45 amazing and rare historical photos that shed light on the past (46 photos)

On the Internet, it has long been customary to upset various braggarts and inventors with a demand to provide photographic evidence of their colorful stories. In history, especially when it comes to long ago days are also full of events that may sound wild fiction - fortunately, in this case there is a lot of photographic evidence, and that's just a small part of them.





1. World War I soldiers pay tribute to the millions of horses, donkeys and mules who died in the war



2. Samurai woman, 19th century



3. A young Brazilian woman refuses to shake hands with military dictator João Figueiredo. Photograph 1979



4. How else do you think they used to shoot such family portraits? 1909



5. "Don't shop where you wouldn't be hired." North Carolina, 1960



6. Open casting for the role of a black cat in a film about Edgar Allan Poe, 1961



7. Queen Genenpil, the last queen of Mongolia. 1920



8. Soldiers returning home after World War II, 1945



9. The very first known permanent photograph.



In the 1820s, the inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce received this shot with a camera obscura, which he installed outside the window of his studio in France. The image was printed on specially processed pewter plate, resulting in a copy of the buildings standing against.

In the 1820s, the inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce received this shot with a camera obscura, which he installed outside the window of his studio in France. The image was printed on specially processed pewter plate, resulting in a copy of the buildings standing against.

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11. A girl balancing on her mother's palm in Pittsburgh, a photograph of the middle of the last century



12. A Parisian woman with a cat in her cannabis garden, 1910



13. A man looks through books in the Cincinnati Public Library. It was demolished in 1955



14. In the 1960s, bars in Istanbul hired a man to carry drunk people home.



15. A girl tries to cut a sunbeam with scissors. Photo by Adam Diston, 1886



16. Nikola Tesla in his laboratory with a "magnifying transmitter", December 1899



17. Portrait of Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, fashion illustrator Dagmar Cohn. Photo from 1947



18. Roland, a sea elephant weighing 1.8 tons, takes a bath at the Berlin Zoo. Photo from 1930



19. "Horse training", photo by Felik Thiolier. 1899



20. Edinburgh from above, 1920



21. David Jones (aka David Bowie) fills in for the saxophonist and lead singer of the Kon-Rads at a concert in South London, 1963



22. Children on a spiral staircase in the new children's library in Clamart, France. Photograph by Martina Frank, 1965



23. The famous cliff house in San Francisco before it was destroyed by fire in 1907



24. A bulldog in a helmet guards a family outside an apartment building during the London Blitz. October 15, 1940



25. Portrait of a gentleman with an interesting hairstyle, 1894



26. An engineer plugs in a primitive IBM computer, 1958



27. Sandbags in Notre Dame during World War I



28. Victorian house being transported by boat in Tiburon, California, 1957



29. Haruo Nakajima and Momoko Kochi on the set of Godzilla, 1954



30. Seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen, which remained intact for 3245 years until excavations in 1922



31. The reaction of a boy who first saw TV. 1948



32. Curious sea lion posing for the camera



33. Aircraft cabin in 1930



34. Helmet test in 1912



35. A man fishing at night off the coast of Hawaii, 1948



36. The eruption of Vesuvius in 1944



37. A policeman regulates traffic during the day in London during the "great smog". Photo from 1952



38. Marilyn Monroe and the Distorting Mirror, 1950



39. Don't mess with grandma!



40. The crowd in Times Square in New York celebrates the surrender of Germany in World War II. May 7, 1945



41. Schoolgirls marching in gas masks during World War II



42. A French woman pours cider for a British soldier in Lisieux, France, August 22, 1944.



43. Skeletons of the Imperial Crypt. This crypt contains the remains of 4,000 different people. Photo from 1900



44. Anti-alcohol "PSA" in the early 1900s



45. In the late 1930s in Budapest they tried to fight high suicide rates by organizing the "Smile Club": a club that taught people to smile