84 Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On The Past


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#1 Black Cat Hug / Andy Prokh (B.1963)


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#2 " Dog And Cat In Paris ", C.1950 . Photo By Annick Gérardin


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#3 “ No Dog Biscuits Today ”, London , 1939


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#4 To Win A Bet In 1956 , Thomas Fitzpatrick Stole A Small Plane From New Jersey And Landed It Perfectly On A Narrow Manhattan Street While Drunk, In Front Of The Bar He Had Been Drinking At. Two Years Later, He Did It Again After A Man Didn't Believe He Had Done It The First Time


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#5 Same Car, Same Guys, 50 Years Later


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#6 Not Something Seen Every Day This Must Be "Take Your Donkey To Work Day " Amusing Life Magazine Back Page Photo!


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#7 An Ostrich Carriage Being Stopped By The Police For Crossing Speed Limit . Los Angeles Around 1930


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#8 Abandoned Baby Sleeping In Desk Drawer At Los Angeles Police Station , ( 1971 ) Policewoman Pat Johnson , 28, Tends A Baby Girl , About 9 Months Old, Who Was Found Alone And Crying In A Downtown Hotel Room In Los Angeles , California


Baby was placed in file drawer for a nap after she was fed milk, Jell-O and cottage cheese. She later was taken to a foster home. The hotel manager called police after receiving complaints that the baby had been crying for hours .
The photo of the sleeping baby was taken by Times staff photographer Cal Montney on July 8, 1971.
In 2006 , the Safely Surrendered Baby Law took effect in California.


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#9 Berlin 1960s. Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin , 1961


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#10 Parisians Navigate Flood Waters By Walking Across Rows Of Chairs, 1924 Photographer / Henri Manuel


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#11 1947 Sun Valley Idaho. Photo From Apres Ski At Sun Valley Resort , Idaho 1947 . Photograph By George Silk


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#12 Hairdresser's Hot Dog , Ca. 1960 Photo By John Drysdale


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#13 1967 || 2019 Same Bike , Same Couple , 52 Years Later . Image Source : Zhangzhesheng


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#14 On A Balcony In Paris , The Refresh Break With Family A Parisian Family During The Heatwave Of The Summer Of 1937


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#15 Budapest In 1987 ( Hungary ) Photo By Attila Manek


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#16 All You Need Is Love: Child Care In The C1953 Wasn't All Bad


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#17 These Progressive High School Girls Learn The Finer Points Of Auto Mechanics In 1927


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#18 How Friends Were Deleted In 1859


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#19 Cleaning Day At Church, Leipzig Germany C.1920


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#20 Woman Arrested In The United States Due To The Fact That It Is The Wrong Swimsuit ( Too Short ) - The United States In The 1920s


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#21 Mailman N. Sorenson Poses With His Heavy Load Of Christmas Mail And Parcels, Chicago, 1929


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#22 A Man Begging For His Wife’s Forgiveness Inside Divorce Court , Chicago , 1946


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#23 Here's A Camouflaged Road In Finland During Ww2 , The Trees Were Hung Up With Rope So The Russians Couldn't See The Road ( 1941 )


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#24 In 1949, Bedridden French Artist Matisse Used His Apartment In The Hôtel Régina In Cimiez, To Prepare Designs For The Chapel Of Rosary In Vence , Which Was Of Similar Size


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#25 A Drunken Man Placed In A Basket And Carried Away, Istanbul, 1960s


Basket men were hired and their sole purpose was to take patrons home when they were too drunk to stand up


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#26 "End The War Before It Ends You" Hippie Protesting The Vietnam War Ca 1960


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#27 A Young Man Demonstrating Against Low Pay For Teachers, Ca. 1930. “I Left School To Earn $21 A Week. My Teacher’s Pay Is $17.78 A Week.” Photographer Paul Thompson


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#28 Custom Limousines By Car Collector And Custom Builder Jay Ohrberg , 1990


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#29 An Open Air School In 1957, Netherlands


The photograph was taken in 1957 in the Netherlands where open air schools were quite popular at the time. The idea of an al fresco classroom should be a very obvious one if the weather permits it, but unfortunately, most traditional western schools these days don’t put much emphasis on the benefits of learning outside of four walls.


