15 selected images from the past

The phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" is a term invented by the editor of the American newspaper Arthur Brisbane in 1911. Sometimes, a single simple picture can express us more about history than any text or document. Here is a collection of selected images from the past that depict you last best perception: -

      1. An English woman wearing a gas shield in 1938

      2. The Hindenburg accident, a German balloon that crashed in 1937 during its landing at Lakehurst, resulted in the deaths of 36 of the 96 passengers on board. After the disaster, airliners were banned from regular passenger services.

 

       3. American adventure Annie Edison Taylor, who was able to cross Niagara Falls inside a barrel!

       4. Cages at the window for the children to sit inside to get enough sunlight and fresh air when they live in a residential building, the picture from California in 1937.

       5. Declaration of anti-malarial drugs in New Guinea during World War II!

       6. Soldier feeding the banana goat on the front during the Battle of Saipan, World War II 1944.

       7. A young girl sitting with her doll on the ruins of their house during World War II, London, 1940

       8. Machine to make the skin brown, 1949 !!

       9. Measurement of swimwear length - If it is too short, women were fined, 1920

       10. The hotel owner in California pours acid into the swimming pool because people are black in it. 1964

      11. The morning of the first day in Sweden after the change of direction from left to right, 1967.

       12. Alcohol was poured into the city of Detroit after a decision to prevent it in America under the Eighteenth Amendment to the American Constitution, adopted on 16 January 1919. The ban began on 16 January 1920 and ended in 1933

        13. Thus, the New Year and Christmas celebrations were during the Great Depression that began in 1929 and ended in the early 1940s.

        14. Building the Berlin Wall, 1961

   

        15. An Austrian boy with a new shoe during World War II.