Historic pics
 

Is there a thread already? If there is I havent seen it, so consider this your starting point...

Its more interesting if you can include a little description of what the photo is about. For me anyway.

George Harrison selfie with a Fisheye Lens at the Taj Mahal in India, 1966

..:amazed:....great thread Verbal, I'll be back with some pics...

The Hindenburg flying over Manhattan in 1936

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1953, Senator John Kennedy and his bride, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, smile during their wedding reception, September 12, 1953, in Newport, Rhode Island. Originally published in the September 26, 1953, issue of LIFE

The only photograph of a living Quagga from 1870. This species is now extinct.

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1947 ,champ Joe Louis lies on the canvas at (the old, original) Madison Square Garden in New York after being floored by contender Jersey Joe Walcott in a December 1947 title match. Louis came back to win by a controversial decision

The start of an empire

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Anne Frank 1941

amazing thread.

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The only known photograph of an African American Union soldier with his family. 1863-65

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Russian peasants getting electricity for the first time in 1920

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

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Sorry, but that looks like Rasputin showing Mother Theresa an example of his skill as a glassblower!.

Hitler and Mussolini , Florence ,Italy . Second World War Ww2

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1943-1945: Anarchist partisans in the Italian Resistance


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Johnny Cash performing for prisoners at Folsom Prison – Jan. 13th 1968

A Native American looks down at a newly-completed section of the transcontinental railroad. Nevada, about 1868

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Multi Pics of the Hindenburg Disaster, Including the one at the top of this thread!

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Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978

Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan in the general’s tent near Antietam battlefield October 3, 1862

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The reaction of German prisoners of war, who were forced to watch footage of what happened in the concentration camps

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Jewish refugees, approaching allied soldiers, become aware that they have just been liberated, April, 1945

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Martin Luther King Jr removing a burned cross from his front yard with his son at his side. Atlanta Ga 1960

Headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party (1934)

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Opening of King Tut’s sarcophagus (1924)

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Cats catching squirts of milk during milking at a dairy farm in California, 1954
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The main gate to Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp built in 1944 called “the Gate of Death”

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Wow thats awesome

Looks a bit scary. :eek::D

Thich Quang Duc (1963)

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1968 black power salute By Tommie Smith and John Carlos

love this one.

Its like something from fiction, incredible that that is real

Babe Ruth donating his autobiography to the captain of Yale baseball team; future president George H.W. Bush, 1948

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Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren attend the Cannes Film Festival, 1963

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Interesting stuff people, keep it coming

so stupid of me, but i never realised that there could actually be pics of him.

i thought he was waaay before the photography years

Can remember atista's posted a couple of threads with some really interesting pics from nazi Germany, will see if I can find them

the colour ones of hitler? they were amazing.