• Hi, Guest! Tuesday, November 5, 2024 is Election Day in the U.S.
    If you are eligible, please vote! Your vote matters! To find out how to vote in your state, visit Vote.org or Vote.gov.

Awesome Historical Photos **LARGE PHOTOS**

ssj4gogita4

Squidward Tortellini
Joined
Apr 7, 2004
Messages
24,907
Points
273,986
Favorite Character
Squidward
1. First selfie, ca. 1920:
1_zpsf038d7b2.jpg


2. Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956:
2_zpsccdc1118.jpg


3. Elvis in the Army, 1958
3_zps08d4fc83.jpg


4. A teary-eyed Neil Armstrong photographed by Buzz Aldrin shortly after walking on the moon, 1969
4_zps01e86a50.jpg


5. Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937:
5_zpseebe6fab.jpg


6. Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938:
6_zps1b845fe7.jpg


7. The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb 1922. 3,245 years untouched:
cool-mummy-tomb-Tutankhamun-seal-Egypt.jpg

7_zpsa7d8114a.jpg


8. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
8_zps5cf2127f.jpg


9. Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
9_zps6add601e.jpg


10. Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
10_zps3f5ead8b.jpg


11. Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
11_zps2188b17f.jpg


12. Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency
12_zpse0b5f019.jpg


13. Studying the effects of weightlessness on a living mammal at 25,000′, 1958:
cool-cat-inside-plane-zero-gravity.jpg

13_zps209909ab.jpg


14. Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
14_zpse1eab9ec.jpg


15. 106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990
15_zpsdb78b7d3.jpg


16. The original Ronald McDonald, 1963
16_zps94e89b4e.jpg


17. Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961
17_zpsb4c1e014.jpg


18. Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII
18_zps9d18779d.jpg


19. Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
19_zpsd42fa0b6.jpg


20. Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940
20_zpsdb2cebdb.jpg


21. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
21_zps335deb09.jpg


22. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
22_zpsba23b72e.jpg


23. Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940
23_zps78133fb7.jpg


24. Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917
24_zpse3cc0bce.jpg


25. Suntan vending machine, 1949
25_zps0b879d06.jpg


26. Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s
26_zpsf9fd49f2.jpg


27. Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
27_zps875fed89.jpg


28. Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
28_zps7db6b9ef.jpg


29. Lifeguard on the coast, 1920′s
29_zpsdada5834.jpg


30. Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
30_zpsf718d3fa.jpg


31. Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
31_zps62429789.jpg


32. Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
32_zps8a1c2cb8.jpg


33. Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
33_zps851b147a.jpg


34. Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
34_zps61c718f6.jpg


35. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
35_zps85cd4095.jpg


36. Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
36_zpsbf057312.jpg


37. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
37_zpsf2604ba3.jpg


38. A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961
38_zpse101c38f.jpg


39. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
39_zps5a4b9789.jpg


40. Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
40_zps41240b28.jpg


41. A beautiful suicide – 23 year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947:
41_zpsafc6316f.jpg


42. First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967:
42_zps4895f1eb.jpg


43. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885:
43_zps0daa4b1d.jpg


44. A little girl holds a penguin’s flipper as they walk together around the London Zoo, 1937:
cool-little-girl-penguin-old-photo.jpg

44_zpse0122ab7.jpg


45. The last photo ever taken of the RMS Titanic before it sunk in April 1912:
cool-Titanic-last-photo-sail-old.jpg

45_zpsb8a6ded9.jpg


46. Marilyn Monroe with Ella Fitzgerald at the the Mocambo, a popular Hollywood night club at the time that would not book Ella because of segregation. Marilyn told the manager that she would reserve a front row table every night Ella performed there. Ella performed a week later, 1955:
cool-Marilyn-Monroe-Ella-Fitzgerald-old-photo.jpg

46_zps95983bc9.jpg


47. Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII:
47_zps6fb25c14.jpg


http://themetapicture.com/must-see-h...top-and-think/
 
Incredible. Just incredible.

May be just on my end, but 4. and 43. didn't load.

5. makes me wonder how any parent could put a baby up at that height...
16. is just wrong.
23. Can't get enough of the young lad looking through books as if it were any other day.
45. and 47. I have seen before.
 
Try now. Will fix later will working links to all.

Safari didn't want to show some but firefox does.
 
They seem to be showing okay now. And I've seen number 4 before as well. :)
 
Should all be fixed now.
 
RedSoxFan274 said:
I propose that this thread be open for other members to submit historical photos, anyone in agreement?
Agreed!
*crowd cheers*
Ya! Ya! Ya!
 
The famous boy in the Warsaw ghetto, 1943:
Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_06b.jpg


Pumping water during Dust Bowl duststorm, Mar. 25, 1935, Springfield, Colorado:
dustbowl01-sjpg_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.jpg


James Brown at the Boston Garden, April 5, 1968, night after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination:
the-night-james-brown-saved-boston-original.jpg


Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Island, California, circa 1900
Prez ought to appreciate this one. :P

Hotel_Del_c1900b.jpg
 
Response to #16:

HOLY *dolphin noise* WHAT THE *dolphin noise* IS THAT *runs and hides*
 
To be honest, the woman selling her kids almost made me teary-eyed. ssj, was there a situation in that picture where stuff like that was common or what?
 
CowBob RanchPants said:
The acid filled pool one was morbid. People were truly revolting.
It amazes me how much our own species sickens me.
Halibut said:
To be honest, the woman selling her kids almost made me teary-eyed. ssj, was there a situation in that picture where stuff like that was common or what?
The part that kind of made me sad was when the mother said that she had absolutely no regrets with the sale!
 
Anti-Nazi rally at the old Madison Square Garden, 1937:
MSG_III_1937_Anti-Nazi_Rally.jpg

Make sure you don't fall off! President Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir with their backs to Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1903:
3a11256v.jpg

Flappers on a roof in Chicago, December 11, 1926:
244235.149flapper1.jpg

"GO FAIR!" October 21, 1975:
fisk1.jpg

 
Halibut said:
To be honest, the woman selling her kids almost made me teary-eyed. ssj, was there a situation in that picture where stuff like that was common or what?
This happened a lot back then.
TropicalNards112233 said:
I would like to kindly ask you people to put your images in spoiler tags. This page is a pain in the ::dolphin noise:: to load on mobile.
Give me $26,056 doubloons and I will.
 
Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins, from Vietnam (then Siam) in the late 1800s (they were the origin of the term "Siamese twins")
NG_June_2006_Eng_Chang_07_small.jpg

Race riots in Watts, Los Angeles, August 1965:
Wattsriots-burningbuildings-loc.jpg

Bobby Orr. The goal. May 10, 1970. Need I say more?
Orr.jpg

And allow me to insert one that has a personal connection to me: Here's the Wakefield Lower Common in 1921.


I don't know about you, but I like to post four of these at a time: one strictly historical (positive or negative), one interesting or astounding, maybe one to do with sports, and one with a personal connection to myself, maybe someplace I've been or know well at an earlier time.
 
Back
Top