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In the vast timeline of our planet, humans have left behind countless stories, many of which never made it into our history books. Sure, we’ve learned about major events and figures, but there’s so much more that often goes unnoticed.
While we can’t know everything that has ever happened, discovering new bits of history can still be exciting.
That’s where Instagram accounts like ‘History Season’ come in, sharing fascinating photos and facts from the past. We’ve gathered some of their most intriguing posts below. Scroll down to check them and upvote your favorites!
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#1
Portraits of a father and son having fun. Ca. 1910s.
Richard Thomas 1 year ago
What is amazing about this is in old photographs you used to have to just sit there a while, which is why in many people looked so stiff and stuffy in them
Christina Hughes 1 year ago
In a hundred years I hope people still look at this and feel the sheer joy and love between father and son.
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#2
An Apsaroke mother and her child. Montana, USA. 1908.
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
She most probably did all the needlework she and the baby are wearing, too. (It was a point of honor.)
Yuffa Kinazzo 1 year ago
Yep. Then they were given smallpox or slaughtered by "settlers " or the US government
#3
Two Victorian ladies making a fancy snow lady. Pangbourne, England. Published in Strand Magazine in 1892.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Did you meet the new lady up the street? I introduced myself, but she just gave me the cold shoulder.
Sane Minotaur 1 year ago
It's chilling how she can just ignore people like that.
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Adam Jeff 1 year ago
Victorians could 'photoshop' too. There was a bit of a craze for making fake composite pictures by cutting and gluing negatives. I'd guess that's what this is.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
This is a true statement, but I choose to not believe it XD
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Greenmantle 1 year ago
Rarely do you find pictures of Victorian ladies having fun for the sake of it
#4
Three lacemakers at work. Brittany, France. Ca. 1920.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My maternal grandmother tried to teach me how to tat when I was a girl. Tat was a mistake!
Rob Miles 1 year ago
You should have learned so that you could have made a carpentry tool and a feline. Then you could say "I tat a saw and pussy cat"
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I've actually crocheted lace. It took hours to get a tiny circle. I can't imagine how many days they were working on this.
Aidan Pite 1 year ago
It's Irish lace, so all of the motifs were made separately and then stitched together. It's entirely possible that there were a lot more people who worked on all the different pieces or who do the final finishing work in shifts. Because yeah, this is definitely a 100+hr project. I made an Irish lace altar cloth for my mom a few years back, it was only about 2'x3' and still took me the better part of a year.
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Captain Flapjack 1 year ago
I guess this is a dieing/dead art. I saw one appraised on an an antique show and it was worth mad monies.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
The advent of lace-making machines killed off the industry. Children would begin to learn how to make lace as young as 5 so that as they grew, their skill would rise to professional level.
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Charles Davenport 2 weeks ago
I saw this being done in Italy during the '60s.... as a child. I was so riveted by the ladies working so fast, talking and hardly looking at what they were doing, my parents practically had to drag me away from watching them. I'm sure they thought I was some insane American kid.... but in 73 years, I have NEVER seen anything like it on the streets since.
#5
Joe Fortes knoen as Vancouver's first official lifeguard. Originally from Barbados, Joe saved dozens of lives. English Bay Beach, Vancouver, Canada. 1905.
Nel Cameron 1 year ago
Home. doesn't look like that now! But, more lifeguards thanks to this great man.
#6
French painter Claude Monet by his waterlily pond in Giverny, France. 1905.
Oerff On Tour 1 year ago
I saw this picture and another one of Monet in a special exhibit in Lille last spring
Kombatbunni 1 year ago
I once found a kids pop-up book that was for Claude Monet’s most famous paintings. Got it for my daughter more than 15 years ago and she still has it. Never seen another copy since
#7
A girl of Filipino and Chinese heritage poses for a portrait. Manila, Philippines. Ca. 1875. The Spanish rulers of the Philippines used the term “Mestizo de Sangley” to describe people of mixed Chinese and native Filipino ancestry. Spain ruled the Philippines from 1565 to 1898.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Thank you for providing the correct information. For a while this was floating around the internet with the story that it's a "Native American Princess". It is not.
Westy 1 year ago
The fan alone is such a give away that she was not Native American, but the internet likes to internet.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
Mestizo: mongrel or half-breed. I know it was a different time with different social morays, but... oof.
#8
Facade of department store with five floors covered in coats. As part of a coat sale and early marketing stunt. The campaign attracted so many customers that the police had to step in. All the coats were sold. Copenhagen, Denmark. 1936.
#9
American photographer Margaret Bourke-White on top off the Chrysler Building. New York, USA. 1930. Photo by: Oscar Graubner. Bourke-White was the first American female war photojournalist.
Ma Cheverez 1 year ago
To: CARL ROBERTS, cajones are big boxes but cojones with an "o" means testicles.
