Historical images - Images that made history

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Reagan and Gorbachev:

 

[GenociderSyo]

Family Portrait of Alice Doherty from the early 1900s.

 

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Last photo of President Taft:

 

[AnOminous]

there is this photo where he attack a photographer for trying to take a photo of him, without him knowing it.

Awesome! I was looking for that one.

 

[Carlos Thin]

A previously unknown picture of JFK's motorcade, as it left Love Field before his assassination, was recently unearthed at a thrift store. Doesn't shed any more light on anything unfortunately

 

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Stalin and Churchill sharing a laugh:

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The Romanovs

 

[Foltest]

Last photo of President Taft:

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this can't be it Taft bros...
It can't be the end for us!

A member of the forest brothers.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

King George V and Family

 

[Hummingbird]

78 years ago today...

 

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Churchill delivering a campaign speech:

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Old famous photos of one of the first heartrobs of the Golden Age of Hollywood, James Dean

 

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Young Theodore Roosevelt in the American Frontier/Old West badlands:

 

[GenociderSyo]

Images from Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine written in 1896/1898. The book is available here.

Bonus Pic Elephantitis of the Labia

 

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Berlin after VE day, Churchill sitting in the remains of Hitler's personal chair:

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

And the Village of Passchendaele before and after.

 

[Shady Mask Dealer]

An aerobics instructor teaching her virtual class on Facebook while the members of the Myanmar military advance on the Parliament building in order to arrest and oust Aung San Suu Kyi as the election, which she had won, was being endorsed. (February 1st, 2021)

I know this is an image thread, but here's the video too!

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

"Blackbeard the Pirate" engraving of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) from 1736 used to illustrate early edition of A General History of the Pyrates:

 

[Carlos Thin]

"Blackbeard the Pirate" engraving of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) from 1736 used to illustrate early edition of A General History of the Pyrates:

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A pretty good read; basically defined what we think of as a pirate: unfortunately aside from general facts about times of raids and deaths, most of it is complete fiction

 

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Robert McGee, scalping survivor:

Spoiler: Just in case