25 Photos From The Past That’ll Show You What It’s Like To Be There
Once again we give you a rare fascinating look at some of the most interesting moments from the history. Some of them may surprise you,others may even make you laugh (I’m looking at you sneezing woman from 1900).
Let us know in the comments what you think about this collection.
1. Communist Party USA meeting in Chicago, 1939
2. Stephen Hawking marries Jane Wilde, 1965
3. Mount Rushmore before it was carved
4. Native porters carrying Rolls-Royce on poles across a remote river in Nepal, January 1950
5. A lion rides in the sidecar of a go-kart at a wall of death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts, 1929)
6. US Navy men pose with the eagle they rescued in the North Pacific, 1944
7. One of the earliest photographs of San Francisco just after the Gold Rush began, 1851
8. Two women on treadmills (c. 1920)
9. A policeman in London directing three giraffe-necked Burmese women, 1935
10. Two girls talk with their grandparents in East Germany over a barbed wire fence, a barricade which later became the Berlin Wall, 1961
11. Ham the Chimp after his trip to space, 1961
12. Betty White at home with her dog in Los Angeles, 1952
13. Brazilian Emperor Pedro II pictured in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, 1871
14. Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in soundproof listening booths, 1955
15. The Fat Man (the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki) being transported for bombing, 1945
16. Anna Fisher, astronaut, on the cover of Life magazine. She was the first mother in space, 1985
17. A journalist dashes across a bridge to rescue a baby during the Spanish Civil War, 1936
18. A boy crosses a London street with a toy double decker, 1960
19. A man protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
20. A young boy in a KKK outfit sees his reflection in a riot shield held by a Georgia state trooper in Georgia, USA, 1992
21. Lt. Colonel Robert L. Stirm reunites with his family after being taken prisoner during the Vietnam war.
22. An Irish teenager yells at British soldiers during unrest in Northern Ireland
23. This portrait of a woman was taken while she was mid-sneeze, 1900
24. Before automatic bowling pinsetters were invented, "pin boys" manually line them up, 1914
25. This bizarre helmet supposedly helped the wearer focus by rendering them deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision to a tiny slit, 1925