Bobby Edler 1 year ago
She is pretty brave. I couldn't/ wouldn't do that if you paid me a million bucks.
#10
Canadian police officer guarding a pharmacy during a flood. Galt, Ontario, Canada. 1974.
martin734 1 year ago
I have a feeling that sort of thing would be considered rather impolite and not done in Canada, unless the looting was done by the geese, they are just ar*eholes.
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#11
A message-carrying pigeon being released from a port-hole in the side of a British Mark V tank, during WW1. Near Albert, France. 1918.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
'No, sir, we did not see your delicious, plump-breasted pigeon.'
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AtomKat 1 year ago
Sometimes my brain sadly reminds me of how we domesticated and then abandoned pigeons and now so many people hate them.
SugarBoogies 1 year ago
I was just having a conversation with my daughter all about that
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Ila in Maine 1 year ago
I've always wondered if the birds had PTSD, if they lived through the war. I have rescued birds, and they certainly have had PTSD from the abuse they went through.
#12
Photo of Charles C. Ebbets. The photographer behind the famous “lunch atop a skyscraper” photo taken in 1932. Ebbets wasn’t officially recognised as the photographer until 2003. New York, USA. 1932.
Westy 1 year ago
Ummm, Sir..., Sir...your foot is dangling. And you're giving me anxiety 90+ years later.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago (edited)
His heel is hooked over the beam f****e. I betcha. Edit: censoring "f l a n g e"? What naughty meaning could it have?
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
But he was officially recognized as meshuggeneh since at least 1932.
TheNewJenBrady 1 year ago
The person taking this photo is unknown. It was another photographer hired for that photoshoot. There were multiple photographers up there that day to take shots of the group of men eating lunch on that skyscraper beam. That's why it took so long for the photographer of the famous shot to be recognized for his pic: because of the multiple photographers and many photos taken that day from different angles
#13
The interior of a lounge train car from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Montreal, Canada. Ca. 1886.
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
I have a male friend, Ray, who would just LOVE this picture as he is a model train buff!
#14
A couple roller-skating. Berlin, Germany. Ca. 1905.
ThisIsMyDisplayName 1 year ago
They're all very serious and Germanic-looking - "We are having the recreational fun now, yes?"
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Imagine roller skating in a dress with that massive hat! Must have been hard.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
...displaying the faces Germans make when they have fun. I am German, I can say this 🙃
Sally Moen 1 year ago
Wierd to think about people roller-skating around on those old metal wheels. The kind that attached to a shoe or boot, what I learned on, had a key (skate key) to adjust the width and length of the skate and lock it in place while you wore it. Kids would attach these to boxes to make a homemade scooter or skateboard, you see that in old photos.
#15
Italian grocery store owned by the Ronga brothers. New York City, USA. January 1943.
Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
What's interesting to me is that as an Italian-American, he is living freely (as he should be) while we were at war with his country of origin. At the same time, Japanese-Americans, including my mother in law, were rounded up and put into detention camps and had their property and belongings confiscated. A dark stain of racism on FDR's legacy.
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boris joseph boos lamy 1 year ago
Last evening was at a supermarket in 'rich' Caracas, they had ONE such cheese package, similar to the sausage
Some-man tha or Am-i 1 year ago
I was thinking the same! In those times, people were respectful and didn't wear their hats indoors, so this leads me to believe he planned and posed for this photo versus being a candid picture.
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The 3,000 men who helped construct the 810 ft (246 m) high Chase Manhattan Bank pose for a photo near the end of the constructional work. New York City, USA. August 1964.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
Scarey to me that this is in an Historical pic section as I graduated HS in 1962.
#17
Two young children sitting in the streets of one of the worst slums in London. England. 1903.
Greenmantle 1 year ago
Dreadful to imagine the hardships and exploitation they may have experienced.
Savannah greenleaf 1 year ago
They guy looking out the window has some real creeper vibes
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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
Spitalfields I believe, now quite a nice part of London. The spital part of the name came from a shortened turn of the word hospital as there use(?) to be one there.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Children born into poverty have always suffered the cruelties of the world... and still do.
Francois 1 year ago
That poor boy 10 years later was probably drafted, sent to the trenches and became cannon fodder.
#18
An early Edwardian woman taking a mirror selfie with a Kodak Brownie box camera in 1900.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Technically, she's a Victorian woman. The Edwardian era began on January 22, 1901
DogsAreLife 1 year ago
Looks like she has a passion for photography. Lots of pictures on her shelf.
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
Let's not tell Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. Her Majesty would NOT be amused.
#19
Portrait of a Kiowa-Crow Native American mother, father, son, and daughter. Ca. 1890s. Photograph by H.G. Perry. South Dakota, USA.
Lowrider 56 1 year ago (edited)
Native Americans are so proud. It's absolutely disgusting what the government and others have done, and are still doing, to the Native Americans.
