38 important historical photos that will make you look at the world differently (39 photos)

You can devour history textbooks to the delight of your teachers, but there is nothing more vivid than historical photographs that show the wonders and horrors of the past. This collection of photographs that capture unique moments in history reveals what people were proud of, what moved them to tears or left them heartbroken. Buckle up, relax and enjoy the journey into the past. Continuation of the first part.





1. Artist Evgeny Stepanovich Kobitev before and after participating in the Great Patriotic War. Only four years passed between the two photographs (1941-45)



2. 100,000 Iranian women took to the streets to protest the compulsory hijab law. Tehran, 1979





3. "Night Witches", fearless Soviet pilots who bombed Nazis at night



4. Native American woman with child, 1900s years



5. A Red Cross nurse records the last words of a mortally wounded soldier, 1917



6. Annette Kellerman advocates for women's right to wear form-fitting swimsuits. She was arrested for indecent exposure (1907)



7. Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough as a young man, late 1950s.



8. A boy reacts to seeing television for the first time, 1948



9. British soldiers (interrupted by a German raid during a rehearsal of The Pirates of Penzance) operate a 6-inch BL Mark VII gun at Shornemade Fort, England, 1940 g.



10. Miners rise from the mine in the elevator after a day of work. Belgium, 1920s



11. Arikara warrior "Bear Belly". North Dakota, USA, photo by Edward Curtis (1909)



12. Undercover cop on a mission. New York, Brooklyn, July 1, 1969



13. Sally Wadsworth, an employee of the Lockheed Martin military-industrial corporation, works on the fuselage of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning in California in 1944



14. Grand Central Terminal in New York, 1929. There can no longer be such rays now, since the station is surrounded by high-rise buildings



15. American troops treat a wounded dog on the Orote Peninsula. 1944, by W. Eugene Smith



16. 1945, Auschwitz death camp discovered and liberated by the Red Army



17. A woman looks out over a snowy mountain pass in the Pyrenees, France, 1956 year



18. Women visit family and friends quarantined at Ullevål Hospital, Oslo. Photo by Anders Beer Wils, 1905



19. Bill Clinton meets John F. Kennedy at the White House, 1963



20. Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and meteorologist Charles Wright at the entrance to the ice grotto. Terra Nova Expedition, Ross Island, January 5, 1911. Photograph by Herbert Ponting



21. A family of mother and nine children living in a field on US Highway 70 near the Tennessee River, March 1936



23. Shepherds listening to music, Azerbaijan, 1939 year



24. A U.S. Marine rescues two Vietnamese children during a shootout in Hue during the Vietnam War, 1968



25. A German prisoner from World War II, liberated by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his 12-year-old daughter, who had not seen him since infancy, 1956.



26. The last sword duel in French history between the mayor of Marseille and the Socialist presidential candidate, 1967



27. Returning Home. A British soldier with his 8-month-old daughter on a pier after returning from overseas, 1945



28. Cetshwayo, the Zulu ruler who defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana, 1878



29. One of the many selfies that Emperor Nicholas II took throughout his life (1868-1918)



30. Navajo Riders in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. 1904, photo by Edward Curtis



31. Pamir - the world's last commercial sailing ship, making trade voyages around Cape Horn, 1949.



32. Indian looking at the new transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1869



33. Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911 year



34. An outdoor hockey match in Sweden that had to be urgently interrupted. 1959



35. The oldest Austrian soldier of World War I, 79-year-old Gaspard Vallnefer, a veteran of the Habsburg campaigns in Italy in 1848 and 1866, September 1917.



37. Anti-British propaganda in Japan, 1941



38. Rare photo of a car accident in the Netherlands over a hundred years ago. Photo from 1914.



39. Acrobats balance on top of the Empire State Building, 1934



40. Rome when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, 1871