Due to the popularity of the previous post in the topic (and our own interest, of course), here is a second compilation with selected snapshots from world history.
Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, mid-late 19th century
The Royal Navy on the way home from France with Queen Victoria on board, who had just visited Napoleon III, 1858
Climbers bringing down corpses of their fellows from Mont Blanc, 1895
Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed Maori heads, 1895
Gold diggers marching through Chilkoot pass, the only way towards Dawson City, 1898
Iceberg that had red and black paint on it, photographed in 1912. It is believed to be the iceberg that sank the Titanic
Selfies taken circa 1920
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
A rare color photograph of two Parisian women from 1930
Porsche showing the model of the beetle to Hitler, 1930s
Class held in a train wagon (reason unknown), Ontario, Canada, 1932
The Olympic flame arrives in Berlin, 1936
Toffs and Toughs – The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937
Driving class at Michigan Highland Park University, 1939
Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942
Georges Blind, a Member of the French Resistance, Smiling at a German Firing Squad, October 1944
A Dutch woman entering military captivity with her husband, a German soldier, 1944
To demonstrate the superiority of the Red Army, 57.000 German prisoners of war are herded through downtown Moscow, July 1944
Liberty bridge in Budapest, Hungary, made temporarily usable after the city’s siege in 1945
Japanese guards bow before US prisoners of war being released from a Yokohama detention center following the capitulation of Japan, 1945
The last commercial sailing ship, Pamir, to round Cape Horn in 1949
James Dean posing in the coffin in the local undertaker in his home town in the year of his car crash and ensuing death, January 1955
Fidel Castro plays baseball in Havana, 1959
A low-division hockey match is interrupted, Sweden, 1959
Iranian woman before the Islamic Revolution, 1960
Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961
The Beatles looking back, 1962 and 1969
The last prisoners leaving Alcatraz, 1963
Frank Sinatra stepping off of a helicopter with a drink in his hand, by Yul Brynner, 1964
Counter-protester with her daughters at a civil liberties rally, Bogalusa, Louisiana, 1965
Woodstock – The Opening Ceremony. Bethel, New York, 14 August 1969
Male detective disguised as a woman in Brooklyn, 1969
One of the two Riace bronze statues accidentally discovered by an amateur scuba diver is brought out of the Ionian sea. Calabria, Italy. August 1972
Bill and Hillary Clinton as university students, 1973
An assistant holding an umbrella over an actor’s head during the filming of the scandalous erotic thriller Caligula, 1976
Pele taking a break on the field of Hungarian football club MTK while filming “Escape to Victory”, 1980
Following a jump worth a gold medal, pole vaulter Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz sends a message to Soviet supporters who had given him the raspberry. Moscow Olympics, 1980
British soldier observing Argentinean helmets after the Battle of Goose Green on the Falkland Islands, May 1982
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discuss the PC’s future at Jobs’ Palo Alto home, 1991. Photo by George Lange
Camels and burning Kuwaiti oil fields that had been blown up by retreating Iraqi troops, 1991. Photo by Steve McCurry
See also:
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of World History Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of US History Part 1, Part 2
Some truth amongst the rabble noise of communication in the mid 2015’s.
great collection
Here is a link that works for school on a train car explanation.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/trains/kids/021007-4010-e.html
Great collection of photos!
http://schoolcar.ca/History.htm See this link for info on the School on rails used in remote northern Ontario
Thanks, but I got 404 page.
excellent collection of photos from the past years