{"id":13159,"date":"2024-09-01T21:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2024-09-01T21:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T21:34:18","slug":"39-amazing-historical-photos-that-will-leave-you-in-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=13159","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Historical Photos That Will Leave You in Awe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you had the opportunity to look through some old photos? It\u2019s amazing when you see things that you haven\u2019t seen in many years. It\u2019s also interesting when you are able to look through photos that you have never seen before but they contain images that are still somewhat familiar to you. That is the case with these old historical photos that have been unearthed for your viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Each one of these pictures is certainly worth a thousand words and is likely worth many more. It\u2019s a great way to spend some time, because you can learn about history and maybe even about yourself.<\/p>\n<p>1. Flour Sacks Turned into Clothes (1939)<\/p>\n<p>In the 1930s, flour mills noticed women repurposing their sacks to make clothes for their children, so they started producing sacks with flower-patterned fabric.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3457-300x181.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3457-300x181.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3457.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n1. In the 1930s, flour mills noticed women repurposing their sacks to make clothes for their children, so they started producing sacks with flower-patterned fabric. (1939)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3458-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3458-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3458.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><br \/>\n2. A police officer halts traffic in New York to let a mother cat safely carry her kitten across the street, circa 1925.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3459-237x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3459-237x300.webp 237w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3459.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><br \/>\n3. Albert Einstein, challenging the racial climate of the era, visited Lincoln University in Pennsylvania\u2014the first Black college in the US to grant degrees\u2014to teach a class.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3460-300x233.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3460-300x233.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3460.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n4. This image captures 100,000 Iranian women protesting against the hijab law in Tehran, 1979.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3461-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3461-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3461.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n5. Charles Thompson meets his new classmates at Public School No. 27 in September 1954, just four months after the Supreme Court declared racial segregation unconstitutional. He was the only African-American student at the school.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3462-300x231.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3462-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3462.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n6. A remarkable photograph of a German soldier defying orders to assist a young boy in crossing the newly erected Berlin Wall after being separated from his family, 1961.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3463-215x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3463-215x300.webp 215w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3463.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><br \/>\n7. Princess Diana, known as the \u201cpeople\u2019s princess,\u201d shakes hands with an AIDS patient without wearing gloves, 1991.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3464-300x217.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3464-300x217.webp 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3464.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n8. Meet the \u201cNight Witches,\u201d brave Russian female pilots who conducted nighttime bombing missions in 1941.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3465-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3465-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3465-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3465.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n9. This is a photo that would outshine today\u2019s social media profile pictures.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3466-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3466-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3466.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br \/>\n10. This 1901 photo, titled \u201cHappiest Man in China,\u201d was taken by British anthropologists documenting the Chinese. Unaware of photography\u2019s seriousness, the man playfully posed with a smile.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3467-225x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3467-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3467.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n12. In Mogadishu, 1993: An Italian soldier offers food to a local orphan.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3468-230x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3468-230x300.webp 230w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3468.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you had the opportunity to look through some old photos? It\u2019s amazing when you see things that you haven\u2019t seen in many&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13174,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}