Zurich, Switzerland, 1948

A couple embracing late at night on the Schoffelgasse, Zurich, Switzerland, 1948 by Yale Joel
 

Chicago, 1969

Iron Worker, Chicago 1969 by Jonas Dovydenas

Beautiful girl!

Somebody said: "Afro Antillano Panamanian girl" ... Unknown

An Onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan. Unknown

Notre Dame, April 1969

Robert Doisneau, Gargoyles of Notre Dame, April 1969

January 1943, Chicago

The waiting room of Union Station in Chicago by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

La vie en rose... (Unknown)

The lucky one!

Alfred Eisenstaedt, On honeymoon on way to California, 1949

Alfred Eisenstaedt

First African American to vote

Thomas Mundy Peterson, first African American to vote, March 31, 1870. African American men were given the right to vote before women of any color.

Lisbon, Portugal, 1940 by Bernard Hoffman.

 Bernard Hoffman

Africa somewhere between 1856 and 1859

Francis Frith (1822-1898) took this picture in his many journeys in a then unexplored Africa during the period 1856-1859

Shame on human race!

African American. Slave.

1850 Reverend Rollin Heber Neale

Reverend Rollin Heber Neale, daguerrotype
... I love his hair style, to be honest :))

War and Peace, 1960's, by Pedro Luis Raota (1934-1986)

Russia, 1941, unknown

Great shot, but I can't stop thinking about the terror felt by that poor animal.

Constanța, Romania, 1937

Harlem New York 1943, by Gordon Parks

Bucharest, Romania, late 1930s.

Boulevards Bratianu and Magheru

 

 

Neulette, 1917

The human part of the war: a British soldier and a kitten “shaking hands”

May 1941 by Jack Delano.

May 1941. In the convict camp at Greene County, Georgia. The guitarist is bluesman Buddy Moss. Photo by Jack Delano.

Albert Sands Southworth, cca 1848

Maybe the first sexy symbol :D
Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) operated Southworth & Hawes daguerreotype studio with Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) from 1843 to 1863.

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck -The German general who told Hitler to go screw himself

http://timashby.com/the-german-general-who-told-hitler-to-go-screw-himself/

A girl from Philippines - Dutch photographer Francisco Van Camp, 1875.

The photograph’s inscription describes her as Mestiza Sangley-Filipina. 
Beautiful!

 

A Canadian soldier giving his dog a bath, February 1918 World War I

Something that kept them sane, I think... Anyway, the human part of the war.

US Civil War - Unknown

A Kuchi nomad woman, Afghanistan, 1920s.

US Civil War - 11th Virginia company E Lynchburg Rifles - colorized

Company E - Lynchburg Rifles, Campbell County; enlisted April 19, 1861; mustered June 3, 1861; reorganized April 26, 1862. Captains: James Edward Blankenship (resigned August 25, 1861), Christopher Valentine Winfree (retired April 26, 1862), John Cabell Ward.

 

 



 

War figure

Unknown soldier ...WWII, I suppose.

© Sabine Weiss, Paris 1953

Beautiful 1886 eyes

 

ca. 1886 - Madison, Wisconsin, E.R.Curtis Studio

1839 self-portrait of Robert Cornelius, one of the first photographs of a human to be produced

 

Robert Cornelius (March 1, 1809 – August 10, 1893) was an American pioneer of photography and lamp manufacturer.This self-portrait of Robert Cornelius is the oldest known existing photographic portrait of a human in America.

 



Photos' sources

I don't own any of these photos. I found them all during my daily surfing on Internet and here is all what I loved or I found interesting, beautiful, funny, pretty, insane, unjust, terrible etc. and I wanted to spread these feelings trough the world.

Here are some places where I found these photos:

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/

http://www.old-picture.com/

http://svc023.wic008p.server-web.com/ 

https://oldphotosofcork.wordpress.com/ 

https://rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/ 

https://ro.pinterest.com/ 

 http://www.fortepan.hu/?view=all&lang=en

http://mydaguerreotypeboyfriend.tumblr.com/ 

http://www.shorpy.com/ 

About

I love old photos .... old furniture, old houses ... and old, old old. And I think photos teach us more than any book of history will ever do. Unfortunately photos cover only few years of human history, from Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1829, to Louis Daguerre in 1839 until today, but they say so many things without a word.
Some photos come with explanations I found about, some, unfortunately, not. I am not sure about the accuracy of all the information. Some couldn't be confirmed. If you find something wrong, please contact. Thank you!

Enjoy this journey trough the crazy, happy, beautiful, impossible, ugly etc. human life!