The first part of our series was so popular that even 9gag stole it, upside down (we guess they are working on Part 2 right now, which means turning it into a jpg with their logo). Our answer: we’ll try to come up with a better one. Please share widely if you like it, so that they cannot take us down again.
Manchester policemen, 1850
Queen Victoria with her children, 1852. She scratched her own face off personally, as she wasn’t satisfied with the picture.
Neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne electrocuting a man’s face to study his facial muscles. France, 1862
Marathon runners at the first modern age Olympics in Athens, 1896
Korean nobleman and his carriers, cca. 1900
Japanese mobile vendor selling baskets and brooms, 1901
Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. holding up Charlie Chaplin in front of a huge crowd to promote Liberty Bonds. Wall Street, New York, 1918
A game of human chess with real soldiers. St. Petersburg, Russia,1924
Two ladies improve their aim by taking golf lessons from a ‘robot’ trainer, 1925
Gay club in Berlin, 1930
Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett signing a baseball for Sonny Capone, the son of Al Capone, 1931
Children celebrating Hitler’s birthday, 1934
DKW advertisement, 1935
In 1936, Hitler asked artillery-maker Gustav Krupp to build an artillery piece to defeat the new French Maginot Line. Krupp suggested a giant cannon with an 80-cm (31-inch) caliber. Hitler ordered two.
SS troops take a rest during the Berlin Olympics, 1936
The ‘walking machine’ at the National Bureau of Standards, for testing wear on shoes, 1937
Gas-driven taxis in a street in Birmingham, 1940.
A C-46 cargo plane is loaded by elephants somewhere in South-East Asia, 1940’s
A German soldier is eyed suspiciously by a young french girl, 1941
Heinrich Himmler listens to a Norwegian musician in his home, Norway, 1941
Bucharest, Romania, 1942
A Victory Garden in a Bomb Crater, London, 1943
U.S. landing ship tanks are seen from above as they pour military equipment onto the shores of Leyte island, to support invading forces in the Philippines, 1944 (AP Photo)
J.D Salinger working on ‘Catcher in the Rye’ during the Allied invasion of France. When he landed on the beaches of Normandy, he carried 6 chapters of the book in his pack, c. 1944 – 45
Gas mask being fitted to a mule by a Sikh soldier of the British Indian Army, c. 1939 – 1945
German soldiers watching footage of concentration camps, 1945
The only picture ever taken of the Colditz cock, a glider made of bed-sheets, floorboards and other material. It was built by British prisoners of war to try and escape the maximum security prison. 1945
A dove landing on Fidel Castro’s shoulder during an important speech. This landing has been the subject of much speculation, controversy, and worship. January 8, 1959
Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family, revisiting the attic they spent the war in, 1960
A hotline for getting directions before satnav, 1963
A British Army Ammunition Technical Officer approaches a suspect device in Northern Ireland, 1970
Alice Cooper with Salvador Dali, 1983
Muammar Gaddafi meets Bulgarian communist leader Todor Zhivkov in Libyan desert, 1984
Princess Diana dancing with John Travolta at the White House, 1985
Manute Bol and Muggsy Bogues, the tallest and shortest NBA players (both in Baltimore Bullets), 1987
Man trying to open the door of his cell in Kigali during the genocide in Rwanda, 1994
The last flight of Endeavor near Golden Gate Bridge, June 2011
See also:
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of World History Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of US History Part 1, Part 2
Sources: Reddit, RLT, Popular Mechanics
Oh My GODNESS!! Very awesome collection …
Thanks for this beautiful collection.
I picked up some and tweeted them, obviously mentioning this site.
grazie
carlo
Good images, but some of these photos are very strong
Alice Cooper pic was NOT 1983 it was the early 70s.
Images with a strong emotional impact …
Merry Christmas.
Washington Bullets, not Baltimore. They moved to the DC area in 1973.
Nice collection!
Photocredits for every shot would be a must though.
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