Shocking Historical Photos That Make You Question Everything

PART 2:

his wife Grace wish Americans a happy New Year at the entrance to the White House, January  1st.  A United Kingdom  man sprays the top of a bus with an anti-flu gas, March 2nd, 1920. American officers Lieutenant Colonel  Ben Thompson and Virgil Happy with bundles of money in the vault of the Magdeburger Bank    where reichsmarks worth $280 million were found, 1945.

  Elizabeth Taylor’s  first wedding. Two students sit cross-legged  on a table while sewing at the Baross Workshop School for the tailoring profession, Sweden,    1955. An employee of a moose farm in the village  of Sumarokovo with a domesticated moose, Kostroma Oblast, 1979. Marilyn Monroe.

A meeting of the National Women’s Trade Union League, circa 1922. Bill Nye as he was becoming  the Science Guy, 1970.  German Kaiser Wilhelm II  riding in a carriage with Belgian King Leopold II 1900. Both men were among the most notorious European monarchs  of their time. Fidel Castro 1971.

Sailors armed  with bats after clearing a street of pachucos during the Zoot Suit Riot 1943. Jane Russell at the beach hit by the waves 1943.  A model poses on the roof of  Notre Dame de Paris 1952. Barricades in the Bogside April 1972 two months after  Bloody Sunday. 1880 Northwestern Express Stage  and Transportation Company in South

Dakota. Atlantic City Boardwalk,  1960s. In April of 1945, paratrooper Harry Lorenzo of the 509th  Parachute Infantry Battalion clutches his Thompson submachine gun and his puppy Kaput near Katherineberg, Germany. Chariot race,  1936. San Francisco earthquake  and fire, April 18th, 1906.

Ruins of the Fairmont Hotel. 1954. Light beams create  a contour map of a human head during an Air Force study of jet pilot helmets. United Kingdom. The Sheffield Pageant makes its way  past City Hall on July 13th, 1976. Lina Cavalieri, the world’s most  beautiful woman in the 1900s. Women cast their first votes for president in  November 1920, New York City.

 Joy Lansing in mid-1950s. Siouxsie Sioux, 19 at the time, pictured during her very first performance at the 100 Club in London, 1976. Devastating flood in St. Petersburg in 1924. Wounded  soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force sing a song with nurses in a ward at a military hospital in London after  returning from continental Europe, 1940.

Sophia Loren in Rome, 1955. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs the act of military surrender in Berlin  on May 8th, 1945. Alfred Hitchcock  has dinner with MGM’s Leo the Lion, 1958. United States soldier  playing with local kids on a cart somewhere in West Germany, 1980s.  American built tank America  designed by Professor E.F. Miller of the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology photographed in July  of 1918. Rare image of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy with his wife Elena visiting the Turin International Exposition    1911. A New Guinea resident was stunned  to see a white man for the first time until 1930. Mountain tribes believed they were the only people on Earth.

Detroit riots June 21st, 1943. Actress Natalie Wood poses by her swimming pool at her home in Los Angeles, California  1957. A postman  delivering letters in Pay de Bouc, France in the 1900s. In this photo looking up Liberty from Water Street, the Illinois River crests at 25.

9 ft  in May 1970 in downtown Peoria. Howard Hughes  tests a radio-controlled scale model of the Spruce Goose, United States, 1940s. Costume  for the Triadic Ballet from the theater of the Bauhaus, 1925. Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth  with Japanese-American baseball players, Fresno, California, 1927. Audrey Hepburn at home, Los  Angeles, circa 1954.

Summertime in the Bronx, 1980s. Crowds in London observe the very first 2-minute  silence for those killed in the Great War. The men have removed their hats out of respect for the fallen, 1919. Kent State  University during a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Guardsmen surround the charred remains of the Army ROTC  building, May 4, 1970.

Car graveyard, Jeeps and trucks accumulated in this cemetery near Haifa for 5 years, 1950s.  A dinner party at the Hotel Astor in New York City  in 1904. Destroyed American vehicles on the shore of Iwo Jima,  Japan, February 1945. 1989  student protests in Tiananmen Square. One of the last photographs taken  on the Titanic.

German Emperor Wilhelm II examines black people at the Hamburg  Zoo, 1909. Fortifications at Yorktown, Virginia, during  the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. 16-year-old Canadian Aloha Wanderwell became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, 1922. New York, 1968.  Fred Astaire with his daughter Ava, Paris, 1961.

Rare candid  photo of Marilyn Monroe with a Mountie in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada in 1953. Photo from the Great Depression,    1929. John F. Kennedy  pretending to meet Marilyn for the first time at his birthday party, 1962.  The Diamond T Doodlebug,  1935. Former Third Reich leaders  laugh at a translation error during Nuremberg

trials, 1945 to 1946. Three-wheeled vehicle. 1926. At a New Year’s party, a girl was chosen Miss 1926. Catherine Zeta Jones, 1992. Hovercraft, 1960. 1932,

the Moberly triplets,  Claudette, Angela, and Claudine are fast asleep as the clock strikes midnight, signaling the new year. Young Jews  celebrate the proclamation of the new state in Tel Aviv on May 14th. A Native American and white couple,    El Reno, Oklahoma, taken between 1889 and 1907.

Barbara Bach,  Richard Kiel, publicity photo by Lewis Gilbert for The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977. 16-year-old Canadian Aloha Wanderwell became the first woman  to circumnavigate the globe. Locals pose for a photo while Aloha sits in a taxi.  Faces of passersby  upon seeing the 9/11 incident.

Protest against prohibition in the United States, 1920. Belgian girl holding a bucket up to a Canadian artillery horse, Belgium, November 1918. 19-year-old Kurt Cobain’s  mugshot, arrested for the graffiti God is gay, May 1986. Ludgate Hill on the 15th of September 1940  while RE bomb disposal engineers are removing a bomb from under St.

 Paul’s Cathedral. Fanny Noun. People of Mexican descent, including United States born  citizens, were put on trains and buses and deported to Mexico during the Great Depression. Clark Gable shares a dance  with Marilyn Monroe at the wrap-up party of the filming of The Seven Year Itch, Romanoff’s,  Beverly Hills, California, 6th of November, 1954.

African warriors,    early 20th century. Stalin’s portrait hanging on the facade of Branicki Palace during the Soviet occupation of Białystok, Poland, 1939 or 1940. United States Marine in full gear with some uplifting helmet addition, Hue, Vietnam, 1968. An elderly Italian woman kisses the hand of an American soldier from the Fifth Army after the Allies entered Naples, 1943.

The Atlantic City beauty contest  of 1944. Afghan Kochi  mother and child, 1950s. Canadian artillerymen add an  early seasonal message to a shell for their 60-pounder field gun on the Somme front, November 1916. Graves of United  States soldiers who died of influenza in Devon, England photographed on March 8th, 1919.

This man was known as the dog man in the 1980s, New  York City. 1977, Worksop Silver Jubilee Parade. An electric bath, 1910,  used to treat rheumatism. The Schnee four-cell bath was used for treating rheumatism and painful joints with a bath for each limb. Each bath had its own current. Early punks, Castanienallee,  Berlin, 1982.

Persian girl in 19th century. Physics class, University of  Montana, Missoula, 1919. During the influenza epidemic, classes were held outdoors. Children playing near a dead horse in the street,  1905, New York City.  Princess Margaret visits Sheffield  Children’s Hospital in July 1976. Sylvester Stallone, 1976.

Native Minstrels, Cairo, 1906.