Historical Pictures/Videos/News

[Yuli Ban]

Relaunch of the old thread, starting with the picture that started it all:

View from the Window at Le Gras (1826), the oldest surviving photograph




Older are known to exist, but have been lost to time. I believe there is one proto-photograph that still exists that may date back to the 1790s, but I have to look into it more deeply.

[Time_Traveller]

How Japan technically started World War 2

[wjfox]

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Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967

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The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967

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Nooksack Indians near Lynden, Washington State, 1900 ...

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[wjfox]

Computer Space arcade cabinet.

One of the earliest video games, developed in 1971.

[Time_Traveller]

Rare Colour Footage of 1960s London, New Bond Street, Shops

[Time_Traveller]

Construction of the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, 1930

[wjfox]

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Washington Bridge and Harlem River Drive in 1900

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[Yuli Ban]

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[raklian]

Sad to think all of the children in the video are already dead. After all, they'd have to be over 120 years old to be alive today.