Pyla 1 year ago
no, she's just got a lot of sorrow. The west was closed by now, many were on rez's or going to be soon, and the whole "school" system for Native Americans was ramping up.
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The wife looks so resigned, as if her life doesn't make sense anymore.
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
Um...I would not choose this as their Christmas card photo. The facial expression of each family member is pained and all different from the others.
#20
Young people dancing to jazz music at the Storyville Club. Copenhagen, Denmark. 1952. Photo by Helmer Lund Hansen.
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
One woman + myriad men, an interracial couple, she's wearing pants AND smoking, dancing with reckless abandon in public to that Demon jazz music?! What is happening to all morals, scruples + decent values? How will we explain this kind of debauchery to future generations?
suuper_savvy 1 year ago
there's other women, she's just cuttin it up the hardest!
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#21
Tourist and his car at the edge of the Grand Canyon. Arizona, USA. 1914.
Chris Pool 1 year ago (edited)
Man, if I parked there I would be checking if the car is definitely in reverse about a hundred times if I drove off again.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I wonder how long it'll be before some bright spark decides it's time to go back to the "minimalist" design style?
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Aka a car design that won't keep out any weather, or even wind while driving. Maybe cars are the main thing that shouldn't go backwards in design
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The Black Gate, the spire of St Nicholas Cathedral and The Dog Leap Stairs in Newcastle, England. 1889. Photo by: Lydell Sawyer.
Broad Panda 1 year ago
I had to know... Apparently 'Dog Leap' is a historical reference to 'a narrow slip of ground between houses'
Angel 1 year ago
Thank you. Before actually reading the title, my dumb bass was looking for the dog 🤦🏻♀️
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It took me a full minute before I realized how many people were in this image - they're like ghosts.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
The Black Gate itself isn't visible in this photo, it's just around the bend in the road as Nd is the arched entrance to Castle Garth, the building immediately to the left of the cathedral spires.
MoMcB 1 year ago
Is it still there? I haven't made it to that Newcastle yet!
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Denise Indoung 1 year ago
I see the dog leap stairs sign, but I don't see any stairs. And I don't see a gate of any color. Am I taking those names to literally?
#23
American soldier shows off the helmet that saved his life during the Vietnam War. Ca. 1969.
The_one_on_the_left 1 year ago
correction: The American War. No one in Vietnam that i know of calls it the Vietnam war, nor was it the Vietnamese who started the fight with America.
#24
Contrails in the sky above St Paul’s Cathedral from a dogfight between the German Luftwaffe and the Royal Airforce during the Battle of Britain. 1940. London, England.
JimSteve 1 year ago (edited)
That's right, "contrails" not "chemtrails". Thank god the OP got it right or there would be one heckuva lotta angry people in the comments
Mark Karol-Chik 1 year ago
Exactly, however- the tin foil hat folks are already in a tizzy
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Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
I can't imagine how terrifying such a sight must've been for the locals!
#25
Spectators viewing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Gulf of Naples, Italy. 1944.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
I think it would be the Roman pantheon rather than the Greek.
Load More Replies... JimSteve 1 year ago
I remember reading about that in Spike Milligan's war memoirs. (Spike Milligan was a British comedian, Monty Python wouldn't exist without him)
Optimyst 1 year ago
I thought he was Irish, anyway, he voiced Bad Jelly the Witch over radio and it's brilliant
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King Frederick IX of Denmark showing off his tattooed upper body. The king had a passion for sailing and bodybuilding. The photo was leaked to Life Magazine in 1951.
Somebodys grandmother 1 year ago
He is the grandfather of our current King Frederik X og Denmark (we don't spel Frederik with a "c" ) who also love sailing, is a danish kind of navy seal...
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
Are we sure this isn't a photo of Raymond Burr (Perry Mason/Ironside)?
#27
Prohibition agents pour out alcohol, found during a raid on an illegal distillery, from the upper windows of a store. Detroit, USA. 1929.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Quick, someone fetch my drinkin' shoes and a bag of potato chips! And a raincoat.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
I'd bring a bucket, personally... maybe even several buckets, but no need to get greedy. Two would be best... Balanced 😁
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Chelsea McKee 1 year ago
People need recreational activities and as much as I hate alcohol politically, it's a quasi reasonable experience the public can enjoy. Most people know to enjoy within moderation, which should be pushed considering it's disadvantages compared to say Cannabis.
Ila in Maine 1 year ago
So the birds, and the rats, were very happy. Then, when the cats came along and caught the drunk rats, they may have been happy too?
#28
48 cars in a elevator parking garage in Downtown Chicago’s business district, USA. Built by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 1936
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
I wouldn't have thought the technology existed for the extreme weight. Each of those cars were as heavy as tanks.
