50 Must-See Historical Images That May Make You Want To Open A History Book Once Again

#1

1945. 10-Year-Old Stoic Japanese Boy Standing At Attention Having Brought His Dead Younger Brother To A Cremation Pyre, Nagasaki

Years Later, Joe O’donnell, The American Photojournalist Who Took This Photo, Spoke To A Japanese Interviewer About This Photograph: “I Saw A Boy About Ten Years Old Walking By. He Was Carrying A Baby On His Back. In Those Days In Japan, We Often Saw Children Playing With Their Little Brothers Or Sisters On Their Backs, But This Boy Was Clearly Different. I Could See That He Had Come To This Place For A Serious Reason. He Was Wearing No Shoes. His Face Was Hard. The Little Head Was Tipped Back As If The Baby Were Fast Asleep. The Boy Stood There For Five Or Ten Minutes. The Men In White Masks Walked Over To Him And Quietly Began To Take Off The Rope That Was Holding The Baby. That Is When I Saw That The Baby Was Already Dead. The Men Held The Body By The Hands And Feet And Placed It On The Fire. The Boy Stood There Straight Without Moving, Watching The Flames. He Was Biting His Lower Lip So Hard That It Shone With Blood. The Flame Burned Low Like The Sun Going Down. The Boy Turned Around And Walked Silently Away.”

historicalpix Report

Final score:

652points

POST

Agnes Jekyll 1 year ago

Oh my. This may be....I don't know if the photo or the explanation is sadder. So, so sad.

329points

50 Must-See Historical Images That May Make You Want To Open A History Book Once Again

1945. 10-Year-Old Stoic Japanese Boy Standing At Attention Having Brought His Dead Younger Brother To A Cremation Pyre, Nagasaki

1961. East German Soldier Ignores Orders To Let No One Pass By Helping A Young Boy Cross The Newly Built Berlin Wall, To Reunite With His Family

Anna Coleman Ladd Was An American Sculptor Who Is Best Known For Her Work Creating Prosthetic Masks For Soldiers Who Were Disfigured During World War I

The Kiss Of Life. 1967

1959. A Young French Girl Poses With Glee As She Cradles Her Cat

1976. Soviet Explorer, Nikolai Machulyak, Feeding A Polar Bear And Her Cubs With Condensed Milk And Meat, Near Cape Schmidt Off The Coast Of The Chukchi Sea

1954. Cats Stand Up On Their Hind Legs To Catch Squirts Of Milk During Milking At A Dairy Farm. Photo By Nat Farbman

Beatles Fans In 1964 And 2013. Ringo Starr Took The Top Photo From Car Window, After The High School Friends Skipped School To See The Beatles During Their First Trip To The Us In 1964

C. 1910. Native American Blackfoot Warriors At Glacier National Park, On The Shore Of St. Mary Lake, Montana. Photo By Roland W. Reed

Members Of The Red Warriors – A French Youth Anti-Fascist Street Gang That Used Violent Force To Combat The Surge Of Neo-Nazi Violence From France In The Mid To Late 1980s

Graffiti On Troops’ Helmets During The Vietnam War

1839. The Oldest Known Photographic Portrait Of A Human In The USA, Taken As Self-Image By Photography Pioneer Robert Cornelius. He Had To Remain Motionless For 10 To 15 Minutes To Capture The Photograph

Eruption Of Mount St. Helens, 1980, By Richard Lasher

C. 1910. Child Miners Photographed By Lewis Hine. Hine’s Photographs Were Instrumental In Bringing About The Passage Of The First Child Labor Laws In The United States

C. 1929. A Little Girl Hands Lilies To A Police Officer On Duty At The Porte Saint-Denis In Paris

1975. John Cleese On The Set Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Great Blizzard Of 1888, New York City

1967. Kangaroo Hits A Photographer For Trying To Photograph Him, England. Photo By Voller Ernst

1945. Boys Hanging On A Full Train After The Liberation Of Holland. Photography By Menno Huizinga

September 1945. Australian Soldiers Catch Up On News From Home After Their Release From Japanese Captivity In Singapore

1954. A Young Boy Carrying Two Bottles Of Wine Under His Arms, Rue Mouffetard, Paris. Photo By Henri Cartier-Bresson

1920s. Traditional Rwandan Hairstyle Of Amasunzu

1911. The Wreck Of The Arden Craig Off The Isles Of Scilly, West Of Cornwall. Photo By Francis James Mortimer

Grand Central Terminal In New York City, C. 1954

1894. Archaeologists And Workers Pose In Front Of The Near-Perfectly Preserved And Still-Upright Statue Of Antinous, Unearthed Near The Temple Of Apollo In The Sanctuary At Delphi, Greece

1931. German Photographer Willi Ruge Took This Photograph Seconds Before Landing During His Seven-Minute Parachute Jump From An Airplane Over Berlin

1909, Wakefield, Massachusetts. Young Members Of The Payro Family Being “Photographed” By Their Cat. Photo By Joseph C. Payro

C. 1910. Portraits Of Immigrants At Ellis Island, New York, By Augustus F. Sherman

1961. Audition For A Black Cat Role In A Low-Budget Hollywood Horror Movie

Listening To The Birds, 1885, By John Dumont

C. 1930s. A Turkish Fisherman Returns With His Booty

Powerhouse Mechanic, 1924, By Lewis Hine

1930s. A Chinese Buddhist Monk Walking On A Chain Bridge At Jiangyou Figure Hill Temple In China

