24 April 2013

Amazing Vintage Photos Retell Historical Moments

Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884





We stumbled upon these amazing vintage images on photo-sharing website Imgur that retell historical moments.



Posted by Redditor spycatz, it shows unforgettable and momentous events throughout history—from the construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884, to the founding of Google.



To check out more images from the past, click here.



Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945





Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios





The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali





Elvis in the Army





The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906





The Microsoft staff in 1978. (Bill Gates lower left, Paul Allen lower right)





A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941





A Japanese plane is show down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944





Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909





California lumberjacks work in Redwoods





Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880





Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I





Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son





Google begins





The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940





A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868





The 1912 World Series





New York’s Times Square in 1911





The construction of Disneyland





[via Imgur]