63 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things (New Pics)

Learning about the past is far from dull when you have access to social media. There are so many fantastic internet resources out there that can help make history even more interesting than it already is: some pages use memes, create witty threads, and share intriguing pics to make education truly entertaining.

One of those pages is the ‘Photos From History’ Instagram account, a fantastic project that shares iconic historical photos. And many of them might even change your perspective on things. We’ve collected some of the Instagram page’s most recent and most powerful features to share with you, Pandas, so scroll down and get ready to learn something new about everything that’s old.

#1 Stevie Wonder Visiting A Children’s School For The Blind In London, 1970. Photo By Terry O’neill

#2 A Woman On Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, In 1947, Three Years After Allied Forces Invaded German Occupied France. Photo By David Seymour

#3 Homeless Irishman, Spitalfields, London, 1970. In A 2012 Documentary, Mccullin Recalled Thinking This Man Looked Like Neptune As He Photographed Him

#4 Legendary Irish Antarctic Explorer Tom Crean. Crean Was A Member Of Three Major Expeditions To Antarctica During The Heroic Age Of Antarctic Exploration, Including Robert Falcon Scott’s 1911–1913 Terra Nova Expedition

#5 Gaston Rébuffat Mountain Climbing In France, 1944

#6 Emperor Minilik The 2nd Of Ethiopia, 1896

#7 An Infant Colo, The First Ever Baby Gorilla Born In Captivity. When Colo Passed Away She Was The Oldest Known Gorilla At The Time. Colo Lived From 1956-2017

#8 20,000 Year Old Human Footprints Uncovered By Researchers In White Sands National Park. According To A New Study, These Tracks Date To Between 21,000 To 23,000 Years Ago—a Time When Massive Ice Sheets Are Believed To Have Blocked Human Migration Into The Americas. Photo By Dan Odess

#9 (1967) The Patrouille Suisse, The Acrobatic Team Of The Swiss Air Force, During A Loop In Front Of The Alps

#10 Window Cleaners In New York City, 1958

#11 Yves Saint Laurent At Christian Dior’s Funeral, 1957. According To Dior’s Wishes, Yves Saint Laurent Became His Successor And Was Named Artistic Director Of The Haute Couture House At The Age Of 21

#12 Noluyanda Mqutwana Dances Outside Her Two-Room Family Shack In Khayelitsha, One Of The Poorest Black Townships Outside Cape Town (South Africa 2000)

#13 Anatoly Karpov Playing An Exhibition Chess Game, 1978

#14 Stanley Kubrick & Malcolm Mcdowell On The Set Of A Clockwork Orange, 1971

#15 Parisians Walk Across A Row Of Chairs To Avoid Flood Waters In 1924. Photo By Henri Manuel

#16 The 1895 Train Crash At Montparnasse Station Is One Of The Most Famous And Reprinted Images Of A Train Accident. Location: Paris

#17 Astroman At Astroland. Astroland Was The First Space Age Theme Park. It Was Located On Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Opening In 1962 It Was Formally Closed On September 7, 2008

#18 Groundhog Day 2 February, 1963

#19 A Technical Security Officer From The Us Diplomatic Security Service Crawls Out Of A Tunnel After The Discovery Of A Hidden Soviet Listening Post Inside The Us Embassy In Moscow In 1978

#20 A View Over Berlin In 1920

#21 A Photo Of A Man Standing On The Lap Of A Statue Of Ramesses In Egypt, 1856

#22 A Group Of Elderly Men Sitting On A Mat,taken In Peshawar, Now In Pakistan, Circa 1865

#23 The Confessional, Mexico. Photo By John Gutmann, 1960

#24 A Gondolier Passes By The Residential Homes Of The City Of Venice, Kingdom Of Italy, C. 1900

#25 Notre-Dame, Paris. ‘Diable Et Pigeon’ (Devil And Pigeon)

#26 Paris During The La Belle Époque, The Period (1871–1914) Between The End Of The Franco-Prussian War And The Outbreak Of World War I, Characterised By Relative Peacefulness In Western Europe And By Marked Advances And Productivity In The Arts, Literature, Technology, And Culture

#27 Mrs. Hale, The Wife Of A British Soldier, Plays The Accordion Outside Her House For A Group Of American Soldiers In England, 1944

#28 Fidel Castro Shooting Basketball With His School In 1943

#29 (1944) Hms Howe Steams Past A Dhow While Transiting Through The Suez Canal, Egypt

