40 Photos From Histories Vault That Will Pique Your Interest
An excellent collection of historical photos you may not have seen...
Published 8 years ago
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American chorus girl and an artists' model Evelyn Nesbit posing in one of her early shoots at age 16 in 1901. She also did a little acting, but was well known for he likeness being used in newspapers, advertisements, on posters, fine china, and much more. In fact, she seemed to have her face everywhere at the turn of the century.
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Orson Welles reading War of the Worlds as if its really happening during a live broadcast in 1938. The public had no idea it was fake. Panic and mass confusion gripped the US in most places for at least a day as people, despite not seeing any of the events they heard on the radio, thought Mars had invaded.
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Father Yod of the Source Family with 13 of his 14 wives in 1973. Legally, he only had 1 wife, but he ran a spiritual cult which attracted 150 followers and even had a band called the Ya Ho Wha 13. The cults/communes ideals were clean, all natural living, basically everything that was at the very heart of the hippie movement of the 1970s.
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Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (PA, US) in the late 1800s. From 1879 to 1918, some 10,000 Native American children were forced from their families and tribes to attend this school and assimilate into modern American culture. Only 158 ever graduated from the school.
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A young man uses a makeshift raft to cross the flooded street in front of Hankou City Hall in Hankou, China, in 1931. This was during the devastating Yangtze River floods that lasted for 5 months in 1931. The flooding was so bad, it is generally considered the worst natural disaster in history, as anywhere from 145,000 to 4 million people died as a result. Most experts agree more than 1 million died, but exact numbers were never counted.
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18 Year old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past her in Moscow in 1991. An interview at the time with Katya showed that unfortunately many young girls like her struggled mightily for work even as a prostitute as the collapse of the USSR created every issue imaginable as their entire world crashed around them.
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The Statue of Liberty being constructed in Paris, France in 1878. Most people don't know this but the French offered, financed, and paid to build the statue and then gifted it to the US, who only paid for the base on which it stands. Another interesting note, Gustave Eiffel, who built the world famous Eiffel Tower, also assisted in The Statue of Liberty's construction.
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