Rare Historical photos

[Nocturne808]

Camels and burning Kuwaiti oil fields that had been blown up by retreating Iraqi troops, 1991. Photo by Steve McCurry/National Geographic

Lol why does this make me want to smoke a cigarette.

[brendanh32]

Makes me want to play COD:World at War



Great thread OP


repped

[stfudonny]

trippiest thing about this thread, is that all these people are dead....

[WeDoPullups]

Just finished looking through entire thread....

on of the GOAT threads on Misc right now srs

[Mercuri69]

very cool, very swag, i like it

[tonyq11]

Moar pls

[ImmaWoya]

Lol why does this make me want to smoke a cigarette.

subliminal marketing?

[JediRN]

not exactly rare but an interesting genre I discovered.

google vietnam era zippos

[CubanCloser]

Dont know if it's been asked but what are the odds of finding any of these in good enough quality for a large poster? There is some really epic stuff in here and id much rather have this on my walls than some local chit art

[zizitopas]

Todo list, by Johnny Cash



Chernobyl Then and Now



Midtown Manhattan, 1979



View of Midtown Manhattan, 1939 by Alfred Eisenstaedt



Hot dog stand in North End, Boston, 1937



Captain Kirk and his Jupiter 8, 1965



KISS in Central Park, 1974



1950s Car Show

[WolfishGrin]

Himmler and a prisoner locked in staring contest: The Defiance


Idk if its a repost but this picture always stood out to me.

Alpha as fuk the way the dude (some reports say its a British POW others say Soviet) mean-mugs Heinrich fukking Himmler, arguably the most evil Nazi.

[ImmaWoya]

Dont know if it's been asked but what are the odds of finding any of these in good enough quality for a large poster? There is some really epic stuff in here and id much rather have this on my walls than some local chit art

sorry m8 accidentally negged you..

In honor of MLK jr. day here are some photos from after his death I found. They were supposed to be published in Life magazine but never were for some reason

Dr.King 1961

The Balcony at the Lorraine Motel - Colleagues gather on the balcony outside room 306, just a few feet from where Dr. King was shot.​

Consoling - Ralph Abernathy and Will D. Campbell, a long-time friend and civil rights activist, embrace in Dr. King's room.​

Cleaning Blood From the Balcony - Outside of room 306, Theatrice Bailey, the brother of the motel's owner, sweeps blood from the balcony.​

[CaptainKirill]

IN on 5* thread. Once in a while we get such soulful threads on misk : ' )

[ImmaWoya]

Where the Assassin Stood - The building on the left is the abandoned building from which Groskinsky took several of his photographs on the night of April 4; the building on the right is likely the house from which James Earl Ray shot Dr. King.​

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Briefcase, Room 306, the Lorraine Motel - King's neatly packed, monogrammed briefcase in his room at the Lorraine.​


Grim Task - Theatrice Bailey attempts to clean blood from the balcony, hours after the 6 p.m. shooting.​
R.I.P.

[RedSoxfan1978]

Thread is absolutely epic!

[Shortfuze]

oldest known man ever to be photographed - Conrad Mayer (born 1749)



This guy was photographed in 1852 when he already 103 years old. It's amazing because this man had relatives who were born in the 1600s, he lived to see the Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, Napoleon, and he met and served with George Washington during the Revolutionary war.

[zizitopas]

This lady’s job was to listen to hundreds of copies of Rubber Soul and make sure the sound quality was up to scratch.



Convicted murderer James French's last words in the electric chair were "How's this for your headline? French Fries."



2500 year old Mummy of a Scythian Princess with tattoos



Johnny Depp making grilled cheese sandwiches with an iron



London, 1960s



Marie Curie with Albert Einstein



Vladimir Putin at 14, Russia



Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane Wilde, 1965

[zizitopas]

London in Color, 1920s


The Hindenburg flies past the Empire State Building over Manhattan on August 8, 1936



Ava Gardner, 1945



Bookmobile



General store interior. Moundville, Alabama. Photo by Walker Evans, 1936


Tutenkhamun's gold dagger and sheath. 3300 years old.



Police officer guarding Galt, Ontario pharmacy in waist-high flood waters, May 17, 1974



Amelia Earhart is helped out of diving suit after exploring the bottom of the sea off Block Island. July 25, 1929.

[zizitopas]

Linda Christian, the first ‘Bond Girl’ photographed by Bob Landry, 1945



Diego Maradona & Queen, 1981



Meryl Streep, New York City subway, 1981



Actress Tippi Hedren plays with her pet lion, 1971. "We were stupid beyond belief to have that lion in our house."



Gaston Rébuffat mountain climbing in France, 1944 Photography by George Tairraz



Tennis group photographed by John French for Daily Mail, 1964



John Paul II talking with his would-be assassin Ali Agca, 1983, in Agca's prison cell




Early morning train in Japan, 1964

[zizitopas]

Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man in history, with his parents and siblings in Alton, Illinois, 1935



Victory Girls’ Gas Station full service gas station in California, 1942



Chicago, 1967



A man pointing to his car in the streets on New York in 1938



1980s Computer Ad



Brigitte Bardot, Paris, 1958 Photo by Nicolas Tikhomiroff



A model wearing a yellow trouser suit and cap buys a copy of the 'Evening Standard', c. 1975



Mini Skirts Forever, 1966

[zizitopas]

Bertha Benz driving the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, c. 1886



Inside a train, 1800s


Behind the Hollywood sign, California by



Clint Eastwood with Sandra Marshall, Anita McGregor and Susan Melody in London, 1967



The 1944 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius



De Niro and Scorsese on the set of Taxi Driver


Blackhawks and Maple Leafs looking for contact lens, 1962



1940s New York

[zizitopas]

Cars drive along the Hollywood freeway in Cahuenga Pass, 1940s



Cher



1970s Lego had the right idea



Paris, 1934



Stallone spent nine days in the hospital after Lundgren hit him for real while filming Rocky IV




New Mexico, 1939



X-ray, 1942



A 7 year old Robert De Niro

[pellekuling]

Princeton students after a snowball fight, 1893


Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896


Black police officer protecting kkk member

[Vayne]

The women from the 40's and 50's were beautiful.

[Dr. Horse]

epic thread is epic

too many feels

[CompoundsGuy]

Hitler looking like a ladies man


A group of people listening intently to Hitler


SS Guards having fun


Goebbels, Hitler, and Goering having a good time


Joseph Goebbels having a good time


German troops at a souvenir stand in Paris


German soldier and a companion


Luftwaffe in action

[willsomers2222]

thanks for the posts, photos are mind altering.

[CompoundsGuy]

This German soldier has a shadow


A polish woman gives this soldier a cup of tea

[pellekuling]

Farmers waiting for the opening of a slave fair in St. Louis, Missouri (1852).



Flogged slave showing his wounds (1863).



Slave torturing devices. The collar may have been used to prevent him from escaping through narrow openings, like windows, etc. (1863)

[pellekuling]

Slave auction place, c. 1870


Telephone wires in New York, 1887



North American native Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team in 1909. Originally, the swastika is a sign of good fortune.