Historical texts teach us a lot, but sometimes it is difficult to understand what those real-life characters meant or felt beyond the letters, fortunately photography exists.
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A series of unexpected images recorded throughout history tell us a closer version of the historical events that marked the world, it is a simple and quick way to have a better understanding of those events.
1 – A little boy of Austrian origin receives a new pair of shoes, at that time World War II was taking place.
2- Nikola Tesla working on his Magnification Transmitter in his laboratory.
3 – A group of men try to stop Kathrine Switzer from reaching the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Switzer was the first woman to finish the competition in 1967.
4 – A Man Is Looking for a Job, 1930.
5 – The reaction of Nazi soldiers to films made in concentration camps, 1945.
6 – West Berlin residents introduce their children to grandparents who lived on the eastern side, 1961.
7 – Acrobats performing on top of the Empire State Building, 1934.
8 – Kingpin Joe Masseria is murdered in a Brooklyn restaurant, 1931.
9 – After being taken to prison by plainclothes policemen, this dancer shows the judge that her underwear is too large to be considered an attack on modesty.
10 – Construction of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1884.
11 – Remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967.
12 – Hats in New York, 1930.
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