Defining Historical Moments Remembered through Great Old Photos (30 pics)

Posted in       2 Aug 2013       16260       4 GALLERY VIEW

German flying ace, The Red Baron and his dog, 1916

Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, 1894

Armstrong post-moonwalk

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South Nov. 14th, 1960

Soviet soldiers take a break to watch an acrobatic show on the march towards Berlin 1945

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Three archers, Japan, ca.1860-1900

Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan, 1945

Joseph and magda Goebbels on their wedding day. Best man- Adolf Hitler, 1931

Samurai ca. 1860-1880

"The Long Walk" British Army EOD Tech approaches a suspect device Date Unknown

Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents inspect a "lumber truck". Los Angeles, 1926

Jewish refugees, approaching allied soldiers, become aware that they have just been liberated, April, 1945

JFK and LBJ during the Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962

Powder Monkey on the USS New Hampshire, 1864

Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan in the generals tent near Antietam battlefield October 3, 1862

Hitler looking at the Gustav Railway gun, 1942

Martin Luther King Jr removing a burned cross from his front yard with his son at his side. Atlanta Ga 1960

The Kennedy trio in the mid 30s as teenagers John, Bobby and Teddy

9 Kings in Windsor Castle, May 20th, 1910

Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender of Japan, 1945

Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard, Poland, 1948

First picture ever taken in space, 1946

A Japanese family returning home from a relocation center camp in Hunt, Idaho on May 10, 1945

Prohibition- Alcohol barrels to be burned, 1924

The headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist party in Italy, 1934

The first official riders in New York Citys first subway, 1904

Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York, 1918

A vac sealed sachet of one of the astronauts children during Apollo 11


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Peanut 11 year s ago
#23..doomed from birth. I wonder what happened to the poor girl. :(
       
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busyiz 11 year s ago
#30 is not from Apollo 11. Charlie Duke put that picture of his family down on the Moon during Apollo 16. (I worked with him once.) He told me it shriveled up pretty much right away because of the very high heat on the sunlit surface.
       
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dontbugme 11 year s ago
#5 "Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a *European-American* elementary school in the South Nov. 14th, 1960" you racist mo-fo.
       
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MrTroll 11 year s ago
#6 My great-grandfather was somewhere there :3
       
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