It was Confucius who said, “Study the past if you would define the future”. Historical pictures allow us to do just that. They depict some of the most important moments of the days gone by, which we can turn back to and analyze one image at a time. And learn something new with each one of them, whether it’s an old photo from a family album or a snapshot that made it to the history books.
The Facebook page “World Historical Pictures” presents an abundance of such noteworthy images. Their posts range from covering everyday people to events of great historical significance, which allows the roughly 37 thousand followers to get acquainted with different aspects of our past. We have gathered some of the most impressive shots here for you to enjoy. Scroll down for the pictures, and make sure to check here and here for more.
#1 A Picture Of Dr. Religa Monitoring His Patient's Vitals After Completing A 23-Hour-Long Heart Transplant. His Assistant Is Asleep In The Corner. 1987
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#2 Unknown Soldier In 1965
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#3 Men In Suspenders Posing On The Brooklyn Bridge
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#4 An American Mother And Daughter Hold The American Flag In The Early 1900’s
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#5 The Sioux Nation Of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across The Great Plains In 1800s
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#6 Over 3,000 Workers Who Build The Chase Manhattan Bank In New York City Pose For A Photo Near The End Of Constructional Work, August, 1964
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#7 Ladder 118 Fire Truck Crossing The Brooklyn Bridge To The World Trade Center On September 11, 2001. Every Firefighter On The Truck Died Shortly After
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#8 Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, Is Greeted By His Family, Returning Home After More Than Five Years As A Prisoner Of War In North Vietnam
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#9 Homecoming Prisoner Of War - 1946
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#10 1984 New York City Subway Ride
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#11 This Young Boy Was Born In 1924 And He Is 2 Years Old In This Photo. He Died In 1944 In France On A Us Tanker. His Name Is Lonzo Hudgins And He Received A Purple Heart In Ww2. He Was My Mom's 1st Cousin. I Love This Vintage Photo Of My Cousin
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#12 Silent Film Actress, Delores Costello, Drew Barrymore's Grandmother, 1928
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#13 Kids These Days Don't Know The Struggle (1990s)
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#14 Remember That Photo Of The Construction Workers Having Lunch On An Unfinished New York Skyscraper? Well Here's The Photographer Charles Ebbets. 9/20/1932
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#15 The Full Tiananmen Square Massacre ‘Tank Man’ Photo, Is More Powerful Than The Cropped Version
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#16 New York. 1957
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#17 An Immigrant Family At New York's Ellis Island Is About To Embark On The Chase Of Their Dreams. The 1900s
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#18 Blackfoot Native Americans On The Roof Of The Mcalpin Hotel, Refusing To Sleep In Their Rooms, New York City
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#19 The Teenage Daughter Of A An Impoverished Arkansas Farmer Cooking On An Old Stove While Her Mother Was In A Tuberculosis Sanitarium During The Great Depression. Red Cross Photo From Ca. 1930
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#20 The Huffy Radio Bicycle From The 1950s
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#21 An Italian Child Arriving At Ellis Island, Early 1900s. (Us)
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#22 World War One Memorial
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#23 Sophia Loren Gives Jayne Mansfield The Side-Eye. 1957
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#24 A Photo Of An Engineer Wiring An Early Ibm Computer, 1958. (Photo By Berenice Abbott)
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#25 “People Decorating A Saguaro Like A Christmas Tree In Southern Arizona, Circa 1930s.” Arizona Historical Society
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#26 Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Sam Shaw In Amagansett, New York, 1957
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#27 Telephone Tower, Before They Figured Out Bundling Lines Into Cables. There Are 5000 Lines In This Tower (1890)
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#28 David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility
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#29 Madison Square, New York City Ca.1900
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#30 Michael Jordan's Iconic 'Free Throw Line' Dunk, 1988
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#31 This Is George W. Mclaurin In 1948 Being Segregated From The Rest Of His University Class
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#32 One Of The First Traffic Signals In New York City, 1922
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#33 Boys With Boom Box, 14th Street, New York, 1983
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#34 Somewhere Along The Pacific Coast Highway Between Malibu And Palisades, Ca. 1910
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#35 In 1938 1800 Veterans Of The Civil War Attended An 75th Anniversary Reunion At Gettysburg, Pa. The Youngest Was 88 Years Old, And The Oldest Claimed To Be 112 Years Old
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#36 Thirteen Sisters In The Brooks Family View Their Only Brother Leslie Benjamin, Following His Birth At Home In Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1954)
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#37 An Immigrant Family On The Dock At Ellis Island After Having Just Passed The Rigid Examination For Entry Into The Country, Looking Hopefully At New York's Skyline While Awaiting The Government Ferry On August 13, 1925
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#38 American Athlete Jesse Owens Fills Up A Car At A Petrol Station In His A Uniform Of Cap, Shirt And Bow Tie. Owens Worked As A Petrol Pump Attendant To Help Finance His Studies At Ohio State University. (United States, 1935)
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#39 Participants In The Beautiful Leg Contest Wear Pillow Cases Over Their Heads So That The Judges Can See Only Their Legs. New Jersey, Us, 1951
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#40 New York Subway, 1984
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#41 Rita Hayworth, 1941. This Was One Of The Most Popular Pinup Photos Among American Soldiers And Sailors During World War II
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#42 Jodie Foster And Robert Deniro At The Cannes Film Festival In France In 1976, Likely Promoting Taxi Driver
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#43 In The Victorian Era, A Woman’s Hair Was Often Thought To Be One Of Her Most Valuable Assets. Hair Was Long In The Victorian Age. Haircuts Weren’t Exactly A Thing Yet For Women
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#44 Kitchen Retro. Combo Sink/Stove/Fridge
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#45 A Construction Worker Making Preparations For The Removal Of The Original Statue Of Liberty Torch In 1985
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#46 Stop When Pedestrians Are In The Crosswalk!
