17 Fascinating Photos From History's Vault
Let these photos from the past be a lesson for a better future.
Published 7 years ago in Wow
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A young man uses a makeshift raft to cross the flooded street in front of Hankou City Hall in Hankou, China, in 1931. This was during the devastating Yangtze River floods that lasted for 5 months in 1931. The flooding was so bad, it is generally considered the worst natural disaster in history, as anywhere from 145,000 to 4 million people died as a result. Most experts agree more than 1 million died, but exact numbers were never counted.
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The Statue of Liberty being constructed in Paris, France in 1878. Most people don't know this but the French offered, financed, and paid to build the statue and then gifted it to the US, who only paid for the base on which it stands. Another interesting note, Gustave Eiffel, who built the world famous Eiffel Tower, also assisted in The Statue of Liberty's construction.
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American chorus girl and an artists' model Evelyn Nesbit posing in one of her early shoots at age 16 in 1901. She also did a little acting, but was well known for he likeness being used in newspapers, advertisements, on posters, fine china, and much more. In fact, she seemed to have her face everywhere at the turn of the century.
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