Sequel to our series of rare historical pictures.
This is what California might have looked like from space in 1851
The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, The Netherlands, 1888
Billboards on Times Square, 1900
Bulgarian peasants using an elephant to plow land, 1900
This Model T ascended three flights of steps in Duluth, Minnesota, winning its owner a $100 bet, 1910s
Control room of a submarine, 1918
Two cyclists, Vervaeke and Geldhol, smoking cigarettes during the 1920 Tour de France
A federal agent searching a ‘wood truck’ during Prohibition, 1926
Pilot William C. Hopson of the U.S. Mail Service in winter flying clothing ca. 1926
The Le Monocle lesbian nightclub, Paris, 1932
Big chancellor, little chancellor: Hitler and Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß shortly before the latter’s assassination, Summer 1934
An instructor signals through a porthole to a seaman at the bottom of a 15 foot tank, during submarine crew training at the DSEA Instructional Centre at Portsmouth in 1939
Poster in a London travel agency advising people to book their holidays in spite of the tense situation in Europe, 1939
Crash landing of Grumman F6F Hellcat on flight deck of USS Enterprise, November 1943
German soldier after the Battle of Kursk, Russia. Eastern Front, 1943
Two seconds before execution – Polish resistance members, Warsaw Uprising 1944
Panorama of destroyed Hiroshima after the nuclear detonation in 1945 (click to enlarge)
All of Mahatma Gandhi’s worldly possessions, ca. 1948
Post war reunion of U.S soldier William Best and 19-year old Joseph Guttman, whom he liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, New York 1948
Marc Riboud’s photo of Zazou, the Eiffel tower’s painter, Paris, 1953
1955 Huffy-Radiobike. It has a radio! Solves the no earbuds problem
A teenager screaming at an Elvis Presley concert at the Philadelphia Arena on April 6, 1957
Civil rights activist James Zwerg after being beaten by a white mob in Alabama, 1961. (After the beating he had to wait two hours for treatment as no white crew would pick him up)
Doctors in protective clothing during an outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw, Poland; July 20, 1963
The game goes on in spite of the November, 1965 fire at Silliman Hall on the campus of Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts. The building burned down to the ground and the game was lost too.
The day Bob Dylan and John Lennon met, 1966
Salvador Dali taking his anteater for a walk in Paris, 1969
Skinheads and hippies in Piccadilly Circus, 1969
The Beatles prepare for their famous crossing of Abbey Road, 1969
US Marine prepares to enter a Vietcong tunnel, 1969
Anton Szandor, founder and arch-priest of the Church of Satan, in 1970
The World Trade Center was taken in December 1998. The famous “Peace on Earth” sculpture was put up during the holiday season every year after the bombing in February 1993 and was located at the entrance to the 5 acre Austin J. Tobin Plaza at Church St between 4 and 5 WTC.
Over 3300 Vietnamese orphans are evacuated and transported by airplanes to the US, 1975
A man uses an American flag to assault civil rights activist, 1976
Patrick Zachmann’s photo of two lovers in Paris during flooding of the Seine, February, 1978
Women protesting the forced Hijab in Iran, days after the 1979 Revolution
Mount St. Helens before and after the 1980 eruption
Onlookers react to the explosion of Challenger, January 28, 1986
106 year old Armenian woman guards her home in southern Armenia in 1990
Participants in the Miss Besieged Sarajevo ’93 beauty pageant line up on stage in front of a packed audience in Sarajevo Saturday. The 13 contenders held a banner reading ‘Don’t Let Them Kill Us’. May 29, 1993
“This CD-ROM can hold more information than all the paper that’s here below me”. Bill Gates, 1994
A Butterfly lands on the face of a resting Bosnian Serb soldier, near the Eastern Herzegovinia town of Konjic, 1995
An overhead view of Atlantis as it sits atop the Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) before STS-79 in 1996
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of World History Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of US History Part 1, Part 2