Interesting Historical Photos. Part 5 (21 pics)

1

Nikola Tesla in his lab

2

Early publicity shot of The Rolling Stones in 1963

3

Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942

4

19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he crossed the finished line

5

A German Soldier in Despair After the Disastrous Battle of Kursk, 1943

6

Circus artists posing for a picture while resting outside a trailer 1930s

7

Georges Blind, a Member of the French Resistance, Smiling at a German Firing Squad. October 1944

8

Children in London celebrate Christmas in an underground bomb shelter, December 25, 1940

9

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing, 1945

10

USS Bunkerhill after being hit by two kamikaze strikes within thirty seconds (1945)

11

Five Samurai looking bad ass 1860-1880

12

The last photo ever taken of Hachikō, the dog who waited

13

Atlantic City, 1912

14

Frank Embree shortly before his lynching, Fayette, Missouri, 1899. He was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl and only confessed after being whipped over 100 times

15

Mona Lisa returned to the Louvre after World War II, 1945

16

World’s Highest Standard of Living – A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph 1937

17

Last four couples standing in a Chicago dance marathon. ca. 1930

18

Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ.

19

A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began

20

A boxing match on the USS Oregon (1897)