Photos from the past (20 photos)

A selection of interesting photographs from the past. Not only ours, and not only close.

Bus station with a waiting room for colored people, USA, 1959





Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, Egypt, 1923



Raquel Welch



Verushka Vogue 1968



Someone Felchin and Manhoff's wife Jan at a picnic in the Crimea, October 1953



Oui Magazine, November. 1974



Romania, two gypsies. 1992 Photographer Bruno Barbie



Jerry Lee Lewis with his 13-year-old wife Myra



Myra was also Lewis's cousin, which, coupled with her juvenile age caused a huge scandal and problems in singing career

Myra was Lewis' 3rd wife and they lived happily ever after for 13 years, until she got tired of drinking and the love affairs of the famous hubby. After the divorce, she married twice more.

Lewis, who managed to marry three more times, did not lag behind. True two of these wives are dead. The third of them, and in total the 7th, Judith Brown, at the same time turned out to be the ex-wife of Myra's brother.

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky. 1968



A German man accused of having an affair with a Jewish woman. The inscription - "I am the defiler of the race." Germany, 1935



As early as 1937, the Nazis began a large-scale "Aryanization" of the German economy, which meant the forced sale by the Jews of their businesses and firms at bargain prices. As part of the policy of crowding out Jews from the economic life of the country took center stage "Aryanization", i.e. transfer of Jewish property to the Germans.

On April 22, Goering's decree was published, which established punishment for Germans who helped "conceal Jewish possession" through the fictitious management of Jewish enterprises. July 20 1938 Jews were forbidden to participate in stock exchange transactions

Boston and Maine Railroad Depot, Riley Plaza, Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1910



One of the first bars serving nudists. Photo from the Scheweitzer archive. 1969





Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on the roof of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, 1903



Former slave, holding the horn used to call the slaves. Near Marshall, Texas, USA, 1939



Liberated girls on the beach. Beginning of the sexual revolution. 1950s



Parade of Leningrad athletes, a column of garment workers. 1933



Steel workers in Pennsylvania. 1909 year



Flatiron Building, New York, 1902



young talent



Windmill near Leningrad 1930s



Soldiers of the 18th Army of the Red Army are preparing to tow the captured Hungarian tank 38.M "Toldi II". Used as a tractor captured light half-track artillery tractor of the Wehrmacht Sd. Kfz. 11. August 1944



Circus performers of the little people (they prefer to be called that), Paris, 1949



English tank Mark captured by the wars of the 51st Infantry Division near Kakhovka on October 14, 1920



First known color photograph of a rainbow. 1912, Siberia. Prokudin-Gorsky Photos



Exhibition of cars at ZiL on the occasion of a visit to the factory of L.I. Brezhnev, April 30, 1976



The only thing in common between Moscow and London in the 60s of the last century is the curtain on the windows



Pioneers of the ASSR NP (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Volga Germans). 1933



Leonid Gaidai, Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov and Gotlib Roninson on the set of the film "12 Chairs", USSR, 1971



Svetlana Nemolyaeva and Tatyana Doronina in a scene from performance "She is in the absence of love and death" based on the play by E. Radzinsky. Moscow Academic Theater named after V. Mayakovsky, 1981



German submariner with a sunken U175 in the hands of American sailors



Fire brigade. Moscow. 02 May 1914



Monica Bellucci