Saturday, September 28, 2013

Some history in black and white photos

Bored Panda has some historic photos. Here are a few of them.

Elvis in the Army.

Testing bullet proof vests

The Hindenberg disaster 1936

Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency.

Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

Suntan vending machine, 1949

Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920′s

Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960

A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961

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