These 15 rare and historic images will amaze you.
When it comes to photography today everything is easier, faster, more ephemeral. It was not always so, however, you must imagine; and maybe that's the magic of the old photos, and of course the fact that they are a different way of telling a few stories, like the photos you'll see next:
1 - Elvis in the Army, 1958
2 - Safe Environment, 1937
Apartments used to have these little cages so kids could stay there and sunbathe and wind.
3 - Bulletproof Vest Test, 1923
4 - Woman with protective mask, 1938, England
5 - Hippo Wagon, 1924
6 - Survivor, 1901
Annie Edison Taylor was the first person to survive a fall at Niagara Falls. She was inside a barrel during the fall.
7 - Charlie Chaplin, 1916
Only 27 years old.
8 - Construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961
9 - Disney Characters in a Coffee Shop, 1961
10 Raising the Head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
11 - Lifeguards in the 1920s
12 - Inspection
In the 1920s, women's swimsuits had to be measured so that they were "appropriate" to take beach showers.
13 - Fight, 1893
Princeton students after a snowball fight.
14 - Change, 1967
First day after Sweden changed the car's steering side in 1967, it no longer followed the English hand style.
15 - Success
The astronaut chimpanzee after his successful mission in 1961.
* Originally posted on 18/01/2014 .
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