Brenda White 1 year ago
We had one like this in Boston only 36-38 years ago. It was near state street subway station
#29
Workers trimming the tallest yew hedge in the world. It was planted in 1720 by the first Earl of Bathurst. Bathurst Estate in the Cotswolds, England. 1962.
YakFactory 1 year ago
Looked it up, and the stats are amazing.https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/72661-tallest-yew-hedge#:~:text=A%20yew%20hedge%20planted%20in,two%20men%20for%2012%20days.
#30
A group portrait taken at the wedding of Lars Eide and Gjertrud Leite in Sogndal, Norway. Ca. 1900.
paul bayer 1 year ago
I will be your king, and you will be my Queen......
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
There's always one naughty imp of a child who can't hold a pose for a minute or longer... The baby the man in the window is holding managed it.
Marie Dahme 1 year ago
I see the blurred vision of the boy behind the woman on the right. There's always one mischievous kid lol
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Russell Tilling 1 year ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if that location looks exactly the same now. Great architecture.
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
Um, is the bride the one wearing a lighter shade of black than all the guests? It's hard to tell.
Grover Kidd 1 year ago
Probably the one wearing the crown. This is the only day she gets to be different.
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#31
German troops singing around a Christmas tree in their trench on the Eastern Front during World War I. 1914.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
The Christmas Truce. A beautiful, single moment of hope in the worst war until then. There is a really sad story about a cat in the trenches during the Christmas Truce. The cat, most likely an abandoned pet, was cherished as a rat hunter, and fed regularly by both French and German troops, who called him Felix or Gaston respectively. In the Christmas Truce, a soldier attached a message to his collar, which was answered by another soldier from the opposite side. The story of the messenger cat got the attention of the sargeant, who called the captain, and the colonel, all the way to the top. The French commander, wanting to send a message to his men about "fraternizing with the enemy", had the cat arrested, put on trial and sentenced to death. Before New Year's Eve, 1914, the cat was shot as a spy.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
Which war was it that both sides called a truce on Christmas and exchanged gifts? WWI?
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Weihnachtsfrieden. That was wwi, but on the Western front. Not the Eastern front, which is what was photographed.
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Melinda Flick 1 year ago
My grandfather had stories about that. He drove an Army ambulance in WWI, and got stuck behind enemy lines one day. Shared lunch and traded some 'things'. I have a very thin German eagle in a box in my closet, and a belt.
#32
A black sea bass caught with rod and reel by Mrs. A. W. Barret. The fish weighed 416 pounds (188 kg) and had a length of 7 feet 10 inches (2.3 m). Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. 1901.
martin734 1 year ago
I think if you gave that fish to a man, it would feed him for more than a day. Maybe these are what Jesus fed the 5000 people with.
SnootWaggling Fox 1 year ago
Someone said "we only have 10 fish" but didn't clarify that they were each 400 pounds 🤣
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Kangaroo 1 year ago
Right? Way to go Mrs Barret! 😂 I wonder how many people had to help her reel it in
Load More Replies... Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
I think it might have been an early 'photoshopped' image. I've seen a couple antique postcards with giant critters on them, and the captions would say this is faked, they used )blank) to fake it out.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
I have to respectfully disagree. Those early gag postcards were quite obvious with their "Photoshop" editing (different focuses, odd shadows, different color tones, etc.). This photograph shows none of those oddities. A Google image search led to this website: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/fishermen-big-catches-old-photos/ showcasing this photo along with other fisherman of the time showing off their catches.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
I don't think it would have made very tasty fish to accompany a large portion of chips...
Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
….Why not? Serious question 😂 Google “black sea bass fish and chips” and you’ll find plenty of tasty recipes and restaurants that serve black sea bass in multiple ways, including battered and deep fried.
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Mother and son pose for a portrait. Ireland. 1890.
JoNo 1 year ago
Each time I see this I'd love to know their ages. Any guesses? Apart from 42 and 20.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
He looks to be in his 50s which would make his mother around 70-75 years old. Could be 60 & 80 also...
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Laura Deckers 1 year ago
I've read it's to keep their heads closer in height. She looks like she should be looking for a Tweety Bird...
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I thought they were married. Their precise ages would be appreciated.
Joanne Kaiser 1 year ago
I wonder what he is holding up to the camera. It must be very important to be part of the photo.
#34
29 year old Pfc. Ivan Babcock of the US Army’s 165th Signal Photo Company poses with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave during WW2. Siegan, Germany. 3 April 1945. The cave was used by the Germans as a storage room for valuable works of art. Babcock died in 1994 at the age of 77. Photo taken by: E. Braum. The photo has been colorized.
Denise Indoung 1 year ago
LOL when I saw this photo at the beginning of the article I thought it was some eccentric with a crown he made. I'm sure it's valuable and made with lots of gold and precious gems, but it isn't particularly attractive.
