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“Be A Witness To The Events That Changed Mankind”: 40 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

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Article created by: Denis Tymulis

Although we cannot get into the minds of the people waiting in a queue on a cold day in Chukotka, Soviet Union back in 1985 to get wine, or what the daredevil sky boys who built the Empire State Building in 1930-31 were thinking when balancing unsecured on the 88th floor, we can get a fairly good glimpse into the wonders of history.

Thanks to photography, a new means of visual representation that debuted in 1839 and startled the entire world, a lot of incredible moments of the past are now carved into film forever. So today we’re taking a miscellaneous history class, one you wouldn’t have skipped at school, thanks to this educational Facebook page titled “Historic Photographs.”

With almost 2.5M followers, the page is an online destination for rare historical photos and incredible stories behind them. Below we selected some of the most captivating ones, so pull your seat closer!

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“Be A Witness To The Events That Changed Mankind”: 40 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

#1 Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989

#2 Long Before Color-Sensitive Film Was Invented, Russian Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Took 3 Individual Black And White Photos, Each With A Filter (Red, Blue And Green) To Create High Quality Photos In Full Color. This Self Portrait Is Over 110 Years Old

#3 World War One Memorial In Vácrátót (Hungary)

#4 German Soldier Helps A Little Boy Sneak Across The Berlin Wall, 1961

#5 A Motor Home In 1922

#6 Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, Is Greeted By His Family, Returning Home After More Than Five Years As A Prisoner Of War In North Vietnam. Burst Of Joy Is A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photograph By Associated Press Photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, Taken On March 17, 1973 At Travis Air Force Base In California

#7 World War I Field: More Than 100 Years Later

#8 American Soldiers At Mass In The Rubble At Cologne Cathedral, March 1945

#9 The Roof Of An Old Fiat Factory. Yes, That Is A Track (Lingotto, Turin - Italy)

#10 On August 23, 1989, About 2 Million People From Latvia, Estonia And Lithuania Formed A Human Chain That United All 3 Countries To Show The World Their Desire To Escape The Soviet Union And The Communism That Brought Only Suffering And Poverty. This Power Stretched 600 Km

#11 Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority, 1974 (Colorized)

#12 Rosa Parks Sits At The Front Of A Bus Following The End Of Racial Segregation By The Transit Company, Circa 1965

#13 Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

#14 A Dapper Group On Their Way To Church, Chicago 1940s

#15 The Level Of Detail On The Column Of Marcus Aurelius In Rome Which Was Completed Around Ad 193

#16 Negotiation Between The Zoo Director And Escaped Chimpanzee. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988

#17 Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin, 1961

#18 Us Cavalry Soldiers Pose In Front Of A Tree Known As The "Grizzly Giant" 1900. The Tree Still Stands

#19 Pablo Picasso Painted This When He Was 15 Years Old

#20 The Sioux Nation Of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across The Great Plains In 1800s (Image Believed To Have Been Taken In The Dakota Territory)

#21 Star Wars Characters Together From Left To Right : Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker And R2-D2, 1977

#22 There Was A Time When You Could See The Core Structure Of The Twin Towers. (1970, During The Construction)

#23 A Rare Example Where An Engineer Thought About The Mechanic. (Daf-Domburg Diesel From 1949. Made In The Netherlands)

#24 Niagara Falls Froze Over In 1883

#25 150 Million Year Old Dinosaur Footprints In France

#26 The First Photo Of Chernobyl On The Morning Of The Nuclear Disaster (April 26, 1986). The Heavy Grain Is Due To The Huge Amount Of Radiation In The Air That Began To Destroy The Camera Film The Second It Was Exposed For This Photo. Photo Taken By Igor Kostin

#27 Three Generations Of Women Outside Their Stone Cottage In Ireland 1927

#28 Bruce Lee And His Family In 1970

#29 Nan Wood Graham And Dr. Byron Mckeeby Pictured In 1942 Recreating Their Original Poses For The Iconic ‘American Gothic’. She Was The Painter’s Sister, And He Was Their Dentist

#30 The Seal Of Tutankhamun's Tomb (On The Third Golden Shrine) Before It Was Opened In 1923. It Was Unbroken For Over 3000 Years

#31 Shoemaker’s Lunch, 1944. Photo By Bernard Cole

#32 The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944

#33 A 'Knocker-Up' In London (1929). Before Alarm Clocks, People Were Paid To Wake Clients Up For Work By Knocking On Their Doors And Windows With A Stick

#34 An Elevator Parking Lot In Chicago, 1930s

#35 A 32 Year Old Mom Trying To Start A New Life In California, March 1937

#36 Monica Bellucci And Gianni Versace, 1995

#37 Residents Of Hanoi Wait In Chest-Deep Sidewalk Shelters For The All Clear Signal, During An Air Raid Alert. Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1967