Photos from the past (40 photos)

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





The girls provide a topless shoe shine service. Toronto, 1975



Louis de Funes. Until the age of 44, he earned his living with others talent - virtuoso piano playing. Appeared in various establishments. And even then he amused the audience with grimaces and his unique facial expressions. 1950s



Two miraculously surviving girls from the 87th floor of the World Trade Center, New York, September 11, 2001



Execution of a thief, 1900s, Persia



In the center is not a statue at all, but a man subjected to a sophisticated execution. His tied up, built around a wall of mud bricks, after which filled this form with lime. Six hours later the unfortunate man was still alive, and he had to be shot. As stated in the caption for the photo, the crime consisted of stealing two cucumbers.

Little Eskimo and her Husky, 1949



Donkey - saves the donkey. While man kills man



A couple showing their newborn babies to their grandparents on the other side of the Berlin Wall



A reporter is interviewed during the detention of an ethnic mafia member. Moscow. October 1991



The Japanese during the Second World War showed unheard of cruelty and killed more Chinese than the Nazis Jews



Jackie Chan as a child.



Nude Portrait: Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tatyana Patitz and Naomi Campbell, 1989



"Night witches", fearless Soviet pilots who bombarded the Nazis at night



Football players of the USSR national team Andrey Starostin, Lev Yashin and Igor Netto with the European Cup. 1960



Naturist wedding in some natural history museum, 1940s



The first Pepsi-Cola plant in the USSR. Novorossiysk, 1974



A cook prepares a penguin for dinner, Antarctic expedition, 1915



The great Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin became famous not only on the football field. And in his "collection" there are a couple of unexpected titles: winner of the USSR Cup and bronze medalist of the USSR championship in hockey 1953



Yashin was very fond of Canadian hockey and they already wanted to invite him to the hockey national team for the World Cup, but still he chose football. And all over it turns out, the choice was made correctly

Prince Charles and Princess Anne are buried in the sand on the beach. UK, 1957



"Golden Dolphin" from Turin, from the coachwork Viberti company. In 1956, they had not yet flown into space, but they were already doing space style buses



The Soviet cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" passes through the Bosphorus. 1954



French woman with a baguette and 6 bottles of wine. Paris, 1945



Albanian refugees trying to get to Italy, March 1991



"All the police are alerted in connection with the murder of Castro!", 1959, Fidel is dying



Sylvester Stallone in Muhammad Ali's locker room before Ali vs Larry Holmes, 1980



Premiere of the film "Only Old Men Go to Battle", August 12, 1974



Burlaks on the Yangtze River, China, 1946



Break for exercise in Intel Fab 11X. Rio Rancho, New Mexico, 1998



During the break, workers made sure to do a little exercise for greater productivity.

Bikini competition. California, 1986



Patricia O'Keeffe who lifted 5 times her own weight. 1940



Fred Bell, former millionaire now unemployed sells apples from his stall on a street corner in San Francisco during Great Depression.



Chimpanzee astronaut receives an apple after the first successful space flight, USA, 1961
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Future blogger Ilya Varlamov and future owner of Dvacha Nariman Namazov, Moscow, 1999



Alexander Karelin, Seoul, 1988


< br> A woman warms herself by a stove in an attic in Paris, c. 1950. Photographer Tore Johnson