News
The 40 historical photos that you must see
14 December 2018
The photo made a dramatic change in the way we see history. Historical photos, like images in this post, bring a moment from the past closer. Books, paintings, drawings and other media document history much further back, but nothing beats a photo to give you that sense of reality. Please check the 40 historical photos that you must see
1. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
2. Competition organizers attempt to stop Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon, becoming the first woman to finish this marathon, 1967
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-81__605.jpg
3. The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband separated by a wall, the Netherlands, 1888
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-63__605.jpg
4. Painters of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1914
##
5. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun's tomb, 3245 years untouched, 1922
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-491__605.jpg
6. Albert Einstein, Nassau Point, Long Island, New York, Sumer 1939
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-511__605.jpg
7. African-Americans protest against the Vietnam war during the Harlem Peace March, 1967
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-101__605.jpg
8. Salvador Dali kisses Raquel Welch's hand after finishing his famous portrait of her, 1965
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-91__605.jpg
9. Nikola Tesla in his laboratory, next to his "Magnifying Transmitter", 1899
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-66__605.jpg
10. Audrey Hepburn in a grocery store with her deer 'Ip', Beverly Hills, 1958
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-441__605.jpg
11. Painters of the Eiffel Tower, 1932
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-58__605.jpg
12. The last known photo of the Titanic Above Water, 1912
13. Customers at a music store in London, 1955
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-67__605.jpg
14. "Wait for me daddy!" by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, 1 oktober 1940
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-64__605.jpg
15. The very first metro ride, Edgware Road Station, London, 1862
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-61__605.jpg
16. Norway receives their first delivery of bananas, 1905
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-52__605.jpg
17. Easter eggs for Hitler, 1945
18. Coca-Cola arrives in France, 1950
19. The Beatles play for 18 people in the Aldershot club, one and a half years later they were superstars, December 1961
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-421__605-600x406.jpg
20. Che Guevara And Fidel Castro fishing, 1960
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-431__605-600x395.jpg
21. "Into the Jaws of Death" by Robert F. Sargent, 1944
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-1390608670643__880-600x454.jpg
22. Girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed house, London, 1940
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-711__605.jpg
23. Three men run in the marathon at the first modern Olympic Games, 1896
24. Women deliver ice cubes, 1918
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-321__605-600x439.jpg
25. First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left to the right side of the road, 1967
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-281__605-600x560.jpg
26. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells the evening newspaper with the news that the Titanic has sunk the night before, 16 April 1912
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-341__605-600x428.jpg
27. Women paint propaganda posters, Port Washington, New York, July 8, 1942
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-351__605-600x420.jpg
28. George Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiles at a German firing squad, 1944
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-311__605-600x435.jpg
29. The real Winnie de Pooh and Christoper Robin, 1927
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-271__605.jpg
30. Mother hides her face in shame after offering her children for sale, Chicago, 1948
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-251__605.jpg
31. Disneyland canteen for employees, 1961
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-221__605-600x442.jpg
32. The man who refused to give the Hitler salute, 1936
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-291__605-600x387.jpg
33. Man measures bathing suits, if they were too short, the women were fined, 1920
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-241__605-600x493.jpg
34. Austrian boy in a moment of pure happiness after receiving new shoes during the Second World War
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-261__605.jpg
35. Elvis Presley in the army, 1958
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-141__605-600x397.jpg
36. Woman with a gas resistant pram, England, 1938
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-131__605-600x445.jpg
37. Huge crowd at Woodstock, 1969
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-210__605.jpg
38. Animals are used as part of medical therapy, 1956
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-151__605-600x532.jpg
39. 106-year-old Armenian woman guards her house, 1990
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-191__605-600x402.jpg
40. Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, 1916
https://onlinegallery.art/images/blog/2014-12-old-historic-photos-161__605.jpg
Text: Sanne van Daele
Source: Boredpanda/Pulptastic/Rare Historical Photos
Photos: Online Gallery (GoFlo)