Helen Taylor 1 year ago
Too bad it has been colorized but it is a great photo. Would love to see the original.
#35
The control room of the German WW1 submarine SM UB-110. 1918.
Looz-ashae 1 year ago
From Reddit: "Retired submariner here with a good idea what we are looking at. These are ballast control valves. We still have the same number and types of valves onboard but since a lot of them are electro hydraulically operated you don't really see them. The crew learns were they all are and what they do just like those guys before us did. I'd have no issue serving on board. Sure, the technology isn't what it is now but the theory and principles haven't changed in 115 years of submarines."
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
That's an awful lot of valves... my damaged brain wouldn't be suited to the task.
#36
The church La Sagrada Família. Barcelona, Spain. 1905. The church is still under construction today.
The Scout 1 year ago
Not that unusual for a cathedral. The cathedral of Cologne, Germany took 632 years from laying the groundwork to the opening celebration. They expect to have the Sagrada Familia finnished by 2033.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
St. John the Divine in New York is officially finished, but you can tell by looking at it that they just gave up
Load More Replies... Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
What's amazing about this photo is that open field all around the Sagrada. Now it's dense city all around.
Oerff On Tour 1 year ago
Money. It's completely funded by private donations. No government funding, nor from the catholic church. Years before the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the government tried to get it ready in time with (partial) funding, but they would have to make substantial shortcuts on the original design. The foundation refused.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
They're not on strike, they're still on their lunch break.
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Patricia Dunn 1 year ago
The 59th Street Bridge has been "under construction" for as long as I can remember.. lol
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Amazing compared to now!!! Looks like a completely different location without the other buildings that are now there!
#37
Two young people make a stop at a gas station. 1920s. USA.
MAKtheknife 1 year ago
I wonder what they paid for a gallon of gas? I looked it up, it was about 30 cents, which would figure out to $3.87 today.
Margaret H 1 year ago
What? He didn't run out of gas down some dark lane? He's a disgrace to all young men everywhere.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
That was an old car in the 1920s. Then as now, lots of people drive old cars.
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#38
A Friedrichshafen FF.49, two-seat reconnaissance seaplane, crashed into the roof of a building. Germany. Ca. 1918-1919.
martin734 1 year ago
I like the rather redundant caption at the bottom which says "accidental landing". Ya think?
Eva Henneberg 1 year ago
I'm gonna add this to my soon to be published coffee table book titled, THINGS YOU DON'T SEE EVERYDAY!"
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Gotta long a reconnaissance officer who doesn't notice a building jumping out at him
#39
American planes fly in formation over the American and British fleets in Tokyo Bay during the surrender of Japan at the end of WW2. 2 September 1945.
David 1 year ago
It was a show of power to reenforce for any Japanese still on the fence (quite a few still thought they should have fought longer at that point), that this was the power of the US military and surrender was the right choice.
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Tanya Phillips 1 year ago
The sound of them all flying overhead would have given anyone goosebumps.
Kim Kermes 1 year ago
A tribute to their fallen brothers and celebration of the end of war. My dad was in training for the invasion after surviving Europe. They got married that spring anyway. My brothers and sister and I owe our existence to the Tuskegee Airmen and the A bombs.
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Students gathered for “Class Day” at Vassar College in the spring of 1895. New York, USA.
JoNo 1 year ago
My grandmother was born in 1892. When she was about 100 (she died at 104) I said how I'd have loved to live back when she was young because of the pretty white dresses, to which she replied "Oh, give me polyester and automatic washing machines any day" lol.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
No stain removers, ironing either with the stove heated or early electric type, wringer washers... There's a reason why they had entire days dedicated to laundry.
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Seedy Vine 1 year ago
I have always wondered if full-length gowns outside plus walking on grass equals spiders up the skirt?
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
Spiders are too smart for that. More likely ticks and fleas. Plus grass stains on the hem.
Load More Replies... Jane Hower 1 year ago
OH my, love how they are ALL slim. Gues 'fat free' and 'sugar free' wasn't necessary then. hmmmm
#41
Soviet dancers and gymnasts during a rehearsal for the opening ceremonies of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Games. Moscow, USSR. July 17, 1980.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
If you look toward the top tiers, there are a couple of platforms. If you look closely at their feet, it doesn't appear they are standing directly on the people below, but they are on some kind of stand. My guess would be a central pole with different levels to give the illusion of them standing on each other.
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Young couple drives past “Balanced Rock” in the “Garden of the Gods”. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. 1920s.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
I live near there, it's crazy how it has stayed the same as it was 100 years ago
Linda R 1 year ago
I lived in Colorado Springs in the 60's. I'm sure it hasn't changed much unless there has been some vandalism.
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Richard Graham 1 year ago
Very early Ford Model T, probably between 1908 to 1911. (Notice the kerosene side lights.)
