Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Historical Photos least likely you'd ever seen!

Is it because it never existed? With the advances of imaging technologies, statements like, "He walks like me, talks like me, speaks like me, looks like me but it ain't me!" is possible...
Thanks SK, for contribution.

The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861

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

 
Charlie Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27
  
Suntan vending machine, 1949

Annie Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She did it in 1901 because she needed money, and after doing it said she wouldn't recommend it to anyone!
  
 
Only known authenticated photo of Billy the Kid, ca. 1879
  
Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
  
Jesse James, approximately 16 years old

 
Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Sign was put up at the 363rd station hospital in Papua, New Guinea during WWII.


How could parents ensure that their children were getting sunlight and fresh air when living in apartment buildings? The baby cage, ca. 1937
  
Hotel owner pouring acid in the water when black people swam in his pool, ca. 1964
  
Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940
  
Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her bomb damaged home, London, 1940.

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

Artificial legs, United Kingdom, ca. 1890

Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965

1920's lifeguard

1928 fashion show at the beach

Former slave showing whipping scars

Measuring bathing suits in the early 1920s. If they were too short, the women would be fined.

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

 
Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923

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

Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo advanced plastic surgery. His eyelids were damaged in World War I and he got a skin transplant to replace them.

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929.

Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
  
The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

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

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

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

Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960
  
The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963


 
Apollo I crew members rehearsing their water landing in 1966.

President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while visiting China in 1972

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1908

Construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961

Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865

Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911

Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

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

Putting on a crinoline (skirt support), 1855

 
Recovering bodies after the Titanic disaster, April 1912.

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.

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

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

New York City fire station, ca. 1912

Operation Babylift: Vietnamese orphans transported by airplanes to America in 1975.

Polish children examined by German officers to see if they qualify as Aryan, and would be allowed to live.

Santa Claus in New York, ca. 1900

Smallpox victim, New York, 1881

5:00 P.M., September 3rd, 1967 -
Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right - this was the result.

Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty, delivered June 17, 1885

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