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
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#2 King Island Inuit Woman And Child, King Island, Alaska, Taken Between 1915 And 1925
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#3 Young French Girl Showing Off Her Cat, 1959
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#4 Two Girls Galloping On Sheep, Cornwall, England, 1969
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#5 Chicago’s Southside. In Their Sunday Best, 1941
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#6 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
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#7 A Soldier Of The Us 535th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion With A Dog On The Ardennes Front, Belgium, January 1945
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#8 A British Soldier With His 8-Month Old Daughter As He Arrives At The Docks From Overseas, 1945
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#9 “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 K****d During Ww1 With No Known Grave. 11th November 1920
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#10 Australian Soldier, Private George “D**k” Whittington, Being Aided By Papuan Orderly Raphael Oimbari Near Buna On 25 December 1942
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#11 “Wait For Me, Daddy” – October 1, 1940
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#12 French Soldier With A Wild Eagle Owl In The Trenches, 1916
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#13 A Milkman Continues His Duties Following A German Bombing Raid In London, 1940. Original Photo By Fred Morley
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#14 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
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#15 Albert Einstein Sailing On The Saranac Lake, In The Adirondack Park, New York, 1936
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#16 “The Old Samurai”, Yokohama, Japan, 1865
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#17 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
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#18 Exactly 60 Years Ago (April 12th, 1961) Mankind Reached The Stars As Yuri Gagarin Became The First Human To Travel To Space
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#19 A French Soldier With Facial Prosthetics, 1918
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#20 Davide Chislagi, The Italian Inventor, Testing Out His Version Of The ‘Monowheel’, 1933
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#21 A Dog Stealing A Postman’s Glove, Minneapolis, 1950
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#22 German Soldier Posing For A Photograph With His Grandfather Wearing His Old Bavarian Uniform, 1913
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#23 Abraham Lincoln, Candidate For U.S. President. Half-Length Portrait, Seated, Facing Front, “Without Beard”, 1860
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#24 George H.w. Bush Takes A Toboggan Ride With Arnold Schwarzenegger At Camp David. 1991
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#25 A Young Soldier Of The Austro-Hungarian Army Standing On The Bridge Of Sighs, Connecting The Tunnels Inside The Marmolada Glacier, 1917
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#26 American Wwi Veterans At A Reunion, 1978
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#27 Yeoman Warders Outside The Gates Of The Tower Of London, 1898
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#28 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
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#29 Private First Class Margerum, Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Walks The Road Through A Forest In The Bastogne Area, Returning From The Front Lines, 1944
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#30 The Result Of Firefighting In Extreme Winter Conditions. The Remains Of The Eureka Building In Chicago, 1920
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#31 Addie Card, A 12 Year-Old Spinner In North Pownal Cotton Mill. August, 1910
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#32 Pele And President Gerald Ford Play With A Soccer Ball In The Rose Guard, White House, 1975
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#33 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
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#34 Finnish Soldiers In Nbc (Nuclear, Biological & Chemical) Gear, During An Exercise, 1961
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#35 Bar Patrons Outside The “The Squirrel”, Sweden, Stockholm, Götgatan, 1895
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#36 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
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#37 Maud Wagner – The First Known Female Tattoo Artist In The United States. 1907
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#38 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
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#39 Long Beach, California, In The Year 1910
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#40 Actor Christian Bale In His Bedroom, At Home In Bournemouth, Dorset (United Kingdom 1987)
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#41 “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
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#42 Salvador Dalì And His Wife Gala In A Photo Booth, Around The 1930s
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#43 “The Father Of Basketball”, James Naismith, 1927
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#44 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
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#45 The Mlb All-Star Game In San Diego, 1992
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#46 The Oldest Austrian Soldier Of Ww1, 79-Year-Old Gaspar Wallnöfer, Veteran Of The Habsburg Campaigns In Italy In 1848 And 1866, September, 1917
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#47 George Armstrong Custer, In West Point Cadet Uniform, 1859
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#48 Pablo Picasso Wearing A Hat And Holding A Revolver & Holster Given To Him By Gary Cooper, Cannes, France, 1958
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#49 Cover Shoot For Pink Floyd’s Album, ‘Wish You Were Here’, Warner Brothers Film Studios, 1975. Shot By Aubrey Powell
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