#43
The Panama Slide in Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park. Built ca. 1908. New York City, USA.
Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
Every time period has its pros and cons but I do envy a simpler time where a simple slide was considered entertaining enough for adults.
yepyepyepuhhuh 1 year ago
I literally went down a huge event slide yesterday and a playground slide today. I'm 46. And it was fun.
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TribbleThinking 1 year ago
One ride (that you paid fi=r) was an escalator. It took you up, and that was the entire novel experience.
Vicki Thompson 1 year ago (edited)
Looks like all men, can't tell for sure but considering the era of the photo I would say they're all men.🤨
#44
The Roman Colosseum and Arch of Constantine in 1870. Rome, Italy.
sofacushionfort 1 year ago
That big plug-looking structure in the center was the Meta Sudans, a cascade fountain destroyed by Mussolini
Oops 1 year ago
I dont like the colosseum at all, their murdered people and animals the most cruel way to untertain some real sickos. Give it a good blast, or better, let people take the stones away to build something better. It made me sick when i first visited it and realising the perversion of this building.
#45
Canadian soldiers playing hockey on an ice rink constructed on the Imjingang River during the Korean War. Northern Gyeonggi-do Province, South Korea. 1952.
Nel Cameron 1 year ago
Very Canadian. Growing up, in Winter, we were never far from a place to play hockey from first freeze to late thaw.
Christina Hughes 1 year ago
My grandfather said he'd never been so cold in his life as he was in Korea
Bill Marsano 1 year ago
A Canadian colleague once said to me that Canadians begin playing hockey as soon as they find a patch of ice that is larger than a puck.
#46
Victorian couple on a tandem bicycle, circa 1890s.
Sian E 1 year ago (edited)
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I'm half crazy over the love of you, It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for two!
three norns 1 year ago (edited)
Billy, Billy, this is my answer true You're 'alf crazy if you think that I'd marry you! If you can't afford a carriage, You can't afford a marriage, And I'll be damned if I'll be crammed on a bicycle built for two!
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marianne eliza 1 year ago
Her face and hat remind me of Almira Gulch, played by Margaret Hamilton, in the Wizard of Oz. Same face shape, expression and hat type.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Am I the only one who wishes I could try this out, just to see what it feels like to pilot such a cycle?
Grover Kidd 1 year ago
Probably hoping they don't hit a rock - that would cause a faceplant.
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#47
Women working in a Canon factory. Japan, 1959.
maniacallysane 1 year ago
I read the caption before seeing the photo and thought a completely different cannon
#48
Women shopping for perfumes and jewelry at Illum department store in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1904.
Sally Moen 1 year ago
Imagine the time it took for each woman's (customer) maid to dress her hair, clothes, hat, gloves, stockings, and shoes
#49
Detonation of a nuclear bomb. Nevada Test Site, Nevada, USA. March 29, 1955. The detonation was a part of “Operation Teapot”. The operation included 14 nuclear test explosions conducted in early 1955.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Those are tripods, not teapots. I know what's what.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
I grew up in Las Vegas, just south of the test site, and it didn't affect me at all! Is that right Lyle? (speaks to second head growing out of neck)
Grover Kidd 1 year ago
And a few moments later, they were all knocked on their butts.
Load More Replies... MAKtheknife 1 year ago
Ya, and they taught us kids to hide under our desks if we had a nuclear attack. Like that would help.
Karen Ballou 1 year ago
Operation Teapot was the unclassified name for this series of nuclear tests.
Richard Thomas 1 year ago
The test site craters is still one of the most erie things you can see from Google earth
#50
Tower of Toghrul in ca. 1850s. Rey, Iran. Photo by Italian colonel and photographer Luigi Pesce. The Tower of Toghrul was constructed in the 12th century to serve as a tomb for the Seljuk ruler Toghrul who died in 1063. Toghrul was the founder of the Seljuk Empire, which spanned from modern day Turkey to Afghanistan. The tower originally had a dome at its top, which collapsed during an earthquake. Today the tower is 20 meters tall (66 ft.).
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Looks like Fred Dibnah's had a go at the bricks around the base...
Nicola Hocking 1 year ago
i love watching Fred Dibnahs videos.. I loved his TV shows
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Jennifer Brown 1 year ago
you mean the Taliban haven't blown it up like they do with every other ancient artifact or sacred site in the region?
#51
Officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, 1898 [Colorized]
JimSteve 1 year ago
"Wow, nice mousta-" *whack* "OW! Did your moustache just hit me?!?"
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
Thanks. I would have never realized that a 1898 photo in color was [colorized].
sofacushionfort 1 year ago (edited)
Those officers’ caps were nicknamed “artificial brains” The overcoats were originally wool, but by the end of the war they had to add nettle floss.
