HISTORICAL PHOTOS FROM POINTS OF VIEW YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
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While a photo can be worth a thousand words, historical photos are worth so much more than that. A good historical photo can throw us into a different time, enabling us to empathize with a particular moment that is otherwise hard to imagine. We gathered some amazing photos that capture moments that are worth reflecting on. All of the photos are real, with no photo-shopping or editing whatsoever.
The Blue Tattoo
Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old Mormon pioneer who traveled west toward Zion in 1851. On her way, she was captured by Yavapai Indians who murdered her family and made her their slave. She lived as a slave for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. Even though she was happy among the Mohaves, at 19 she was ransomed back to white society. She became instantly famous, but the price of fame was high and the pain of her ruptured childhood lasted a lifetime.
First Class
Air hostess and steward serving Scandinavian country style buffet, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, 1969.
Open-air Schools
A forgotten age of open-air schools in
the Netherlands, 1957.
Shame
German prisoners of war in American camps are shown footage of German concentration camps, 1945.
Murder by sword
Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Asanuma in Tokyo, as it was captured on live television in 1960.
Break Down
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson listens to a tape sent by Captain Charles Robb (his son-in-law) from Vietnam, 1968.
Relief
The wives of the astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission, the moment they heard their husbands voices from orbit, 1968.
Deadwood, 1876
The settlement of Deadwood began illegally in the 1870s on land which had been granted to Native Americana. In 1874, Colonel George Armstrong Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills and announced the discovery of gold on French Creek near present-day Custer, South Dakota. This announcement triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush and gave rise to the new and lawless town of Deadwood.
Easter Eggs
U.S. soldiers of 969th Field Artillery Battalion decorate shells they're delivering to the front line in Germany, 1944.
Si Si Si
The headquarters of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party in Rome, 1934.
Polluted Skies
1966: Before the creation of the EPA, New York was one of America's most polluted cities.
Math on the Pavement
Female Soviet college students studying for their exams in a park in the late 1960s.
Satisfied Audience
Marilyn Monroe performing for the thousands of allied troops in Korea, February 11th, 1954.
Looking for employment in 1930
"I know 3 trades, I speak 3 languages, fought for 3 years, have 3 children and no work for 3 months. But I only want one job."
Unexpected Kiss
Hitler Reacts to Kiss from Excited American Woman at the Berlin Olympics, August 15, 1936.
The Snipers
Female Snipers of the 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, 1945.
Entertaining
Private James Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1962.
Safe Sunbathing
Ruth Lee flies a Chinese flag while sunbathing on her day off in Miami - December 15th, 1941. Lee, who worked as a hostess at a Chinese restaurant at the time, flew the flag so that she would not be mistaken for Japanese in the wake of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor a week earlier.
Not the Traditional Cruise
Thousands of Albanian refugees arrive in Bari, Italy to escape the collapse of communism in 1991.
Modern Art
Two girls more engrossed with the air vent grate than the modern art on the walls of the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963.
U.S. Marines
U.S. Marines hit rough water as they leave their LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain 1943.
The last photograph of the Titanic afloat, 1912
This photograph was taken by John Morrogh at around 2 PM on April 11th 1912 as Titanic was leaving Queenstown, Ireland. It's confirmed that this is the last photo of the famous liner.
Babies on board!
Mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries at the end of the Vietnam War.
Burst of joy?
The photo, titled by the author "Burst of joy" or the "Outbreak of Joy," won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Contrary to appearances, however, it brings with it hidden sadness. Three days earlier, Lt. Col. Stirm was released from Vietnamese captivity and received a letter from his wife Loretta (pictured on the right from the second), in which she informed him that she met another man and wants to divorce him.
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