Rare Historical Photos and The Story Behind
It's anything but difficult to overlook history as something spoke to just in stories and composing. In any case, there is no present without the history going before it, and we can't look to the future without taking a gander at the other heading also - the past, for it is the past whereupon we stand when we attempt to venture forward into future occasions. There have been numerous radiant and repulsive minutes from before, and this photograph arrangement uncovers that reality in astounding clearness.
Here, the past is as yet perfectly healthy, and for a couple of minutes, we are back in those groundbreaking time and occasions that shook the world in the relatively recent past
Albert Einsteins desk a few hours after his death, 1955
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after found in one of their hiding spots after a police raid. Missouri, 1933
British soldiers going over wire fences during the first world war, France 1916
Butch Cassidy and gang, Fort Worth, Texas, 1900
Robert Leroy Parker, also known as Butch Cassidy, was one of the few outlaws of the Wild West who attained notoriety while still living. Cassidy may have had a relative in Fort Worth, prompting his visits. The folk-hero leader of the Fort Worth Five was known for bank and train robberies.
Legend has is that during late 1900 and early 1901 Butch Cassidy and his cohorts, including the Sundance Kid, roamed the streets of Hell’s Half Acre between robberies
Celebrating the end of alcohol prohibition, December 5th, 1933
By the 1930s, it was clear that Prohibition had become a public policy failure. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had done little to curb the sale, production and consumption of intoxicating liquors. And while organized crime flourished, tax revenues withered. With the United States stuck in the throes of the Great Depression, money trumped morals, and the federal government turned to alcohol to quench its thirst for desperately needed tax money and put an estimated half-million Americans back to work.
In February 1933, Congress easily passed a proposed 21st Amendment that would repeal the 18th Amendment, which legalized national Prohibition. Even 17 of the 22 senators who voted for Prohibition 16 years earlier now approved its repeal. State conventions quickly ratified the proposed amendment, and by December 5, 1933, only three more states were needed to garner the requisite three-quarters approval to make it law.
Emperor of Japan in full regalia, 1872
Exposing the Mona Lisa after WWII
The half-length portrait of Lisa Gherardini, done by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, also comes with a rich history of casualties. The most notorious one happened on 21 August 1911, when the painting was stolen. read more
Fighter plane smoke trails as an air battle takes place over London between the British and Germans, September 1940
Helen Keller teaching Charlie Chapling sign language, west java 1919
Mussolini and the fascist party headquarters, Italy 1934
In 1934 Italians who were permitted to vote went to the polls to choose “yes” or “no” for a list of 400 members of the chamber of deputies chosen by the Grand Council of Fascism. Benito Mussolini was in full command as the leader of the Fascist Party and dictator of Italy.
This bizarre and visually striking display adorned the headquarters of the Fascist Party in Rome at the time of the vote; Mussolini’s menacing visage surrounded by the word YES. The message had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer
John Kennedy and Lindon Jhonson together with senior staff during The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides. The dramatic crisis was also characterized by the fact that it was primarily played out at the White House and the Kremlin level with relatively little input from the respective bureaucracies typically involved in the foreign policy process.
Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 1838, a ghostly photograph
The first photo ever to capture a person on camera (Taken in 1839 by Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre, the photograph depicts a seemingly empty street in Paris). On the bottom left you can see a man having his shoes shined. He actually stood without moving for the 10 minutes exposure took, and so it seems like he is the only one on the street.
Original Pooh bear and Christopher Robin, 1928
In 1921, long before Walt Disney turned Pooh into an international star of TV and films, Christopher Robin Milne was given a teddy bear on his first birthday from his father, A.A. Milne, who purchased a stuffed animal from Harrods department store.
The stuffed animal was named Edward Bear, the proper name for Teddy. Years later, Edward would be renamed Winnie.
From the time Christopher Robin Milne was a baby until he was about 8 years old, he would receive stuffed animals that would later serve as the inspiration for Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and Kanga.
As he watched his son interact with Winnie and friends, A.A. Milne thought his child's interaction with the collection of animals would make a great bedtime story.
The air ship hinderburg floating over the Empire State building, New York City, 1936
The building’s distinctive Art Deco spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast and depot for dirigibles. The 102nd floor was originally a landing platform with a dirigible gangplank. A particular elevator, traveling between the 86th and 102nd floors, was supposed to transport passengers after they checked in at the observation deck on the 86th floor. However, the idea proved to be impractical and dangerous after a few attempts with airships, due to the powerful updrafts caused by the size of the building itself, as well as the lack of mooring lines tying the other end of the craft to the ground.
Pablo Escobar with his son in front of the white house. Washington DC, 1980s
This is a photograph of the notorious drug lord, Pablo Escobar and his son as they pose in front of the White House. It is estimated that the picture was taken around the year 1980, although the official date was never recorded.
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria better known as Pablo Escobar (born, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia). He grew up with a hearty desire to one day become the president of his native country Columbia. In order to make these aspirations come to fruition, he began to steal and smuggle for money. Through his role as a smuggler, Escobar would come to control much of the criminal underworld. Using his criminal assets, he quickly seized control of the then-fledgling Columbian cocaine business.
Using brutal tactics to force loyalty from his workers, Escobar is estimated to have produced so much cocaine that he supplied eighty percent of the total amount in the U.S.A. at one point. Eventually, the law caught up with Escobar and in 1993 he was killed in a fire fight with authorities.
The last known photo of the Titanic, 1912
This picture is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on the surface of the ocean. It was taken during her maiden voyage at Crosshaven, Ireland, just after the vessel departed Queenstown where it had stopped before heading westwards towards New York. Three days after this photo was taken 1,514 people would be dead and the Titanic would be on the bottom of the North Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
The last public execution in the United States of America, 1936
Rainey Bethea (August 14, 1936) was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, Caught up for killing a 70-year-old woman (named Lischia Edwards) — done in the midst of a drunken burglary, he had left a telltale ring at the scene; fingerprint analysis also helped establish his guilt — Rainey Bethea was on the hook for murder, robbery and rape. The former two indictments would have subjected him to (private) electrocution at the state penitentiary. The latter charge still carried the punishment of public hanging in the local county seat.
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