Old pictures from history

Saw this on the misc and had to post. Pictures are sick, brah

Manfred von Richthofen, aka “The Red Baron”, petting his dog on an airfield.




General Custer and his men during the American Civil War.




A crash on board an aircraft carrier sometime during World War II.




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




The cast and creator of Star Trek stand in front of the first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, in 1979.




Eleven year-old Adolf Hitler.




Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together.




Stalin goofing around.

 

Mount Rushmore as it appeared in its more natural state.




The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb.




Ferdinand Porsche showcasing the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935.




John F. Kennedy has a tea party with his daughter, Caroline.




This is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before her sinking.




An actual Titanic boarding pass.




Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.




Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888.

 

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908.




A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.




Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death.




The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.




Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.




Child laborers in 1880.







Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.




The first McDonald's.




Disneyland employees cafeteria in 1961.

 

British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.




A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.




A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.




Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.




The Microsoft staff in 1978.




A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941




































The New York Times Writers, 1942

 

New York City, summer of 1969, start of the miniskirt era (8/10)




Torpedo shop at the Washington Navy Yard, circa 1917




Inside a 1913 drug store.




Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in soundproof listening booths, 1955




Communist Party USA meeting in Chicago, 1939




The last kiss WWII




Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, 1894




Soviet soldiers take a break to watch an acrobatic show on the march towards Berlin 1945




Hungarian Revolution of 1956




French Resistance member Georges Blind smiling in front of a German execution squad. October 1944




Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan, 1945




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




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




The Kennedy trio in the mid 30s as teenagers John, Bobby and Teddy




Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ.




A Japanese family returning home from a relocation center camp in Hunt, Idaho on May 10, 1945




Bruce Lee sparring with Ip Man, 1955



A bag-piper leads men out of the trenches during WWI




Congress of Freaks Baileys Circus 1924




Wright Brothers Flight at Kittyhawk 1903




First Cadillac dealership in New York




Al Capone and his son




RMS Titanics propeller dwarfing its makers, 1911




Charlie Chaplin in front of New York crowd, 1918




German SS soldiers.

 

Dresden post-bombing.




WWII victory.
















An abandoned Jadtiger, 1940s.




An American F-105 warplane is shot down and the pilot ejects and opens his parachute. Taken by North Vietnamese photograper Mai Nam in September 1966 near Vinh Phuc, north of Hanoi




Two border patrol officers attempt to keep a fugitive in the US, 1920s




American Marines in hard fighting on Iwo Jima using a captured Japanese machine-gun




Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles Beach in Normandy, on June 6, 1944




Prisoners of War, World War One, 1917




Adolf Hitler attending memorial service of Polish First Marshall Jozef Pilsudski in Berlin, 1935. This is the only time that Fuhrer has attended a holy mass as a leader of the Third Reich




Driver of a Bugatti Type 13 has a bit of a mishap 1920s




Two members of the 1st Punjab Cavalry in 1893




The Grand Staircase of Titanic 1911-1912




A 17 year-old Pele on a street of Sweden before the 1958 World Cup




Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad playing with a cat, late 1942, early 1943




Soviet soldiers pose in front of a crashed Nazi plane after liberating Sevastopol. May 1944




A napalm attack near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam, circa 1966




A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing Brittish soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942




Evacuating Saigon, April 30, 1975. An American evacuee punches away a South Vietnamese man for a place on the last chopper out of the US embassy.





This worker in a Van Nuys CA factory in 1944 soon started calling herself Marilyn Monroe




Charlie Chaplin without makeup.




One of the oldest photos of the Great Sphinx, from 1880.




Sydney Harbour Bridge construction, 1928




And its opening in 1932




The beginning of the Hollywood era: the filming of the MGM screen credits, 1928

 

The Statue of Liberty surrounded by scaffolding as workers complete the final stages in Paris. Circa 1885




In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France, 1944.




Beautiful color image of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 fighters, of Fighter Squadron JG54, during flight, 1943




Three German soldiers in body armor and gas masks demonstrate operating a 2cm Becker-Flugzeugkanone, an anti-aircraft gun, Western Front, circa 1918




Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo the Lion, the mascot for the Hollywood film studio MGM, 1957




Soviet Plane-spotters around 1917




Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea




Mount Vesuvius eruption in the midst of WWII, as captured by American pilots, March 1944




Muhammad Ali vs Cleveland Williams, 1966




New York commuters reading of President Kennedys assassination, November 1963




A Mongolian woman condemned to die of starvation, 1913




Real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. 1928




Helen Keller teaching Charlie Chaplin the manual alphabet 1919




Sad clown Emmett Kelly, in his performer's makeup, carrying a bucket of water in the aftermath of the Hartford circus fire of July 6, 1944, in which at least 167 people were killed. The tragedy is often called "the day the clown cried" due to this photo




The "Great Manta" that was captured by Captain A.L. Kahn on August 26, 1933




Federal Ironclad USS GALENA James River, VA 1862




A Worker on beam of building at 40 Wall Street, 1930




Busy Japanese street, 1950




Pre-WW2 Germany Nazi Ceremony, exact date unknown




Women boxing on a roof, circa 1930s




Pacific Southwest Airlines Stewardesses 1972




Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-E Day, 581945




Bonnie and Clyde's car after they were killed, 1934




Civil War veteran Samuel Decker built his own prosthetics after losing his arms in combat. Date unknown




Andre Roussimoff, Later known as Andre the Giant. Cannes, France, 1967




American soldiers shelter in a trench just over a mile from ground zero moments after the detonation of the 43 kiloton nuclear device Simon at the Nevada Test Site, 1953




Mark Twain smoking a cigar and relaxing on the porch, 1905




Over 7,000 bags of ornamental gold and silver, obviously looted from private homes by the Nazis, were discovered after Gen. Patton ordered the vault door blown open. All the articles had been flattened by hammers and were intended to be melted down into gold or silver bars. Spring 1945




A man browsing for books in Cincinnati's cavernous old main library. The library was demolished in 1955




Spanish Civil war arrives in Barcelona. 1936