Let's go back in time: 30 interesting retro photographs (31 photos)

Watching historical footage is almost like using a time machine. Old photos take us back to the past and tell us a lot about it, revealing its different sides, culture, people and events. Let's take a look at some retro photos that give a new look at times long gone.





1. Roland the elephant seal takes a “snow bath” at the Berlin Zoo, 1930s



2. 1915 Lassen eruption, California





3. Emma Lillian Todd, self-taught inventor. Believed to be the first woman in the world to design and build her own aircraft. Photo from 1909



4. Boy playing banjo with dog. 1920s



5. Children cross a river to school near Modena, Italy, 1959



6. Veteran Jacob Miller was shot in the forehead on September 19, 1863. He lived with an open bullet wound for many years, and the last pieces of the bullet fell out of the wound 31 years later.



Jacob Miller is a veteran of the American Civil War. He was wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga, which took place September 19-20, 1863.

7. Bell Telephone's first video phone, 1964



8. Hayes vinyl factory employees packing Beatles records, 1965 (Rubber Soul album)



9. Airline ticket reservation service, 1945



10. Engineer Karen Leadley working on analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964



11. This is what transporting an IBM hard drive with a capacity of 5 megabytes looked like. 1956



12. Dangerous encounter with a kangaroo



13. A newspaper that was sent by fax. 1938



14. Hair straightening, 1964



15. A video camera “that you can take with you everywhere,” from 1967



16. Engineer Howard Hughes testing a radio-controlled model of the Spruce Goose airplane in California, 1947



17. Golf ball collector, 1920



18. London, 1949



19. Woodcutters shave with an axe, 1930s



20. Postman with a child in a mail bag, 1913. Back then it was legal to send children through the US Postal Service



21. Actor Kirk Douglas lifts his sons, Joel and Michael, during training. Photo from 1955



22. Motorcycle racer Roland Free lies on his motorcycle on the Bonneville Salt Flats, USA. Then he broke the world speed record. September 13, 1948



23. Santa Claus and two clowns visit children in the hospital. 1950s



24. Renovation of Stonehenge in 1919



25. Portable sauna?? from 1942. It was believed that it "melts fat"



26. A circus seal holds a doll with its nose. Germany, 1961



27. Futuristic chair with a typewriter, headphones and lighting. Paris, 1972



28. Martin Laurello - a circus performer who could turn his head 180 degrees. 1938



29. 4.5 megabytes of data in 62,500 punched cards, 1955



30. Ming the Panda photographing a boy at London Zoo, December 1938