Thursday, June 4, 2026

What are some rare historical photos you might not believe?

 

  1. People stand beside a giant hand-forged chain link for the Titanic's Hingley anchor. The largest at the time.

2. View inside one of the Titanic's first-class suites (1912)

3. Lifeboats carried the survivors of the Titanic away from the heartbreaking spectacle.

4. Alcohol is poured out during prohibition in Detroit 1929.

5. Albert Einstein at the opening of the World's Fair, New York, 1939.

6. Laika, the Soviet dog who went into space on Sputnik 2.

7. Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States, on February 18, 1861 in the state capital of Alabama.

8. Nazi gold was stored at the Merkers Salt Mine.

9. Women had stockings painted rather than buying them during War time.

10. American Red Cross workers gather flu victims in St. Louis, Missouri (1918).