Historical images - Images that made history

[Revo]

 

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The founders of lego

 

[AmazingEagle]

Federico Borrell García falling after being killed in action during the Spanish Civil War, September 5, 1936.

 

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Retro 1990s-2000s era photos of Alex Jones

 

[AmazingEagle]

French soldiers wearing gas masks during the Gulf War, 1990-1991.

 

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Black guy that fought for Germany in world war II

Oswald Mosley with some cool shades

Antonin Artaud making the pogchamp face before everyone else did

This one requires some backstory. The Afghan army in the 1930s was trained by the Germans and even adapted German uniforms. Flashforward to 1955 and Nikita Khrushchev is visiting Afghanistan for diplomacy creating this awkward photograph.

Geopolitical meeting in 1889. Though I can't tell if this is an actual photograph of these people or a photograph of a painting of these people.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

From: Eugene Griffin, First Lieutenant of Engineers, Willets Point, New York Harbor
To: Lieut. Col. H.L. Abbott, Corps of Engineers, Commanding Engineer School of Application
Date: June 27, 1882

On the 6th of June, 1881, an instantaneous view was taken, by your direction, of the execution of a condemned mule belonging to the Engineer Department. A small bag containing 6 ounces of dynamite and a fuse was fastened on the mule's forehead, the wires from the fuse connecting with a magneto-electric machine. The camera was placed at a distance of about 47 feet from the mule and properly focussed; the drop shutter was held up by a string, fastened to another fuse, which was placed in the same circuit with the first, so that both were fired simultaneously and the shutter allowed to drop. The result was a negative showing the mule in an upright position, but with his head blown off. This photograph has excited much interest and comment in the scientific world. A very narrow slit was used in the shutter, and as nearly as can be estimated the time of exposure was about 1/750 of a second. A 10 by 12 gelatino-bromide instantaneous Eastman dry plate was used, with a 4 D Dallmeyer lens, using the full opening.

 

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An obvious composite image of the two voyager probes and the outer solar system

Does anyone have any crazy images of the Spanish flu or the Great Depression?
Just anything from those times that feel post apocalyptic.

 

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An image we are all know and love.

 

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Taliban soldiers wearing U.S.-made gear mock iconic World War II image of Marines raising flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 and release propaganda footage showing them armed with American weapons while on patrol in Afghanistan​

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Does anyone have any crazy images of the Spanish flu or the Great Depression?
Just anything from those times that feel post apocalyptic.

I went on a huge Spanish flu binge last year when it still felt like the world was on the brink of collapse. There are not a lot of particularly crazy photographs out there--not a lot of photographs at all, actually (there's a reason it's sometimes called "the forgotten pandemic")--and many of the ones that were once very striking have been way overused as COVID propaganda (either in the early days as "the Spanish flu was way worse" or later as "this is worse than the Spanish flu!")

Spoiler: Spanish flu

Some sort of contraption. To be used only when reading, I guess.

Surprised this style did not make a comeback.

Masks back then were largely made with gauze.

Although the overwhelming majority of doctors and nurses were overseas in the war, they at least used their field hospitals.


The Liberty Loan Parade in Philadelphia is credited as bringing the flu out of the military and into the masses. 200,000 people packed shoulder to shoulder in the streets, and almost immediately after civilians started falling ill. Yet the BLM protests did not spread COVID. Hmm.

Really?

San Francisco was a notorious hold out during the Spanish flu, with many against quarantine and mask mandates, and the city repeatedly lifted restrictions as soon as cases decreased, only to rise right after.

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry is an incredibly thorough book about the Spanish flu, from the very beginning and the first suspected cases to the very end. It is an extremely interesting read on the heels of COVID. Another great book is China Syndrome by Karl Taro Greenfeld, about SARS. Both of them are very well-researched, and incredibly enlightening as well as sobering for the time we are living through now.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

Some sort of contraption. To be used only when reading, I guess.

No, this is the bullshit that they believed in back in the day. Pretty much they thought that keeping your nose and throat clean would keep you safe. There's even ultraviolent light contraptions they made for that. One of the worse ones I've seen was the sprays they used. One was straight up turpentine, that shit will destroy your lungs and respiratory system.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

No, this is the bullshit that they believed in back in the day. Pretty much they thought that keeping your nose and throat clean would keep you safe. There's even ultraviolent light contraptions they made for that. One of the worse ones I've seen was the sprays they used. One was straight up turpentine, that shit will destroy your lungs and respiratory system.

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I was being a smart ass, but thanks, I haven't seen that ad before. Those pictures are always captioned with something along the lines of "woman wearing a flu mask" without any information on what the device actually was.

Gargling with any and all antiseptics was a big one. People still held onto a sort of miasma theory back then and you see a lot of stories of people wearing sachets of herbs around their necks to ward off the flu. If I recall correctly it was believed to be a bacterial infection all the way until the 1930s when they finally identified the flu virus.

 

[DerKryptid]

James Alonza Walker in Axis-occupied Serbia, 22nd June 1944. (Tupac's grandfather)

 

[Sunflower Seeds]

Elisabeth Abegg (right) was a German schoolteacher who was forced out of her job for being outspoken against the Nazi regime. Because she got to know so many Jewish kids in her time teaching, she was sympathetic to them and hid appx. 80 Jews in her apartment and neighboring apartments during WW2. She sold her jewelry and gave up meals in order to help them survive.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

April 25, 1865

This is a photo of the Lincoln funeral as his casket went though New York. Here you can see as his body passes by. If you look to the left you will see a window with two boys looking out. One of them is a 6 year old Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States and the other is his 5 year old brother Elliot.

 

[Gunga Dan]

The last public execution by guillotine, 1939.

 

[AmazingEagle]

The moments after 3 Aermacchi MB-339 fighter jets from the Italian Air Force collided into each other during the Ramstein air show at the Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach West Germany (now Germany), Lt. Col. Ivo Nutarelli, Lt. Col. Mario Naldini, and Cpt. Giorgio Alessio were all killed during the collision, 70 people were killed and 500 were injured when one of the jets crashed into the ground on August 28, 1988.

 

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Antonio Tejero attempting to overthrow the Spanish Government on 23rd of February 1981.

Photo from the Iraq war 2003

A group of Somali tribal leaders visiting the German embassy in Italy during the 1930s

 

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The moments after 3 Aermacchi MB-339 fighter jets from the Italian Air Force collided into each other during the Ramstein air show at the Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach West Germany (now Germany), Lt. Col. Ivo Nutarelli, Lt. Col. Mario Naldini, and Cpt. Giorgio Alessio were all killed during the collision, 70 people were killed and 500 were injured when one of the jets crashed into the ground on August 28, 1988.

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Lesson: do not attend air shows unless they are by Americans. Air shows by the Blue Angels, instead of explosions and dead people, have scenes like this:

Oh wait, I just realized. If your country's air shows lead to "historical images," rather than just stuff that's really fun to watch from on the ground, maybe your pilots should, I dunno, learn to fly, or some shit? Or maybe build better planes?