50+ Must-See Moments In History
A Protestant husband and his Catholic wife were not allowed to be buried together, so their headstones reach across two cemeteries in 1888.
Demonstrating how bulletproof vests work, 1923.
A family poses with their covered wagon in Kansas, 1908.
Building the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1876.
The tallest man to ever live, Robert Wadlow, poses with his family in 1935.
Workers building the Empire State building, c. 1930s.
Two women, minutes after voting, London, 1929.
Mother and son pose for a photo, Ireland, 1890.
Henry Ford in the first car he ever built, 1896.
Two newsies, New York, 1896.
The absolutely massive chain for the Titanic’s anchor, c. 1909.
A woman plays a piano designed for people undergoing bedrest, 1935.
A photo by Berenice Abbott of a woman wiring an IBM computer, 1948.
A man repairs the antenna on the World Trade Center, NYC, 1979. Photo by Peter Kaplan.
Bottling ketchup at the Heinz factory, Pittsburgh, 1897.
A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, California, c. 1930.
The Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City.
A WWI-era German submarine washed ashore in Hastings, England, in 1919.
The intact seal on Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922. It went untouched for 3,424 years.
Lumberjacks take a photo with a Douglas fir tree, Washington, 1899.
A woman is ticketed for wearing a bikini, 1957.
The employee cafeteria at Disneyland, 1961.
An Austrian child gets new shoes during WWI.
Painting the Eiffel Tower, 1932.
A girl tries to get a reaction from a royal guard, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970s.
Audrey Hepburn with her pet deer, 1958.
A hippie sells flowers on the road, Oklahoma, 1973.
An East German soldier sneaks a little boy across the Berlin Wall, 1961.
Wojtek the bear, who fought in WWII.
