Confucius said, "If you want to define the future, study the past." Historical pictures allow us to do that. They depict some of the most important moments of the past, and we can look back and analyze one image at a time. Learn something new from every photo, whether it's an old photo from a family album or a snapshot that went down in history.
World War I Memorial
In the 19th century, Sioux tribes of Indians spread throughout the Great Plains
A photo of Dr. Religa monitoring a patient's vital signs after a 23-hour heart transplant. His assistant fell asleep in the corner. 1987
An engineer gives a photograph of the wiring of an early IBM computer in 1958.
The Unknown Soldier in 1965
On September 11, 2001, the ladder 118 fire truck crossed the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center. All the firefighters on the truck died shortly after
On June 8, 1958, 19-year-old David Isom broke skin color lines in an isolation pool in Florida, leading to the official closure of the facility
Today's Children Don't Know Struggle (1990s)
The little boy was born in 1924 and is two years old in this photo. He died in France in 1944 on board an American tanker. His name was Lonzo Huggins, and he received a Purple Heart in World War II.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stillm returned home after more than five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and was welcomed by his family
In August 1964, more than 3,000 workers who built Chase Manhattan Bank in New York pose for a group photo as construction work draws to a close
Silent film actress, Dolores Costello, grandmother of Drew Barrymore, 1928
Huffy radio bike from the 50s of the 20th century
Blackfoot Indians on the roof of the McAlpin Hotel in New York City, refused to sleep in their rooms
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1959.
Returning prisoners of war - 1946
In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted.
Marilyn Monroe was photographed by Sam Shaw in Amaganzett, New York, in 1957
It was 1948 when George W. McLaughlin and his college classmates were quarantined
Man in suspenders poses on the Brooklyn Bridge
Phone towers, before they figured out to bundle wires into cables. There are 5,000 lines in this tower (1890)
In 1938, 1,800 Civil War veterans attended a 75th anniversary gathering in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The youngest is 88 years old and the oldest claims to be 112 years old
A dangerous playground of the 70s of the 20th century
On August 13, 1925, a family of immigrants on the Alice Island dock, who had just passed strict immigration clearance, looked hopefully at the New York horizon as they waited for the government ferry
May 1922: At the age of 78, Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is lifted up the steps at the inauguration of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C
Sophia Roland glanced sideways at Jane Mansfeld. 1957
A well-dressed young lady in the 30s of the 20th century. It almost looks like it was taken yesterday
In 1908, San Francisco, a Victorian house on Steiner Street was moved by horsepower
In 1922, one of the first traffic signals in New York City
June 17, 1885 Arrival of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a gift of friendship from the French people to the American people