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#30 The Evolution Of The Female Bathing Suit From 1875 To 1927


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#31 Two Members Of The Bertram Mills Circus Walk Head-To-Head At Hammersmith Broadway In London 1953


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#32 An Iron Worker Balances Himself On A Beam 15 Floors High. Ge Building , Rockefeller Center , 1932 Photographer Charles Clyde Ebbets


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#33 After The War Ended In May 1945, It Took Months To Transport All Those Men And Women Home Again, And Some Didn’t Arrive Until Just Before Christmas


the guys who didn’t have a wife or girlfriend waiting for them didn’t exactly suffer – they had plenty of attention from the opposite sex!


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#34 Snow Fun In The Old Days - Grabbing The Rear Bumper When Sledding - Many People Had Fun!


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#35 Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy , 1956 ? Three-Year-Old Peggy Kennedy Enjoyed These Ducklings Paddling Around In A Tub. Peggy, A Polio Patient, Wore A Plastic Chest Respirator


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#36 We Will Not Gas Ladas Until ... Soviets Withdraw When The Soviet Union Invaded Afghanistan , Some Gas Stations In Toronto Refused To Gas Ladas. 1980s


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#37 1937 : A Mother Fastening A Notice Reading " Please Mr Motorist , Watch Out For Me ," Onto Her Son's Back Before He Sets Out On A Trial Bicycle Ride . By Hulton Archive


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#38 People Show Off The Tattoos Given To Them During An Amateur Tattoo Artist Contest In France In 1950 . Photographer Robert Doisneau


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#39 Fair Fun 1930s Two Young Women Enjoying Themselves On The ' Caterpillar ' Ride At Southend Fair, Essex, October 1938 ... Photo By Kurt Hutton


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#40 Two Women Showing Uncovered Legs In The Public Place For The First Time, Toronto, 1937


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#41 Aerial View Of Over 400,000 People At Woodstock , 1969


The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. Billed as “An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music,” the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock and become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a success, but the massive concert didn’t come off without a hitch: Last-minute venue changes, bad weather and the hordes of attendees caused major headaches. Still, despite—or because of—a lot of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and rain, Woodstock was a peaceful celebration and earned its hallowed place in pop culture history


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#42 Scooter Mum Gemotoriseerde Kinderwagen ,1963


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#43 Brothel Candles. At Some Of The Lesser Brothels , This Box Of Match Candles Are Used By Women As A Timer . A Man Can Pay His Dues And Then Light The Candle . Once The Candle Goes Out , The Session Is Over


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#44 Couple On A Malvern Star Abreast Tandem Bicycle, New South Wales, Australia. C. 1930s Photo By Sam Hood


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#45 Father Christmas With Mickey Mouse , England , 1935


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#46 New York City 1975 Photo By Joel Meyerowitz


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#47 1950s All Women's Hot Rod Club. "Dragettes" Hotrod Club Kansas City , Kansas


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#48 Ann Hodges Is The Only Confirmed Person In History To Have Been Hit By A Meteorite Which Occurred In 1954


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#49 Travelling Hairdresser ' Stop Me ' The Entrepreneurial Spirit Was Alive And Well Back In The 1920's As This Enterprising Young Lady Demonstrates With Her Traveling Hairdresser Business


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#50 Arrival Of The Underwater Train ( Train Plows Through Water, New Haven R.r. , Loco 251, Near Back Bay , 1915 )


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#51 Cops Arresting A Drunk Dude In A Skeleton Costume 1950


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#52 The Vintage Office Short Skirts And Shorthand


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#53 Beech-Nut Girl In Harlem , 1940s Harlem 1940's , Beechnut Chewing Gum Girl Making A Sale


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#54 Drunken Women Fighting On A Rooftop , London 1902


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#55 Camping In The 1960s


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#56 A Woman Overlooking A Snowy Mountain Pass In The Pyrenees Mountains, France - 1956


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#57 In 1931 , Mary Smith Earned Six Pence A Week In East London By Shooting A Pea Into The Windows Of The Sleeping Workers. Knocker-Uppers Also Used Long Bamboo Sticks, Batons And Canes To Rouse Residents Of The Upper Floors


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#58 In The 1800s , Pit Bulls Were Often Called "Nanny Dogs" Because Of The Protective Behavior They Exhibit Around Children


Pitbulls are great. Even though many people believe that the dogs are hellacious fighters, however in the 19th century these little pups were believed to be the perfect babysitters because of how clingy they get when they’re around children. Not only are the dogs protective over the children in their charge, but they’re very loyal and stable if they’re raised well.

