20 Historical Photos That Will Leave You Breathless

An English brewery donated a sizable amount of fresh beer for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method was created, strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields.

This 1944 picture captures one such plane flying at 12 000 feet chilling the beer to perfection.

 

The original caption on this 1938 picture reads: “Radio Pictures Chorus Girls“.

The photo was taken on the top of Ball Building, Paramount lot, Hollywood. Before that particular lot was the Paramount studio, it was the Desilu studio, and before that, it was RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum). RKO Radio Pictures Inc. was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

 

Captured in 1930 this picture of a crowd in New York shows there is not one unhatted head.

Margaret Bourke-White shot this birds-eye-view of Manhattan’s Garment District —specifically 36th St. between 8th and 9th Aves.—for a FORTUNE magazine story titled “Cloak and Suit”.

 

This photo by Henri Manuel, taken in 1924, shows the ingenious lengths people in Paris would go to, stepping on a series of chairs, to avoid getting wet in the flood.

 

A woman waits for the hoops of her crinoline to be finished in a London dress shop in 1860.

Crinoline was a stiff fabric made of horsehair and cotton or linen thread, used for stiffening petticoats or as a lining.