While we tend to think of history as these big picture moments, time passed “back then” as it does now, minute by minute, day by day. The figures we learn about in school also had private lives, quiet moments, hobbies and free time. Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been able to document these moments, big and small, for posterity.
We’ve gathered some cool and possibly unseen photos from the past that help show fascinating scenes from history. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts and ideas in the comments section down below.
#1 Inventor Nikola Tesla In His Laboratory In Colorado Springs, 1899
Image credits: Dickenson V. Alley
#2 Police Dog, Tess, 1935
Image credits: State Library of NSW
#3 Ned Parfett, Paperboy, Outside The White Star Line Offices In London, 1912
Image credits: wikimedia
#4 The Family Bicycle Included A Sewing Machine, Invented In 1939
Image credits: Janiththa
#5 President Richard Nixon Plays The Piano At The Truman Library, 1969
Image credits: The Nixon library
#6 Marilyn Monroe Learns How To Use An Oxygen Mask Aboard An Air Force Jet To Korea Where She Entertained The Troops, U.S. Air Force Photo, 1954
Image credits: US Air Force
#7 Mrs. Coolidge & White House Pet Raccoon Rebecca, 1927
Image credits: Library of Congress National Photo Company Collection
#8 Dog Albina – Participant In Experiments On Launching Space Rockets Into Near-Earth Space, Moscow, 1957
Image credits: Photo by S. Guraria
#9 Lighthouse Keeper Cleaning Lens At The Pensacola Lighthouse, Ca. 1960
Image credits: State Library and Archives of Florida
#10 Peking Mission School Children At Play, The Dragon’s Head, China, 1902
Image credits: Library of Congress
#11 Very Large Elephant Seal Named Goliath At The Vincennes Zoo, Paris, With Zoo Staff Member, 1936
Image credits: wikimedia
#12 President Roosevelt In His Wheelchair On The Porch At Top Cottage In Hyde Park, NY, With Ruthie Bie And Fala, 1941
Image credits: FDR Presidential Library & Museum
#13 Publicity Photo Of Audrey Hepburn, Doing Ballet, 1956
Image credits: wikimedia commons
#14 Beauty Salon, 1958
Image credits: U. A. Saarinen
#15 Albert Einstein Plays The Violin, 1927
Image credits: Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski
#16 Sir Winston Churchill With His Son Randolf And The Latter’s Son Winston In Coronation Robes, 1953
Image credits: Library of Congress
#17 Publicity Photo Of Lucille Ball, As Superman, 1957
Image credits: CBS Television
#18 On The Merry-Go-Round At Deepwater Races – Deepwater, NSW C. 1910
Image credits: State Library of New South Wales
#19 Marilyn Monroe Visits American GIs In Korea, 1954
Image credits: Alfred Zirkel, an American w:G.I.
#20 A Giant Sequoia Log, Undated – Generals Highway, Three Rivers, Tulare County, Ca
Image credits: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
#21 George The Humanoid Robot From The 1930s Was Constructed By Motor Engineer Alan Herbert Reffell And Captain W. H. Richards, 1930
Image credits: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-09312 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
#22 Icarus, Empire State Building, 1930
Image credits: Lewis Hine
#23 Workman On The Framework Of The Empire State Building, Ca. 1941 – Ca. 1942
Image credits: Lewis Hine
#24 African Amercian Newspaper Boy, 1921
Image credits: Library of Congress
#25 Photo Portrait Of A Clown From The Barnum & Bailey Circus With A Fly Resting On His Nose, 1949
Image credits: Touring Club Italiano
#26 Dog Show, 1920
Image credits: Library of Congress National Photo Company Collection
#27 Rare Snow In New Orleans, 1958
Image credits: Jambalaya (Tulane University yearbook)
#28 Newly Installed “Boat Motor” Styled Coca-Cola Soda Dispenser Just After The Dispenser’s Installation At Fleeman’s Pharmacy, Atlanta, Georgia, Circa 1948
Image credits: Jack Fleeman / c/o collection of Richard Warren Lipack
#29 Telephone Operators, 1929
Image credits: H. Graumann and I. Piedade Po
#30 Telephone Switchboard Operators, Ca. 1922
Image credits: Webster & Stevens
#31 Napoleon Sarony, Hoop Skirt, 1893
Image credits: Napoleon Sarony
#32 Women’s Bicycle Race In Caubourg, 1894
Image credits: wikimedia
#33 15 Month-Old Paulina Longworth With Her Mother, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Visiting Circus Grounds, 1926
Image credits: Library of Congress
#34 Western College Sewing Class, 1918
Image credits: Miami U. Libraries – Digital Collections
#35 Mule Carrying Wheels, Trails And Axeltree Of 75 Mm Mountain Artillery, Elswick Works, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Image credits: North East Museums
#36 Messerschmitt Kabinenroller Cars, With An Advertisement For The Film A Prize Of Gold Starring Richard Widmark, 1955
Image credits: IISG
#37 The U.S. Navy Airship USS Akron (Zrs-4) Flying Over The Southern End Of Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, Circa 1931-1933
Image credits: U.S. Navy
#38 Air Hostess And Passengers At An Aircraft At Visby Airport, 1925
Image credits: Swedish National Heritage Board
#39 The Standard Vanguard Phase 1 Was The First Completely New British Car Design To Emerge After World War II, 1947
Image credits: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
#40 Miss Eastine Cowner, A Former Waitress, Is Helping In Her Job As A Scaler To Construct The Liberty Ship SS George Washington Carver, 1943
Image credits: Library of Congress
#41 “The Teaser”, Coney Island In Luna Park, 1911
Image credits: The Library of Congress
#42 President Richard Nixon Playing Piano At Blair House, Washington, D.c., 1971
Image credits: Nixon White House Photographs
#43 Duke Of Gloucester With Prince Richard Of Gloucester In Australia, 1945
Image credits: Max Dupain
#44 Elevator Girl, Martha Washington Hotel, 1917
Image credits: Library of Congress
#45 The Parrita Milkman Travels On Horseback With His Milk Cans Strapped To The Saddle, Between Circa 1940 And Circa 1943
Image credits: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library
#46 Civil Servant With Punch Cards And An International (IBM 401) Calculator, Preparing For The Upcoming House Of Representatives Elections, Amsterdam, 1948
Image credits: IISG
#47 Vice-President Nixon Spars With Premier Khrushchev Before Reporters And Onlookers, Including Politburo Member Leonid Brezhnev At The American National Exhibition At Sokolniki Park, In Moscow, 1959
Image credits: Archives.gov
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