They say a picture is worth a thousand words and never before has such a statement been so true. Rather than bore you with commentary on the following photos, however, we’ll let you step back in time by peering at the rare compilation of historical photos.
Once captured to simply document the present, the photos now exist as a portal into the past, allowing all who look at them to experience life through the eyes of those who were present.
If you like this compilation, you’re sure to appreciate 29 Breathtaking Photographs Of The Human Race You (Probably) Haven’t Seen and 17 Remarkable Snapshots In Protest History.
Via DesignYouTrust
#1 Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
#2 Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
#3 Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
#4 The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
#5 Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
#6 A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
#7 Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
#8 Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
#9 Job Hunting In The 1930s
#10 First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
#11 German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
#12 Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
#13 Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
#14 The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884
#15 An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
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