Interesting historical photos

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U.S. Navy anti-submarine Patrol airships at an East Coast base, January 1943.

A dying child in the Warsaw ghetto, 1941.

Children on homemade wheelbarrows carry the luggage of German soldiers on vacation to the railway station, Orel, USSR, May 1943.

The scenery of the TV series "Friends".

7-year-old Rosie at an oyster cutting in Bluffton, South Carolina. The picture was taken in February 1913, by which time Rosie had been working for 3 years

 

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Charlotte Greenwood demonstrates stretching at MGM Studios, USA, 1928.

Punks of New York, 1981.

The moose "Stolta", who once participated in racing, Sweden, 1908

The rays of anti-aircraft searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942. They help anti-aircraft gunners to fire on German bombers.

Women of Afghanistan, 1970s.

 

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Prince Arthur, London, July 22, 1874.
Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur (1850-1942), the first Duke of Connaught and Straharna, later Field Marshal and Governor-General of Canada in a fairy Prince costume for the Prince and Princess of Wales costume ball at Marlborough House.

The Eagles, 1975

Workers lay a road on 28th Street, New York, October 2, 1930.

Surfers, Santa Monica, USA, 1935.

A girl and penguins on a walk around the London Zoo, England, 1937.

 

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The largest Nazi rally outside Germany, Buenos Aires, 1938.

Sports Soviet car ZIS-101-"Sport", 1939.

An American marine holds a child in his arms, taken out from under the rubble during the clearing of caves from the Japanese on the island of Saipan, summer 1944.

"Jaguars" at the British Air Force base in Coltishall.

Russian Cruiser "Gromoboy", 1901. Participated in the Russian-Japanese war and the WWI

 

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Emergency ascent, the so-called "killer whale jump", of the German submarine U-427. The picture was taken through a periscope, 1943.

Strongman Eugene Sandow, 1910-e.
at the beginning of the XX century, his performances caused women the same delight as in the 60s concerts of "The Beatles". Arnold Schwarzenegger also has several figurines depicting a bodybuilder.

French fishermen inspect the bodies of dead American soldiers, Normandy, France, June 1944.

French President Mitterrand and German Chancellor Kohl on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun.

Two young girls taken into the militia from a refugee camp for guerrilla warfare in Rhodesia, Zambia, 1978.

 

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Queen of blueberries, 1955.
Pictures of naked girls in a food entourage are one of the popular advertising techniques of the USA of the 50s.
Photographer: Hal Mathewson.

17-year-old Pele before the 1958 World Cup, Sweden.

Dolph Lundgren and Grace Jones, 1980s.

Children walk among a British patrol during riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1981.

Ernest Hemingway, Milan, 1918.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

Stalin told his generals that they had to get the Soviet flag on top of the German Reichstag before May Day, a Soviet holiday. So there was a timer.

The Soviets wasted thousands of troops in this rushed attempt, throwing their lives away needlessly.

Some soldiers did raise a flag atop the Reichstag but they weren't communist party members so it didn't count.

Two communist party members where sent into the Reichstag after it was deemed safe and this is there picture.

The Soviets heavily photoshopped the image over the years.

 

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Two communist party members where sent into the Reichstag after it was deemed safe and this is there picture.

The Soviets heavily photoshopped the image over the years.

Why don't you start your own post: "Myths from Lying Scum" and report your vile Goebbels ideas there?

 

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Journalists photograph American soldiers during the invasion of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, 1994.

A soldier says goodbye to a girl before being sent to the front, Pennsylvania Station, New York, December 1943.

Croatian Ustashe saw off the head of alive serbian resident. Croatia, 1942.

The electric car of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, Russia, 1898.

 

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The Mottershead sisters adopted the lion cubs because the zoo could not take care of them during the war, England, World War II.

Railway bridge across the Dnieper River near Zaporozhye, blown up by the Red Army during the retreat, 1941.

Jacqueline Smith, Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett - the original "Charlie's Angels", 1976.

