36 Must-See Photos From The Past

YoMcfly Published 03/06/2014

Some of these are absolutely mind-boggling, but what makes most of them so powerful is that they were taken in the past century, just one or two generations away from us.

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1. Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938
2. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
3. Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956
4. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
5. Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
6. Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
7. Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
8. Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
9. 106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990
10. Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937
11. Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961
12. Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII
13. Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
14. Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940
15. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
16. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
17. Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940
18. Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917
19. Suntan vending machine, 1949
20. Measuring bathing suits if they were too short, women would be fined, 19208242s
21. Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
22. Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
23. Lifeguard on the coast, 19208242s
24. Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
25. Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
26. Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
27. Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
28. Hitlers officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
29. Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
30. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
31. Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
32. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussauds Wax Museum in London, 1930
33. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
34. Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
35. 23 year-old Evelyn McHales suicide she jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947
36. First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967

1. Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938
2. Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
3. Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956
4. Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923
5. Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916
6. Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937
7. Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
8. Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
9. 106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990
10. Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937
11. Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961
12. Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII
13. Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
14. Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940
15. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961
16. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965
17. Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940
18. Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917
19. Suntan vending machine, 1949
20. Measuring bathing suits if they were too short, women would be fined, 19208242s
21. Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
22. Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
23. Lifeguard on the coast, 19208242s
24. Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
25. Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953
26. Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
27. Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII
28. Hitlers officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
29. Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
30. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
31. Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
32. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussauds Wax Museum in London, 1930
33. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
34. Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
35. 23 year-old Evelyn McHales suicide she jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947
36. First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967