History in photographs (20 pictures)

History in photographs (20 pictures)

By Memolition, Uploaded Apr 5 2013

Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, beats several chess masters simultaneously. France, 1920.

Last known photo of Adolf Hitler, 30 April 1945.

The inauguration of President Eisenhower, January 20, 1953.

Congress of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in the "Cathedral of light", 1937

Marilyn Monroe performing for the troops stationing in Korea. February, 1954.

Last known photo of Albert Einstein, taken in March 1955.

Picture of Joseph Stalin taken for Okhrana - the Tsar's secret political police, 1911.

Hindenburg over Manhattan, May 6, 1937, a few hours before the crash.

Before the invention of alarm clock, in England and Ireland, there was a profession called "knocker-upper". This woman was to awake people so they get to work on time. Mary Smith earned 6 pence a week shooting dried peas at the windows of the sleeping workers. Limehouse Fields. London.

December 5, 1933, more than 79 years ago, people gathered at the bar to celebrate the end of Prohibition in the United States.

Wedding. Egypt - 1923.

World War II. Liberated Jew holding a gun on a Nazi.

New York's Grand Central Station, year 1929.

Two veterans of the Civil War - once fought on opposite sides, now they shook hands. Gettysburg, 1913.

"Elvis" hairstyle was very fashionable among women, 1957.

4-year-old "Louis" and 2-year-old "Lola" or "Loto" passengers of "Тitanic", the only children who survived the crash, while their guardian / parent died. A little later, after the crash, the orphans were correctly identified. They were brothers Michel (4 years) and Edmond Navratil (2 years). Boarded the ship with his father. All three were registered under fake names, the father was Louis M. Hoffman, and his two sons as Lolo and Mamon (or Louis).

Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911.

Last photo session of "The Beatles", August 1969.

Famous architects dressed as buildings, which they created: Stewart Walker (Fuller Building), Leonard Schultze (Waldorf-Astoria), Ely Jacques Kahn (Squibb Building), William Van Alen (Chrysler Building), Ralph Walker (1 Wall Street), DE Ward (Metropolitan Tower), Joseph H. Freelander (Museum of New York), the annual costume ball Beaux Arts Ball in 1931.

Construction of the Berlin Wall. Germany, 1961.