35 Historical Photos That Throwback To Rare Monumental Moments

Even if you study the facets of history every single day, there is something new to be discovered daily. We’re lucky to live in a time when years gone by are immortalised in photographic form, giving us the opportunity to understand what our predecessors went through.

Today we explore a community which celebrates the actions of people from the past that have significantly shaped humanity today. Found on the r/RareHistoricalPhotos subreddit, the following images are a remarkable glimpse into bygone eras showcasing the efforts people took throughout the ages to fight for the simple things that we take for granted today.

#3 7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, Beloved Sister Of Author Franz Kafka, Was Gassed On Arrival At Auschwitz After Volunteering To Escort A Group Of Orphans From The Terezin Ghetto So They Wouldn’t Be Afraid

#4 Remembering The Father, 1925

#5 Lonnie Johnson, Inventor Of The Super Soaker, 1992

#6 Sabina Chebichi, Kenyan Athlete Who Won A Race In 1973, Barefoot And Wearing A Dress

#7 The First Interracial Marriage In Mississippi, 1970. 3 Years Earlier, The 1967 Loving V. Virginia Scotus Ruling Legalized Interracial Marriage In The US

#8 Barack Obama Dressed As A Pirate With His Mother Stanley Ann, 1960s

#9 Beautiful Ukrainian Girl In National Costume, 1935. Photo Before And After Restoration

#10 Aboriginal Tasmanian Fanny Cochrane Smith Singing Into Her Phonograph In 1903. Without Her Efforts To Preserve Her Culture, We Would Have No Audio Traces Of The Tasmanian Language. Pretty OSC

#11 Rare Photograph Of Marilyn Monroe Without Makeup, 1955

#12 A Sailor “Meets” His Baby For The First Time After Fourteen Months At Sea, 1940s

#13 Dorothy Counts, The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The U.S., Being Taunted By Her White Classmates At Harry Harding High School In Charlotte, 1957

#14 New York In The 1960s

#15 Until 1956, French Children Were Served Wine With Their School Lunch

#16 1968. My Grandfather In The Second Korean War

#17 The Only Known Photograph Of An African American Union Soldier With His Family. Circa 1864

#18 In The Middle Of A Celebration, A Young Woman From Oaxaca, Mexico, Notices She Is Being Photographed, And Gives A Look To The Camera, 1985

#19 Gertrude Ederle, First Woman To Cross The English Channel, 26 August 1926, Done In 14hr And 31 Min, Beating The Male Record Of 16hr And 33 Min. Photos Of The Day She Did The Record

#20 Couples In A Bar, 1959 Pittsburgh

#21 Blackfoot Chief Two Guns White Calf, Early 1900s

#22 Jane Russell Shows Her Co-Actress Marilyn Monroe (At The Time, Jane Was The Bigger Star) One Of Her Talents: Drawing. Here She Draws An Sketch Of Monroe. Result At The End. This Was During The Filming Of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” 1953

#23 In Arviat, Nunavut (Northern Canada), 1949, An Inuit Girl Descends Into Her Ice Igloo House

#24 Faces Of Auschwitz, 1940

#25 Her Majesty Queen Marie Of Romania, 1896

#26 Two Young Boys Standing Barefoot On Moving Electric Looms In Order To Reach The Top Shelf While At Work In A Cotton Mill In Georgia, 1910. Photos Of Child Laborers Working Long Hours In Dangerous Conditions Gradually Led To Child Labor Employment Laws

#27 London, 1940, A Girl Sitting In The Wreckage Of Her Bombed-Out Home With Her Doll

#28 Vintage Photograph Of A Kid Wearing A Monkey Mask, 1920s

#29 Princess Of Egypt And Iranian Queen Fawzia Fuad, C. 1939

#30 112-Year-Old Veteran Of WW1 And Russian Civil War (Teimruz Vanacha) And His Son (Ivan) A Veteran Of WW2 In 1980

#31 Marcy Borders – “Dust Lady” After Escaping The North Tower Of The World Trade Center On 9/11. She Would Die Of Cancer At Age 42

#32 Luzon Woman, 1875

#33 Group Of Friends Enjoys The Beach And Sun In The 1940s

#34 Titanic Orphans, Brothers Michel And Edmond Navratil, 1912. They Were The Only Children To Be Rescued From The Titanic Without A Parent Or Guardian

#35 This Photograph, Taken Over 100 Years Ago In Jerusalem (1920), Shows A Sign In The Background Reading “The Palestine German Bank.” Remarkable Window Into History And The Vibrant Multicultural Presence In The Region During That Era

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Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.