Interesting Historical Photos (22 pics)

1

"A streetcar conductor in Seattle not allowing passengers aboard without a mask during the Spanish Flu pandemic, 1918."

2

"A group of kids had arranged to care and feed the dog after the owner had died, England 1936."

3

"Jesse Owens breaking the World record 200 - meter race at the 1936 Olympic Games of Berlin"

4

"19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and he then went onto win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent."

5

"Young girl Kiowa tribe , Oklahoma , 1894"

6

"Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII."

7

"The return of a German soldier from Soviet captivity. He was taken to the war when his son was 1 year old. Germany. 1956"

8

"New York City. 1957. A Llama in Times Square."

9

"U.S. cavalry soldiers pose in front of a sequoia in Yosemite known as "Grizzly Giant," in 1900.

This tree still stands today."

10

"A fleet of Concordes at London Heathrow Airport, 1986"

11

"A farmer paints stripes on her cow to increase its visibility at night and prevent car accidents should it wander onto the road during blackout conditions."

12

"Beach Volleyball , Venice Beach CA June 1934"

13

"The 3,000 men who helped build the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City pose for a photo near the end of the constructional work, Aug 19, 1964."

14

"Aircraft tester George Aird barely escapes death by launching sideways from his plane (1962). Aird fell through a nursery on his way down, breaking both legs."

15

"Social distancing from 1953. A child with measles sits and eats alone during a Coronation party in Chelsea, England."

16

"Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, left, explores the completed tower with a friend, 1889."

17

"Unpacking the Statue of Liberty. New York City. 1885. The colossal assemblage of 350 Neoclassical pieces, gifted by the people of France, took workers four months to put together."

18

"One of the first-known photographs of Niagara Falls captured by British chemist Hugh Lee Pattinson in 1840, sits within a glass case at the National Gallery of Art."

19

"Ostrich reads the newspaper of the caretaker.

Nationaal Archief 1951."

20

"The original Moulin Rouge the year before it burned down in Paris , 1914 . Photograph Albert Kahn"

21

"A woman tests a stroller intended to be resistant to gas attacks in Hextable , England in 1938 , not long before the outbreak of World War II"