50 Important Historical Images That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Studying history helps us understand and grapple with complex questions and dilemmas of the present. By examining the past, we get a better understanding of what shaped (and continues to shape) global, national, and local relationships between societies and people.

But as interesting as these processes sound, some people still find them not vivid enough for their time. So, in an attempt to bring more light to this beautiful and intricate subject, we invite you to take a look at the Facebook page ‘Historical Images.’

As the name suggests, it shares rarely-seen pictures from days gone by. Whether it’s a group of Italian school children crossing a river in the ’50s using pulleys, or an American mailman delivering Christmas letters and parcels in the ’20s, this page has it all.

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#1 Stoney First Nation Member, Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907

50 Important Historical Images That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

50 Important Historical Images That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

#1 Stoney First Nation Member, Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907

#2 An American Serviceman Shares His Rations With Two Japanese Children In Okinawa, 1945

#3 A Kid’s Reaction To Meeting Andre The Giant (1970’s)

#4 A Roman Mosaic Depicting A Fish. 1st Century CE

#5 1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch Had Been Gone Over Four Years, Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. His Wife Rosina And Son John Hadn’t Known If He Was Dead Or Alive. He Got Home On His Birthday

#6 Former Slave, Author And Activist Frederick Douglass With His Musician Grandson Joseph Douglass In 1894

#7 Ukrainian Restaurant In The U.S. Celebrates The Death Of Joseph Stalin, 1953

#8 The Great North Dakota Blizzard, 1966

#9 Community Grocery Store Owner, Harlem, New York, 1940

#10 Four Generations, Circa 1905

#11 Australian Soldiers After Their Release From Japanese Captivity In Singapore, 1945

#12 Remember That Photo Of The Construction Workers Having Lunch On A Unfinished New York Skyscraper? Well Here’s The Photographer Charles Ebbets. 9/20/1932

#13 2,200-Year-Old Hellenistic Theatre In Laodicea, Southwestern Turkey, After Recent Excavation

#14 Mailman Poses With His Heavy Load Of Christmas Mail And Parcels. Chicago, USA. 1929. Colorized

#15 Inuit Man Warms His Wife’s Feet. Greenland, 1890’s

#16 William Harley And Arthur Davidson, 1914

#17 Children Cross The River Using Pulleys On Their Way To School, 1959, Italy

#18 A Mother With Her Children, 1,800 Years Ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt

#19 Behind The Scenes Photos From The Making Of The First Godzilla Movie, 1954

#20 A Motor Home In 1922

#21 May 1922: 78-Year-Old Robert T. Lincoln (Son Of Abraham Lincoln) Is Helped Up The Steps At The Dedication Of The Lincoln Memorial In Washington D.C

#22 A Boy And His Owl, 1933

#23 Piano Designed For People Confined To Bedrest. UK, 1935

#24 Mother Teaching Children Numbers And Alphabet In Home Of Sharecropper. Transylvania, Louisiana. Jan. 1939

#25 Ceramic Water Pipes Found Near Epang Palace. China. From The 5th-3rd Century BC

#26 Inside Of A Railroad Car Made By The Pullman Company, 1890s

#27 Woman Wiring An Early Ibm Computer Taken By Berenice Abbott In 1948

#28 Children Playing On Playground Equipment In Dallas, Texas, 1900

#29 The Creation Of The Recycling Logo By G. Anderson. He Was 23 At The Time, 1970

#30 Ashtrays And Coin-Operated Televisions In The Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Terminal, 1969

#31 An Immigrant Family Arriving At Ellis Island In 1904

#32 Samurai Helmet Made By Famous Japanese Metalsmith Myochin Nobuie, 1525

#33 The Swedish Warship Vasa. It Sank In 1628 Less Than A Mile Into Its Maiden Voyage And Was Recovered From The Sea Floor After 333 Years Almost Completely Intact. Now Housed At The Vasa Museum In Stockholm

#34 1946 vs. 2021 – Poznań, Poland

#35 Serving A Snack On Scandinavian Airlines Flight, 1969

#36 Trakai Island Castle, Lithuania. Built In The 14th Century And Restored In The 1950s-1960s

#37 Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin, 1961

#38 Making The Titanic’s Anchor Chain At Hingley & Sons, 1909

#39 A Woman Walks Through Berlin During The Battle Of Berlin, May 1945

#40 A Chippewa Indian Named John Smith Who Lived In The Woods Near Cass Lake, Minnesota Claimed To Be 137 Years Old Before He Died In 1922. Photo Taken In 1915

#41 Two Women Working As Ice Deliverers Carry A Large Block Of Ice. September 1918

#42 A Fake Rooftop Suburb That Hid A Whole Wwii Airplane Factory Underneath, 1944

#43 Berlin, Germany, 1985-2018

#44 Barcelona, Spain In 1906. Sagrada Familia Basilica In An Early Stages Of Construction

#45 A Couple Of Victorian Travellers, 1890s

#46 Newcastle Castle, UK – 1895 To 2022

#47 New Parents Of Quadruplets, Late 1880s

#48 A Statue Of Anubis In Tutankhamuns Tomb, Taken During Carter Expedition (Photo Taken In 1922)

#49 College Dorm Room In 1910 (University Of Illinois)

#50 Log Driving In Glens Falls, New York, 1907