20 Historical Images Illuminating Rarely-Seen Events Of Past

Sometimes a picture speaks more than a thousand words – and when it comes to learning about history, the photos play an important role in highlighting the events and conditions of the past.

Although facts and trivia are interesting, people find them more illuminating when there are images to support them. This subreddit is an online community of about 3 million people where people share historical photos and facts, and today we are sharing some interesting images from this group. Scroll below to get a glimpse of the past that you might have never seen before.

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#1 It’s No Longer Possible To See This, As Buildings Outside Block The Sun. Grand Central, NYC, 1929 Photo By Louis Faurer

Image source: Bernard_Hunor_Deak

#2 Freddie Mercury With His Mother, 1947

Image source: chickenchaser100

#3 David Attenborough Entertains Prince Charles And Princess Anne With A Cockatoo. 1958

Image source: somnum_osseus

#4 Rail Commuters W3aring White Protective Masks, One With The Additional Message “Wear A Mask Or Go To Jail,” During The 1918 Influenza P@ndem1c In California

#5 Cop Stops The Traffic In New York So A Mother Cat Holding A Kitten Can Cross Safely C.1925

Image source: mikihak

#6 Remember That Photo Of The Construction Workers Having Lunch On The Unfinished Empire State Building? Well Here’s The Photographer Charles Ebbets Taking That Photo. 9/20/1932

Image source: CrotchWolf

#7 A Man Takes A Selfie Using A Stick Of Wood To Activate The Camera, 1957

Image source: baiqibeendeleted17x

#8 Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

Image source: Snoo_90160

#9 Woman Cutting Her Birthday Cake In Iran 1973, 5 Years Before The Islam1c R3volut1on

Image source: Familiar_Internet

#10 Sailors Saluting A W@r Veteran, Leningrad 1989

Image source: Johnkaz34

#11 A Beach In Iran A Few Months Before The Islamic R3v0lut1on, 1979

Image source: darxouls

#12 A Man Browses For Books In The Old Public Library Of Cincinnati. The Building Was Demolished In 1955. Today An Office Building And A Parking Lot Stand Where It Used To Be

Image source: Bernard_Hunor_Deak

#13 A Young Female Welder Photographed By Bernard Hoffman In Connecticut, Circa 1943.

Image source: DiosMioMan63

#14 Coal Miner Waiting To Get Into The Communal Shower At The End Of His Shift, Taken In Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1958. By Photographer Max Scheler

Image source: Feiruzz

#15 People F1ght1ng To Get On A Plane In Nha Trang, April 1, 1975, During The Us Withdrawal From South Vietnam

Image source: Sarke1

#16 Rare Photo Showing Niagara Falls Without Water, 1969

Image source: NothingForUs

#17 Mogadishu, 1993. An Italian Soldier Gives Food To A Local Orphan

Image source: Lambrusc1

#18 1972: 3 Women On The Streets Of Kabul, Afghanistan

Image source: BickKattowski

#19 A Man Looking For A Job Wearing His Cv, England – 1930s

Image source: EfeSeckin

#20 Reporters Who Exposed The Watergate Scandal Watch President Nixon Resign, 1974

Image source: Familiar_Internet