If time travel ever becomes a real thing and not just a plot device for fiction, many of us would probably go back to our favorite era. In 2013, The Economist and YouGov asked Americans which decade from the 20th century they would most want to time travel to, and the 1950s came in first.
The members of the "Historical Capsule" subreddit also like to travel back in time but through the medium of photographs. Whether it's history as recent as the 2000s or moments from the beginning of the 20th century, see things like Niagara Falls without water or how Tokyo looked before all the skyscrapers right here!
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#1 21-Year-Old Bernie Sanders Protesting Segregation And Getting Arrested In Chicago. August 1963
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#2 Mongolian Girl Has A Laugh With Her Camel. The Little Girl’s Name Is Butedmaa And She Was Just 5 When This Picture Was Taken In 2003 By Photographer Han Chengli
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#3 A Woman Named Corrie Ten Boom Showing The Secret Hiding Place Her Family Constructed In Her Attic Bedroom To Shelter Jewish People And Resistance Members In Haarlem, Holland During Wwii
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#4 Fifteen-Year-Old Johnny Gray Confronts One Of The Two White Boys Who Tried To Force Him And His Sister, Mary, From The Sidewalk As They Walked To School In Little Rock, Arkansas On September 16, 1958
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#5 Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. It Opened To The Public In 1883
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#6 A Man And His Dog In A Photo Booth, 1943
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#7 Jimmy Carter At His Naval Graduation With His Future Wife Rosalynn And His Mother On June 5, 1946. He Died At The Age Of 100
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#8 “Auntie Mary And Her 'Friend', Ruth, 1910.”
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#9 Michelle Obama At 6 Years Old In Chicago. 1970
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#10 An Arab Man Cries For Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin After His Assassination On November 4, 1995. Rabin Was Seen By Many As The Last Hope Of A Lasting Peace Between Israel And The Palestinians
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#11 A Rare Example Where An Engineer Thought About The Mechanic. (1950s)
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#12 African American Woman Poses With Her Handmade Flour Sack Dresses In The 1930s
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#13 The Last Picture Taken Of Late U.S. President Jimmy Carter In His Final Public Appearance, A Tribute Service For His Deceased Wife Rosalynn. Atlanta, Ga, November 28th, 2023
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#14 An Inuit Girl Descending Into Her Home, An Ice Igloo, In Arviat, Nunavut (Northern Canada), 1949
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#15 High School Teacher Sandy Brockman Wearing A Bold Print Hippie-Style Dress , In Denver, Colorado. 1969
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#16 In 1990, Muhammad Ali Flew To Iraq To Help Free 15 American Hostages. Without The U.S. Government's Permission, The Heavyweight Champ Directly Negotiated With Saddam Hussein And Convinced Him To Let The Americans Come Home Safely
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#17 Mom With Her Psychedelic Baby Pram, London, 1967
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#18 Mother Helping Her Son Through A Tough Level In Super Mario Land On Gameboy From 1989
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#19 Webcam Was Invented In 1991 By Researchers To Check If The Coffee Pot In Another Room Is Empty Or Not
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#20 Disney Animator Used Live Pupies And Dalmatian Dogs To Learn How To Properly Animate Them, For The Film 101 Dalmatian, 1961
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#21 A Young Infant Who Has Polio, In A Tiny Iron Lung Machine; Only The Infant's Head Is Visible. 1940s
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#22 A Photo Of A Young Kuwaiti Girl Holding Her Lamb, During The Gulf War, (1991)
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#23 Mexican Homosexuals Being Detained In A Police Station In Mexico City, 1935
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#24 Rooftop Message From Hurricane Katrina, 2005
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#25 Leo Trotsky With His Wife And Frida Kahlo, Mexico 1937. Original Color Photo
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#26 The “No-Bra” Movement In The 1970s, Part Of The Feminist Wave Challenging Societal Norms
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#27 A Fake City On The Roof Of A Factory That Produced Boeing Combat Airplanes. USA, 1944
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#28 Family In A Cardboard House (Detail Of The Walls) And Flour Sack Dresses For The Girls Pose For A Photo, 1930s
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#29 This Guy In The Movie Grease (1978) Is Supposed To Be A Teenager
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#30 JFK Poses His Lifelong Friend Lem Billings, 1933
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#31 Soviet Peasants Listen To The Radio For The First Time, 1928
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#32 A Then 122-Year-Old Jeanne Calment Pressing The Key Of A PC Keyboard, France, 1997
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#33 Niagara Falls Without Water In 1969
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#34 Tokyo In 1960, Before There Were Any Skyscrapers (Pictured Tokyo Tower)
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#35 Holding A Boombox Up To Your Mullet Was A Great Way To Party In The 1980s
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#36 Flight Attendant For The German Airline Lufthansa Serving Draft Beer From A Wooden Barrel And Ham On A Flight, Circa 1963
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#37 Kids Casually Enjoying The Playground In New York City, 1926
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#38 Amasunzu Was A Traditional Rwandan Hairstyle Popular In The 1920s And 1930s
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#39 A Woman Living In An Iowa "Hooverville" Cleaning Her Shack — Hoovervilles Were Shantytowns Built All Across The Us During The Great Depression. They Were Named After President Herbert Hoover, Who Was Widely Blamed For The Great Depression, 1930s
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#40 New York City In 1996
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#41 Bamboula’s Village, France, 1994. A Human Zoo Which Trafficked Victims, Withheld Their Passports, And Forced Them To Perform Seven Days A Week. Owners Were Fined 1 French Franc
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#42 The Funeral Of Private Richard Hunt, The 200th British Soldier To Die In Afghanistan, 2009. In Total, 454 British Service Personnel Died During The War In Afghanistan
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#43 Actress Belle Bilton In The Role Of "Beauty" (Belle) Of Beauty And The Beast, 1889
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#44 Ladies At A Small Home Gym In 1950s
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#45 A Us Soldier Shares A Chocolate Bar With A Local Japanese Lady, 1946
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#46 An Afghan Girl Braiding Braids For An American Tourist. 1969
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#47 "Cynthia" Was A Mannequin Created In 1932 By Lester Gaba. She Became Famous And Well-Liked To Society; She Received Numerous Invitations And A Large Amount Of Fan Mail. When She Fell From A Chair And Shattered, Her Death Was Reported By The Press As If She Were A Real Person
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