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Old pictures combine two elements that curious minds like – history and photography. But have you ever wondered why you like looking at pictures more than written history? Why is that volume of World History so boring and less informative when it doesn’t have any photographs in it? That’s because our brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text, making it easier to learn through visual stimuli.

With the help of online communities such as Historical Pictures, we can keep learning more about our history and planet. It’s a Facebook group where people post fascinating images from the past. “Going back to the past. Exploring Earth’s true history,” the group admin’s bio claims. So let’s explore the past together, Pandas, shall we?

#1

New York City. 1957. A Llama in Times Square.

Image credits: Biniam Hirut

#2

Beach Volleyball , Venice Beach CA June 1934

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#3

England – France 2-0 World Cup 1920 Dick Kerr Ladies Football Team , Preston , 28 May 1920.

The team captains of England and France exchange a goodwill kiss before the game in Preston .
Photo ~ Het Leven / Fotograaf onbeken

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#4

Child labor strike in Philadelphia, 1902

Image credits: Khaled Mohamed Fouad

#5

A woman tests a stroller intended to be resistant to gas attacks in Hextable , England in 1938 , not long before the outbreak of World War II

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#6

The return of a German soldier from Soviet captivity. He was taken to the war when his son was 1 year old. Germany. 1956

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#7

Aircraft tester George Aird barely escapes death by launching sideways from his plane (1962). Aird fell through a nursery on his way down, breaking both legs.

Image credits: Alfred T. Talamantes

#8

Ostrich reads the newspaper of the caretaker.
Nationaal Archief 1951.

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#9

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, left, explores the completed tower with a friend, 1889.

Image credits: Nika Danelia

#10

One of the first-known photographs of Niagara Falls captured by British chemist Hugh Lee Pattinson in 1840, sits within a glass case at the National Gallery of Art.

Image credits: Dave Bennison

#11

19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and he then went onto win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent.

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#12

The Picture shows a photographer taking a Picture of New-York City streets , 1925.

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#13

Unpacking the Statue of Liberty. New York City. 1885. The colossal assemblage of 350 Neoclassical pieces, gifted by the people of France, took workers four months to put together.

Image credits: L. Donsky-Levine

#14

A farmer paints stripes on her cow to increase its visibility at night and prevent car accidents should it wander onto the road during blackout conditions.

Image credits: Alp Emeç

#15

Italian troops raise a gun, a dog and a soldier on a mountain.
Italian Alps, World War I, 1915

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#16

Jesse Owens breaking the World record 200 – meter race at the 1936 Olympic Games of Berlin

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#17

One of the most evocative photos.

Image credits: Max Šesto

#18

“Smokey” Buchanan from the West Palm Beach police force, measuring the bathing suit of Betty Fringle on Palm Beach, to ensure that it conforms with regulations introduced by the beach censors. 1925.

Image credits: Obaidullah Arya

#19

Signing off, 1934

Image credits: Sim Ang Mon

#20

An exotic dancer demonstrates that her underwear was too large to have exposed herself, after undercover police officers arrested her in Florida! 1983

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#21

U.S. cavalry soldiers pose in front of a sequoia in Yosemite known as “Grizzly Giant,” in 1900.
This tree still stands today.

Image credits: Sujit Samajpati

#22

Mt St Helens erupeted 40 years ago today. The photo was taken by Richard Lasher who did survive. Nobody knows what happened to the Pinto or the Yamaha.

Image credits: Steve Michaels

#23

A fleet of Concordes at London Heathrow Airport, 1986

Image credits: Robert Lordan

#24

Spectators watch a horse diving act at an unspecified location
( perhaps Pueblo , Colorado ) on July 4 , 1905 .

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#25

This is probably the most famous photograph of Józef Kudelka. Until 1968, the photographer did not photograph news events. Everything changed on the night of August 21. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet invasion, he took a series of photographs that were miraculously smuggled out of Czechoslovakia. In this image, his hand shows the time when Soviet tanks began to invade Prague.

Image credits: Ella Tomaszewski

#26

A triple decker bus..Germany Berlin.1926

Image credits: Sk Galib Hassan

#27

The U.S. military inspects a collection of works of art collected by Hermann Goering, 1945

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#28

Teenagers of the 50th years of the last century. Feel the difference.

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#29

A streetcar conductor in Seattle not allowing passengers aboard without a mask during the Spanish Flu pandemic, 1918.

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#30

Social distancing from 1953. A child with measles sits and eats alone during a Coronation party in Chelsea, England.

Image credits: Shisa Printables

#31

Born Free, 1966 George Adamson (Bill Travers) and his wife, Joy (Virginia McKenna)

Image credits: Inde Takhar

#32

Chicago. August 4, 1948. This photo originally published in the Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, IN, tells a tragically heart-breaking, yet all too familiar story about Chalifoux family and the trials and tribulations surrounding poverty. Well … that’s what the original caption wanted the reader to think. Facing eviction from their apartment, the jobless couple decided to sell their four children ranging in age from two to six. The mother posted a sign in the front yard and waited for buyers while Lana, Rae Ann, Milton, and Sue Ellen just sat on the steps oblivious that their fate was about to spiral out of control. According to several articles I read regarding this photo, It seems no one really knew whether the sign was up there for days, or years or just long enough for the camera to take its shot. Several family members even stated that the mother was paid to stage the whole thing. Regardless, within days newspapers across the country picked up the photo and job offers and financial help poured in. But that didn’t change the inevitable. Rae Ann was sold and sexually abused. Milton went to live on a farm with John and Ruth Zoeteman who beat him daily, tied him up and worked as a slave. Lana’s life remained a mystery to the other siblings. She died in 1998 of cancer. Unlike the others, Sue Ellen was adopted legitimately and seemed to fare better than the others. Years later and well into their sixties and seventies, sisters Rae Ann and Sue Ellen found each other and were telling their version about what actually happened to them. “I was sold for $2.00 so my mother could have bingo money,” claimed Rae Ann, “and because the man she was dating wanted nothing to do us,” Sue Ellen’s response about her birth mother, “she needs to be in hell burning.”

