GS Forum - PHOTOS THROUGHOUT HISTORY

There are so many "old photos" floating about the internet. This group is pretty thought provoking.

Testing football helmets in 1912

http://i.imgur.com/waUpcP3.jpg

The Titanic in dry dock 1912

http://i.imgur.com/rq2Akve.jpg

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

http://i.minus.com/iw1DQnomDfSqW.jpg

The smallest shop in London – a shoe salesman with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900

http://i.imgur.com/XycSpXq.jpg

A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach. England , c. 1920

http://i.imgur.com/ZXglizq.jpg

Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945

http://i.imgur.com/eJlsDdK.jpg

13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beer
for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created,
strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields.
Flying at 12 000 feet chills the brew to perfection

http://i.imgur.com/12B5ETV.jpg

An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France .
British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches
on the right – in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917

http://i.imgur.com/bfyPIV8.jpg

A man trying to sell his car after losing all in the Great Crash of 1929

http://i.imgur.com/AUWo4QC.jpg

Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps.
Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945

http://i.imgur.com/zTQJt2J.jpg

Leonard Siffleet, captured Australian commando who fought in WWII,
moments prior to being beheaded by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1943

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...dGSiffleet.jpg

Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran , 1960

http://i.imgur.com/V4jPcPD.jpg

A shot from atop Pittsburgh ’s Cathedral of Learning during game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
The Pirates defeated the Yankees with a walk off home run by Bill Mazeroski.
Photo was taken moments after the home run

http://i.imgur.com/yQlGLTn.jpg

The Muffin man in 1910 London

http://i.imgur.com/2wKhAZT.jpg

Animal Tamer Captain Jack Bonavita sitting down with some of his cats, ~1870s

http://i.imgur.com/iAVfKxD.jpg

1865: Hanging hooded bodies of the four Lincoln assassination conspirators

http://i.imgur.com/CuQJ0Qh.jpg

The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came
40 miles East of Saigon , Vietnam , 1965

http://i.imgur.com/q9y45oC.jpg

A man having his nose measured during Aryan race determination tests, 1940

http://i.imgur.com/HnlsjB5.jpg

Loggers in California with the felled giant ‘Mark Twain redwood’, 1892

http://i.imgur.com/vBoAsJI.jpg

The last Jew in Vinnitsa , 1941

http://i.imgur.com/BmKxkVO.jpg

US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself

http://i.imgur.com/pvN1I28.jpg

NASA before Powerpoint

http://i.imgur.com/AGiAcRl.jpg

The end of WWII is celebrated in Moscow ’s Red Square . May 9, 1945

http://i.imgur.com/mlO1RzJ.jpg