“Nanny dogs” were placed with children once they were old enough to be comfortable around dogs, which had to be great for any victorian boy or girl, who doesn’t want a dog? The two dogs in this photo look like good boys, they deserve a treat.


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#59 Priest Yawning In Confessional Via Vintage Life Magazine


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#60 Kuba Komet 1950s


Meet Kuba Komet , the mothership of Space Age entertainment systems . This rocket-like structure includes a 23″ black and white television , eight speakers , a Telefunken phonographs and a multi-band radio receiver .
At the time of release in 1957 , The Komet cost more than a year’s average wage


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#61 Horse With A Gas Mask, UK, March 27th 1940


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#62 A Time Long Gone... (Photo From The 1980s)


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#63 Recording A Concert In The 80’s. A Man Recording A Cassette Tape At A Music Festival In Poland , 1980s


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#64 "Called" - The Poker Game C 1898 3 African American Men Playing Cards , Two Are Cheating


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#65 Hippies Selling Acid During 1969 Woodstock


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#66 When Fanny Mills Emigrated From England To Sandusky, Ohio In The 1860s, She Was A Petite Teenager Of Only 115 Pounds — But She Carried Most Of That Weight In Her Legs And Feet


Mills was a victim of Milroy's disease, which caused her lower legs and feet to swell with lymphatic fluid. Her feet grew to a whopping 19 inches long, forcing her to wear shoes made of three goatskins and to use pillowcases for socks.

But by the 1880s, people with abnormalities like hers could often find work and even fame, as long as they were willing to debase themselves before paying audiences on the "freak show" circuit


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#67 A Sea And River Fish Shop In Amsterdam Showing Off Some Prime Halibuts, 1913


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#68 A Couple Gets Into Their Bmw Isetta Through The Front Door. (1950)


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#69 Pinball Prohibition : The Arcade Game Was Illegal In New York For Over 30 Years. Police Commissioner William O'brien Smashing A Pinball Machine In 1949


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#70 A Royal Navy Sailor On Board Hms Alcantara Uses A Portable Sewing Machine To Repair A Signal Flag During A Voyage To Sierra Leone In 1942


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#71 Tricycle " Stop Me And Buy One " Ice Cream Seller. Mr Bert Taylor Near The Cross Keys London Road; C.1935, Worcester


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#72 The Proposed Stewardess Uniform For Scandinavian Airlines In 1958 -1959 . The Photo Below Shows A Swedish Flight Attendant Taking A Good Look At The Clothes Of A Showgirl. According To The Grapevine In 1959, Flight Attendants Were About To Dress In A Similar Fashion!


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#73 "Night Walk In Prague", C. 1930's Photo By Josef Sudek


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#74 1949 - 1950 Tulsa, Oklahoma High School Classroom Bobby Socks 1940s - 1950s


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#75 Girl With Early Car Seat Belt, Ca. 1950s The Automotive Seat Belt, As We Know It Today Was First Offered On Nash As An Option In 1949. Ford Followed With Optional Seat Belts In 1955...


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#76 Charging An Electric Amc Gremlin At A Curbside Charging Station. 1hr For 25¢. Seattle, 1973


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#77 1955 Chevrolet Bel-Air 2-Dr Hardtop


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#78 Nob Hill & Pine Street , San Francisco Ca., 1954 By Fred Lyon


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#79 Vertical Parking In Chicago , 1936 ( Car Elevator )


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#80 Oxford Bags , The Ridiculously Wide-Legged Trousers Of The 1920s


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#81 After Gold Had Been Discovered In A Stream In 1979, " Serra Pelada " Became The World’s Largest Open-Air Gold Mine, Starting The Rush For 50.000 Gold Diggers , Working And Living In Terrible Conditions . Serra Pelada , Brazil . Photo By Sebastião Salgado


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#82 Bankrupt Investor Walter Thornton Attempts To Sell His Luxury Chrysler Imperial 75 Roadster For $100 On The Streets Of NYC, October 29, 1929. ( Colorized )


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#83 Inside An Imperial Airways Aeroplane At Croydon Aerodrome 1937


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#84 Caught In The Rain In The Ginza District, Tokyo, Japan, 1969


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