35 historical photos that can change the idea of ​​the past (36 photos)

History helps us in many ways to understand modernity, its complex questions and dilemmas, how global, national and local relationships between people. But as interesting as it may sound, few people want to sit for hours at dusty textbooks. Luckily, history can be learned in other ways, for example, by looking at interesting and vivid pictures of past days.





1. The reaction of a boy who met wrestler Andre the Giant (1970s)



2. Representatives of the Nakoda tribe, Samson Beaver with his wife Leah and their daughter Frances Louise, 1907



3. Roman mosaic depicting a fish, 1st century AD



4. An American soldier shares his rations with two Japanese children in Okinawa, 1945.



5. 1945: The day dad came home. Hector Murdoch is missing missing for four years, most of which he was a prisoner of war in Singapore. His wife Rosina and son John did not know if he was alive or dead. He returned home on his birthday



6. Former slave writer and activist Frederick Douglas with his musician grandson Joseph Douglas in 1894



7. A Ukrainian restaurant in the US is celebrating Stalin's death by offering free borscht. 1953



8. Snowstorm in North Dakota, 1966



9. Four generations, 1905



10. Remember the photo of construction workers having lunch on a New York skyscraper? And here is the photographer, Charles Ebbets. 09/20/1932



11. Australian soldiers after being released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945



12. 2200-year-old Hellenistic theater in Laodicea, southwest Turkey, after recent excavations



13. Children cross the river on their way to school, 1959, Italy



14. An Inuit warms his wife's feet. Greenland, 1890s



15. The postman poses with a pile of Christmas parcels and letters. Chicago, USA, 1929



16. William Harley and Arthur Davidson, founders of Harley-Davidson, 1914



17. Mother with her children, 1800 years ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt



18. Photo from the filming of the first film about Godzilla, 1954



19. Mobile home in 1922



20. May 1922: To 78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son Abraham Lincoln) being helped up the steps at the opening Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC



21. Boy with an owl, 1933



22. Piano for bedridden people. UK, 1935



23. Ceramic waterwire pipes found near Epang Palace, China. V-III century BC



24. A mother teaches children numbers and the alphabet in a sharecropper's house. Transylvania, Louisiana. January 1939



25. Playground in Dallas, Texas, 1900



26. A woman connects an IBM computer. Photo by Berenice Abbott, 1948



27. An immigrant family arrives at Ellis Island in 1904.



28. Inside a Pullman train car, 1890s.



29. Ashtrays and coin-operated televisions at the Los Angeles bus station, 1969



30. 23-year-old G. Anderson creates a recycling logo, 1970



31. Samurai helmet made by the famous Japanese metal maker Myochin Nobui, 1525



32. Poznan, Poland, in 1946 and in 2021



33. Lunch on a Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969



34. Residents of West Berlin show their children to grandparents living in East Berlin, 1961



35. Titanic anchor chain, made by Hingley & Sons, 1909