25 unique historical photos

Photography is one of the best inventions of mankind. You look at the picture and are mentally transferred to the past, shake hands with people who have not been with us for a long time. Moreover, the old photos give an opportunity to personally see the first legendary inventions, fully experience the meaningful event for society.

1. Delivery of bread during the Irish Civil War, 1920's.

2. The young man sits on the ruins of a London bookstore, destroyed by air bombardment on October 8, 1940. By the way, the boy reads "The History of London".

3. Belfast. The period when the patriots of the Irish Republican Army fought with the British soldiers. In the photo there is an armed Irishman and a little defender. 1980 year.

4. Anna Lockley on a tea party with best friends - hawk chicken and lobster, 1938. The girl lived with her parents on the island of Skokholm. Besides them, there was no one else here.

5. American boy of Japanese origin raises the flag in the internment camp, Granada, Spain, 1944.

6. Herald Square, New York, 1908.

7. The pair demonstrates a bicycle for two, 1886 year. The White House, Washington.

8. This is how in the war years the world-famous newspaper The New York Times, 1942 was published.

9. The soldiers pay tribute to the horses (and there were 8 million of them) who died during the First World War, 1915.

10. A Canadian soldier, along with a Dutch girl, rejoices at the end of World War II, the Netherlands, 1945.

11. The great science fictionist Herbert Wells plays British soldiers. Behind the chair is a judge with a stopwatch, which measures the remaining time of the writer's progress. 1913 year.

12. Female soldiers in gas masks during the exercises at Fort Des Moines. Iowa. World War II, USA, 1942.

13. German politician and one of the loyal followers of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, congratulates the young soldier "Hitler Jugend" for his services in the defense of the city of Laubana in Silesia. 1945 year.

14. Jewish prisoners released from a death row. 1945 year.

15. Japanese carbines and samurai swords belonging to the soldiers who surrendered to the US troops. The island of Volo, 1945 year.

16. Two Italian soldiers guarding the bridge in Montenegro are checking the passport of the local peasant. 1942.

17. Americans remove the Nazi flag hanging at the German consulate. San Francisco, January 1941.

18. New Zealand soldiers are fishing, shooting it, on the border with Syria and Turkey. 1942 year.

19. French and British soldiers proclaim toast. The First World War, 1917.

20. Royal postal vessel "Queen Elizabeth" in New York, 1968.

21. Soldiers from the Allied army in greatcoats are basking in front of fire in Egypt, North Africa. July 11, 1942.

22. Cornet Winston Churchill of the 4th Her Majesty Hussar Regiment, 1895.

23. Commander of the Serbian Chetniks in World War II, prince and priest Juich Momchilo. 1940's of the year.

24. Vesuvius eruptions and American bombers flying over it, Italy, 1944.

25. Officers of the NKVD, planting trees on the orders of Joseph Stalin. Smolensk, 1947 year.