Things happen everywhere, all the time—events big and small, ordinary and extraordinary, that shape our world in ways we often don't notice until the ripple effect spreads all around.
Over the years, the Facebook page 'Historical Pics' has collected an extensive gallery of these moments. From a black-and-white shot of the Iron Curtain to a color snap of a street in the United States during the sixties, each image invites us to come and marvel at history frozen in a single frame.
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#1 Three Former Directors Of The Global Smallpox Eradication Program Read The News That Smallpox Had Been Globally Eradicated, 1980
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#2 A Newly Born Lamb Snuggles Up To A Sleeping Boy, 1940
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#3 Female Workers During A Strike At Citroen, 1930s. Photograph By Willy Ronis
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#4 The Original Addam's Family Set Photographed In Colour
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#5 Mark Twain At Tesla's Lab
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#6 2 Girls Smile From Their Fantastic Snow Fort, Circa 1910
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#7 Lost In The Moment At A School Dance, 1950’s
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#8 Susan Kare, Famous Apple Artist Who Designed Many Of The Fonts, Icons, And Images For Apple, Next, Microsoft, And Ibm. (1980s)
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#9 The Oldest House In Hamburg, Germany In (1898). · It Was Built In 1524, And Demolished On December 8th, 1910, Despite Protests From Locals
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#10 Frida Kahlo Wearing A Suit In Her Family Portrait In 1927. She Was 19 Years Old
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#11 Pope Leo XIV In 1982
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#12 Polio Victim Gwinn Hinkle On His Porch While His Former Class At Sunshine School Sings Christmas Carols. Published In The News & Leader On December 21, 1952. Springfield, Missouri
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#13 The Real Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin, The Boy And His Bear, Who Inspired The Fantastic Stories!
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#14 Women On An Italian Street, 1951
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#15 Scandinavia's Indigenous Sami People In Norway, 1928
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#16 Grocery Shopping (1890s) Before Aisles Existed : A Lady Gives The Clerk Her Orders, And He Collects Everything
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#17 Spanish Bride In 1973
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#18 Bob Ross Without An Afro In The Military Circa 1960
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#19 A Woman In 1903 Having Her First Photograph Taken
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#20 Milkman Making His Deliveries After A Night Of Bombing, 1940
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#21 Nikola Tesla In His Laboratory Testing His “Magnifying Transmitter”, (1904)
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#22 A Photo Of Mount St. Helens Erupting During A Local Baseball Game On May 18, 1980
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#23 Image Of Godzilla Power Washed Onto Japanese Dam
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#24 Downtown Rotterdam In 1940 After The Debris Had Been Cleared
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#25 Couple On A Subway, New York City, 1946. Photograph By Stanley Kubrick
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#26 West Berliners Waving To Relatives Over The Berlin Wall, Christmas Day, 1961. Photo By Leon Herschtritt
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#27 A Little Girl Hands A Posy Of Lilies To A Police Officer On Duty At The Porte Saint-Denis In Paris, Circa 1920
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#28 Family Portrait Taken 120 Years Ago, 1905
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#29 Excavation Of The Sphinx, CA 1850
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#30 Portrait Of Three Ladies Modelling The Latest Fashion By Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix (C. 1908)
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#31 Miss Universe Of Yugoslavia, With A Mig-21f, 1968
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#32 Ladies Doing Some Mountain Climbing In Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, Circa (1908)
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#33 In 1991-1993, Eight People Sealed Themselves Inside A Giant Glass-And-Steel “Closed World” In The Arizona Desert To Test Whether Humans Could Live In A Self-Sustaining Habitat, Often Framed Like A Prototype For A Moon/Mars-Style Colony
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#34 Bruce Lee Playing With His Son Brandon, 1966
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#35 The King Of Norway On A Tram During The Oil Crisis In The 70s. He Was Going Skiing Like A Normal Guy, And Wanted To Pay For A Ticket. The Conductor Didn’t Want To Take His Money
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#36 Central Park During The Great Depression (New York, 1933)
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#37 An Ambrotype Portrait Of A British War Veteran And His Wife, Circa 1855. He Is Wearing A Military General Service Medal (Mgsm) With Five Clasps, Indicating That He Fought In Five Battles During The Napoleonic Wars
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#38 This Farmhouse Once Stood In Manhattan Where 84th Street And Broadway Now Cross. (1879)
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#39 Mod In Swinging London, 1967
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#40 A Child's Gas Mask During WWII
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#41 June, 1966: Women Use Compact Mirrors In Packed Crowd To Catch Sight Of The Queen In London, England
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#42 Telephone Engineer In London, 1925
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#43 Chicago North Line Rail Accident Between Harrison Street And Wabash Avenue On, 1953. Chicago Tribune Historic Photo
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#44 This Enormous Pile Of Holiday Packages At London’s Mount Pleasant Post Office In 1952
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#45 The Gutted Interior Of The White House, May 1950
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#46 Karolina Olsson “Fell Asleep” As A Teenager On A Tiny Swedish Island And, 32 Years Later, Woke Up Remembering Her Life Before It As If It Were The Same Day
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#47 Times Square, 1978
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#48 A Debris Of Dishes Found On The Wreck Of The Titanic, 1985
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#49 An Lcm (Landing Craft Mechanized) Loaded With Troops Shoves Off From The Troop Transport And Heads Toward The Shore At Iwo Jima 6 March 1945
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#50 Chicago, 1969
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