Teenager electric welder Alexey Belov, who performs 3 norms per shift, in the assembly shop of the SU-76 ACS, Gorky Automobile Plant, World War II.

Miss Auto accessory. USA. 1960s

 

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New York, USA, 1940s.

A young woman photographed a couple of days after British troops entered the Stalag concentration camp, World War II. Her face is covered with scars after being beaten by the SS.

Armed troops block a road near the site of an explosion at an oil plant in Texas, April 17, 1947.

Soldiers of the Red Army of the Guards Rifle Division wash in a mobile bath at the forefront. 1942.

Consolidated PBY Catalina naval patrol bombers at Lake Worth Hydroaerodrome, 1940s.

 

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A boy met wrestler Andre the Giant, 1970's.

Construction of the Hindenburg airship, 1932.

The first aerial explosion of a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, May 20/21, 1956.

British soldiers are testing a special crane to extract wounded tankers, World War II.
The device is mounted on the turret of the infantry tank Mk.II "Matilda II"

Rotary carousel. USA, 1950s.
Accelerated to 33 revolutions per minute, creating a centrifugal force of almost 3G. When people from this force "stuck" to the wall of the drum, the floor was automatically lowered to heighten the effect.

 

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Captured Soviet soldiers trying to drink from a frozen river, 1941.

A prisoner in a French prison, 1900s. The moustache was tattooed in protest against the administration.

Michael Jackson in 2000 according to Ebony Magazine, 1985.

Elizabeth Taylor in Iran, 1976.

The fallen Zeppelin in a field, France, 1917.

 

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In 1997, presidential elections were held in Liberia. The campaign of the main candidate Charles Taylor went with the slogan: "Taylor killed my father, killed my mother, but I will vote for him anyway."
And 75% of Liberians voted for him.

The blessing of the aeroplane, France, 1915.

Civilians shot by the Nazis, 1942.

A column of Tiger I heavy tanks and a MAN ML 4500 truck of the 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandart SS Adolf Giitler" in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine, 1943

Japanese soldiers bury Chinese prisoners of war alive. Nanjing, China, the Sino-Japanese War, 1937.

 

[Natural Citizen]

April 1945: The last time a fascist dictator and his cohorts thought that they too big for their britches...

 

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New York taxi, 1905.

Hitler inspects the new self-propelled gun "Ferdinand". To his left is Ferdinand Porsche.

Ringo Starr with Cilla Black, 1966.

Policeman Frederick Godwin from the Gipsy Hill station (south London) gives a cup of tea to a man who was left homeless after a German V-1 rocket fell on his house, 1944.

Waiting for the train, Pennsylvania station, New York, 1942.

 

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Corpses of prisoners in the courtyard of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp (Nordhausen), 1945.
This photo shows less than half of the bodies of several hundred prisoners who died of starvation or were shot by the Nazis.

Vintage selfie, 1900s.

US Coast Guard ship, Spencer explodes the Nazi submarine U-175, April 17, 1943.

Approval of the swimsuit model in the licensing committee. Budapest, 1979.

The mask of the mentally ill.
This is not an illustration for Dumas' novel "The Man in the Iron Mask". It is a means of protecting the mentally ill in a British lunatic asylum in the 1950s. The remedy is to protect the head of a "violent" patient, so that in case of an attack of hysteria she does not injure herself.

 

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A veteran and a boy look at the Golden Gate Bridge, 1943.

Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders personally cleans up trash in a public park after his first election, 1981.

Damaged B-17, which managed to return to base after the bombing, 1944.

Anti-war demonstration of Vietnam veterans, 1970.

The Soviet and American military celebrate the victory over Germany in an informal setting, May 1945.

 

[Flash]

"I'll be in my bunk"

 

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Native Americans posing on a car, 1915.

The Statue of Liberty stands among the debris on Bedlow Island in New York Harbor, March 5, 1948. Congressmen have asked the House Appropriations Committee to allocate $1 million to clear slums on the island.

Nuclear weapons test, Nevada, 1970.

Disneyland, 1960's.

Austrian soldiers shoot Serbian prisoners, 1917.