The photograph precipitated a dramatic change in how we perceive history. Amazing historic photos like these can make it seem like you were standing right there during that historic moment.
Books and paintings have documented history far further back, but there’s nothing like a photo to give you the sense that you’re looking at something real. A photo can still misdirect the viewer, but it’s still more faithful than a painting or book.
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936 rarehistoricalphotos.com Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter” hdwallpapersfactory.com Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII Gerald Waller The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888 retronaut.com Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967 imgur.com Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy, 1956 Francis Miller The Unbroken Seal On Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 (3,245 Years Untouched) needstostopburning Unknown Soldier In Vietnam, 1965 Horst Faas The Kiss Of Life – A Utility Worker Giving Mouth-to-mouth To Co-worker After He Contacted A High Voltage Wire, 1967 rarehistoricalphotos.com Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, Ny canasanta.com Massive Crowds Gather For The First Woodstock, 1969 imgur.com Grotto In An Iceberg, Photographed During The British Antarctic Expedition, 5 Jan 1911. Herbert Ponting Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1932 retronaut.com First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967 Jan Collsiöö Annette Kellerman Promotes Women’s Right To Wear A Fitted One-piece Bathing Suit, 1907. She Was Arrested For Indecency wikipedia.org 106-year-old Armenian Woman Guards Home, 1990 United Nations The Last Known Photo Of The Titanic Above Water, 1912 rarehistoricalphotos.com Disneyland Employee Cafeteria In 1961 JustBlue Painter Of The Brooklyn Bridge,1914 imgur.com The Real Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin, 1927 HelloInterwebz Women Delivering Ice, 1918 historicnewengland.org Hannah Stilley, Born 1746, Photographed In 1840. Probably The Earliest Born Individual Captured On Film wikimedia.org Elvis In The Army, 1958 BuckRockefeller The Beatles Play For 18 People In The Aldershot Club, December 1961. They Were To Become Superstars In One And A Half Year. imgur.com Customers At A London Music Store, 1955 imgur.com The First Ever Underground Train Journey, Edgware Road Station, London, 1862 James Morley Woman With A Gas-resistant Pram, England, 1938 nydailynews.com Baby Cages Used To Ensure That Children Get Enough Sunlight And Fresh Air When Living In An Apartment Building, 1937 theatlantic.com Measuring Bathing Suits, If They Were Too Short, Women Would Be Fined, 1920’s retronaut.com Salvador Dali Kisses The Hand Of Raquel Welch After Finishing His Famous Portrait Of Her, 1965 imgur.com Little Girl With Her Doll Sitting In The Ruins Of Her Bombed Home, London, 1940 Hulton Deutsch Collection The First 5 Mbyte Hard Disk Loaded To A Panam Plane, 1956 imgur.com Georges Blind, A Member Of The French Resistance, Smiling At A German Firing Squad, 1944 rarehistoricalphotos.com Three Men Run In The Marathon At The First Modern Olympic Games, 1896 Burton Holmes African Americans Protest Against The War In Vietnam During The Harlem Peace March, 1967 Builder Levy Harley Davidson’s First Factory, 1903 retronaut.com Sailor Kissing Nurse, Times Square, August 14, 1945. Wojciech Okuszko Charlie Chaplin At The Age Of 27, 1916 wikimedia.org Newspaper Boy Ned Parfett Sells Copies Of The Evening Paper Bearing News Of Titanic’s Sinking The Night Before, April 16, 1912 Hulton-Deutsch Collection Factory Workers Race On The Roof (test Track) Of The Fiat Factory In Turin, Italy, 1923 imgur.com Norway Receive Their First Ever Shipment Of Bananas,1905 historicaltimes.tumblr.com The Glasses John Lennon Wore When He Was Assassinated, 1980 dailymail.co.uk Coca-Cola Comes To France, 1950 Lina D. Times Square, 1947 William Gottlieb Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev As A Young Gentleman, 1986 imgur.com Che Guevara And Fidel Castro Fishing, 1960 imgur.com Early Morning Train, Japan, 1964 Nicolas Bouvier The Normandy Descent Georgi Ivanov Arnold Schwarzenegger In New York For The First Time In 1968 famouswiki.com Titanic Departure, Southampton, Uk, 1912 Wojciech Okuszko Barack Obama With His Junior Varsity Basketball Team, nydailynews.com A Flight Simulator In 1942 imgur.com Elton John At The Piano Bar Aboard His Private Plane, 1976 Dunkeal The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963 retronaut.com Cutting The Big Trees Greg Neilson