I think I have a good knowledge of history, but I always learn something new when browsing through old photos. They let you temporarily enter an entirely different world. One small detail I never thought of before can blow my mind and change the way I look at an era. I hope that one of these 22 photos generates that mind-blowing spark and teaches you something new.
A prohibition era accessory: A cane flask.
Marilyn Monroe opens the USA-Israel Football International with a kickoff, 1959.
India's Taj Mahal, in 1865. The grand palace was first opened in 1648.
Inventor of the bikini, Louis Reard, with a model in 1946. He named the swimsuit after a nuclear weapon test site because he thought it would cause an ‘explosive’ cultural reaction.
The welcome parade for Queen Elizabeth's first official visit to Germany in 1965.
A young Pablo Picasso standing in front of Le Bateau Lavoir, a famous Parisian hangout for 20th-century artists.
Women's archery during the Summer Olympic Games, London 1908.
A Chinese immigrant family portrait, Oregon, 1890's.
A first class suite on the Titanic.
Saturday bath time in rural Spencer, Tennessee, 1939.
Photograph of a Japanese woman wearing a kimono in 1896.
The earliest known photo of Abraham Lincoln. Believed to be taken circa 1846.
A Muslim Bandit in Xinjiang, China, circa 1915.
Frank Sinatra shaving, 1965.
French weightlifter and 1920 Olympic champion Ernest Cadine, posing in 1923.
This is a photo of what Hitler might have looked like in disguise. Released by the US Secret Service in 1944.
A dapperly dressed young man, at the London Stock Exchange in 1937.
Elvis Presley, standing in his front yard in Memphis, Tennessee, 1956.
A Californian beach party, 1930.
Admiral Byrd’s snow cruiser near Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1939. The spectacle caused a record 90-mile stretch traffic jam, with over 70,000 cars delayed.
Rio de Janeiro in the 1930's.
The world's first wedding car, 1903.
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