Interesting Photos from the Past (21 photos)

I present to you a batch of interesting, surprising and sometimes funny photos from all over the world. I have colored all the photos, enjoy!





A woman carries a British merchant on her back in West Bengal, 1903.

I think the "passenger" would be very uncomfortable moving like this... Most likely, this photo is intended to demonstrate the ability of the human body to carry heavy objects. Let's hope that the photo was staged.



German children play with bundles of almost worthless money during the hyperinflation of 1923.

To understand what kind of hyperinflation there was in the country, I will give an example: A kilogram of bread in 1918 cost 1/4 mark, and in November 1923 it was already 233 billion marks.

Therefore, it is not at all surprising that children in the streets play with such bundles of money.





Cleaning the canals of Venice from silt, 1956.



Photographer: Bill Perlmutter

A net lift to the Meteora cliffs. Greece, 1908.

This is how monks have climbed to their rock monasteries for centuries. The monasteries are located at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level.



Photographer: Frederic Boisson

Swimming lessons, 1920s.

Now they would prosecute for such things, but back then they took demonstrative photos.



Portrait with the Easter Bunny, 1958.

The very idea of ​​an Easter bunny is some kind of unthinkable surrealism. Easter is originally a Jewish holiday, but a rabbit is an unclean animal, forbidden to eat. And so they combined all this and created some kind of pagan holiday.



A lesson at school. Sudan, 1954.

A joke from a subscriber on this topic:

- Vanya, our school has a strict dress code: baobab leaves! And what are you wearing again?... - Maria Ivanovna, I'm from the north. We only have acacia as leaves...



A pacifist and a US guard near the Pentagon in 1967.

The world-famous photo was taken in October 1967 during a demonstration against the Vietnam War.

Now they try to take similar shots at any anti-government demonstration in any country.



Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations conference in Geneva, 1933. In the picture, he learned that the photographer standing in front of him, Alfred Eisenstaedt, was Jewish. This moment is captured in the photograph.

“And suddenly he looked at me with hatred,” the photographer recalls.



Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Tennis players taking a smoke break, 1930s.

Smoking and any kind of sport are incompatible, but there used to be other views on this bad habit.



Police academy, African style. South African Police Training Centre. Hamanskraal. Gauteng Province. South Africa, 1978.



An African king riding a subject and holding an umbrella. German East Africa, 1913.



Fly-by fighters under a bridge.

On April 5, 1968, RAF pilot Alan Pollock of No. 1 Squadron flew his Hawker Hunter between the upper and lower sections of Tower Bridge in London. It was a sign of protest because of the forgotten anniversary (50 years) of the squadron's creation.

Chkalov's fame apparently did not give him any peace. He loved to fly under low bridges...



Treatment of teeth at home, 1920s.

If you believe the comments in English-language sources, then such methods were used until the 80s. And many had a special tool for removing baby teeth at home. We always had other methods.



Adolf Hitler's residence in the Berchtesgaden Valley in the Bavarian Alps, 1949.

The window size and view are impressive.



Jack Berryman and his assistants fly a kite that lifts a little girl off the ground, January 13, 1934.



A zebra cart in Calcutta, India, 1930s.

If you believe the Internet, zebras cannot be tamed because they are unsafe animals, they have maimed and killed trainers, and zebras live in Africa, where there is no winter, so they are unlikely to survive the harsh northern climate. But I have already colored more than one photo where zebras are used like horses. This raises many questions...



Two lumberjacks and a large tree. USA, 1915.

This is a sequoia, the largest tree on earth.



A Filipino girl and her family at the human zoo in Coney Island, New York, 1906. Human zoos first appeared in France, for example, the famous "Jardin d'Acclimatisation", which operated from 1877 to 1912, where rare species of animals and, later, people were exhibited, mainly from South America and Eastern countries.



After the tsunami in Severo-Kurilsk, 1952.