Historical Photographs

'Powder Monkey' on the USS New Hampshire (1864)



'The moment a dragon is slain' Puppet Show (Paris 1963)




(COLORIZED) Lt. Custer and Union Troops (1862)




9 Kings in Windsor Castle (May 20th, 1910)




A vac sealed sachet of one of the astronauts children during Apollo 11




Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan (1945)




Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender of Japan (1945)




First picture ever taken in space (1946)




German flying ace, 'The Red Baron' and his dog (1916)




Headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party (1934)




Hiroshima - Before and After (1945)




Hitler looking at the Gustav Railway gun (1942)




Hungarian Revolution of 1956




JFK and LBJ during the Cuban Missle Crisis (1962)




Joseph and magda Goebbels on their wedding day. Best man- Adolf Hitler (1931)




Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister. 1933 in Geneva by Alfred Eisenstaedt




Last photo taken of the Titanic (1912)




Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in Giza (1961)




Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla (1894)




Opening of King Tut's sarcophagus (1924)




Prohibition- Alcohol barrels to be burned (1924)




Pyramid of captured German helmets, New York (1918)




RAF pilot gets a haircut in between missions (1942)




Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South (Nov. 14th, 1960)




Samurai (ca. 1860-1880)




San Fransisco (1958)




SAS detachment (Jan. 19th, 1943)




Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii




Soviet soldiers take a break to watch an acrobatic show on the march towards Berlin (1945)




The dog of General George S. Patton on the day of his death (1945)




The main gate to Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp built in 1944 called "the Gate of Death"




The SAS storming the Iranian Embassy to free hostages taken by terrorists. London. 1980




Thich Quang Duc (1963)




Three Archers, Japan (ca. 1870-1880)




Triumphant dog sitting atop a gun surrounded by gunners, France, during World War 1




Tsar Nicholas and friend (1899)




Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (1961)

Nice pictures. I did have it in the back of my head you might have put "the death of Rangers football club" and then Craig Whyte signing a contract or something though.

Left this one out.

Fuck that was pretty cool, the Mussolini one was creepy as fuck, like something out of 1984.

That Hiroshima one is quite depressing.

Great pictures. Everybody should add one.

That Mussolini one is so weird it looks fake.

I looked for one where the American and Russian soldiers are meeting eachother essentially in Berlin, but couldn't find it. If anybody can they should post it.

I thought this one was cool, and very important. The once proud Reichstag:



Any Call of Duty: WaW players will recognize that from one of the maps, I believe. Supposed to be the symbol of a 1,000 year Reich.

moar!

Marvellous thread, I'll add one.

Statue of Liberty Construction, Bartholdi's Parisian Warehouse Workshop (1883)




Painters suspended on the Brooklyn Bridge (1914)

This is awesome.

Great pictures! Tesla and Apollo my favourite.
Mussolini and the Railway gun are quite scary

Hiroshima.

The earliest known photo of men drinking beer. Edinburgh Ale (1844)




Martin Luther King Jr removing a burned cross from his front yard with his son at his side. Atlanta Ga 1960.




Raising the flag on Iwo Jima (1945)




A female Viet Cong fighter (1954-1976)




The stare (1941-1942)




Russian soldiers advancing through trenches, Stalingrad (1942)




Russian flag over Reichstag (1945)

This is actually quality.

Not enough megapixels.

SophisticatedBeggar wrote:

Watched a video of this one and he gets popped, he gets BLOWN.

Chris wrote:

SophisticatedBeggar wrote:

Watched a video of this one and he gets popped, he gets BLOWN.

All kindsa crazy videos came up after that one.

Fall of Berlin wall?

Kuled wrote:Fall of Berlin wall?

Was going to post this but couldn't find any decent pictures or a big iconic one.

Was also going to post Southern Lynchings and Napalm Girl but thought those were to graphic for a family forum.

Dude getting shanked by a samurai.

awesome thread


the body of Che Guevara


Footprint on the Moon


The First Photograph (1826)


single man blocks road of tanks (China, Tiananmen Square)

ZOMBIE KILLER wrote:

Russian flag over Reichstag (1945)

Love this

inb4ihategermans

SophisticatedBeggar wrote:All kindsa crazy videos came up after that one.

Yeh.. I watched some poor african president get tortured then he was killed by some kony looking prick.

Kitty Hawk, Wright Brothers' first flight


Checkpoint Charlie, US and Soviet (background) tanks during Berlin Crisis


Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, Oslo Accords

ZOMBIE KILLER wrote:


Russian flag over Reichstag (1945)

Dimitri.

Fonseca wrote:

ZOMBIE KILLER wrote:

Russian flag over Reichstag (1945)

Love this

inb4ihategermans

The day after the actual storming and taking of the Reichstag, the Soviets recreated the scene for the cameras.

Mustangt125 wrote:

Fonseca wrote:

Love this

inb4ihategermans

The day after the actual storming and taking of the Reichstag, the Soviets recreated the scene for the cameras.

The picture that is famous for Iwo Jima flag planting was also a recreation (although there was an actual flag planting incident).


But what really makes me chuckle is people crying over the Hiroshima photo. Don't like it? Don't wake the sleeping giant then. And if you do, say Uncle when it tells you to.