36 Must-See Photos From The Past
Marty Mcfly
Published
03/06/2014
Some of these are absolutely mind-boggling, but what makes most of them so powerful is that they were taken in the past century, just one or two generations away from us.
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Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938 -
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Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885 -
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3. Elvis in the Army, 1958 -
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Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956 -
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Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923 -
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Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916 -
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Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937 -
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Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924 -
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9. Annette Kellerman promotes womens right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency -
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Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901 -
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106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990 -
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Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937 -
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13. The original Ronald McDonald, 1963 -
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Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961 -
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Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII -
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Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944 -
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Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940 -
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Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961 -
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Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965 -
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Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940 -
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Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917 -
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Suntan vending machine, 1949 -
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Measuring bathing suits if they were too short, women would be fined, 19208242s -
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Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960 -
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Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964 -
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Lifeguard on the coast, 19208242s -
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Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890 -
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Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953 -
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Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948 -
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Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII -
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Hitlers officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941 -
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Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage -
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The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927 -
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Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963 -
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Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussauds Wax Museum in London, 1930 -
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35. A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961 -
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Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929 -
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Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893 -
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23 year-old Evelyn McHales suicide she jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947 -
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First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967
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