27 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
Interesting pictures from history's vault.
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Humans have a long and storied past on this planet we call Earth. There are many relics from the past that exist in exhibits, private collections, museums, schools, and more, but they aren't quite as accessible as historical photographs are.
So get ready to take a virtual tour of the past with this collection of photographs from days long ago, that capture the struggles, lives, happy moments, and tragedies of people who lived long ago.
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These children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters for four hours before school and three hours after school on school days, and on Saturday from 4 a.m. to early afternoon in Maggioni Canning Co., Port Royal, South Carolina, 1911. photo by Lewis Wickes Hine
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Four contestants of the Halloween “Slick Chick” beauty contest in Anaheim, California in 1947.
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Eberbach Elementary School Students Celebrate Halloween, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 31, 1939. photo by Eck Stanger
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Sharecropper & mother teaching her children numbers and alphabet at home in Louisiana, 1939.
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In the days before fast-food, roadside picnics were the highlight of every road trip (pic from 1958 family vacation)
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US .45 cal M1911 pistol with extended magazine and brass catching cage. In the early days of WW1 and aircraft didn’t have machine guns, enemy pilots would shoot at each other with pistols. The cage prevented the spent shells from ejecting onto the cockpit floor and interfere with the foot controls
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Sergeant Stubby was a WW1 war dog who warned soldiers of mustard gas and found wounded men. He served for 18 months and participated in 17 battles. He lived through the war and passed peacefully in 1926.
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A unknown British soldier going through what it used to be “Shell Shocked”, known now as PTSD, with a thousand yard stare into the camera during WW1, 1916-1918.
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“They buried him among the kings because he had done good toward God and toward his house.” The coffin of the Uknown Warrior before his internment in Westminster Abbey, a memorial to all British and Commonwealth troops killed during WW1 with no known grave. 11th November 1920
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