30 Unique Photographs from Our Past

[cronus71]

These next 30 photographs go beyond the norm – they encapsulate the mood, tone and values of yesteryear, a compelling account of the evolution of our values if you will.
1. Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty delivered June 17, 1885


2. The hippo belonged to a circus and apparently enjoyed pulling the cart as a trick 1924


3. Charlie Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27


4. Annie Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901.


5. Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan, ca. 1944


6. Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Papua, New Guinea during WWII


7. Artificial legs, United Kingdom, ca. 1890


8. 1920′s lifeguard


9. Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940


10. Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923


11. Suntan vending machine, 1949


12. A space chimp poses for the camera after a successful mission to space in 1961



13. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965


14. Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her bomb damaged home, London, 1940


15. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929


16. Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII


17. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961


18. Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956


19. Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941


20. Children eating their Christmas dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage


21. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927


22. Abraham Lincoln’s hearse, 1865


23. A most beautiful suicide – 23 year old Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from an observation deck (83rd floor) of the Empire State Building, May 1, 1947. She landed on a United Nations limousine…


24. A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic test 75 miles away, Las Vegas, 1953


25. A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948


26. Annette Kellerman promoted women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… She was arrested for indecency.


27. Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960


28. Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo advanced plastic surgery & a skin transplant.


29. Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight in 1893


30. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930



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[g_wizkid]

Some awesome pics there. I reckon people either fired snowballs out of cannons or snow must have been heavier in the past.


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[CzarJunkie]

Here's more about Evelyn Hale...............

Many struggled to understand why someone like Evelyn would jump. She was a young beauty who was planning her wedding. The sad answer is that depression can torment anyone. Evelyn left her coat and a suicide note on the observatory. Her note said, "I don't think I would make a good wife for anybody."

[Shotgunjim]

How the hell is she still in one piece!!? I would expect her to look like pizza! She does look incredibly peaceful though.

[Mule]

"I don't think I would make a good wife for anybody."

Probably right too.

[akimba]

1. Is the Statue of liberty really that miserable
16. Nothing wrong with the boys old shoes.
26. No wonder she got done for indecency, you can nearly see her bangers ;-)