Saturday, April 4, 2026

What are some amazing historical photos?

 Former United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell was "doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks."



Theodore Roosevelt's diary on Valentine's day, after his wife and mother died on the same day in 1884.


A swimming lesson in the Thames, 1906.


Salvador Dali. Photograph by Philippe Halsman. It took 28 attempts to get this perfectly-timed shot, 1948.


The Beatles step onstage in Tokyo, Japan. 1966.


Princess Diana with Mother Teresa in New York, 1997.


The Old Cincinnati Library, Ohio. Built in 1874, and designed by James W. McLaughlin in 1868.


Commander Neil Armstrong making pizza at his home a few months before walking on the moon, 1969.


Martin Luther King being arrested for demanding service at a white-only restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida, 1964.


Arnold's favorite bicep. 1974 - 2015.


Antarctica from Space by NASA.


A French postcard with the tallest, shortest, and fattest men of Europe playing a game of cards, circa 1913.


Barack and Michelle Obama on their wedding day, October 3, 1992.


The first picture of the earth from space, taken from a captured German V2 rocket by American scientists in 1946.


Young Leonardo DiCaprio, 1995.


Robert Overacker went over Niagara Falls for the homeless in '95. His parachute failed and he fell to his death.


A crowd gathers after Jumbo the elephant is hit and killed by a train in Ontario, 1885. Photo by Andersons Limited.


Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio bowling, 1989.


Blizzard of 1888 in New York City, a storm which led to the death of more than 400 people.


Christmas in the German trenches, WWI, circa 1915.


EnVogue 1988 and 26 years later.


2500 year old Mummy of a Scythian Princess with tattoos.


Mugshot from back in the 1940s when it was a crime to be a homosexual.


Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane Wilde, 1965.


Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man in history, with his brothers and sisters, 1936.


American heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay(Muhammad Ali) in a mock victory pose over The Beatles, 1964.



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