16 Amazing Photos Collected From History
Nathan Johnson
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12/21/2018
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Interesting stuff from the history vault.
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A ‘Knocker-up’ was hired to ensure that people would wake up on time for their jobs. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers’ windows in East London in the 1930s. She would not leave a window until she was sure that the workers had woken up. -
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Two “Cop Killers” photographed after interrogations, 1920s -
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Samurai in Yokohama, Japan. Photo by Felice Beato | 1864–65 -
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Eureka, Colorado 1900 -
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Slaves from a Coffe Plantation in Brazil, 1885 -
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Silent ‘Grand Schema’ Monks of the Russian Orthodox Church, Balaam Monastery, Russisan 1888 -
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Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie & Clyde fame, poses with his car and guns in Joplin, Missouri 1933 -
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An Inuit man warms up his wife’s feet in Greenland, 1890s. -
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An elephant used by German soldiers to move heavy logs near the Western Front of World War I, 1915 -
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BBC sound effects workers making effects for a program in studio 1927 -
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Grigori Rasputin with his admirers 1914 -
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On December 13, 1913 One Of The World’s Greatest Art Heists Was Solved -
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Welcome to America 1904, Ellis Island -
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shielded by his aides from a a mob of hostile whites after being struck by a rock to his head, while leading the march with civil rights demonstrators to protest housing discrimination in Chicago, Illinois. August 5, 1966 -
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Jack Johnson, early 1900s -
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Police trade shots with barricaded suspect, Los Angeles, Feb. 17, 1938
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