15 photos from the past that will appeal to history buffs (17 photos)

History is written not only in words, but also in photographs. These photographs take us back in time, allowing us to see how people of bygone decades lived, worked, and made discoveries.





1. From a distance, kitchenware vendors who resemble giant robots, Naples, 1903



2. Car Wash Bowl, Chicago, 1924 year





Inventor K.P. Boland patented the car wash bowl in 1921 and opened two such facilities in his hometown. He came up with the idea for the bowl as an easy way to remove dirt from the underside of cars. Back then, roads were often unpaved and dirty, and dirt would stick to the underside and wheels. The car would be driven around the shallow, circular pool, washing itself.

3. These are the legs of American actor Humphrey Bogart. Off-screen, he wore platforms to appear taller than his Casablanca co-star Ingrid Bergman



Bogart was 173 cm tall, two centimeters shorter than Bergman. And this is how they looked on camera:



4. Ku Klux Klan members, 1871



The photo shows a re-enactment of Klansmen abusing John Campbell, a Republican Party member, whom they kidnapped, tortured, and were about to kill, but an undercover federal marshal saved him. Campbell plays himself in the photo, and the Klansmen are portrayed by the politician's black friends.

5. Martin Laurello, nicknamed the Owl Man. He could turn his head 180 degrees. Photo taken in the 1930s



6. Multiprocessor computing system PS-2000 at the Institute of Cybernetics, Moscow, 1984



7. 23-year-old member of the Iraqi Baath Party Saddam Hussein, 1960 year



8. A man stands in front of a mirror with the words "The most dangerous animal in the world" written on it at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, 1963



9. A London Zoo keeper polishes the shells of tortoises, 1930s



10. Rachmaninoff plays for his granddaughter Sophia, New York, 1927



Sophia Volkonskaya was born in Paris in 1925, shortly after the death of her father, Prince Pyotr Volkonsky. She married a diplomat and moved with him to Costa Rica, where she gave birth to three children. Rachmaninoff's granddaughter died in 1968 in the Bahamas.

11. In 1907, a woman known as Serious Sue promised to pay a thousand dollars to anyone who could make her laugh. No one succeeded because Sue was unable to smile due to facial paralysis.



12. Preparing for a trip, loading provisions onto a nuclear submarine, Gadzhiyevo, Murmansk region, 1996



13. Painting the Eiffel Tower, 1932 year



Throughout its history, the Eiffel Tower has changed color several times, from yellow to reddish-brown. In recent decades, it has been painted in its signature "Eiffel Brown" color, a patented shade close to the natural color of bronze.

Every seven years, the tower is touched up with 57 tons of special paint.

14. On May 29, 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Everest



15. Kindergarteners prepare a festive poster dedicated to the 12th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1929