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Historical Photos From Points of View Youve Never Seen Before
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From: Jeff Cates <jeffcc111@gmail.com>
Date: 11/6/2018 8:27 PM
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While a photo can be worth a thousand words, historical photos are worth so much more than
that. A good historical photo can throw us into a different time, enabling us to empathize with a
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particular moment that is otherwise hard to imagine. We gathered some amazing photos that
capture moments that are worth reflecting on. All of the photos are real, with no photo-
shopping or editing whatsoever.
American soldiers saying goodbye to their loved ones before leaving to Egypt in 1963.
Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old Mormon pioneer who traveled west toward Zion in 1851. On
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her way, she was captured by Yavapai Indians who murdered her family and made her their
slave. She lived as a slave for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her
face and raised her as their own. Even though she was happy among the Mohaves, at 19 she
was ransomed back to white society. She became instantly famous, but the price of fame was
high and the pain of her ruptured childhood lasted a lifetime.
Strange WWII Picture: German women line up for inspection by gym teacher.
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Air hostess and steward serving Scandinavian country style buffet, SAS Scandinavian Airlines,
1969.
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Women protesting forced Hijab, a few days after the revolution in Iran, 1979.
German prisoners of war in American camps are shown footage of German concentration
camps, 1945.
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U.S. President Lyndon Johnson listens to a tape sent by Captain Charles Robb (his
son-in-law) from Vietnam, 1968.
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The wives of the astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission, the moment they heard their husbands
voices from orbit, 1968.
The settlement of Deadwood began illegally in the 1870s on land which had been granted to
Native Americana. In 1874, Colonel George Armstrong Custer led an expedition into the Black
Hills and announced the discovery of gold on French Creek near present-day Custer, South
Dakota. This announcement triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush and gave rise to the new and
lawless town of Deadwood.
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U.S. soldiers of 969th Field Artillery Battalion decorate shells they're delivering to the front line
in Germany, 1944.
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December 5th, 1933: The day when nationwide alcohol ban was repealed.
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1966: Before the creation of the EPA, New York was one of America's most polluted cities.
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Female Soviet college students studying for their exams in a park in the late 1960s.
Female Snipers of the 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, 1945.
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Marilyn Monroe performing for the thousands of allied troops in Korea, February 11th, 1954.
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"I know 3 trades, I speak 3 languages, fought for 3 years, have 3 children and no work for 3
months. But I only want one job."
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Judy Garland taking a break during filming of The Wizard of Oz, 1938.
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Hitler Reacts to Kiss from Excited American Woman at the Berlin Olympics, August 15, 1936.
Hiroshima before and after the atomic bomb that hit on August 6th, 1945.
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Elvis Presley being sworn into his compulsory army service. Arkansas, 1958.
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John Lennon attempting to retrieve his guitar pick while in India, 1968.
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Private James Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky in
1962.
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Ruth Lee flies a Chinese flag while sunbathing on her day off in Miami - December 15th, 1941.
Lee, who worked as a hostess at a Chinese restaurant at the time, flew the flag so that she
would not be mistaken for Japanese in the wake of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor a
week earlier.
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Soviet tank rams into a building - Warsaw Pact invasion in Czechoslovakia, 1968.
Thousands of Albanian refugees arrive in Bari, Italy to escape the collapse of communism in
1991.
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Two girls more engrossed with the air vent grate than the modern art on the walls of the San
Francisco Museum of Art, 1963.
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U.S. Marines hit rough water as they leave their LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester,
New Britain 1943.
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This photograph was taken by John Morrogh at around 2 PM on April 11th 1912 as Titanic was
leaving Queenstown, Ireland. It's confirmed that this is the last photo of the famous liner.
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Mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries at
the end of the Vietnam War.
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Most Americans don't believe it was Lee Harvey who assassinated president John F. Kennedy
in 1963.
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The photo below was used on a postcard in the 1920s. It represented a common practice at
the time: playing tennis on a wing of a plane as it would cruise at up to 60 miles per hour.
This photo, taken in 1979, show Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev and leader of East Germany,
Erich Hockner, practicing a socialist fraternal kiss - a special form of greeting between the
statesmen of Communist countries.
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Times Magazine named this photo from February 1958 "A Portrait of the Ideal Space Man."
This bra design was really popular in the 1940s and '50s. Just think of that when you criticize
modern fashion again.
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Marilyn Monroe had was married three times, although when she died in 1962, she was only
36-years-old. Her first husband was James Dougherty, a police officer from L.A. They got
married when Monroe was 16-years-old.
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Romani tribes have always been discriminated and humiliated in Europe. With Hitler's rise,
racist legislation against Romani was greater than ever.
The first ever airplane flight happened on December 17, 1903. It lasted 12 seconds and the
new record was set later that day - 59 seconds.
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This photo was published in The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso in 1948. Due to a poor
financial situation, this family decided to sell their children. They were all sold within two years,
including a baby the mother was pregnant with when the photo was taken.
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Can you believe that the area behind the World Trade Center was just a field merely 30-ish
years ago? This picture was taken in 1982.
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Mount St. Helens, Washington, erupted on May 18, 1980, leaving a crater in the shape of a
horseshoe.
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It's fun to look at an image from 1900 depicting what the Germans imagined the year 2000
would look like. Totally real, right?
San Francisco suffered massive destruction in 1906 when an earthquake struck on April 18.
However, the majority of damage happened due to fires that started afterwards.
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World chess champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by a computer in 1997. This was the sign
of what artificial intelligence could do and we're seeing the progress day after day.
The baby boomer generation was born between 1946 and 1964. There are 76 million of them
in the U.S. only.
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Bodybuilding wasn't really a thing in the early 1900s. The first big bodybuilding competition
happened in 1904 in NYC.
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Escobar's famous Hacienda, Napoles, was a ranch located between Bogota, the capital of
Colombia, and the city of Medellin. Reportedly, the remains of the house collapsed in 2015.
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In the 1960s, airlines first introduced "first class": a modern, more luxurious way of traveling
compared to the single class everyone had before.
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