, 1900.

Swedish coal mine, turn of the century.

1916: the wake for Lilly Bengtsson, age 22. Cause of death: tubercolosis. Her funeral was shared with another young woman named Annie Rasé who died a few days before her. Cause of death: also tubercolosis.

Young women in folk costume, turn of the century. In the late 19th century the nation was swept by a wave of national romanticism that led to fervor for "authentic" dress and customs. Despite this the clothing is not overly accurate to the older dresses they're supposed to represent.

 

[NoFaceNico]

In this class photo, the child in the circle to the left was put in a special class because they thought he was slow.

He would grow up to become Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most important philosopher of the 20th century. His work would change the way we think about logic and language.

Oh, and the other kid in that circle to the right?

He grew up to become this asshole:

 

[tanooki27]

great thread already. the titanic pic is affecting. doom voyage

 

[strafer]

Man that Evelyn McHale picture is sad.

 

[rhandino]

Katherine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967, although men attempted to stop her

I thought that she was the first women that officially entered, mostly because an administrative mistake (her signed form was very ambiguous about her sex), but the very first woman to run the Boston Marathon was Bobbi Gibb:

To think that women were not allowed to participate because they thought that they would die for real because their bodies could not stand the strain... mess.

 

[More_Badass]

Redwood loggers in the '40s

 

[crimzonflame]

In this class photo, the child in the circle to the left was put in a special class because they thought he was slow.

He would grow up to become Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most important philosopher of the 20th century. His work would change the way we think about logic and language.

Oh, and the other kid in that circle to the right?

He grew up to become this asshole:

Several commentators have argued that a school photograph of Hitler may show Wittgenstein in the lower left corner,[70] but Hamann says the photograph stems from 1900 or 1901, before Wittgenstein's time.[wiki

 

[uncelestial]

Lincoln at Gettysburg, about 3 hours before delivering the famous Gettysburg Address.

Lincoln speaking at his second inauguration. Must've been a bit hard to hear.

Casts of Lincoln's face and hands made while he was alive:

 

[Mad Season]

This dude gave 0 fucks

 

[Dai101]

This dude gave 0 fucks

"Shot me, I don't care. I'm not cleaning this shit afterwards anyway!"

 

[TheSecondSpitter]

The surface of Venus, taken by a Soviet probe. Temperatures are a balmy 887ish °F (475ish °C) and atmospheric pressure is around 90 bar, or the equivalent to the pressure you get half a mile under water.

The bright yellow sky is so ominous because one day it will be visible on Earth.

 

[JMDSO]

Train accident at the Gare Montparnasse in Paris in 1885. The train driver wanted to make sure his passengers would be there on time, speeded up the train and didn't slowed it down on time.

I'm the one who wants to be with you...