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30 Unique Photos From Our Past

Photographs have long been used to record special and unique moments ? birthdays, weddings and the occasional selfie are all commonplace. But these next 30 photographs go beyond the norm ? they encapsulate the mood, tone and values of yesteryear, a compelling account of the evolution of our values if you will. From landmarks in history, strange feats of physical endurance through to peculiar devices & oddball characters we hope this series of images will astound, confound and enthrall you.

01. Unpacking the Head of the Statue of Liberty delivered June 17, 1885

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


02. The hippo belonged to a circus and apparently enjoyed pulling the cart as a trick 1924

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

03. Charlie Chaplin in 1916 at the age of 27

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


04. Annie Edison Taylor (1838-1921), the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901.

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

05. Sharing bananas with a goat during the Battle of Saipan, ca. 1944

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


06. Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Papua, New Guinea during WWII

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

07. Artificial legs, United Kingdom, ca. 1890

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

08. 1920’s Lifeguard

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

09. Bookstore ruined by an air raid, London 1940

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

10. Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

11. Suntan vending machine, 1949

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


12. A space chimp poses for the camera after a successful mission to space in 1961.

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

13. Unknown soldier in Vietnam, 1965

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


14. Little girl comforting her doll in the ruins of her bomb damaged home, London, 1940

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

15. Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

16. Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

17. Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

18. Animals being used as a part of medical therapy in 1956

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

19. Hitler?s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


20. Children eating their Christmas dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage.

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

21. The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

22. Abraham Lincoln?s hearse, 1865

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


23. A most beautiful suicide ? 23 year old Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from an observation deck (83rd floor) of the Empire State Building, May 1, 1947. She landed on a United Nations limousine?

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

24. A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic test 75 miles away, Las Vegas, 1953

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

25. A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

26. Annette Kellerman promoted women?s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907? She was arrested for indecency.

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

27. Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

28. Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo advanced plastic surgery “a skin transplant.

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

29. Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight in 1893

30 Unique Photos From Our Past


30. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud?s Wax Museum in London, 1930

30 Unique Photos From Our Past

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