16 Amazing Photos Collected From History
solidsnake4545
Published
12/21/2018
in
wow
Interesting stuff from the history vault.
- List View
- Player View
- Grid View
-
1. A ‘Knocker-up’ was hired to ensure that people would wake up on time for their jobs. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers’ windows in East London in the 1930s. She would not leave a window until she was sure that the workers had woken up.
-
2. Two “Cop Killers” photographed after interrogations, 1920s
-
3. Samurai in Yokohama, Japan. Photo by Felice Beato | 1864–65
-
-
4. Eureka, Colorado 1900
-
5. Slaves from a Coffe Plantation in Brazil, 1885
-
6. Silent ‘Grand Schema’ Monks of the Russian Orthodox Church, Balaam Monastery, Russisan 1888
-
-
7. Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie & Clyde fame, poses with his car and guns in Joplin, Missouri 1933
-
8. An Inuit man warms up his wife’s feet in Greenland, 1890s.
-
9. An elephant used by German soldiers to move heavy logs near the Western Front of World War I, 1915
-
-
10. BBC sound effects workers making effects for a program in studio 1927
-
11. Grigori Rasputin with his admirers 1914
-
12. On December 13, 1913 One Of The World’s Greatest Art Heists Was Solved
-
-
13. Welcome to America 1904, Ellis Island
-
14. Martin Luther King Jr. was shielded by his aides from a a mob of hostile whites after being struck by a rock to his head, while leading the march with civil rights demonstrators to protest housing discrimination in Chicago, Illinois. August 5, 1966
-
15. Jack Johnson, early 1900s
-
-
16. Police trade shots with barricaded suspect, Los Angeles, Feb. 17, 1938
- NEXT GALLERY
-
- 36 Pics That Prove That Life Is Worth Living
A ‘Knocker-up’ was hired to ensure that people would wake up on time for their jobs. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers’ windows in East London in the 1930s. She would not leave a window until she was sure that the workers had woken up.
16/16
1/16
Categories:
Wow
5 Comments