#30 Licking Blocks Of Ice During A Heatwave In New York In 1911

#31 How Ghostbusters’ Slimer Became John Belushi After The Passing Of The Actor Iconic Comedian

#32 Students Participating In A School Nuclear-Attack Drill, 1950s

#33 Two Buddhist Monks With Rosary, Bell And Slit Drum In 1875

#34 A Man And A Woman Hiding Under A Bridge Following The Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989

#35 Rms Mauretania, The Largest Ship In The World From 1906 Until The Launch Of Rms Olympic In 1910. Photo By Clifton R. Adams For The National Geographic In Southampton, 1928. The Photo Was Colorised Using The Autochrome Process

#36 Habitat 67, A Modular Housing Complex At The Expo 67 World’s Fair In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1967. Designed By Israel-Canadian Architect Moshe Safdie, Habitat 67 Is Used As A Housing Complex To This Day

#37 Gay Men Supporting Lesbians At The Dyke March, 1993

#38 A Russian Soldier Playing An Abandoned Piano In Chechnya, 1994

#39 Elizabeth Taylor For The Look Magazine In 1956

#40 Jimi Hendrix Playing For Wilson Pickett In 1966

#41 (1987) An Estimated 800,000 People Flocked To The Golden Gate Bridge In San Francisco, California For Its 50th Anniversary. The Weight Of The Large Crowd Caused The Bridge To Sag 7 Feet, Flattening Its Usual Convex Shape

#43 Harry Houdini Demonstrates Photo Manipulation By Taking A “Spirit Photograph” With Abraham Lincoln, 1920s

#44 (1878) A Forest Of Totem Poles Crafted By The Haida People At Skidegate, British Columbia In 1878

#45 Nuclear Physicist Norman Ramsey Signs The ‘Fat Man’ Nuclear Weapon, Later Dropped On Nagasaki On 6 August, 1945. 60-80,000 Japanese Civilians Were Killed As Large Swaths Of The City Was Instantly Obliterated

#46 Colonel Donald Blakeslee Of 4th Fighter Group Of The United States Army Air Force Briefing A Group Of Pilots During Wwii. Photograph Taken In England In April, 1944

#47 Testing Masks For Silence Of The Lambs, 1991

#48 Walt Disney Explaining Mickey Mouse To A Cat In 1931

#49 A Militiaman On Horseback Chases A Thief Who Stole A Bag Of Potatoes In A Field Near The City Of Naro-Fominsk, 90 Kilometers Southwest Of Moscow, Russia, On August 27, 1995

#50 Climactic Eruption Of The Mount Pinatubo Volcano In The Philippines (15 June 1991), The Second-Largest Volcanic Eruption On Earth Of The 20th Century

#52 The Tree Like View Looking Down Onto A Car Park, Taken From The 26th Story Of The Great Shell Centre On The South Bank Of The River Thames In London. The “Tree” Effect Is Formed By The Wheels Of The Cars As They Enter And Leave The Park. (1963)

#53 A Band Entertaining U.S. Servicemen In Europe On New Year’s Eve, Early 1950s

#54 Lyndon B. Johnson Singing With His Dog Yuki In 1968

#55 A Llama Takes A Tour Around Times Square, NYC, 1957

#56 Korean Woman At The Beginning Of The 20th Century

#57 (Fdr Funeral) Tears Stream Down The Cheeks Of Accordion-Playing Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson As President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Flag-Draped Funeral Train Left Warm Springs, Georgia, On April 13, 1945. Roosevelt’s Fellow Polio Victims Sit Crying At Jackson’s Side

#58 Actress And Module Debra Jo Fondren Pictured At An L.a. Roller Disco Party In 1979

#59 Babe Ruth Right In The Middle Of His Fans In 1926

#60 Members Of The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion Preparing To Jump On A Wildfire In Oregon. In 1945, During Operation Fire Fly African American Paratroopers Made More Than 8,000 Individual Jumps To Fight Wildfires And Disarm Japanese Balloon Bombs In The Pacific Northwest

#61 Founder Of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard: “You Don’t Get Rich Writing Science Fiction. If You Want To Get Rich, You Start A Religion”. A Quote From Hubbard 7 November, 1948, During A Meeting Of The Eastern Science Fiction Association

#62 (1932) Al Capone’s FBI Criminal Record, Showing Most Of His Criminal Charges Which Were Dismissed

#63 The Story Of Richard Lasher’s Incredible Photo Of The 1980 Eruption Of Mt St Helens