Interesting set of Historic Photos

1. Historical Photographs
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2. Before clocks became popular,
Mary Smith made a living waking
workers by blowing peas against
their windows.

3. Old municipal
library in Cincinnati
(Ohio) before its
demolition in
1955.

4. Traffic jam in Berlin, Germany, on
the first Saturday after the fall of
the Wall.

5. Charlie Chaplin and a crowd of supporters in New York City, 1918.

6. Bar clients celebrating the end of Prohibition in December 1933.

7. Construction of a Zeppelin in
1923.

8. Dirigible over the Capital dome in Washington, DC.

9. Dresden, after
the 1945 Allied
Forces
bombing.

10. Albert Einstein with an Einstein
marionette in 1931.

11. A Russian physician in an Antarctic Expedition, removing his own appendix in 1961.

12. Construction of the Christ The Redeemer status in Río de Janeiro, Brazil, 1930.

13. The first winner of the Tour de
France in 1903.

14. Propellors of the Titanic in 1911.

15. Following his release, a Jew of a German concentration camp points to a Nazi.

16. Playing golf high up on the Empire State Building in New York City during its 1932
construction.

17. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in
Naples, Italy, 1944.

18. New York City’s Grand Central Station in 1929. Currently, skyscrapers around the site prevent
this illuminating view.

19. Construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France 1888.

20. Niagara Falls (Ontario/New
York), frozen in 1911.

21. Marilyn Monroe entertains
American soldiers during the war
in Korea, 1954.

22. Buddist monk immolation in Saigon, Vietnam, to protest religious persecution of the South
Vietnamese government. Since then, this protest is called "self-immolation".

23. Nikola Tesla in his laboratory.

24. London, England, children celebrating Christmas in a bomb shelter, 1940.

25. Children suffering from polio are placed into iron lungs, which apply external air pressure
and vacuum to allow their own lungs to work, 1937.

26. People from Baileys Circus, 1930.

27. First publicity
photo of the
Rolling Stones,
1963.

28. Searchlights on the Gibraltar peninsula, protecting against Nazi air attacks in 1942.

29. Samuel Reshevsky, only 8 years old, simultaneously playing against multiple Chess Masters
in France, 1920.

30. Three Chinese women accused of witchcraft in 1922.

31. Final four couples of a marathon dance contest in Chicago, USA, in 1930.

32. A group of
lumberjacks
cutting down
a giant
Californa
redwood tree,
about 1900.

33. Selling coats in Copenhagen,
Denmark in 1936.

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