This is a selection of historical photos made that will take your breath away. Have a look at what happened in the past and be aware of the important and interesting things that made us the people we are today because it is our past that has shaped us all.
From Alfred Hitchcock and Leo the MGM Lion having tea together to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fishing in 1960, all these rare photos will definitely give you thrills.
Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!
Alfred Hitchcock and Leo the MGM Lion having tea together. This photo of the great director pouring a nice cup of tea for the Metro Goldwyn Studios mascot was snapped in 1957.
Hitchcock, when he finished his cup of tea, would apparently just toss the cup over his shoulder.
We do wonder if they employed anyone to catch this crockery?
This 1929 photograph shows the“Spruce Girls” on the beach wearing spruce wood veneer bathing suits during “Wood Week” to promote products of the Gray Harbor lumber industry, Hoquiam, Washington.
Described as simple, cheap, and easy to make, yet fashionable, modern and most likely very buoyant.
This 1939 photo, taken by National Geographic photographer Luis Marden, captures the moment when a fugitive is being dragged by border patrol back to El Paso, Texas so he doesn’t escape the USA and enter Mexico.
You could say Luis captured the captured.
This monowheel vehicle design was patented in 1930 by Dr. John Archibald Purves. Known as the Dynasphere, it reached top speeds of 25–30 miles per hour (40–48 km/h).
This gasoline-powered prototype was 10-foot (3.0 m) high and built of iron latticework that weighed 1,000 pounds (450 kg).
The photo, taken in 1932, shows his son taking his father’s invention for a test drive along the beach.
This rather odd portable TV concept was created by avant-garde artist Walter Pichler in 1967.
The design was not meant to be a practical television set but more of a critique of technological advances that instilled laziness and atrophied people.
Could you imagine binge-watching a series on Netflix with this thing on your head?
This rather disconcerting photograph was taken of the participants of the Miss Lovely Eyes competition in Florida held in 1930.
We get the idea was supposed to accentuate these lovely ladies’ eyes, but it ends up feeling like a Hannibal Lector appreciation society.
This 1917 photo of Soviet planespotters wearing directional sound finders used to listen for enemy planes approaching.
The binocular is apparently focused at infinity so that when you found the source of the sound by turning your head, you could see the aircraft creating that sound.
At first glance, you would be mistaken for thinking these were Mickey Mouse robots.
This incredible photograph was taken of the famously flamboyant surrealist Salvador Dali taking his pet anteater for a stroll through the streets of Paris in 1969.
It is thought that Dalí’s pet was an homage to his close friend and collaborator André Breton, the founding father of Surrealism, who was given the affectionate nickname “le tamanoir” (the anteater) by his fellow Surrealists.
I just stick to walking my Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever thank you very much.
This photo of ‘Operation Babylift’ was taken by Robert Stinnett for the Oakland Tribune in 1975.
It shows babies, orphaned after the loss of their parents during the Vietnam war, sleeping in cardboard boxes strapped into the seats of a 747 Jumbo jet being transported to the United States.
This photograph, taken in 1940, is of ‘liquid stockings’.
Also known as ‘Paint-on Hosiery’, women would resort to this due to a wartime shortage of Nylon by instead applying powder to their legs and use an eyeliner pencil to draw on the fake seam.
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.
This photograph, taken in 1928, is of Christopher Robin Milne, the only child of author A. A. Milne. He was the inspiration of the character Christopher Robin in his father’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.
On his first birthday, Milne received an Alpha Farnell teddy bear, which he later named Edward. This bear, along with a real Canadian bear named Winnipeg that Milne saw at London Zoo, eventually became the inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh character.
The Prague Spring was a brief period of liberalization in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubcek in 1968. Russian leader Brezhnev demanded that he re-impose strict communist control, but Dubcek did nothing.
Fearing Czechoslovakian independence, Brezhnev sent half a million Soviet troops and 2,000 tanks to quell this more relaxed version of communism. This photograph captures a Soviet soldier chases a young Czech man who was throwing rocks at a tank.
Shooting in Tunisia, Steven Spielberg decides shot composition with miniatures on the set of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981.
Although Spielberg stated that he thought he would just be making a ‘B-movie’, Raiders earned $389.9 million worldwide and went on to become the highest-grossing film of that year.
This photograph, taken on 13 June 1936, is believed to be August Landmesser, a worker at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany.
Another family claims it is Gustav Wegert, a metalworker at Blohm+Voss who habitually refused to salute on religious grounds. They have presented documentation of Wegert’s employment at Blohm+Voss at that time, and family photos which resemble the man in the famous photo, as evidence of their claim.
Regardless of which man it is, this one picture encapsulates the spirit of defiance as he refuses to perform the Nazi salute with the other workers.
This photo, taken by Alberto Korda, shows Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fishing at the Hemingway Marlin Fishing Tournament on May 15, 1960, Havana, Cuba.
Korda was one of the few Cuban photojournalists responsible for capturing the world’s attention with the Cuban Revolution Propaganda. He followed the Cuban leaders around and became Fidel Castro’s personal photographer for more than a decade.