#52
A man stands infront of his new and secondhand shoe store. Portland, Oregon, USA. Circa 1916.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Slighty pedantic, I know, but wouldn't they be secondfoot shoes?
#53
The junction of Steep Street and Trenchard Street, Bristol, England. 1866. Photo by John Hill Morgan.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Steep Street was demolished and replaced with Colston Street which is less steep and wider. You can see the current corner of the two roads here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9T8bGAYDdpSxgkT8
#54
British Brigadier-General John Vaughan Campbell addressing men of the 137th Brigade (46th Division) during WW1. St. Quentin Canal, France. 2 October 1918.
Adam Jeff 1 year ago
Back when the main qualification for being a brigadier-general was to have a really loud public-school voice...
#55
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in c. 1900. The hotel was demolished 1929 and replaced by the Empire State Building. New York City, USA.
#56
The two “Kashmir Giants” posing with the American photographer James Ricalton. The photo was taken during the Durbar of 1903, held in Delhi to celebrate the succession of the British monarch King Edward VII as emperor of India.
Nikki Private Citizen 1 year ago
one of the giants stood at 7 feet 4 inches tall, while the tallest one was 7 feet 9 inches tall Read More: https://www.grunge.com/470317/heres-how-tall-the-giants-of-kashmir-really-were/
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°CORLEONE° 1 year ago
One of the Kashmir giants had a stature of 7’9″ (2.36m) tall. And the other giant had a height of 7’4″ (2.23m). As per the sources, they were twin brothers.
#57
Sergeant Ian Thomas from New Zealand smoking a pipe in the Egyptian desert during the Second World War. 1942. Photograph taken by W. A. Whitlock.
#58
Interior of a luxury train car from the Pullman Palace Car Company. USA. Late 19th century.
#59
People having fun on a Frozen Niagara Falls during the winter months. 1911.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Seen the falls in every season several times but NEVER in this state... With global warming and increased severe weather events it's quite possible we'll be seeing it again...
Roni Stone 1 year ago
Have we lost some kind of "withstand-the-cold gene" or something since then? I was cold enough to freeze over Niagara Falls, for Frosty's sake! I'd be freezing my hind end off!
#60
Maintenance worker Stan Giddings painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sydney, Australia. 18 September 1945. Photographed by Alec Iverson.
Kombatbunni 1 year ago
Side note: that bridge sways like crazy in high winds, I’ve experienced it while going over in a car last time I went to Sydney :)
Mike Morton 1 year ago
Thought he was painting some sort of miniature set or something due to the perspective of the camera lol
#61
French painter Claude Monet with his wife Alice Hoschedè. Venice, Italy. 1908.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Plot twist: they are being dive bombed in a revenge attack for the birds who lost their lives in the making of her hat
#62
Passengers onboard the Staten Island Ferry. New York, USA. 1895.
#63
A U.S. Marine slides down the marble handrail in Saddam Hussein’s palace. Tikrit, Iraq, 2003. Photo by Ashley Gilbertson. The enormous Palace contained rugs and antiquities worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The palace was built in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. The city of Tikrit had the highest number of luxurious palaces built during Saddam’s rule, somewhere between 60 and over 100.
Fabian Bernard 1 year ago
Oh, maybe the massive destruction weapons where there also ? Anyway, it really brought stability in the region, thanks again
The Scout 1 year ago
"We can prove Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!" - "How, Mr. Bush?" - "We've kept the receipes!"
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Group of men wearing an early design of the Michelin Man mascot. Berlin, Germany. 1928.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
I remember having my photo taken with a Michelin Man circa 1985, bloody thing was terrifying!
#65
A group of people stand around a car wreck. Washington D.C, USA. 1921. The photo has been colorized.
Chelsea McKee 1 year ago
Going a whole what, 25 MPH? This looks survivable, maybe a few broken bones. Let's legally lower the speed limit to 35. 😉
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
The default speed in DC is actually 20 mph....so....
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Lexi 1 year ago
It's not a woman driver it's a man, if you zoom in you can see it's a wing mirror and not hair or a silly big hat.
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Dinner party at the Hotel Astor. New York City, USA. 1904.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
But they were the important sausages in society...
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#67
A British soldier surrounded by a mountain of empty shell cases spent during a single day on the Western Front during WW1. France. 1916. Photograph by Tom Aitken.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
We've got a shell casing like that in the hallway. It's an umbrella holder now.
#68
A boy with a riding hog at a zoo. Ampthill House, Bedfordshire, England. 1914
Sian E 1 year ago
I hope that's an incredibly tame pig. Pigs have no problem eating a child, and there have been recorded incidents of this actually happening. As Bricktop said: a pig will go through bone like butter.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
As long as the pig is well fed, it shouldn't need a snack...
Load More Replies... Chelsea McKee 1 year ago
I wouldn't let that young man anywhere near a f*****g pig of that size. Even if being friendly, a little nibble from that guy is enough to do some damage.
