Historical pictures

[Mike D]

 

Jonathan Demme feeding Anthony Hopkins a french fry on the set of Silence of the lambs 1991.

[Boss]

 

A photograph of a 2 year old Kosovan refugee being passed into the arms of his grand parents at a refugee camp in Albania.

[polymerpunkah]

 

Another from Viet Nam.

 

[Mike D]

 

Peter Sellers recovering from his heart attack with Britt Ekland 1977

[stevebaby]

Eeeww...skidmark!

[KMD7]

 

 

East and West Berliners tear down a portion of the Berlin Wall. 

[Red Lead]

Turkish official teases starving Armenian children by showing them a piece of bread during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.

[Red Lead]

A Filipino politician took this photo of his family just moments before being assassinated.

[Red Lead]

[Red Lead]

This one gets me every time...World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year. This year he was the only person from the unit to show.

[Sugar Ape]

August Landmesser, a German who was engaged to a Jewish woman, refused to do the Nazi salute. Hamburg, 1936.

 

 

Orphaned Chinese baby crying in a train station in Shanghai after Bombings by the Japanese army in 1937

 

[Sugar Ape]

The “shadow” of a Hiroshima victim, permanently etched into stone steps, after the 1945 atomic bomb

 

 

Theodore Roosevelt’s diary on Valentine’s day, after his wife and mother died on the same day. 1884

 

[Lee909]

The “shadow” of a Hiroshima victim, permanently etched into stone steps, after the 1945 atomic bomb

 

 

Saw that a couple of months Back,really haunting 

[Sugar Ape]

Paul Anderson backlifting 2,840kg (6270 lbs); the greatest weight ever lifted by a human being. Toccoa, Georgia, 1957

 

 

Guinness planned to advertise in Nazi Germany during the 1936 Olympics ("It's time for a Guinness")

 

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Fucking great thread.

[Sugar Ape]

The Beatles in 1957, when George Harrison was 14, John Lennon was 16, and Paul McCartney was 15.

 

 

Queen Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle in Surrey, England. 1993.

 

[Sugar Ape]

Enjoying a Nazi pop. - Example of how Nazism infiltrated the entire German culture.

 

 

Albert Einstein visiting The Grand Canyon, 1922

 

[Pidge]

 

Sophie Scholl, with her brother Hans and friends (at a Munich train station awaiting deployment to the Eastern front). A large part of the White Rose german resistance movement which published a series of anti-Nazi leaflets throughout the war. In Feb 1943 Sophie and her brother were found guilty of treason and guillotined.

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Some harrowing pictures on here. That baby and vulture picture good god it makes me want to sell all my stuff it and give it to charity.

[Red Lead]

Gas Resistant Pram, England 1938

[Tj hooker]

This is a fantastic thread some of the pictures make you want to cry

[Pidge]

 

Suffragette Emily Davison falling after being struck by the King's horse at the Epsom derby 1913.

[Sugar Ape]

A boy plays football against a baby giant panda at London Zoo, 1939.

 

 

A young Chelsea fan is passed over the crowd to the front for a better view in a game against Arsenal. 1947.

 

[Tom araya]

What an amazing tread,some unbelievable photos.

[Sugar Ape]

The famous Hollywood sign, which originally said 'Hollywoodland'. The last four letters were removed in 1949.

 

 

Flatiron Building, New York, in 1904. By Edward Steichen