Amazing Historic Photos

Helen Keller Meets Eisenhower
This amazing photo was taken on November 3rd, 1953 when Helen Keller met President Dwight Eisenhower in what was likely the most unique greeting Eisen more...

A Huge Bonfire
This amazing photo was taken on July 3rd during the 1950’s in America and shows a one-hundred-foot-high bonfire pyre at Gallows Hill in Salem, M more...

The Seven Year Itch
This iconic photo was taken on September 15th, 1954 for the film ‘The Seven Year Itch’. The photo features Marilyn Monroe whose white dre more...

Raising The Flag At Ground Zero
This iconic photo was taken on September 11th, 2001 following the attack on the World Trade Center and features three New York City firefighters raisi more...

A Young Mussolini
This mugshot photo was taken on June 20th, 1903 in Bern, Switzerland. Do you recognise the powerful jaw and dark piercing eyes? The man in the photo more...

Collaboration Horizontale
This photo was taken in August 1944, by Robert Capa who immortalised the horrible treatment of French women who were thought to have been Nazi collabo more...

The Horror Of War
This powerful photo was taken on August 28th, 1950, by Sergeant Al Chang of the US Army Signal Corps in the Haktong-ni area of Korea. In this image w more...

The Statue Of Liberty In Paris
This brilliant photo answers that age old question, what would the Statue of Liberty’s head look like in the middle of Paris? and the answer is more...

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