Russell Tilling 1 year ago (edited)
I’m only holding this biggun for 2 minutes and an ice cream!
#69
Native American man overlooking a newly built railroad. About 435 miles from Sacramento, California. Ca. 1865. Photo by: Alfred A. Hart.
Pyla 1 year ago (edited)
Oh it's over by then. The Native Americans in California after the Gold Rush experienced genocide and land theft on such a scale the repercussions are still being felt in the tribes. Some are extinct.
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#70
A boy and a girl stands beside a decorated Christmas tree. Washington, D.C., USA. Ca. 1920.
Chris Pool 1 year ago
Looking at the toy's under the tree it looks like a family that was well of.
YakFactory 1 year ago
It would be lovely to have some of those toys now, especially the car behind the boy.
Mary Kelly 1 year ago
wow...that was in no way demonstrative of the avg. american family christmas at the time...
trollingergirl 1 year ago
Isn't this the most beautiful tree? Why is it not colorized? It has 2 tree tops (top left and top right). And look how nicely the integrated the living room light.
#71
Aerial photograph looking south over Manhattan. New York, USA. Ca. 1931.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Weird MAGA cesspool, you mean. Weird uneducated people eating out of the felon with weird orange makeup’s hands and believing everything he says even when it’s incredibly easy to prove him wrong. Blindly, rabidly, gleefully following his ignorance even when he called his followers like you suckers and losers. You just eat it right up and beg him for more 😂 So goddamn weird, can’t wait for Harris to win and bring sanity back to the US. No more weird creepy ugly makeup-wearing old men please 😂
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A Ford Model T U.S. Postal Service truck crashed into a tree. Boston, USA. 1927. Photo by: Leslie Jones.
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
And here I am, a Bostonian, peering in the background to see if I can figure out where it happened. (not an impossible task in this city, with so much preserved.) Given the terrain and the mansion in the background - Beacon Hill.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
Same vehicle, different skin. It's like driving a tin can down the road.
#73
An artist painting the Sacre-Coeur church. Montmartre, Paris, USA. 1946. Photo by: Ed Clark.
JimSteve 1 year ago
Apparently there's a place called Notre Dame in america as well
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A group of workers work on repainting the Eiffel Tower. 1924. Paris, France.
JoNo 1 year ago
Your "oh my" in your name couldn't be more appropriate than for this photo! :)
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Imagine the second guy from the botton: "Oy, Benoit, did you leave the bucket down there again?"
Chelsea McKee 1 year ago
I'm glad we have improved safety features for these types of employees.
#75
Caddy Mozart Johnson wears a safety device for golf courses designed to protect caddies and ball-retrievers from golf balls. California Links Golf Course, California, USA. 1920s.
#76
Boy with his bike in the snow during a cold winter in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1938.
#77
German field marshal August Von Mackensen, prominent and successful commander during WW1, photographed here in ca. 1915.
martin734 1 year ago
Yes. The "Totenkopf" was first used by the Prussian Hussar cavalry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Captain Flapjack 1 year ago
He was outspoken about some of the evils the Nazis did and they tried but could not find him disloyal to Germany. In all the photos I've seen he always has a strong presence.
Zoran Pualic 1 year ago
Yes, that was traditional uniform of Prussian Hussars and photo was taken after the Great War. However, I would be more frightened by his eyewink, watching camera (enemies, too), than by his cap. Many special forces used skull as symbol, to frightened enemies. Example: Serbian Chetniks... I think that some of the Hessian Jägerkorps (Hessen "Hunters"), used skulls too, during infamous during American Revolution? German field marshal August Von Mackensen was well-known and remembered in Serbia, quite infamous but not hated (liberated from Serbian prison after a year locked after the end of War). In 1915, he crushed Serbian Army and destroyed country, after three failed attempts of Austro-Hungarian army... Most of the brutal and massive war-crimes were done by regular Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian troops, rarely German. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Mackensen Well (again), Bored Pandas, if you are really bored - could read a little... Ciao, Zoran
#78
At the age of 10 years old George Davey was sentenced to one month’s hard labour in Wandsworth Prison for stealing two rabbits. London, England. 1872.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Or possibly "and I just know I'm going to have to do it again"
Load More Replies... Jennifer Brown 1 year ago
it probably gave him a place to sleep and 3 meals a day....which he didn't have, which is why he stole the rabbits in the first place.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago (edited)
Think the chronic shoplifters in The UK could do with some hard labour... George didn't deserve it for stealing a couple of bunnies (maybe he poached them?)
#79
A policeman holds Herbert Cockran in a headlock during his mugshot. Cockran was arrested on burglary charges. Omaha, Nebraska, USA. 1899.
#80
The first American aircraft carrier USS Langley in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA. May 1928.
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