Must-See Historical Photos

Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916

                             

Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924

Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923

Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency

Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956

Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937

Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII

Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944

Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940

Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940

Suntan vending machine, 1949

Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s

Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960

Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964

Lifeguard on the coast, 1920′s

Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890

Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

A beautiful suicide – 23 year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building and landed on a United Nations limousine, 1947

First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929

106-year-old Armenian Woman guards home, 1990

Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961

Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937