Barnorama All Fun In The Barn
Hold on to your corsets and top hats as we present 40+ unseen pictures from the past that are so unique, even your great-great-grandma would do a double-take.
“Mask-Maker And Nebraskan Artist Doane Powell (1881-1951)”
“Welsh Spiritualist Colin Evans Feigns Levitation By Jumping Up And Down In Total Darkness And Filming Himself With An Infrared Camera. London, 1939”
“Boo-Koo Hamburger Stand In Harlingen, Texas. Burgers 5 Cents, Chili A Dime, Breakfast Two Bits, The 7up Is Real. (Photo By Russell Lee. February 1939)”
“Wernher Von Braun, Designer Of The Saturn V , Poses In Front Of Its Engines (1969). Braun Was The Head Of The German Rocket Industry In World War II. At The End Of The War, He Was Brought To The US”
“Women Riding Chinese Men Working As Porters, Using A Frame To Mount, Control And Steer Them As A Means Of Transport. The Woman On The Left Is A Canadian, Ethel Vinden Née Dickson With The Protestant Missionary Group China Inland Mission. China, 1920s”
“1942, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, Orson Welles At The Carnival”
“London Olympics, 1908, I Have No Info About This Photo But It’s Utterly Unique”
“Prisoners At Dachau Concentration Camp Greet Their American Liberators From A Barbed-Wire Fence.(Germany, April 1945)”
“A Lady From The Ouled Naïl Tribe In Algeria, Photographed By Rudolph Lehnert In 1904”
“Breakfast Tea Being Passed Between Cars On A Train From Peshawar To Lahore In 1983. Photographed By Steve Mccurry”
“An Enthusiast For Men’s Dress Reform Walking Down The Strand In London. The Mdrp (Men’s Dress Reform Party) Was Formed In The Interwar Years In Britain, 1930”
“Physicists And Nobel Prize Winners Marie Curie And Pierre Curie Shortly After Their Wedding. France (1895)”
“A Studio Portrait Of Hattie Tom, A Young Chiricahua Apache Woman, Photographed At The U.S. Indian Congress Of The Trans-Mississippi And International Exposition In Omaha, 1898”
“British Hurdler Percy Hodge Demonstrates The Perfect Obstacle Jump While Carrying A Bottle And A Glass On A Tray. Percy Hodge Became An Olympic Champion In The 3000m Hurdles In 1920”
“British Military Equipment Disguised As Elephants, India, Wwii”
“May 3rd 1960, Otto Frank Standing In The Annex That He And His Family Hid In During Wwii. Until They Were Found And Arrested By The Gestapo In 1944”
“Six-Year-Old Anne Frank Holding A Jumping Rope Next To Her Friend, Sanne Ledermann, On A Pavement In Amsterdam. 1935”
“Oldriev’s New Tricycle. Photo By Chas. W Oldrieve, 1882”
“Punk Rock Girl London, 1979”
“An Ultra Light Horse-Drawn Car In Traffic Paris (1943)”
“Charles Godefroy Flies Through The Arc De Triomphe In Paris. The Height Of The Opening Is 29.42 M, The Width Is 14.62 M. The Wingspan Of The Aircraft Is 9 Meters Wide, 1919”
“Children Playing With A Toy Guillotine, France, 1959”
“G.o.e Herbert Tea & Dining Rooms, 10 New Street, Chipping Norton, England. 1910”
“A Piglet Which Is Being Treated By The Pdsa (People’s Dispensary For Animals) In Ilford With A Sun Ray Lamp, To Cure A Skin Ailment, 1938”
“Wyatt Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) Photographed By His Wife Josephine Earp”
“Seeing Two Mickeys On A Parisian Street In The Early 1930’s Either Elicited Pure Delight Or Sheer Terror”
“The Coffin Of The Red Baron Being Carried By Members Of The Australian No. 3 Squadron, Lead By An English Priest, For Burial In Northern France. The Ace Pilot Of World War I Germany Was Shot Down On April 21, 1918, And Given A Full Military Funeral By The Australian Unit Who Recovered His Body”
“Riders On The New York Subway Sit Without Newspapers During A Newspaper Strike In The City (1953)”
“An Iron Man Of The Past In A Diving Suit. The Suit’s Name Was ‘Iron Man’ Too. It Had Electric Charging And Pressure Protection Systems. New York, 1907”
“1963: A Clown At The Lunch Counter”
“‘The Half Suit’ Photo And Concept By Pippa Garner, 1982”
“A Telepath Tries To Hypnotise A Chimpanzee, 1941”
“Quality Control At Emi’s Vinyl Lp Pressing Plant In London (1965). The Beatles Rubber Soul”
“By Alfred Eisenstaedt. Student Nurses Getting Lessons, Roosevelt Hospital NY, 1938”
“Straw Hats Made By Messrs Olney’s Of Luton, Bedfordshire Being Carried To The Packing Rooms, 1933”
“Two Kashmir Giants Posing With The American Photographer James Ricalton, 1903. One Of The Giants Was 7’9” Tall While The “Shorter” One Was A Mere 7’4” Tall”
“Around 1890, A Mother And Her Son Were Captured In A Photograph Taken In Lisdoonvarna, Ireland. The Son, Who Was A Ballad Singer, Can Be Seen Holding A Printed Poem In His Hand”
“A French Civilian Woman Pours A Drink Of Cider For A British Soldier With Bren Machine Gun In Lisieux, 1944”
“Because Of The Influenza Epidemic, Open-Air Police Court Being Held In Portsmouth Square, San Francisco. To Prevent Crowding Indoors, Judges Held Outdoor Court Sessions. (1918-1919)”
“Husband And Wife, Sunday Morning, Detriot, Michigan, 1950 By Gordon Parks. He Had Been Sent Back To Fort Scott (Where He Lived Until He Was 16) By Life Magazine To Find 11 Members Of His Segregated Elementary School And See What Became Of Them. The Story Was Never Published”
“A Tactical Trick Used By Soldiers During The Mexican Revolution, 1913”
“A Swagman Using A Hollowed Gum Tree As A Campsite, 1880. A Swagman Was A Transient Labourer Who Travelled By Foot From Farm To Farm Carrying His Belongings In A Swag (Bedroll). The Term Originated In Australia In The 19th-Century And Was Later Used In New Zealand”
“Old Vennel, Glasgow. From Thomas Annan’s Photograph Series Of ‘The Old Closes And Streets Of Glasgow’ 1868”
“The Local Priest Takes A Strong Turn At The Front And Gives These Atala Cyclists A Break During Their Training Run In Preparation For The 1959 Giro D’italia Stage Race. Italy – Near Milan, 1959”
““Only In The Provinces Are The Great Melancholy Cultivated, The Silence And Solitude Essential To Succeed In Such A Tiring Sport As Cycling” The Words Of Gianni Brera Are Reflected On The Face Of Giusto Cerutti, The Piedmontese Runner Immortalized During The 1928 Tour De France”
“Last Known Photograph Of A Barbary Lion Before Presumed Extinction, In The Atlas Mountains In North Africa, Taken In 1925 By Marcelin Flandrin”
“A Fake Ghost Scene Taken By Two Brothers, Circa 1900s-1910s”
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