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Photographs have this incredible ability to preserve the present and allow their future viewers to continue accessing the past. We’re truly fortunate to be able to get a glimpse of trillions of captured real moments that happened between this instance and the invention of photography.

We shouldn’t take that ever for granted, that’s why we are featuring a list full of historical pictures from the Instagram account ‘The History House.’ Scroll down to find them, and don’t forget to upvote those images that mesmerized you the most.

#1 Bessie Coleman, The First Black Aviatrix, Was Denied Access To Flight School In The Us, So She Moved To France, Learned French And Got Her Flight Certificate There, 1922

#2 Two Girls Galloping On Sheep, Cornwall, England, 1969

#3 King Island Inuit Woman And Child, King Island, Alaska, Taken Between 1915 And 1925

#4 Davide Chislagi, The Italian Inventor, Testing Out His Version Of The ‘Monowheel’, 1933

#5 A Young Soldier Of The Austro-Hungarian Army Standing On The Bridge Of Sighs, Connecting The Tunnels Inside The Marmolada Glacier, 1917

#6 Young French Girl Showing Off Her Cat, 1959

#7 Actor Christian Bale In His Bedroom, At Home In Bournemouth, Dorset (United Kingdom 1987)

#8 A Milkman Continues His Duties Following A German Bombing Raid In London, 1940. Original Photo By Fred Morley

#9 Freddie Mercury On A Bullet Train (Shinkansen) Leaving For Nagoya During The Hot Space Japan Tour, Nishinomiya, Japan, 25 October 1982

#10 Albert Einstein Sailing On The Saranac Lake, In The Adirondack Park, New York, 1936

#11 “The Old Samurai”, Yokohama, Japan, 1865

#12 Australian Soldier, Private George “Dick” Whittington, Being Aided By Papuan Orderly Raphael Oimbari Near Buna On 25 December 1942

#13 Workers Assemble President Abraham Lincoln’s Statue At The Lincoln Memorial In Washington, Dc, 1920. Originally Designed To Be 10 Feet Tall, The Likeness Was 19 Feet High When Completed, So That The Cavernous Chamber Would Not Dwarf The Statue

#14 French Soldier With A Wild Eagle Owl In The Trenches, 1916

#15 Bar Patrons Outside The “The Squirrel”, Sweden, Stockholm, Götgatan, 1895

#16 A French Soldier With Facial Prosthetics, 1918

#17 Salvador Dalì And His Wife Gala In A Photo Booth, Around The 1930s

#18 Two Men At Newsstand On Corner Of Montgomery And Market Streets, Monday Morning After Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor, San Francisco, California, USA, 8th, 1941

#19 George Armstrong Custer, In West Point Cadet Uniform, 1859

#20 Finnish Soldiers In Nbc (Nuclear, Biological & Chemical) Gear, During An Exercise, 1961

#21 Yeoman Warders Outside The Gates Of The Tower Of London, 1898

#22 Abraham Lincoln, Candidate For U.S. President. Half-Length Portrait, Seated, Facing Front, “Without Beard”, 1860

#23 Cover Shoot For Pink Floyd’s Album, ‘Wish You Were Here’, Warner Brothers Film Studios, 1975. Shot By Aubrey Powell

#24 Russian Soldier Burning Bank Notes For Warmth, Chechnya, 1995

#25 Maud Wagner – The First Known Female Tattoo Artist In The United States. 1907

#26 Long Beach, California, In The Year 1910

#27 A British Soldier With His 8-Month Old Daughter As He Arrives At The Docks From Overseas, 1945

#28 “They Buried Him Among The Kings Because He Had Done Good Toward God And Toward His House.” The Coffin Of The Unknown Warrior Before His Internment In Westminster Abbey, A Memorial To All British And Commonwealth Troops Killed During Ww1 With No Known Grave. 11th November 1920

#29 Pablo Picasso Wearing A Hat And Holding A Revolver & Holster Given To Him By Gary Cooper, Cannes, France, 1958

#30 “The Father Of Basketball”, James Naismith, 1927

#31 A Dog Stealing A Postman’s Glove, Minneapolis, 1950

#32 Pele And President Gerald Ford Play With A Soccer Ball In The Rose Guard, White House, 1975

#33 Manfred Von Richthofen In Conversation With Hauptmann Rudolf Kleine And Oberleutnant Martin Gerlich Of Kamfgeschwader 3. Two Albatros D.v Are Parked In The Background – Richthofen & Kurt Wolf – Gontrode, East Flanders, In The First Week Of July, 1917

#34 Exactly 60 Years Ago (April 12th, 1961) Mankind Reached The Stars As Yuri Gagarin Became The First Human To Travel To Space

#35 A Group Of Intoxicated German Officers During A Birthday Party For A ‘Lieutenant Stobwasser’, Modern-Day Poland, 1916

#36 Russian Soldiers During The Seige On Stalingrad, 1942-3

#37 The Mlb All-Star Game In San Diego, 1992

#38 The Oldest Austrian Soldier Of Ww1, 79-Year-Old Gaspar Wallnöfer, Veteran Of The Habsburg Campaigns In Italy In 1848 And 1966, September, 1917

#39 Fidel Castro Visiting The Great Wall Of China, 1995

#40 A Swedish Soldier Of The Landstorm During An Exercise In Dalarö, Stockholm County, Sweden, 1920s

