Thursday, April 25, 2013

Rare Collection of Historical Photos - email from jksw






 


Photos/descriptions that tell us what it was like to be there and,
surprise us with something we didn't know and hadn't seen.




Description: Real Samurai
Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.




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A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941















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The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.















The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.













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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.











Description: Native Railroad overlook
A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.







Description: great fire and earthquake in San Francisco   April 18th, 1906
The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.





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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
















British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.






Description: Disney Cafeteria
Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.














California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.














Description: Franz Ferdinand with his wife
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,
an event that helped spark World War I.









Description: Elves Presley in the Army
Elvis in the Army.





Description: Machu Picchu discovery
The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.







Child laborers in 1880.









Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.







Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.






Description: The Beatles and Muhammad Ali
The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.













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Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.









Description: Construction of the Statue of Liberty 1884
Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.







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