A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 159

When you read something about history, be it a memoir, a textbook or an article, your mind forms its own unique idea of ​​how it was: your imagination itself completes the setting, details, colors, sounds and smells. And sometimes we can’t even really imagine what it was like back then. Fortunately, photography has been around for a good century and a half, and it is possible to at least visualize some places and moments that are forever in the past





Ainu at the Bear Festival, 1905.



Activist of the "Down with Shame!" movement Tsila Labzovskaya poses in the studio of photographer Boris Zilbershtram. Moscow, 1924.



An American Indian on the roof of Alcatraz prison in 1971, when the prison was captured by Indians.



Archaeologist Howard Carter studies Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus after his tomb was opened in 1923



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Sculpting on Mount Rushmore in the 1930s. At that time, 500 thousand tons of granite were removed from the mountain



A group of tourists in Las Vegas watch a nuclear bomb test from the front row in 1953.



A group of tourists sunbathing on top of the Great Pyramids of Giza.



Hooverville in New York's Central Park during the Great Depression.



Two actresses during the Delphi festival, 1930



The Capitol building in Washington without a dome, 1859.



Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles in 1925.



Confiscation of extremist literature, Hamburg, 1933



A disabled person in front of a Lucky Strike cigarette advertisement. 1990s.



The left arm of the Statue of Liberty is assembled in Paris in the winter of 1882.



London in ruins after the German air force attack on December 29, 1940.



Manchester Grammar School, British students march in owl costumes, their school mascot, 1926



Model shows off Salvadoran jewelry Dali, 1959



Men fishing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction in San Francisco in the 1930s.



Baby carriages are produced at the Ikarus plant, Hungary 1954.



The water at Niagara Falls was “turned off” in 1969 for research related to soil erosion.



The beginning of construction of the World Trade Center towers in New York in 1971.



The unfinished Tower Bridge in London in the late 19th century.



A couple shows their newborn children to their grandparents on the other side of the Berlin Wall in 1961.



The ceiling of the Chicago train station, decorated with airplane models, 1943



Empty halls of the National Gallery in London during World War II - all the paintings were hidden from the Nazis.



The ruined wall of the Empire State Building after a B-25 bomber crashed into it in 1945.



The luxurious main dining room of the Titanic.



Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev watches the cancan dance from a box during his visit to the United States, 1959.



Wanderers walk along the river bank to the Sarov Monastery. A legless man leads a blind man by a rope, 1903



Construction of Madison Square Garden in New York in 1966.



Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1973.



Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888.



Happy Walt Disney on the opening day of Disneyland in 1955.



A man's shadow after the nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.



A Tibetan greets a photographer in Lhasa, 1955.



French actress Catherine Deneuve plays football with the boys.



French women at agricultural work. During the war, every fourth horse in the country was requisitioned for the needs of the army, 1915.



A Japanese man on a sailboat with Mount Fuji in the background, 1890s.