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Mad Season · Jul 20, 2015

Ghandi’s letter to Hitler, 1939

The original design for Mount Rushmore, 1923

Last public execution in the United States (Kentucky, 1936)

Last photo taken of the Titanic before it sank, 1912

Hellen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin, 1919

“Jackie” the Lion, recoring the MGM roar 1928

Tesla sitting behind his “Magnifying Transmitter”, 1899

The Great Manta weighed over 5,000 pounds and was caught in Brielle, NJ, 1933

Massive crowds gather for Woodstock, 1969

An Empire State builder hanging on a crane above New York City, 1925

Nuclear Bomb “Shadow” in Hiroshima, Japan 1945

Partially excavated Sphinx in Egypt, 1878

Men celebrate the end of prohibition, December 5, 1933

American corporal aims a Colt M1895 on top of an elephant during WW1, 1914

Men stand in a 45,000 ton steel pipe over the Hoover Dam

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

All-female flight crew, WWII.

The “Punt Gun”, which could shoot over a pound of ammunition at a time, rests on the shoulder of a young man

A young girl receiving animal therapy, 1956.

The inventor of basketball, James Naismith and his wife.

William Harley and Arthur Davidson, 1914 with their motorcycles

Cowlick · Jul 20, 2015

Not rare -- quite famous, actually -- but this one always gets me.

Construction workers just chilling 800 feet above the ground in 1932. Because fuck safety.

Speevy · Jul 20, 2015

If this works like Pinnochio I'd get one.

MMarston · Jul 20, 2015

Mad Season said:
Tesla sitting behind his Magnifying Transmitter, 1899

brb gonna watch The Prestige again

unholyrevenger72 · Jul 20, 2015

Auto Polo: A Sport for men

Bartitsu Victorian Era Gentleman's Martial Art

Pastry · Jul 20, 2015

Cowlick said:
Not rare -- quite famous, actually -- but this one always gets me.

Construction workers just chilling 800 feet above the ground in 1932. Because fuck safety.

I don't know if it's the case for this particular photos but most of the photos you see like this were actually staged and they weren't in any danger.

Jharp · Jul 20, 2015

unholyrevenger72 said:
Auto Polo: A Sport for men

So Fury Road was totally a real thing.

Trojita · Jul 20, 2015

Are there any Rare Pepe?

Lincoln and Washington totally look like they are about to kiss.

These pictures are cool.

Atraveller · Jul 20, 2015

Jharp said:
So Fury Road was totally a real thing.

lol

Kallor · Jul 20, 2015

Al Capones soup kitchen during the Great Depression, Chicago, 1931:

The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamuns tomb, 1922:

Trench rats killed by a terrier, 1916:

I want a terrier now!

Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, 1937:

Lady in a litter being carried by her slaves slaves, Brazil, 1860:

Loyalty oath of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938:

Einsteins desk photographed a day after his death:

Ahh, that feeling of looking over someones stuff after they are gone and wondering what they might have been thinking.

DeadlyParasite · Jul 20, 2015

Kallor said:
Loyalty oath of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938:

That's both creepy and ominous.

red731 · Jul 20, 2015

That letter from Ghandi to Hitler.

LookAtMeGo · Jul 20, 2015

Wright brothers first flight.

One of the last known photos of a fully armored Samurai.

The earliest known photograph to be taken with a camera. It was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in the Burgundy region of France.

Switch Back 9 · Jul 20, 2015

I don't understand that elephant picture. As far as I know, there weren't any American soldiers in Sri Lanka in 1914, and it certainly wasn't anything to do with the first world war.

Rizific · Jul 20, 2015

Mad Season said:
A young girl receiving animal therapy, 1956.

she's also receiving ventilation with that chest cuirass. That form of ventilation is still used today. Works by essentially creating a seal on the patients chest and applying a negative pressure resulting in expansion of the lungs. As a respiratory therapist, I found that pic pretty cool.

alfredofroylan · Jul 20, 2015

Walt Disney's animators strike of 1941

Lamel · Jul 20, 2015

King tut's seal is cool. For thousands of years it was unseen - the last time someone touched it was millennia ago.

Who · Jul 20, 2015

Man the early 1900's seems like such a magical time.

Kastrioti · Jul 20, 2015

First pic is Pancho Villa and U.S. General and war veteran John Pershing. Though adversaries you can tell there is a mutual respect amongst battle hardened warriors.

First saw that pic in a History of Mexico college class I took. Fascinating given the historical circumstances at the time.

GhaleonEB · Jul 20, 2015

Pastry said:
I don't know if it's the case for this particular photos but most of the photos you see like this were actually staged and they weren't in any danger.

That's my understanding with this photo. I read an article about it a few years ago showing the same area from alternate angles. That beam was directly over part of the building, which you can't see from how that photo is framed. (Though, note the beams sticking out at the very bottom - they extend under where they are sitting.) While up high, they were not dangling over the side of the building.

Mohonky · Jul 20, 2015

You have to admit, those Nazi's knew how to put on a spectacle. I mean, if you want to look all powerful nothing quite comes across as well as those big theatres and monolithic designs drapped in red. Its actually kind of awe inspiring, I would imagine it looked pretty amazing in person.

Looking back on it now though it is a pretty ominous looking sight knowing what was to come.

Crimsonclaw111 · Jul 20, 2015

Mohonky said:
You have to admit, those Nazi's knew how to put on a spectacle. I mean, if you want to look all powerful nothing quite comes across as well as those big theatres and monolithic designs drapped in red. Its actually kind of awe inspiring, I would imagine it looked pretty amazing in person.

