20 Rare And Unusual Photos From History That Will Shock And Surprise You
by N/A, 10 years ago |
3 min read
You've seen unusual photos from history before on OMG Facts, but nothing quite like these. Reddit user epicnesshunter uncovered and curated a list of 40 Must-See Photos From The Past. The photos are unusual, interesting, and just plain weird. Here are the strangest (and probably most interesting) from the collection.
1885: The Statue of Liberty's head is unpacked following its delivery to New York.
Circa 1890: A British girl poses with early versions of prosthetic limbs.
1893: Students at Princeton recover from a freshmen vs. sophomores snowball fight.
1901: The first person to survive traversing Niagara Falls in a barrel is Annie Edson Taylor.
1917: Walter Yeo becomes one of the fist people in the world to receive a skin transplant and go under the knife for plastic surgery.
1923: An new version of the bullet-proof vest is tested.
1924: A circus hippopotamus pulls a trainer on a cart.
Circa 1927: The real-life Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh pose for a picture that's nothing short of a fairytale.
1938: An English woman pushes a special gas-resistant baby carriage through the streets.
1941: Nazi officers and cadets gather 'round for a Christmas celebration.
1947: Evelyn McHale commits suicide by jumping from the 83rd story of the Empire State Building, landing on a UN limousine. She was 23.
1948: A mother in Chicago puts her four children up for sale.
1949: When suntan vending machines existed.
I've got a feeling they probably weren't safe.
1953: A mother and son in Las Vegas look on at the mushroom cloud resulting from an atomic test.
1958: During the Vietnam War, even Elvis was drafted into the U.S. Army.
Actually, Elvis was given the opportunity to join the Special Services and simply entertain the troops–but he opted to serve as a regular soldier.
1960: Martin Luther King, Jr., pictured with his son, pulling a burned cross from the ground in his front yard.
1961: Ham the Chimpanzee posing with a newspaper after becoming the first hominid in space.
1961: Early stages of the Berlin Wall's construction.
1963: McDonald's first version of Ronald McDonald.
Personally, I'm glad they changed it.
Circa 1964: A white hotel owner assaults African-American people swimming in the hotel pool with acid.
Seriously messed up and very morally wrong.
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Do not show me this again