Posting rare historical photos mostly in black and white
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The goal is to post 1 rare historical picture everyday
I own no pictures posted all credit to the copyright holders.
I own no pictures posted all credit to the copyright holders.
Dorothy Counts, 15, is taunted and harassed by white students as she makes her way from Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Credit: Photo by Douglas Martin.
Credit: Photo by Douglas Martin.
January 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Dorothy Counts, 15, is taunted and harassed by white students as she makes her way from Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Credit: Photo by Douglas Martin.
Credit: Photo by Douglas Martin.
This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like the day he died.
Credit: New York Daily News Archive / New York Daily News via Getty Images
Credit: New York Daily News Archive / New York Daily News via Getty Images
December 11, 2024 at 12:35 PM
This is what Albert Einstein's desk looked like the day he died.
Credit: New York Daily News Archive / New York Daily News via Getty Images
Credit: New York Daily News Archive / New York Daily News via Getty Images
The first 3-D movie opened in Los Angeles in November 1953.
Credit: Railroad Jack on flickr
Credit: Railroad Jack on flickr
December 10, 2024 at 11:02 AM
The first 3-D movie opened in Los Angeles in November 1953.
Credit: Railroad Jack on flickr
Credit: Railroad Jack on flickr
The photographic artwork by Philippe Halsman called “Dali Atomicus” showing three cats water, an easel, a chair, and Salvador Dali all frozen in mid-air, 1948.
Credit: Library of Congress // Public Domain
Credit: Library of Congress // Public Domain
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 PM
The photographic artwork by Philippe Halsman called “Dali Atomicus” showing three cats water, an easel, a chair, and Salvador Dali all frozen in mid-air, 1948.
Credit: Library of Congress // Public Domain
Credit: Library of Congress // Public Domain
The 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Brussels, Belgium. This image features many of the greatest scientists in modern history: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, and Auguste Piccard among others.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
December 1, 2024 at 11:39 AM
The 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Brussels, Belgium. This image features many of the greatest scientists in modern history: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, and Auguste Piccard among others.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott on February 22, 1956. She was 1 of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
November 28, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott on February 22, 1956. She was 1 of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
Known as the final photograph taken of Vladimir Lenin. He is seen with his sister Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova and his doctor A. M. Kozhevnikov in Gorki in May 1923.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domains
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domains
November 27, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Known as the final photograph taken of Vladimir Lenin. He is seen with his sister Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova and his doctor A. M. Kozhevnikov in Gorki in May 1923.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domains
Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domains
Claimed to be the oldest surviving photograph to exist. It was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The scene depicts a view from a window in Nicéphore Niépce’s estate known as Le Gras in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, Bourgogne, France in 1826 or 1827. Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
November 26, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Claimed to be the oldest surviving photograph to exist. It was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The scene depicts a view from a window in Nicéphore Niépce’s estate known as Le Gras in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, Bourgogne, France in 1826 or 1827. Credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
The Pillow Fight of The Beatles, 1964.
Credit: Harry Benson
Credit: Harry Benson
November 25, 2024 at 1:30 PM
The Pillow Fight of The Beatles, 1964.
Credit: Harry Benson
Credit: Harry Benson
The image titled Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California was shot by renowned black and white photographer Dorothea Lange in 1936.
November 24, 2024 at 2:10 PM
The image titled Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California was shot by renowned black and white photographer Dorothea Lange in 1936.
Happiness of a child that just got new shoes as a gift. The picture was taken sometime during the Second World War.
Credit: Unknown.
Credit: Unknown.
November 23, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Happiness of a child that just got new shoes as a gift. The picture was taken sometime during the Second World War.
Credit: Unknown.
Credit: Unknown.
One of the earliest designs for roller skates.
Credit: Alamy Stock Photo
Credit: Alamy Stock Photo
November 21, 2024 at 9:33 AM
One of the earliest designs for roller skates.
Credit: Alamy Stock Photo
Credit: Alamy Stock Photo
Similar to AI hype nowadays, 19th century was full of new inventions, a "mass shaving machine" designed to shave a bunch of men all at once.
Credit: Ken Howard / Getty Images
Credit: Ken Howard / Getty Images
November 20, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Similar to AI hype nowadays, 19th century was full of new inventions, a "mass shaving machine" designed to shave a bunch of men all at once.
Credit: Ken Howard / Getty Images
Credit: Ken Howard / Getty Images
This is the ancestor of the video call apps, well at least it tries to be. It was developed by Toshiba.
Credit: Keystone / Getty Images
Credit: Keystone / Getty Images
November 19, 2024 at 7:53 AM
This is the ancestor of the video call apps, well at least it tries to be. It was developed by Toshiba.
Credit: Keystone / Getty Images
Credit: Keystone / Getty Images
An early design for an electric hair dryer.
Credit: Brandstaetter Images / Getty Images
Credit: Brandstaetter Images / Getty Images
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
An early design for an electric hair dryer.
Credit: Brandstaetter Images / Getty Images
Credit: Brandstaetter Images / Getty Images
Chief John Smith, reputed to be 138 years old when he died, 1784-1922. Smith was a Chippewa Indian who lived in the Cass Lake, Minnesota area and is reputed to have died at the age of 138. He was known as “The Old Indian” to the white people.
November 29, 2023 at 8:59 AM
Chief John Smith, reputed to be 138 years old when he died, 1784-1922. Smith was a Chippewa Indian who lived in the Cass Lake, Minnesota area and is reputed to have died at the age of 138. He was known as “The Old Indian” to the white people.
A crowd of West Berliners gathers at the newly erected Berlin Wall while an East German soldier patrols on the other side in August 1961
November 23, 2023 at 12:18 PM
A crowd of West Berliners gathers at the newly erected Berlin Wall while an East German soldier patrols on the other side in August 1961
Jews and Muslims of Jerusalem. c. 1900.
November 7, 2023 at 9:06 AM
Jews and Muslims of Jerusalem. c. 1900.
Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, 1930.
November 6, 2023 at 11:51 AM
Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, 1930.
Margaret Bourke-White’s famous photograph – Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel | 1946
October 27, 2023 at 12:22 PM
Margaret Bourke-White’s famous photograph – Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel | 1946
A double-exposed photograph showing Tesla in his Colorado Springs laboratory, ca. 1899. Tesla forced his “magnifying transmitter” to produce inefficient arcs by turning the machine rapidly on and off during the photoshoot for The Century Magazine
October 24, 2023 at 9:25 AM
A double-exposed photograph showing Tesla in his Colorado Springs laboratory, ca. 1899. Tesla forced his “magnifying transmitter” to produce inefficient arcs by turning the machine rapidly on and off during the photoshoot for The Century Magazine
Boulevard Du Temple, Paris, France, 1839 © Louis Daguerre
This picture contains two barely discernible figures (thought to be a shoe-shiner and his customer), believed to be the first people ever photographed.
This picture contains two barely discernible figures (thought to be a shoe-shiner and his customer), believed to be the first people ever photographed.
October 16, 2023 at 10:51 AM
Boulevard Du Temple, Paris, France, 1839 © Louis Daguerre
This picture contains two barely discernible figures (thought to be a shoe-shiner and his customer), believed to be the first people ever photographed.
This picture contains two barely discernible figures (thought to be a shoe-shiner and his customer), believed to be the first people ever photographed.
The Stockholm Telephone Tower with approximately 5,500 telephone lines, 1890
September 15, 2023 at 9:13 AM
The Stockholm Telephone Tower with approximately 5,500 telephone lines, 1890
An American soldier wears a hand lettered "War Is Hell" slogan on his helmet, Vietnam, 1965
September 8, 2023 at 9:29 AM
An American soldier wears a hand lettered "War Is Hell" slogan on his helmet, Vietnam, 1965