Pictures are an excellent source for understanding history.
Sometimes one picture can tell much more than all those dry paragraphs of historical information. These pictures will tell you better than books and lectures about those significant people or events that you would like to know more. Frames, once made with only one purpose — to document the present, now help us witness the past.
Harold Whittles first hears, 1974.
Dorothy Kantz was one of the first African-American students in the school for whites, 1957. It is possible to see that the students in Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School teasing Dorothy.
First morning in Sweden after the change of left-hand traffic for right-hand drive, 1967.
Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who live on the Eastern side, 1961.
Acrobats train on the roof of the Empire state building, 1934.
Graves of a Catholic and her husband is a Protestant, Holland, 1888.
Austrian boy is happy new pair of shoes, the Second world war.
Dancer of a strip club, arrested in Florida, the judge shows his underwear to prove that panties is sufficient to cover the private parts and she wasn’t completely naked.
The hand with the ACE of spades belongs to mafia boss Joe Masseria killed in a Brooklyn restaurant in 1931.
Same-sex couple, Paris, 1932.
“The most beautiful suicide” — 23 year old Evelyn McHale, after parting with her fiance, jumped from the Empire state building. The girl fell from a height of 344 metres on the roof of a limousine parked at the curb. 1947.
Balaji Badejo Nigerian student growth of 2.18 meters in the suit of Another, 1978. For Balaji this role was the first and the last.
The remains of a cosmonaut Mikhail Komarov after the accident, reentry of the first Soviet manned spacecraft, 1967.
A German child meets her father, a Second world war soldier, whom he last saw at age one, 1956.
Frida Kahlo in men’s clothing, 1924.
Peninsula Orote, 1944 — injured dog care.
A woman shows a photo of his son returning prisoners of war, 1947.
Scottish Piper in a kilt on the battlefield, the First world war.
Mona Lisa returned to Louvre after WWII.
The surviving passengers of “Titanic” landed on Board the Carpathia, 1912.
The first bananas in Norway, 1905.
Physicist Robert Williams wood, the founder of quantum physics Max Planck and albert Einstein sitting on the front row at the meeting of the Berlin physical society, 1931.
A man cuts out the eye of one of the sculptures, mount Rushmore, the 1930-ies.
Shooting the legendary film with Marilyn Monroe “seven year Itch”, 1954.
Bob Dylan and Keith Richards at a party in honor of the 29th anniversary of Mick Jagger, 1972.
The last public execution by guillotine, France, 1939.
The inscriptions of the Soviet soldiers inside the Reichstag, 1945.
The Nazis selected Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, 1944.
The last picture of Vladimir Lenin — he’s already suffered three strokes and could not speak, 1923.
Eduard Bloch — a Jew and personal physician of the Hitler family until 1907, was under his special protection. Hitler himself called Bloch a “noble Jew.”
Jenny MacGregor arrested for the distribution of alcoholic beverages, Minneapolis, 1924.
The crew Japanese aircraft carrier “Zuikaku” salute the flag down before the death of the ship, 1944.
The American gets in the face of Vietnamese in the struggle for a place in the last helicopter leaving the U.S. Embassy during the evacuation of Saigon, 1975.
Young Hitler welcomed the news of the outbreak of the First world war, 1914.