Image credits: L. Donsky-Levine

#33

Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII.

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#34

Young girl Kiowa tribe , Oklahoma , 1894

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#35

Gold Rush. At the end of the day, scrambles in front of a bank to buy gold. The last days of Kuomintang, Shanghai, 23 December 1948.

Image credits: Mamys Mutfak

#36

Installing a Greek column at the Civil Courts Building in St. Louis around 1929.

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#37

In 1941, Slovenian Albina Mali-Hočevar joined the People’s Liberation Movement at the age of 16. She was wounded twice as a resistance fighter at the age of 17. For the remainder of the war, she worked as a nurse.

Image credits: Amila Prasanna

#38

Sculpting begins on the face of Lincoln , Mount Rushmore , Black Hills National Forest , SD , 1927

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#39

Mother and children going to the Pictures, 1951.
Photo by: H. Armstrong Roberts.

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#40

Marble Arch Tube Station, 1900

Image credits: Inde Takhar

#41

Soviet and American soldiers celebrate victory over Germany. Germany. May 1945. World War II

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#42

Children were used at Pennsylvania coal company’s mine to separate impurities from coal by hand. Pittston, 1910.

Image credits: Khaled Mohamed Fouad

#43

Patients being treated in an Army Hospital during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

Image credits: Shisa Printables

#44

The 3,000 men who helped build the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City pose for a photo near the end of the constructional work, Aug 19, 1964.

Image credits: Shisa Printables

#45

A heartwarmingly lovely photo of a young woman writing to her sailor.

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#46

Milano 1972

Image credits: Numidia

#47

Titanic survivor, with bandaged feet, 1912

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#48

View of the St-Lawrence River from Québec City in the 1800’s

Image credits: Photos Historiques du Québec

#49

Johnsons and Agnews watch launch of Apollo 11 to moon, July 1969

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#50

Native Americans photographed by , Roland W. Reed between 1907 and 1913

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#51

Swinging London, late 60s.

Image credits: Stefan Bülck

#52

Petre Mshvenieradze, Tbilisi-born Olympic Soviet water polo player, with his grandson 1950.

Image credits: Nika Danelia

#53

Stevenson as Presidential nominee and JFK as Senate aspirant, Boston, 8 years earlier.

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#54

A group of kids had arranged to care and feed the dog after the owner had died, England 1936.

Image credits: Արո Զադոյան

#55

The Hotel Alcazar in St. Augustine Florida 1905.

Image credits: Jon Seekford

#56

Iran-Poland football match 1943 in Tehran – Iran
Polish spectator platform

Image credits: Hossein Sattari

#57

Red Army soldiers take out icons and church utensils from the Simonov Monastery in Moscow. USSR. 1923

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#58

German soldiers in the Antwerp cathedral after capturing the city in 1914.

Image credits: Orient Express Podcast

#59

Belgian Carabiniers with their advanced head gear and war dogs walking towards battle 1914.

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#60

Former Public Service Bird of the Week Diana Turner was also an entrant in the 1973 Miss Australia Quest . Photo : Russell McPhedran

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#61

Desert Dream caravan on the road, 1950

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#62

Pennsylvania Railroad Station , New-York , 1940s . Photo by ; Marjory Collins

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#63

Chinese soldiers advancing via the Great Wall of China in October 1937

Image credits: Orient Express Podcast

#64

Jackie Kennedy in Paris , 1961

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#65

German WWII POWs harvesting grapes for the Widmer Winery in Naples, NY. Every state housed prisoners but most camps were built in warm weather climes to save on barracks heating costs.

Image credits: Ronald Paul Miller

#66

Liberation of Paris from Nazi tyranny,1944 (photograph taken next day)

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#67

18-year-old German amateur pilot Matthias Rust, who landed his plane “Cessna” on Red Square in Moscow, dines in a Soviet court. September 2, 1987.

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#68

Two widows gathered for Martin Luther King’s funeral, April 1968

Image credits: Grigory Sarkisov

#69

Circa 1907 Fountain Square , Cincinnati Ohio United States

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#70

Manhattan New-York , ca 1917. A horse-car and a modern tram side by side

Image credits: Mourad Hm

#71

A central control operator directs progress of trains, throws switches, and sends train operators 1930 Chicago, Kaufmann & Fabry Co. (Chicago)

Image credits: Biniam Hirut

#72

Jakob Nacken (221 cm), the tallest German soldier of World War II, chatting with British corporal Bob Roberts after surrendering to him near Calais, France, 1944.

Image credits: Alp Emeç

#73

Constantinople (İstanbul), 1890.

Image credits: Alp Emeç

#74

Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya), formerly serving as a mosque and church, 1860’s.

Today it is a museum, it carries traces of Turkish and Greek cultures.

Image credits: Alp Emeç

#75

Troops of the Eight nations alliance of 1900 .
Left to right: Britain , United States , Russia , British India , Germany , France , Austria-Hungary , Italy , Japan .

Image credits: Adam Halawa

#76

Indians visit Great White father President Roosevelt receive Drag Wolf (I) and Foolish Bear while Arthur Mandan interprets the purpose of the visit , 13 january 1938 .