Regularly, we suggest that you take a short tour of the past, taking a close interest in rare historical photographs, which allow us to talk about specific events. Most of these photos are touching, and arouse in us feelings as diverse as they are varied. So here, without further ado, 24 new rare historical photographswhich should take you back in time.
1) Painters hang on the suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge (1914)
Comment: photograph of E. de Salignac.
2) The seal of Tutankhamun’s tomb (1922)
Comment: everything begins November 4, 1922when Hussein, a young water carrier, digs, before coming across what appears to be a step. Howard Carter rushes to the place of discovery, continues to dig too, and then discovers a staircase of sixteen steps. The team operating on the scene will then discover a sumptuous tomb, whose seals (like the one you can see above) are intact.
The real opening of the tomb takes place officially November 29. Carter invited several people to attend, including Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and her son, the future Leopold III, along with Egyptologist Jean Capart. Everyone is in shock. The room that is revealed to them is full of an unimaginable number of objects: funeral preserves, bouquets of flowers, a gilded throne, large beds in the shape of animals, disassembled chariots, alabaster vases …
3) Maori soldiers from New Zealand do the haka before leaving to fight in Egypt (1941)
Remark : the origin of the new zealand forces dates back to the creation of militias by the colony of New Zealand, a member of the British Empire, during the Maori Wars in 1845. The first permanent military force was created in 1862. At the outbreak of the pacific war, New Zealand forces participated in the Desert War, the Air War in Europe and the defense of Allied positions in Asia-Pacific. The photograph taken above, in 1941, shows 2nd Infantry Division.
4) disneyland employees line up at the canteen (1961)
5) Fidel Casto and Che Guevara go fishing together (1960)
6) a child of the Ku Klux Klan befriends a black policeman in the United States (1992)
Comment: as is often said, “no one is born bad”. the Ku Klux Klanoften referred to by its acronym “KKK”, is a white supremacist terrorist secret society of the United States founded in early 1866. It is a device of the Southern States to oppose the application of the constitutional rights of African Americans, guaranteed by several amendments after the Civil War. For this purpose, the Ku Klux Klan commits assassinations, attacks, rapes, tortures, kidnappings, burning of schools or even Afro-American churches. This photograph perfectly symbolizes, as such, all the innocence of childhood.
7) soldiers represent their president, Woodrow Wilson (1918)
Comment: during WWIthe American government had decided to hire English Arthur Mole and the American John D.Thomas to create photographs of crowds of soldiers depicting strong symbols for United States (for war propaganda purposes). 21,000 officers and soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio in 1918 represented the Living Portrait of Woodrow Wilsonwhich can be seen above.
8) The very first photograph of Machu Pichu (1912)
Comment: photograph taken by Hiram Bingham III (an “explorer” as he wanted to call himself, and an American politician) in 1912, after important clearing work has been undertaken. Bingham had indeed discovered Machu Picchu in 1911. This photo gives a general view of half the city of Machu Picchu, while the explorer unearthed hundreds of tombs, and unearthed jars, dishes and jewelry.
9) the microsoft team reunited in 1978
10) elvis presley during his military service (1958)
Comment: the year 1957 is a very good year for Elvis Presley, since she signs the exit of 3 singles ranked at the top of the charts as soon as they are released, namely Too Much, AllShook up and Teddy Bear. His film Loving You also a great success. Elvis then connects films and concerts. He is chased by photographers, including during his military service. The press will manage to take photos of the star even in the buildings of the army.
11) photograph entitled “The eyes of hate”, by joseph goebbels, having just learned that the photographer who took his picture was Jewish (1933)
Remark : Joseph Goebbels, of 1933 to 1945, worked for Hitler in the Ministry of People’s Education and Propaganda, and as such his name remains inextricably linked with the use of modern mass manipulation techniques. A fierce anti-Semite, the latter played a major role in the persecutions against German Jews, through his fiery speeches and, in particular, by organizing Kristallnacht in November 1938. He was appointed Chancellor by Hitler before his suicide, but Goebbels killed himself the next day with his wife, after she poisoned their six children, to escape judgment.
12) A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade (1915)
13) German ss guards forced to lie in the emptied mass graves (1945)
Comment: German SS guards, exhausted from the forced labor they did to extricate the bodies of the dead in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, are given a brief rest by British soldiers. Only then, the only rest to which they are entitled is the following: all are forced to lie flat on their stomachs in one of the mass graves which has just been emptied. old corpses. Photograph taken on April 20, 1945.
14) Cetshwayo kaMpande, King of the Zulus (1878)
Remark : Cetshwayo kaMpande, born circa 1826, died February 8, 1884, was King of the Zulu Nation and led his people in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. In 1878 indeed, Sir Henry Bartle Brother, British administrator of South Africa, harbors the project of submitting the Zulu country to British authority. Despite some severe defeats, such as the Battle of Isandlwana, the British still won the victory. Cetshwayo kaMpande will then be exiled to London.
15) Prisoners of the Auschwitz camp liberated by the Red Army (1945)
16) Russian death camp survivor points to particularly brutal SS guard during liberation (April 14, 1945)
Comment: colorized photograph. A Russian survivor of the death camps, liberated on April 14, 1945 by the United States Armyin the Buchenwald camp in Germany, identifies for the Americans a former SS guard who was particularly brutal with the prisoners of the camp.
17) anne frank’s father (otto frank) returns to the attic where his family hid before the deportation (1960)
Remark : at the beginning of July 1942, the Germans begin to summon the Jews to the Netherlands in order to deport them. July 6, 1942after having secretly arranged a small apartment at the back of his offices, Otto Frank moved there clandestinely with his family in order to escape Nazism. It’s locked in this hiding placein which they lived for more than two years, that his daughter, the young Anne Frank, wrote her diary, which after the war became a world famous testimonial.
On August 4, 1944, the whole family was arrested on anonymous denunciation. September 3, 1944Otto’s family, including Anne Frank, leaves with the last train convoy for the Auschwitz extermination camp. Otto Frank is still in the Auschwitz camp when the Russians liberate him on January 27, 1945, but he will be the only survivor of the genocide. Otto Frank will devote the rest of his life to his daughter’s diary, and the fight against discrimination and prejudice. Until his death in August 1980, Otto Frank answered letters from thousands of readers of his daughter’s newspaper, Anne Frank.
18) Apollo 8 Astronaut Wives When They Heard Their Husband’s Voice From Orbit (1968)
Remark : Apollo 8, launched on December 21, 1968, is the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first to reach, orbit and return to the Moon. The three astronauts constituting the crew (Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders) are therefore the first to go near the Moon, to witness an Earthrise, to photograph it and to escape to the gravity of a celestial body. It’s a dreaded mission, and the relief of astronauts’ wives is palpable in the photograph above.
19) George HW Bush sledding with Arnold Schwarzenegger at Camp David (1991)
20) Fifteen-year-old German soldier Hans-Georg Henke cries after being captured by the US Army in Germany (1945)
21) Arnold Schwarzenegger having fun showing his muscles to old ladies (1970s)
22) Muhammad Ali in training (1974)
Comment: photograph taken by Ken Regan.
23) a bet was on, “how many people can you fit in a phone booth” (1959)
24) Pink Floyd Concert in Venice (July 15, 1989)
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