Great historical pics

[PeteCalvin]

Harold Edgerton’s famous high speed picture of a bullet going through an apple, 1964:

Smooth up in ya!

 

[Noexcuse]

Paris, June 1940

 

[Noexcuse]

NYC, May 1945

 

[brandokc]

The first photograph ever taken

 

[brandokc]

Abraham Lincoln's 2nd inauguration

 

[brandokc]

The O'Leary property from the Great Chicago Fire

 

[brandokc]

Eiffel Tower construction

 

[cusetown1]

Normandy

 

[brandokc]

Construction of the London Bridge

 

[brandokc]

Lady Liberty

 

[brandokc]

Orville and Wilbur take flight

 

[brandokc]

1906 San Francisco Quake - I'll stop posting for a while and give everyone else a chance

 

[Frozen]

Construction of the London Bridge

That is the Tower Bridge, not the London Bridge.

 

[bevosu]

Kent State

May 4, 1970

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

The Unforgettable Fire album was named after a fire that occurred at that castle. It's a very cool place

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[edowd26]

The O'Leary property from the Great Chicago Fire

dafuq... there is nothing around this thing. how did this doom chicago?

 

[edowd26]

Eiffel Tower construction

burn it... all of it.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Frozen Niagara Falls

 

[Rocco]

The Microsoft staff, 1978. Now with over 99,000 employees 35 years later.

 

[Rocco]

Last photo of all 4 Beatles together, August 22nd, 1969:

 

[Rocco]

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945:

 

[Rocco]

Apollo 10 had a little known incident in flight as evidenced by this transcript:

 

[Rocco]

People in the Netherlands celebrating the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany. 1944-1945:

 

[Rocco]

Construction of the Empire State Building, New York, c. 1930:

Construction workers on the Empire State Building, 1931:

 

[Rocco]

The USS Iowa displays its' firepower, 1980s: