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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon May 31, 2021, 05:58 PM May 2021

50 Important Historical Images That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

We’re about to get on board down memory lane full of raw emotions and unstaged realities captured in these rare historical photos.

An Undercover Police Officer On Duty. New York, Brooklyn, 1 July 1969



Coal Miners Coming Up A Coal Mine Elevator After A Day Of Work In 1920‘s Belgium


Visiting Quarantined Family And Friends At Ullevål Hospital, Oslo
Photo By Anders Beer Wilse - 1905


Mother And Baby Of Family Of Nine Living In Field On U.S. Route 70 Near The Tennessee River, March 1936


https://www.boredpanda.com/interesting-historical-photos/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Newsletter
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50 Important Historical Images That Might Change Your Perspective On Things (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2021 OP
Those coal miners crammed together made me just cringe... The others too, but especially that one hlthe2b May 2021 #1
👀 underpants May 2021 #2
A Native American Man Looking Over The Newly Completed Transcontinental Railroad In Nevada, 1869 hlthe2b May 2021 #3
Needs a text bubble..... whistler162 Jun 2021 #10
Most impressive set of photos I have ever seen Goonch May 2021 #4
Las Vegas police officers appear terrified of Mike Tyson. East-A-Squared May 2021 #5
I know that I would be. Marie Marie May 2021 #6
Especially considering when that picture was taken. ShazzieB Jun 2021 #13
I so love stuff like this! rurallib May 2021 #7
#3 really showed the... JoeOtterbein May 2021 #8
rec'd and bookmarked, thanks for these yonder May 2021 #9
Kids haven't changed a bit. paleotn Jun 2021 #11
Those women staring at the undercover cop are killing me. ShazzieB Jun 2021 #12
That is funny underpants Jun 2021 #14
This one! tblue37 Jun 2021 #15
take a number please sheilahi Jun 2021 #17
1979: 100,000 Iranian women protesting the new hijab law. tblue37 Jun 2021 #18
The woman and her children dressed in rags.... Grammy23 Jun 2021 #16
Bumping this up; so many important images. quaint Jun 2021 #19
Rec'ed ,kicked and bookmarked. Niagara Jun 2021 #20
There were originally 101 pics krispos42 Jun 2021 #21
those miners- mopinko Jun 2021 #22
K&R! burrowowl Jun 2021 #23

hlthe2b

(102,234 posts)
3. A Native American Man Looking Over The Newly Completed Transcontinental Railroad In Nevada, 1869
Mon May 31, 2021, 06:41 PM
May 2021

WOW... Powerful!

Goonch

(3,607 posts)
4. Most impressive set of photos I have ever seen
Mon May 31, 2021, 07:15 PM
May 2021

#6 Keshia Thomas Protects An Alleged Kkk Supporter From A Mob In Ann Arbor, Mi, 1996

yonder

(9,664 posts)
9. rec'd and bookmarked, thanks for these
Mon May 31, 2021, 08:44 PM
May 2021

#31, the reuniting of the soldier and his daughter, was a tear jerker.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
16. The woman and her children dressed in rags....
Sat Jun 5, 2021, 12:33 AM
Jun 2021

Haunting. Just wondering how things turned out for all of them.

mopinko

(70,089 posts)
22. those miners-
Sun Jun 6, 2021, 09:06 AM
Jun 2021

when i was an apprentice carpenter the company i worked for also did tunnels.
they were building a section of 'deep tunnel'- a waste water project. i didnt work on that project but a lot of my sisters did.
i got to visit one rainy day. i was only down there for a couple hours and i tell you, i would have hopped on that elevator too. i dont know how people do it.

also this one-
https://www.boredpanda.com/interesting-historical-photos/?media_id=2911238
a ww1 soldier before and after the war. i've been binging 'peaky blinders', and the main character has that same face.

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