Rare Photos of world History (2)
Adolf Hitler in rare white attire to welcome Italian officials, August 1939.
Some 60 coolies carrying/transporting the German-made Mercedes across the river, Nepal, 1950.
A party on New years Eve in 1960.
Famous lion tamer Captain Jack Bonavita with his lions shooting a promotional picture for his show in the US in the 1870s. The backdrop is fake, the lions are very much real.
Chinese women and young girls separated and teased by Japanese soldiers during the horrible event known as The Rape of Nanking or Nanking Massacre sometime during the month long carnage, December 13, 1937 – January 1938. During this time, up to 300,000 civilians were murdered, with countless woman and young girls raped by the Japanese once they captured the Republic of China's capital, Nanking (now known as Nanjing).
2 Survivors of the Titanic sinking, ages 4 and 2, April, 1912.
Veronica Foster, popularly known as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl", was a Canadian icon representing nearly one million Canadian women who worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and materiel during World War II. Here she is posing in 1942.
Young girls in 1930s China having their feet bound to modify the shape of their foot. This practice for girls only was nearly 1000 years old, and was mainly in China, causing disabilities to many girls over the centuries. It died out in the 20th century as it became clear the ramifications of the practice.
A German woman burning tons of legal paper money during the hyperinflation of German currency in the 1920s. The paper money was cheaper than wood or coal, and families used it to fuel their fires during the crisis.
A United Baseball League game taking place in 1918. Notice all 3 players are wearing flu masks as the Spanish Flu was wreaking havoc on the world, killing anywhere between 50-100 million people worldwide (3-5% of the world's population) and infecting around 500 million (25% of the world's population) in just 2 years.
An alligator farm in Los Angeles, California, USA, 1925. This was a common tourist attraction until around 1957 as injuries and incidents showed Alligators are not a good animal to interact with random untrained people. There is no protective glass separating the Alligators.
Numerous women being removed from the beach in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1922 for wearing bathing suits that were too short, showing too much leg. Officers would literally measure the number of inches visible on a woman's leg at beaches all over the US regardless of the woman's height. This ridiculous law breaking attire would result in fines and sometimes a few nights in jail.
People vandalize and flip cars to protest even using them at all during the Bicycle Protests in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1970. Events like this is what that made Amsterdam the bicycle capital of the world, with the majority of the population using bicycles to travel the city .
Border patrol agents try and drag a fugitive border jumper as he tries to get back to Mexico in this colorized picture from 1920.
Jewish children at the Irene Kauffman Settlement school in Pittsburgh in 1934 giving a straight-arm salute to the American flag. This salute was much like the Nazi salute, and common in the US before the Nazi's made it their own way of saluting.
A group of schoolboys hanging out between classes in Havana, Cuba in 1937. The young man with the lollipop is none other than Fidel Castro.
An Austrian-Hungarian soldier plays with his pet fox and owl; both chained to their cages, somewhere near the Eastern front in 1915.
A policewoman plays “duck duck goose” with children in Harlem, NYC, New York, US, 1978.
Dar al-Hannan schools girls taking a break in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1980. The religious restrictions on women worked itself into government and eventually into law in the decade to come, changing Saudi Arabian women to the heavily covered look most of us recognize today.
The Statue of Liberty being constructed in Paris, France in 1878. Most people don't know this, but the French offered, financed, and paid to build the statue and then gifted it to the US, who only paid for the base on which it stands. Another interesting note, Gustave Eiffel, who built the world-famous Eiffel Tower, also assisted in The Statue of Liberty's construction.
A Pacific Southwest Airline flight attendant assisting a flyer in her standard uniform in 1973. Yup, the boots and belt are part of the uniform. The company eventually merged into other airlines and eventually was bought by American Airlines.
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