#41 Members Of The German Red Cross With A German Soldier On The Balcony Of A Hospital, 1916

#42 A Student Protester Gives The V For Victory Sign In Front Of Chinese Soldiers Of The Pla. Tiananmen Square, 1 June 1989. Photo Taken By Peter Charlesworth

#43 A Babushka Keeps The Ears Of Her Grandson Warm As He Takes An Oath Of Enlistment For The Russian Army. Volgograd, 1994. Photo Taken By Nikolai Ignatiev

#44 Armored Troop Of The 4th Panzer Army In Ukraine, Ww2

#45 French Ww1 Refugees Driven Away By The German Forces, Resting At Lyon Train Station In Paris In 1918

#46 Swedish Girl Sitting By A Rune Stone Fragment In Lissma, 1935

#47 Bow Of A Soviet Nuclear Icebreaker, 1970s

#48 Arnold Schwarzenegger Having A Cigar And A Beer During The Filming Of Red Heat, 1988

#49 Finnish Sappers Use A Captured Soviet Roks-2 Flamethrower During A Training Exercise In Karelia, 1943

#50 Private First Class Margerum, Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Walks The Road Through A Forest In The Bastogne Area, Returning From The Front Lines, 1944

#51 A Giant In The Year 1905 Enjoying A Beer In A Tavern

#52 The Result Of Firefighting In Extreme Winter Conditions. The Remains Of The Eureka Building In Chicago, 1920

#53 Prince Philip, The Duke Of Edinburgh, Aged 37, Posing For A Portrait At Buckingham Palace, London, 1958. He Died Today 9th April 2021 At The Age Of 99

#54 San Francisco’s Iconic Cliff House Shortly Before It Was Destroyed By Fire In 1907

#55 Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Sms Kaiser Friedrich III Leads The German Home Fleet, 1901

#56 George H.w. Bush Takes A Toboggan Ride With Arnold Schwarzenegger At Camp David. 1991

#57 German Soldier Posing For A Photograph With His Grandfather Wearing His Old Bavarian Uniform, 1913

#58 Soldiers (Who Were Interrupted During Rehearsals For A Drag Show By An Air Raid) Manning Anti-Aircraft Guns At The Royal Artillery Coastal Defence Battery At Shornemead Fort, Kent, England, 1940

#59 German Child Soldiers Captured By The 6th U.S. Armored Division In Giessen, Germany. March 19, 1945

#60 Walter Smith, Charged With B&e, Stealing Property And Clothing Valued At 21 Kgs. Sentenced To 6 Months Of Hard Labour. Australia, 1924

#61 A Soldier Of The Us 535th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion With A Dog On The Ardennes Front, Belgium, January 1945

#62 Little John F. Kennedy Jr. Waiting For His Dad, President John F. Kennedy To Land At Camp David, Maryland In October 1963. Jfk Was Assassinated The Very Next Month

#63 German Soldiers Having A Snowball Fight In A Train Yard While Awaiting Deployment. France, 1944

#64 Addie Card, A 12 Year-Old Spinner In North Pownal Cotton Mill. August, 1910

#65 Chicago’s Southside. In Their Sunday Best, 1941

#66 Lt. “Dick” Winters During Training At Camp Mackall, 1943

#67 The Invasion Begins, June 8th, 1944

#68 Union Blue And Confederate Gray Veterans Reunite At Gettysburg In The Year 1913 — Standing By “The Bloody Angle” Where Pickett’s Charge Took Place 50 Years Earlier And Over 3,000 Soldiers On Both Sides Lost Their Lives — Now They Clasp Hands Over The Stone Wall As Brothers

#69 Charleston In Ruins, In The Year 1865

#70 U.S. Army Medical Soldiers Administering A Plasma Transfusion To A Survivor Of A Landing Craft Sunk Somewhere Off The Coast Of Northern France. June 1944

#71 “Wait For Me, Daddy” – October 1, 1940

#72 German Soldiers Mock The Recent Allied Defeat In France By Wearing Captured British And French Helmets, 1940

#73 Tourists Pose On Glacier Point Above The Yosemite Valley, 1887

#74 U.S. Air Force Bombers Fly Over Ploiești, Romania, Following A Raid On August 1, 1943. Of The 16 Cameramen Accompanying This Mission, The One Who Took This Photo Was The Only One To Survive

#75 Stewards And Nurses, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital. Around The Year 1890

#76 American Wwi Veterans At A Reunion, 1978

#77 General William T. Sherman, 1860s

#78 The Body Of An American Soldier Being Raised Up To An Evacuation Chopper During The Vietnam War. Photo Taken By Henri Huet In 1966

#79 An American Version Of A Sidewalk Cafe, In Fallen La Haye Du Puits, France On July 15, 1944, As Robert Mccurty, Left, From Newark, New Jersey, Sgt. Harold Smith, Of Brush Creek, Tennessee, And Sgt. Richard Bennett, From Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Raise Their Glasses In A Toast

#80 “Flat Spare Tires Are Numerous Around Washington These Days Due To The Youthful Football Players Who Have Found An Easier Way To Inflate The Pigskin Than Using Their Lungs” Washington, Dc, 1924