Human history captured on photo (pic heavy)

[Vyse]

Found some fascinating photos and thought I would share. If only cameras were invented earlier, even more important moments in our history would have been captured. Please add more that you know about.



A mother selling her children during the great depression. She was hiding her face due to the shame.



"Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan - Burning for over 40 years, due to a botched Soviet oil project.



Chichen Itza ruins - 1892



Last public execution in the US (Kentucky - 1936)



Excavation of Sphinx - Egypt, 1878



Men stand in a 45,000 ton steel pipe over the Hoover Dam



Construction workers taking a break during the construction of the Empire State building.



Unbroken seal of door leading to Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922



Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, 1937



Loyalty oath of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938



Hiroshima nuclear bomb shadow, Japan 1945



Nayenezgani Spirit



Nguy?n Ng?c Loan executes prisoner.



9 European kings



Solvay Conference, 1927





WW1 German Calavary wearing gas masks



Ghandi's letter to Hitler



Hitler inspecting rail gun



Italian funeral monk (1892)



German wehrmacht (defence force) prisoners of war watching a film regarding the concentration camps



First sustained fligbt - Wright brothers 1902



This photograph shows the control room of U-Boat 110 that sunk in and then risen in 1918



Nazi rally 1937



London Music Store in 1955




Last day of World Trade Center before 9-11 attacks.

http://i.imgur.com/GaY2m9q.jpg

NSFW - University School of medicine graduating class in the 1940



Ghandi on the dance floor during visit to UK



Bluegill Triple Prime. High altitude nuclear explosion, 48km above Johnston Island in 1962.



East german solider Conrad Schumann escaping to west germany in 1961, he was the last escapee before the completion of the Berlin Wall.



First selfie - 1839



Challenger Space Shuttle explosion



German soldiers execute a defiant communist in Munich, 1919.



A photo of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, taken the morning of April 15, 1912 from board of the ship “Prinz Adalbert”, before knowing the Titanic had sunk.



Testing the first bulletproof vest, 1923.



Cetshwayo Kampande the last king of the independent Zulu nation.



The Beatles first US concert



Redwood loggers - 1940s



Picture of a man from the Italian Calvary School in 1906, demonstrating just how much control they had over their horses.



An image from the 1904 "Savage Olympics Exhibition"





European human zoos



No mans land



Japanese samurai (1870s)



A Native American surveys the newly completed transcontinental railroad, 1868.



Barack Obama posing with a group of friends that called themselves the Choom Gang, Hawaii, c. 1979



Motorcycle chariots - 1920s



IRA patrol in West Belfast



Billboards USA (1980s)



NASA Scientists



George Bush Jr dominating father






Kowloon Walled City before demolition







Rothschild Surrealist Dinner Party- 1972 (True Detective S1 vibe)



Nikola Tesla



The shells from an allied creeping bombardment on German lines, 1916



KKK members pose on and around the Ferris wheel in Cañon City, Colorado, 1926



Smallest shop in London, circa 1900.



Arnold Schwarzenegger enters his first bodybuilder contest at the age of 16 - 1963



https://www.youtube.com/verify_controversy?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DeVm88MX2Gw4%26bpctr%3D1438452996 NSFW

Pennsylvania Senator R. Budd Dwyer moments before his own suicide at a press conference he called the day before his sentencing amidst a bribery investigation - January 22, 1987





MH17 victims returning home 2014



Driving in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway





Roger Williamson crash Zandvoort 1973





Largest ever nuclear bomb dropped - October 30, 1961



A massive pile of buffalo skulls, to be turned into fertilizer -1870s

Edited by Vyse on Saturday 1st August 21:36

[Noodle1982]

Vyse said:

Men stand in a 45,000 ton steel pipe over the Hoover Dam

Edited by Vyse on Saturday 1st August 21:29

Edited by Vyse on Saturday 1st August 21:31

Some amazing photos but im sure that's not 45,000 tons

Edited by Noodle1982 on Saturday 1st August 22:18

[Defcon5]

Fantastic images

[poing]

Noodle1982 said:

Vyse said:

Men stand in a 45,000 ton steel pipe over the Hoover Dam

Some amazing photos but im sure that's not 45.000 tons

Amazing pictures, thanks for sharing. This one also stood out to me, I thought there must be 2 or 3 extra zeros on that.

[Amirhussain]

Wow. Great thread OP. Some fantastic (and disgraceful) pictures.

[haggishunter]

Great thread.

[tvrforever]

such highs & lows of humanity - great thread...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Brilliant. Was shocked by the nsfw one, not what I was expecting.

[Luke Warm]

Inside the shell of the White House during its refurbishment in 1950



Concorde, NYC, 1970s



IBM data centre, Toronto, 1963



Land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Joseph Poland of the U.S. Geological Survey used an electricity pylon to document where a farmer would have been standing in 1925, 1955, and where Poland was then, in 1977.



Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico



August Landmesser defies the Nazis, 1936



New Year's Eve, Las Vegas, 1981



Idiots, the Louvre, 2009



NYC policeman halts traffic for a cat, 1925



Moving day in the American suburbs, 1953



Nuclear test, Pacific, 1950s



Berlin Wall, 1989

[MoelyCrio]

I'd heard of exhibitions in Victorian era with black people as the exhibits. Never seen any pictures though.
Thats pretty shocking.

[breadvan]

Shhh, don't tell Blib.

Very thought provoking images, thanks.

[Joey Ramone]

British soldiers at Riqueval Bridge, 1918

[Brigand]

Interesting set of photos all round, thanks for sharing

[rxtx]

MoelyCrio said:

I'd heard of exhibitions in Victorian era with black people as the exhibits. Never seen any pictures though.
Thats pretty shocking.

I'd never heard of the human zoos before. Bloody hell.

[Amirhussain]

The burning monk

A girl who grew up in a concentration camp, her picture of home

[Amirhussain]

The five faces of mankind; American Indian, Australian Aborigine, an African, a European and an Asian

[Luke Warm]

Kabul University, 1972

[PoleDriver]

1963, Kennedy assassination.


1969, first man on the moon (probably)

[Monkeylegend]

Thanks for posting OP, loved your selfie.

[austinsmirk]

Wow. Great post. Bill Bryson writes at length about the human zoos.

As you'd imagine the people , far from home became dependant on alcohol and tobacco. All things they'd never had before.