Interesting historical photos

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A sign near the bar during a blackout
New York 1977.

 

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A sign near the bar during a blackout
New York 1977.

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Agatha Christie (1890-1976) in a dance class in Torquay. 1904. Agatha is in the center.

 

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Agatha Christie (1890-1976) in a dance class in Torquay. 1904. Agatha is in the center.

20 Belarusian writers were executed during one night 29.10.1937 by Moscow stalinist occupiers​

This photo was made in 1928, all of them were members of the literature group "Polymia" (Flame).

 

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Sisters with Santa 1963

 

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Washington, D.C., circa 1920. A Christmas tree with all the trimmings, and a Buick.

 

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Christmas in 1953

 

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"Show your photo at that time."
Leonid Brezhnev shows Wehrmacht veteran, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt his photo at the Victory Parade in 1945

A young man with his collection of guns. USA, 1959.

"Jews out!", a board game from the time of Nazi Germany, 1936.
The players took turns rolling the dice and moving their "Jews" across the map to the "collection points" for deportation.

Marine Terminal, LaGuardia Airport (New York, USA), 1940

26-year-old Margaret Roberts, in a few minutes will become Margaret Thatcher, having tied the knot with a wealthy businessman Denis Thatcher. December 13, 1951

 

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"Show your photo at that time."
Leonid Brezhnev shows Wehrmacht veteran, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt his photo at the Victory Parade in 1945

 

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A tourist from Saudi Arabia prays at the North Pole near Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker. 1990.

The crew of an Avro Lancaster bomber waiting for a takeoff command. England, October 1942.
In the foreground are carrier pigeons in yellow boxes for communication in case of emergency or radio failure.

A steam lawnmower mowing the Capitol lawn, USA, 1903.

John Lennon's 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V and George Harrison's 1966 Radford-style Mini Cooper S.

Making false heads to bait enemy snipers, Europe, 1914.

 

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Soviet soldiers examine a map during WW2. Truth be told, they look like high school teenagers.

 

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Golda Meir (1898 -1978) - Israel's first female Prime Minister (1969-1974), Minister of the Interior (1970), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1956 - 1966), Minister of Labor and Welfare (1949-1956).

 

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The first ever photograph of a bride. 1851. USA

Liquor Queue, Finland, 1944
In 1944 all liquor stores were closed for more than three months because of the war. The photo shows a queue for spirits in Oulu after the stores opened on December 12, 1944.

At the wheel of the Messerschmitt Kabinenroller, Germany, 1955.

An American soldier measures with a tape measure the caliber of the barrel of the German Dora super cannon, previously destroyed by the Germans themselves, 1945.

Opening of a moped filling station in Stockholm, Sweden. 1958 г.

 

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Uniforms for women working in military factories. The girl on the right is showing a protective bra made of plastic. United States, 1943.

Waitress, dancer, and "Bunny girl" from Playboy - Deborah Harry, long before "Blondie."

The weekly norm of butter, milk, bacon, lard, sugar, cheese, tea and jam for two people in Great Britain in 1943.
The norm varied throughout the war, but the average weekly ration for one adult was 113 g bacon and ham (about 4 thin slices), about 227 g ground beef, 57 g butter, 57 g cheese, 113 g margarine, 113 g cooking fat, 3 pints of milk, 227 g sugar, 57 g tea and 1 egg.

Sherman tank with an inflatable replica, May 20, 1944.

 

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Three german prisoners of war. 1942. The middle one is a dead ringer for Lee Harvey Oswald.

American cars of the 1950s have different taillight designs: Cadillac (red), Lincoln (green), and De Soto (black).

Explosion of a British AVRE Centurion engineer tank with full ammunition as a result of an accident. Persian Gulf, February 1991.

Christian Dior and his models, Paris, 1950.

On an alligator farm. Florence, 1900.

 

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Experimental weapons on the plane. 1917, Austria-Hungary
Instead of a machine gun, the aircraft was fitted with a bank of 10 Mauser pistols, each loaded with 20 rounds of ammunition. Thanks to a special trigger mechanism, the whole structure could fire a volley at once

Indigenous representative at the training firing of the British Bren machine gun at the training camp. New Guinea. july 15, 1943.

Personal Helicopter, 1960s

The forerunner of electronic books, 1922.
The Fiske Reading Machine, in the hand of its inventor, Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske.
The principle of the device was based on photocopying books with a strong reduction, as a result of which a rather thick volume could be "charged" into a very small volume of the device. The reading was done through the eyepiece.

Anne Lee Patterson, Miss United States, 1931

 

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Testing the strength of a pipe. Inventor sitting inside, Canada. 1920

Ku Klux Klan members about to scatter propaganda literature in flight. US. March 18, 1922.

Machine gun crew of a captured 7.92 mm MG-34 machine gun mounted on a sledge. Partisan detachment.

Hans Scholl (24, left), Sophie Scholl (21, center), and Christoph Probst (24, right), leaders of the White Rose organization (an underground resistance group active in nazi Germany. It was formed by students of the University of Munich). 1942. They were all guillotined on February 22, 1943

Fashion show of beachwear. London, 1936.

 

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Although this invention never became widespread, but in the 1950s and 1960s people bought such vending machines for whiskey on tap.

This strange historical photograph shows a street vendor selling mummies right at the Egyptian pyramids in 1865.

A simulator for "rolling fat" off the legs, 1936. Cosmetology at the dawn of its development offered very unusual ways to lose weight.

A rare shot of Sophia Loren. At the age of 16, she won Miss Elegance 1950 in the Miss Italy contest and almost immediately married a 37-year-old man.

16? Her legs and ass look lumpy like she's in her 50's! The REST of her, however....

 

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Testing the strength of a pipe. Inventor sitting inside, Canada. 1920

Ku Klux Klan members about to scatter propaganda literature in flight. US. March 18, 1922.

Machine gun crew of a captured 7.92 mm MG-34 machine gun mounted on a sledge. Partisan detachment.

Hans Scholl (24, left), Sophie Scholl (21, center), and Christoph Probst (24, right), leaders of the White Rose organization (an underground resistance group active in nazi Germany. It was formed by students of the University of Munich). 1942. They were all guillotined on February 22, 1943

Fashion show of beachwear. London, 1936.

Each year, on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine remembers the millions who died during the Holodomor, the Stalin-era famine that devastated the population in 1932-1933. Many countries consider it to have been genocide.