Rare Historical photos

[pellekuling]

Hanging a Confederate war criminal in front of the US Capitol Building in 1865. This exact location now houses the Supreme Court of the United States.


LBJ shows the press his scar from gallbladder surgery, October 20, 1965


NYSE, 11 Wall Street New York 1963. Before electronic readouts and computer screens


Young ladies in dresses... students of Lindenwood University (Missouri - c. 1858)


Indians troops burning charcoal in the Forest of Brotonne, 22nd January 1918.


A battery of searchlights of an anti-aircraft regiment create a stunning display in the night sky at Fort DeRussy, Hawaii, 22nd January 1940.


General George Meade's headquarters after the Battle of Gettysburg. He commanded the Union/Northern Army. Note the dead horses on the road. (The "Leister Farm" - Gettysburg - Pennsylvania - July 1863)


Palazzo della Zecca --- Campanile --- Palazzo Ducale (Venice - Italy - 1851)

[pellekuling]

The fattest identical twins in the "Guinness World Records" known as the McGuire twins - were the fattest to ever walk the planet. The pair performed as tag-team wrestlers and weighed more than (1400lbs/635kg) combined. Photo from 1977.


The Arabian Commission to the Peace Conference at Versailles and its advisors. Emir Feisal with, from left to right, Mohammed Rustum Bey Haidar of Baalbek, Brigadier General Nuri Pasha Said, Captain Pisani, T. E. Lawrence and Captain Hassan Bey Kadri, 22nd January 1919.


Evelyn Nesbit --- Model - Singer - Actress (New York City c. 1900-1905)


Finnish soldier looks at a burning town, 1944


"At a height of 150 meters above the fighting line, the daring French photographer was able to get this rare photograph of French troops on the Somme Front, launching an attack on the Germans.", ca.1916-18


Apothecary (Chemist/Pharmacist) --- 1852 - U.S.


Fu-Go(fire balloon), a weapon launched by Japan during WW2- used the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean to drop bombs on America and Canada. From Nov. 1944 - April 1945, 9300+ were launched, 300 found or observed in the U.S., with 6 deaths.


Adolf Hitler’s 4th grade class, 1899. The fuhrer-to-be can be seen top row, dead center

[derkerkjerk]

quietly observing OP - keep up the good work

[pellekuling]

Boy covered by dirt, smoking cigarette with one hand, holding can of tobacco in other [1964]


A crowd gathers after Jumbo the elephant is struck and killed by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario. Sep 15, 1885


Soviet and British soldiers rendezvous near Qazvin during the 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.


Animals Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy, 1956


Smoking break during the construction of the RCA building, 1932.


Mrs. Robert Kennedy tries to comfort her husband as he lays mortally wounded on the floor in the kitchen at the Ambassador Hotel. June 6, 1968

A young Hungarian Jewish man born with dwarfism sits during selections at Auschwitz-Birkenau. May, 1944


S.Korean Soldier and US soldier fight side by side during the Korean war 1950,

[pellekuling]

Troops on the Royal Dublin Fusiliers defending a piquet during the Second Boer War in South Africa - 1899.


British ratings wheeling a helicopter of the Fleet Air Arm from its hangar at Floyd Bennett airfield, New York, where pilots are trained to fly the Sikorsky R-4 - November 1944.


Ordance man inserting fuse into a 500 lb. demolition bomb in the bomb bay of B-29 Superfortress.China, June 1944


Soviet soldiers and some of the surviving prisoners of Auschwitz. The camp was discovered and liberated January 27, 1945.


'Buds', the ships mascot of the British destroyer HMS Boreas sitting on the depth charges, off North Africa - 20th November 1942.


Flying past the graves of his fallen comrades, an Australian despatch rider gallops along the coast road at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli to avoid sniping, 1915


Soldiers of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment near the Han River, Korea, June, 1951


The Beatles performing in a club in Liverpool in 1962, before they had signed their first recording contract (with their original drummer Pete Best)

[pellekuling]

Lathe operators in the National Shell Factory at Parkgate Street, Dublin, during the WWI. Note the factory motto painted onto the wall.


"Hotshot Eastbound", taken by American photographer O. Winston Link in Iaeger, West Virginia. 1956.


Bombardier Plewman of Dublin (left) and Bombardier Seman of London (right), of 53 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery at the plotting table in their dugout at the Caen front, Normandy - July 1944.


The assassination of Anwar Sadat, 1981.


During the Battle of Britain, Gen. Charles DeGualle is meeting with some French Boy Scouts. DeGualle, leader of the French Army, inspects. The youths hope to serve with their countrymen against Hitler's forces. Sept. 9, 1940.


Juggler performing swords-swallowing, India 1880's


Retreating italian troops in Russia. 73 years ago the italians Alpini broke the soviet encirclement in Nikolajewka 26/01/1943

[justinjude]

Broadway in Saratoga Springs, New York, ca 1915


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it hasn't changed much in 100 years.. a little less grass and i dont think the trees are there anymore tho

[pellekuling]

Time to bring back the thread since i got nothing to do on this saturday

A German soldier hands a piece of bread to a Russian toddler refugee in the marshy forests of Myasnoy Bor. (why can't we all just get along ?)


