Interesting Historical Photos!

High School principal R. Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the KKK after he left a board meeting where he proposed the

High School principal R. Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the KKK after he left a board meeting where he proposed the school district honor Martin Luther King, Jr. A student took this photo of Brownlee when he returned to the school for help. April 3, 1971. Michigan.

Happy French Girl And Her Cat, 1959

The junction of Steep Street and Trenchard Street, Bristol, England 1866

The world’s last commercial sailing ship, The Pamir, rounding Cape Horn for the last time in 1949

The house that Donald Trump couldn’t buy. circa 1991.

Inflating cow skins to use as boats in the Indian Himalayas (1903)

Farmers take down the sheriff who is trying to evict a widow from her farm after the insurance company failed to do so. Near Lap

British corporal taking the surrender of a 7'6 (228 cm) tall german soldier, 1944

"This CD-ROM can hold more information than all the paper that's here below me"- Bill Gates,1994

Civil War Veteran Jacob Miller

was shot in the forehead on Sept.19th 1863 at Brock Field at Chickamauga. He lived with an open bullet wound for many years, with the last pieces of lead dropping out 31 years after he was first shot. 1911.

In 1989

wanting to see how the American’s lived, Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled visit to Randall’s supermarket in Houston. Between trying free samples of cheese and produce and staring at the meat selections, Yeltsin roamed the aisles of Randall’s nodding his head in amazement.

The original Moulin Rouge the year before it burned down – Paris, France

Nepali men carrying the 1938 Mercedes Benz that Adolf Hitler gifted to King Truibhuvan of Nepal (1940).

Christopher Lee as a young officer in Vatican City, 1944, shortly after the liberation of Rome.

Christopher Lee - WWII special operative, Dracula, bond villain, Death, Saruman, Count Dooku, heavy metal vocalist, Knight Bachelor, amid other honors – as a young officer in Vatican City, 1944, shortly after the liberation of Rome.

Adolf Hitler’s 4th grade class, 1899. The fuhrer-to-be can be seen top row, dead center

Once a Beatle: When Ringo was ill with tonsillitis, he substituted on drums for 8 concerts & lived a superstar's life for 10 day

Once a Beatle: When Ringo was ill with tonsillitis, he substituted on drums for 8 concerts & lived a superstar's life for 10 days. But Ringo has returned... Now Jimmie Nicol sits alone in the Melbourne airport, waiting for the plane that will take him back to obscurity (15 June 1964)

Jesse Owens wins gold in Nazi Germany, 1936.

Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904

A Group of Samurai in front of Egypt's Sphinx, 1864

Forgotten Age of Open-air Schools in the Netherlands, 1957.

Hitler at the presentation of the Beetle, 1940s.

1991: Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves

a profound gesture that made her a gay hero. "It is hard to find words to express the aching loneliness and rejection I have found them experiencing as they approach the end of their lives...How will we treat them?"