Journey Into the Past: 45 Must-See Historical Photos

The Punt Gun could discharge over a pound of shot at a time that could kill as many as 50 birds. This depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most US states had banned the practice.

Civil War General Amrbose Burnside, whose unusual facial hair led to the coining of the term “sideburns”

A picture of a crowd in New York, 1939 (there is not one unhatted head)

Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923

A photo illustrating the class divide of pre-war Britain, 1937

Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945

A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler showing the blue color of his eyes.

German soldier taking aim from the back of a trained horse, 1935

Dagen H, the day Sweden switched sides of the road, 1967

Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956

Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency

Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890

Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII

Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897

British SAS back from a 3-month patrol of North Africa in 1943

Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916

Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage

Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961

Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888

Elvis in the Army, 1958

Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938

George S. Patton’s dog mourning his master on the day of his death.

Bread and soup during the Great Depression

Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA), and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) talking together

Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937

Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924

A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren in 1909

Lifeguard on the coast, 1920’s

Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home, London, 1940

The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908

The original Ronald McDonald, 1963

14-year-old Osama bin Laden (2nd from the right)

Samurai warriors taken between 1860 and 1880

Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944

Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885

Titanic leaves port in 1912.

Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965

The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927