89 Historic Pictures that will bring past to present.
Hello Steemers. I have posted these pictures by OP on IMGUR. I loved it so I wanted to share all of them.
Have you ever wondered that when you take a picture of you,your family or friends you are capturing the past and keeping it for as long as the picture exists. In a way a photography is a time machine that captures the moment, it doesn't capture the past of that moment nor the future, it captures the present. That present moment and people in it will live forever throughout that photography.
Disclaimer : I do not own the photos nor do I claim copyright of any of it.
The copyright goes to the right owner.
Enjoy =)
Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
Golden Gate Bridge - Opening Day - 1937
Chicago Parking, 1930
John Lennon sniffing Coke.
Painters on the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1914
Salvador Dali and Walt Disney on a boat, Spain, 1957. Photograph from the Walt Disney Family Foundation Collection.
Baseball player Satchel Paige, looking dapper, Harlem, 1941. Photograph by George Strock.
The Lincoln Memorial in 1917 vs present day. Photograph by the Library of Congress.
Buzz Aldrin in the first ever space selfie during an EVA on the Gemini 12 mission, 1966.
Michael Jordan won a Championship on Father’s Day right after his Father died. He ran into this room, collapsed & started crying.
Last four couples in a dance marathon, Chicago, circa 1930.
A white fallow stag in a forest in Switzerland, 1973. Photograph by James P. Blair.
Future presidents on their wedding days.
Eighteen year old inventor, H. Day wearing headphones attached to a wireless under his top hat, 1922.
Texting in the 80s.
Edmonde Guydens dances at the Moulin Rouge, 1926.
A young Tupac on Christmas morning, 1982.
Christmas at the White House with the Kennedys, December 25, 1962.
A helmeted GI Santa handing out presents to wounded U.S. soldiers on Christmas day in 90 degree weather, 1943. Photograph by Ralph Morse.
Father Christmas exchanges his red hood for a helmet to deliver presents during the London Blitz, 1940.
Inside a Nazi Christmas party hosted by Adolf Hitler, 1941.
Queen Elizabeth II giving her first televised Christmas address, 1957.
Andy Warhol buying Campbell's Soup at Gristede’s supermarket on Second Ave, 1964. Photograph by Bob Adelman.
Young Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
Harlem, New York, 1948. Photograph by Gordon Parks.
Grace Kelly on vacation in Jamaica, 1955. Photograph by Howell Conant.
The Statue of Liberty under construction in the workshop of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Paris, 1882.
Princess Diana with Mother Teresa in New York, 1997. Photograph by Anwar Hussein.
Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin on the set of Beetlejuice, 1987.
Salvador Dali. It took 28 attempts to get this perfectly-timed shot, 1948. Photograph by Philippe Halsman.
Texas Track Club of Abilene, 1964. This photo was part of a Sports Illustrated shoot in 1964.
Jerry Seinfeld on the first day of filming "Seinfeld," 1989.
The Highway of Death, officially known as Highway 80. This is the result of US forces bombing Iraqi forces, 1991.
3-time Oscar winning actress, the lovely Ingrid Bergman, 1945.
The dressing room at the Moulin Rouge, 1924
Pele's famous bicycle kick at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, 1965.
Johnny Cash walking along the line of a railway track with his guitar strapped across his back, 1969. Photograph by Michael Rougie.
A group of gents enjoy an impromptu snowball fight in the serene and stately setting of Trafalgar Square, London, circa 1931.
British soldier on a horse in zebra camouflage, German East Africa during WWI.
The most expensive pocket watch in the world, designed by Breguet and intended to be given to Marie Antoinette. On display at L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art, Jerusalem.
Police officer John Shuttleworth waist-high in flood waters, Cambridge Ontario, 1974. Photograph by Mike Hanley.
Frank Zappa in his Los Angeles home with his dad Francis, his mom Rosemarie, and his cat in 1970. Photograph by John Olson.
Boys of Ardingly School set off home at the start of the Christmas holidays, 1926.
A menorah in the window of a Jewish home celebrating Hanukkah, with a Nazi flag prominently hung across the street, Germany, 1932.
Marilyn Monroe poses while standing inside an oversized nylon Christmas stocking beside a fireplace, 1951.
Flatiron Building, New York, in 1904. Photograph by Edward Steichen.
The Beatles and their wives at the Rishikesh in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1968.
Mailman N. Sorenson poses with his heavy load of Christmas mail and parcels, Chicago, 1929.
Young Bruce Lee and his mentor Grandmaster Ip Man
Young Bruce Lee and his mentor Grandmaster Ip Man
A German Army dog from the First World War wearing a hat and glasses and carrying a pair of binoculars, 1916.
David Bowie at Red Square in Moscow, 1973.
Ku Klux Klan on a ferris wheel, Canon City, Colorado, 1925.
Conservationist and taxidermist Carl Akeley poses, his arms and hands bandaged, beside a leopard he killed with his bare hands, Ethiopia, 1896. Photograph via the Field Museum Library.
An 18-year-old Robin Williams as a high school senior, 1969.
The twin towers of the World Trade Center on the first morning of the New York City power blackout, July 1977.
Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Photograph by Richard Pipes during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.
The first photo taken on the surface of the moon by a human being. Neil Armstrong to be exact, in 1969.
Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, 1967.
Bob Ross without an afro in the military circa 1960.
A blimp destroyed by the shockwave of a nuclear blast, Nevada, 1957.
"All I Want For Christmas Is A Clean White School." Segregationists protest the attendance of 6-year-old Ruby Bridges outside William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, 1960.
Times Square, 1978.
Coca Cola delivery truck, 1909.
A mother and child sit amid rubble and brunt trees some four months after the atomic bomb was dropped, Hiroshima, Japan, 1945. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Pink Floyd, Venice, 1989.
Margaret/Margot Einstein was Albert Einstein's stepdaughter. Her mother was Elsa Hoffman, Einstein's second wife; Picture was taken on October 1, 1940, as they took the oath of U.S. Citizenship .
A grandfather teaches his grandson how to walk at Manzanar Japanese-American internment camp, 1942. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Wedding rings of Holocaust victims, near the Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945.
A man with a Punt Gun, a type of large shotgun used for duck hunting. It could kill over 50 birds at once and was banned in the late 1860s.
Charlie Chaplin in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, 1918.
James Dean attending a dance class. NYC, 1955. Photograph by Dennis Stock.
Grand Central Terminal, New Years Eve, 1969. Photograph by Leonard Freed.
National Guardsmen stand guard after the rioting that occurred as a result of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Chicago, 1968.
Mount Rushmore before the carving, as construction begins, South Dakota, circa 1929.
John Glenn relaxing in his Chuck Taylors aboard the USS Noa after his legendary orbital flight, 1962.
An American soldier at an advanced allied base, with a kangaroo. 1942. Photograph by John Earl McNeil.
The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, NYC 1931. St. Patrick's Cathedral is visible in the background on Fifth Avenue.
$5 Silver Certificate, 1899. The only US banknote with a Native American Indian Chief on it.
Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet at the Tehran Conference, 1943.
An English cavalryman and his horse ride through a gas attack wearing protective masks and body cover, 1934.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at Harvard, late 1970s.
Western Union messengers leaving the White House on Dec. 7, 1941, day of Pearl Harbor attack. Photograph by Thomas D. Mcavoy. — at Pearl Harbor.
Turkish men having lunch in restaurant of Nevsehir named Lokanda, 1970. Photograph by Bill Ray.
21-year-old Second Lieutenant Winston Churchill of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, 1895.
A 20-year-old Leo Tolstoy, 1848.
Carrie Fisher, 1983.