15 Historical Photos That Are Like Time Machines

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15 Historical Photos That Are Like Time Machines

See what people captured as they lived through history.

Published 5 months ago

Some photos capture more than just the moment.

Throughout some of the most pivotal moments in history, a camera was there to capture it. The prohibition of the 1920s, the bleak state of the 1930s, World War II can all be seen in clear, vintage photographs that make us realize those essential moments of the past weren't so long ago.

Scroll through and see some of the most fascinating snapshots from history.

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A housewife poses with $12.50 worth of groceries for the week in 1947
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Paratrooper Private Ware applies last second make-up to Private Plaudo in England, June 1944.
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The Beatles perform at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, West Germany.
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President Gerald Ford plays a traditional Japanese game with a geisha, while on a state visit to Kyoto, Japan. November 21, 1974.
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German soldier giving bread to an orphaned Russian boy, 1942.
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The parade, held on May 14, 1932, was organized by the city’s mayor, Jimmy Walker, and was originally called the Beer for Taxation march.
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London Underground Track Cleaners aka "Fluffers" in 1949.
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General George S Patton arriving in Djebel Kouif, Tunisa, North Africa, 1943.
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The Queen travelling on the London Underground after officially opening the Victoria Line service on 7th March 1969.
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Czechoslovak conscripts look on from the walls of Žižkov barracks as a Soviet T-62 drives into the city of České Budějovice during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 22nd of August 1968.
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Miguel Primo de Rivera, Benito Mussolini, Prince Umberto, Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy observing military maneuvers at the Centocelle airfield in Rome, June 1923.
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