12 photos showing the world of the past and the present (13 photos)

If you put two photographs side by side, taken with a certain time interval, they will become a more interesting source of the past, than a history textbook.





There can only be a couple between these photos. decades, but even in such a short period of time, simply colossal changes. Even more incredible to realize how much change happened to our world over the centuries, from the time when there was no cameras.

Mead Reservoir in the USA: in 2021 there was a severe drought



Volcanic Crater Lake in 1982, the same 40 years later: the place has not changed much





A building that not only changed over time, but also changed its location



104-year-old woman who lived most of her life in the same house



A house that has become incredibly comfortable after renovation



Grandchildren recreate 1940s photo of their grandmothers, Bronx, New York



One tree 130 years apart



Canal in Utrecht, Netherlands



The building of the XIX century, which was a factory, and now it is the Manufaktura shopping center in the Polish city of Lodz: 1994 vs 2014



Edinburgh, which has not changed much, except that nature has returned to it



Central Park in New York in 1932 and today



Machu Picchu more than a century later, photographed from the same angle