1889. A Blind Man Carrying A Paralyzed Man With Dwarfism In Damascus, Syria. Photo By Italian Photographer Tancrède Dumas

Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022)

1954. Marilyn Monroe On Stage Performing For Thousands Of American Troops In Korea

1928. A War Veteran Sells Matches On The Street In Canterbury, Kent, England. Photo By Clifton R. Adams

9/11

C. 1911. Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Hong Kong, 1950s-60s By Fan Ho

C. 1917. Frozen Fountain, Washington Boulevard, Detroit

1910. Paris Motor Show At The Grand Palais In Paris

1936. The New York Central Railroad Streamliner 'Mercury' Passes Through Syracuse City Hall

C. 1860s. Studio Portraits Of Samurai Warriors

June 6, 1944. D-Day In Color

1932. Sailing Ship S.v. Penang In Millwall Docks, London, Towers Above The Poverty Of The Surrounding Housing

1930. Worker Smoking Cigarette And Carrying Bag Across Shoulders Pauses In The Middle Of Steel Beam High Above City Streets, During Construction Of The Manhattan Company Building At 40 Wall Street, New York City. Photo By Arthur Gerlach

Golden Gate Bridge Under Construction, C. 1935

1972. A Burning Wall Crumbles Down, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo By A. Abbas

1970s. Girl Licking Ice Cream And Playing With The Tip Of The Gun’s Bayonet To Elicit A Reaction From A Royal Guard Outside Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden

C. 1970s. A Math Teacher At Dana Hills High School In Southern California Explaining The Physics Of Surfing

September 11, 2001

1970s. Female Ira Fighter In West Belfast With An Ar18 Assault Rifle. Photo By Colman Doyle

1938. Coal Miner's Child Using A Hole In The Door To Enter A Bedroom With A Smoking Pipe In One Hand And A Gun In The Other In Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Photo By Marion Post Wolcott

1962. Workmen Trim The 11-Meters High Yew Hedge, Encircling Oakley Hall In Cirencester, England. The Hedge Was Planted In 1720 By The First Earl Of Bathurst

1939, Oregon. An Unemployed Lumber Worker With His Wife. Photo By Dorothea Lange

Original Caption: “School Leaver Bryn Owen Aged 17 With His Vespa Scooter, Which Has 34 Mirrors And 81 Lights, All Bought With His Pocket Money. Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, 1983.”

C. 1911. Telephone Pole In Pratt, Kansas

The 2800 Years Old Kiss. Estimated To Be Buried Since 800 Bc, These Human Skeletons, Seemingly In An Embrace, Were Unearthed In 1972 At The Teppe Hasanlu Archaeological Site In Iran

C. 1865. Samurai, Yokohama, By Felice Beato

1888. Mullen's Alley, Cherry Hill, New York By Jacob Riis

1941. An Unauthorized Photo Of Joseph Stalin, Taken Inside The Kremlin At The Very Moment He Was Informed That The Germans Were About To Take Kiev, Beginning Their Invasion Of The Soviet Union

C. 1918. Inside A German Ub-110 Submarine

First Class Of Swissair In The 1960s

1957. A Teen Girl At An Elvis Presley Concert At The Philadelphia Arena In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1966. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach And Lee Van Cleef On Location For The Climactic Finale At Sad Hill Cemetery During The Filming Of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

1927. U.S. Navy's Airship Los Angeles (Zr-3) In A Near-Vertical Position, After A Turbulent Wind From The Atlantic Flipped The 658-Foot Airship On Its Nose, While She Was Moored At The High Mast At Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey

C. 1910s. Carrier Pigeons Wearing Miniature Camera, Invented By German Inventor Julius Neubronner, And Aerial Photographs Captured By These Pigeon Cameras

1920s. Racetrack On The Rooftop Of Fiat’s Lingotto Factory In Turin, Italy

1923. Pierre Labric Rides His Bicycle Down The Stairs Of The Eiffel Tower. He Won A Bet, But Was Arrested By The Police

1970s-80s. Photos Of New York City’s Subway System, From Swiss Photographer Willy Spiller’s Collection Hell On Wheels

Kearny Street, San Francisco, 1952, By Fred Lyon

Vivian Maier Was A Full-Time Nanny Who Worked For Different Families In The 1950s And 1960s, Mainly In Chicago And New York, But She Also Happened To Be A Photographer By Hobby

1945. The Final Moments Of A Japanese Dive Bomber, After Being Hit By Anti-Aircraft Fire From The Uss Hornet

1983. Dr. Fukushi Katsunari With A Wet Specimen From The Preserved Japanese Skin Tattoo Collection At Medical Pathology Museum Of Tokyo University

1940s. New Year's Hangovers, New York

1893. Princeton University Students After The Annual Freshman-Sophomore Snowball Fight. It Was Common For Students To Pack Rocks Inside Their Snowballs

Early 1900s. Workers Pose With Anchor Chains Of Rms Mauretania

1958. Jimmy Armstrong Aka The Dwarf Clown At Clyde Beatty Circus In Palisades, New Jersey. From Photographer Bruce Davidson’s Series ‘Circus’