German civilians in the middle of their town.


Hungarian surrender: Great mass of Hungarian troops who surrendered to Seventh Army, are rounded up in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the last winter Olympics held before the war


One thousands German officers and men taken in the redoubt mountains are showed being marched back over to the mountain road that they once defended. The road leads to an important Austrian town


The surrender of the 19th Army. With the final capitulation of Germany to the Allies, German soldiers who have bore arms for over five years against almost all of Europe and the U.S., surrender their rifles to their American conquerors near Landeck, Austria


Knocked out American M-4 tank and German Sturmgeschütz IV sit side by side in the street


Advancing troops moving under heavy enemy fire; fallen American soldier in foreground

[pellekuling]

Troops string wire past 4 dead German artillery horses which were killed along with 5 German soldiers when an American artillery burst caught them as the horses were being hitched on Dec 14th


A tank destroyer moving past an American tank that was knocked out during the hot battle when the Americans retook the town


U.S. Soldier standing next to the remains of a German soldier he just discovered near German Howitzers, which were destroyed by the Seventh Army


A German bridge is blown sky high by U.S. Engineers, destroying span as a defensive measure against German troops pressing towards the town


Obliterated German town


Obliterated town of Heilbronn, Germany


Path of a B-17 as it crash-landed into a snow covered field on the Seventh Army front


When this wrecker towing a 155mm Howitzer became stuck in the mud in a road, nothing less than a Bulldozer could budge it

[pellekuling]

Seventh Army men looking for snipers in the Bobenthal, Germany


Helmet and Rifle mark the spot in a ditch by road where two Infantrymen gave their lives, during a new drive by Seventh Army which opened on a front of fifty miles from Saarbrücken to the Rhine


American forces are trying to recapture Wingen-sur-Moder from German mountain 6


A German underground ball-bearing factory in Germany, where size bearings were made


Dead horses and wrecked vehicles & equipment of a German convoy are strewn along the road in the vicinity of Lug, Germany


Prisoners of War from the German Military Police force and Gestapo agents of the city of Strasbourg are led to the 3rd Infantry Division


M-10 Tank Destroyer from the 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion supporting the 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Division in Rohrwiller, 4 February 1945


Dead American and German soldiers at a cemetery before burial, place unknown

[pellekuling]

U.S. Soldier examines the grave of an unknown U.S. soldier, who was buried by the enemy before retreating ( right in the feels)


And some personal pics of german soliders






Off-duty Wehrmacht soldier spending a day at the pool with his girlfriend







French woman in paris during the war

[pellekuling]

This is Private Joe Demler of the US Army, he was a guest of the Third Reich for barely 3 months before being liberated in April 1945. Dressed in his pajamas with his sleeves and pant legs rolled up he was photographed looking more like a skeleton wearing skin than a human being.


Young German holding the Panzerfaust


American soldier with German POWs ww2


Erich Hartmann, called the Blond Knight of the German Luftwaffe, achieved the staggering total of 352 confirmed victories. Hartmann’s incredible combat record earned him the coveted diamonds to his Knight’s Cross from Hitler personally.


Ernest Hemingway during World War I.


Two Soviet soldiers seek protection under a tarpaulin in the streets of Stalingrad.


Dachau concentration camp


Liberation of Dachau

[Big Natural]

Amazing stuff man, right in the feels. Repped.

[Girthantoklops]

Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee

Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, and Big Dink Pierre

[2010JW]

Damn these pics are amazing, the ones that really get me are the old 1930/1940/1950 colored photos. Also the signs and ads in the old cities were pretty unique. The women were gorgeous

[NoCauseRebel]

Early photograph of Henry Charles Bukowski, a notorious German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His style appealed to many of the vagabond, anti social, cultural misfit personalities who lacked an honest literary voice such as Bukowski to describe their inner protests against a mass conformist mentality.

[BigBalledBuddha]

This is a cool ass pic.

[seanb1979]

dam powerful picture....

best gloryhole setup ive seen

[LordPhenibut]

best gloryhole setup ive seen

lmao repped

[zizitopas]

Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue on a rainy day, New York, March 1943


Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941


Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947


In the cafe at a truck drivers' service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington D.C, June 1940


Women at work, Indiana, 1940-45


A windy day in Philadelphia, 1947


Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, Washington, May 1942

[carnif3x]

Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947

Now every kunt just stares at their phone checking social media.. great advancement.

[JC20010]

Loved this thread, bump for unaware bros

[ChaseW]

repped for reminder of great thread. Pls continue

[GreenArrow89]

Gagarin and the car he got as the reward for being first man in space


Jacked soviet worker in the car factory and his female boss mirin him hard

[WSG1]

I was definitely born in the wrong generation.

[dbluevette]

Best thread around

[Kaduceus]

Liberation of Dachau

damn wtf this literally looks like a screencap from like a CamCorder video back in like 1992

blowing my mind