Looking back on it now though it is a pretty ominous looking sight knowing what was to come.

Nazi architecture and symbolism is both awe inspiring and fearsome. It's fascinating.

SwiftDeath · Jul 20, 2015

Apparently Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right in 1967

This is supposdely a photo taken on the first day of the changeover

MMarston · Jul 20, 2015

Jharp said:
So Fury Road was totally a real thing.

I say! It's quite a lovely, lovely day, ain't it old sport?

More_Badass · Jul 20, 2015

Mad Season said:
Nuclear Bomb Shadow in Hiroshima, Japan 1945

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

uncelestial · Jul 20, 2015

Kastrioti said:
First pic is Pancho Villa and U.S. General and war veteran John Pershing. Though adversaries you can tell there is a mutual respect amongst battle hardened warriors.

First saw that pic in a History of Mexico college class I took. Fascinating given the historical circumstances at the time.

My family's land was taken by Pancho Villa and they fled Mexico to America in the early part of the 20th century. They came penniless. Through a couple of business connections and hard work, by the mid-20s they were rich again. Then, lost it all again in the big crash at the end of the decade. My grandfather was never able to afford retirement and died working as an accountant.

So basically fuck this guy. Though, living in America is pretty nice.

WanderingWind · Jul 20, 2015

Rizific said:
she's also receiving ventilation with that chest cuirass. That form of ventilation is still used today. Works by essentially creating a seal on the patients chest and applying a negative pressure resulting in expansion of the lungs. As a respiratory therapist, I found that pic pretty cool.

You guys are fucking heroes. Thank you.

More_Badass · Jul 20, 2015

The Black Sunday dust storm descending on a town

Dunedain_Ranger · Jul 20, 2015

Dang these are amazing

dehydratedbabies · Jul 20, 2015

Mad Season said:
A young girl receiving animal therapy, 1956.

This is my favorite, thanks OP!

More_Badass · Jul 20, 2015

From another historical photo thread

And the scale and scope of D Day never ceases to amaze

Nicktendo86 · Jul 20, 2015

I don't get it, that pic of a Empire State builder hanging from a ball in the op, is that not the Empire State Building in the background?

Lulu23 · Jul 20, 2015

Nicktendo86 said:
I don't get it, that pic of a Empire State builder hanging from a ball in the op, is that not the Empire State Building in the background?

That's the Chrysler building.

Nicktendo86 · Jul 20, 2015

Lulu23 said:
That's the Daimler building.

Thanks!

reckless · Jul 20, 2015

Just trying to find a sniper in Vietnam...

Switch Back 9 · Jul 20, 2015

Nicktendo86 said:
I don't get it, that pic of a Empire State builder hanging from a ball in the op, is that not the Empire State Building in the background?

edit: nevermind.

xkramz · Jul 20, 2015

holy shit thanks for the pics bro the MGM one is amazing

this one always gets to me

ManUnkindH · Jul 20, 2015

What's that Ghandi letter to Hitler say? I can't read the picture, is too small.

More_Badass · Jul 20, 2015

Joe Kittinger setting the record for highest skydive

And Felix Baumgartner breaking the record, because the GIF always makes my stomach drop

dehydratedbabies · Jul 20, 2015

Clydefrog · Jul 20, 2015

Lamel said:
King tut's seal is cool. For thousands of years it was unseen - the last time someone touched it was millennia ago.

Yeah, I can't stop looking at it. Amazing.

watershed · Jul 20, 2015

Cool photos!

Terra Firma · Jul 20, 2015

It's spelled Gandhi. You can even tell from his signature...

SwiftDeath · Jul 20, 2015

Photo is of 9 reigning kings. Taken in 1910 at the funeral of King Edward VII.

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nine-kings-one-photo/

In May 1910, European royalty gathered in London for the funeral of King Edward VII. Among the mourners were nine reigning kings, who were photographed together in what very well may be the only photograph of nine reigning kings ever taken. Of the nine sovereigns pictured, four would be deposed and one assassinated. Within five years, Britain and Belgium would be at war with Germany and Bulgaria. Only five of the nine monarchies represented in the photo still exist today.

Standing from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire, King George I of The Hellenes (Greece) and King Albert I of the Belgians (Belgium). Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King-Emperor George V of the Great Britain and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

Lazulic · Jul 20, 2015

anne frank's 10th birthday party gathering with her friends. she is second from the left.

one of the first underwater photographs, 1893

and some 1914 yearbook quotes

credits to this amazing twitter, they should just be linked in the op

unholyrevenger72 · Jul 20, 2015

Kastrioti said:
First pic is Pancho Villa and U.S. General and war veteran John Pershing. Though adversaries you can tell there is a mutual respect amongst battle hardened warriors.

First saw that pic in a History of Mexico college class I took. Fascinating given the historical circumstances at the time.

LOL respect they were straight up Bros when Pershing was sent to capture Villa, he suddenly became as inept as a Stormtrooper chasing Villa around the desert at a speed that could only be called comfortable

Engell · Jul 20, 2015

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

From back to front and from left to right : Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin, Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson

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

ClivePwned · Jul 20, 2015

Lazulic said:
credits to this amazing twitter, they should just be linked in the op

Don't the guys behind this basically tweet these without attribution or payment?

Somnium986 · Jul 20, 2015

Kallor said:
Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, 1937:

Loyalty oath of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938:

Pics of Nazi Germany are so damn eerie.

Lazulic · Jul 20, 2015

ClivePwned said:
Don't the guys behind this basically tweet these without attribution or payment?

hell i dunno

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