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#47 A Santa Monica Beach In 1898
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#48 The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944
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#49 A Man Recording A Cassette Tape At A Music Festival In The 1980s
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#50 Traveling Knife Sharpener With A Customer. United States, Early 1910s
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#51 Coca-Cola Delivery. Note The Three And Four Digit Phone Numbers On The Side
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#52 A Victorian Home Being Moved On Steiner Street Via Horse Power, 1908, San Francisco
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#53 Pinball Machines Being Destroyed During The Pinball Prohibition. They Were Banned In NYC As Well As Other Major Us Cities Like Chicago And Los Angeles Between The 1940s And 1970s
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#54 Beautiful Abandoned Church In Us
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#55 Elvis Plays Catch In 1959
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#56 A Stewardess From 1972 (Southwest Airlines Of Texas)
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#57 Kids Playing Lower East Side, NYC 1963. Photo By William Carter
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#58 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) And His Long-Time Friend John T. Lewis (Probably Twain's Inspiration For The Character "Jim" In "Huckleberry Finn"), Standing Together At Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York - 1903
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#59 Fixing The Antenna On The World Trade Center, New York City, 1979. Photo By Peter B. Kaplan
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#60 Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Photographed In New York City By Richard Avedon, 1963
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#61 The Right Day To Hang Laundry In New York City (Lower Manhattan). 1902
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#62 Federal Reserve Bank, New York, 1959. Photo Ormond Gigli
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#63 A Woman Stands In Her Summer Undergarments In The 1940’s
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#64 Christmas On The Beach!
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#65 Christmas Early 1900's
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#66 New York City 1917
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#67 A Woman Lights The Candles On Her Christmas Tree In The 1920’s In Us
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#68 A 16-Year-Old Arnold Schwarzenegger At His First Body-Building Competition
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#69 Elvis And His Entourage Arrive In Las Vegas, Date Unknown. Look How Dashing He Looks!
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#70 Mike Tyson Before His Professional Boxing Debut In 1985. Behind Him: Coach Cus D’amato Who Saw The Troubled Young Heavyweight As His Greatest Prospect
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#71 A Knife Grinder In New York City, 1896
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#72 The Washington Monument
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#73 A Dangerous Playground From The 1970s
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#74 Miss America 1924, Ruth Malcomson, Ms. Philadelphia
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#75 Jeanne Bauer Walks With A Dynatac Mobile Phone On 6th Avenue In New York, Accompanied By John Mitchell, The Motorola Engineer Behind The Phone. (1983)
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#76 In March 1888, A Massive Blizzard Hit The East Coast Of The United States, Stretching From Chesapeake Bay To Canada
The photograph shows an unidentified young man standing in a shoveled area on Madison Avenue and 40th Street in New York City.
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#77 A Well-Dressed Young Lady In The 1930s. Almost Looks Like It Could Have Been Taken Yesterday
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#78 Marilyn Monroe Approximately Four Months Pregnant In July 1960
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#79 United Airlines Stewardess In 1970
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#80 Broadway And Fifth Ave, New York City 1905
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#81 The Arrival Of The Statue Of Liberty On June 17th 1885. The Statue Of Liberty Was A Gift Of Friendship From The People Of France To The People Of America
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#82 Broadway And Hotel Victoria, New York City Ca.1905
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#83 Mount St. Helens Eruption, 1980. (Photo By R. Lasher)
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#84 Fifth Avenue And Central Park At Fifty-Ninth Street, New York City Ca.1910
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#85 A Taxi In New York City In 1901
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#86 Spring Break In California, 1947
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#87 Riverside Drive New York City Ca.1910
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#88 Metropolitan Opera, New York City 1905
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#89 Columbus Circle, New York City Ca.1905
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#90 The Flatiron Under Construction, New York City Ca.1902
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#91 21,000 Us Soldiers In The Shape Of Then-President Woodrow Wilson, September 1918
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#92 The New York Theater, Time Square, New York City 1908
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#93 May 1922: 78-Year-Old Robert T. Lincoln (Son Of Abraham Lincoln) Is Helped Up The Steps At The Dedication Of The Lincoln Memorial In Washington D.c
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#94 New York City, Easter 1956
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#95 Superman In The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. New York City, November 21, 1940
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