Photographs can capture a wealth of information in just a split second and immortalize it for years to come.
By freezing the moment, photographers allow us to travel to places and times we have never witnessed before.
In Kakhet, Georgia, in 1881, a man stands next to a huge container used to store wine.
At the end of the 19th century, Jack the Baboon worked on South Africa's railway system for 9 years and never made any mistakes.
In the 30s of the 20th century, alarm clocks were expensive and unreliable, and the British sometimes hired a knocker to wake them up in a unique way.
In the case of Mary Smith, she could earn about 6p a week by shooting dried peas from the windows of sleeping workers in east London with a pea shooter.
For a brief period in the 30s of the 20th century, mothers in London kept their babies in cages hanging from the windows to give them a breath of fresh air.
Miraculously and fortunately, there have never been reports of injuries or deaths in such incidents.
In 1864, Robert McGee, a 13-year-old orphan, was scalped by the Sioux tribe, but he was lucky to survive with permanent scars.
On June 17, 1885, the front of the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York from France and was unpacked shortly after, and it is said that the woman standing next to it was the blueprint for the Statue of Liberty.
In 1893, Princeton University students posed for a photo after a snowball fight, and it is estimated that they already had a shadow of the snowball fight in their minds.
In 1895, a train approached the Montparnasse station in Paris as it went too fast, failed to brake, crashed through the station wall, and fell into the street below.
On July 4, 1905, people gathered to watch a horse diving show, which was very popular in the 19th century and featured horses (and sometimes riders) jumping into a pool from an 18-meter-high tower.
A picnic at the California Alligator Farm in Los Angeles between 1907 and 1953, where visitors can freely mingle with trained crocodiles.
In 1910, a man wore an early version of a skate powered by pedals and wheels. This is much more artistic than today's ice skates.
In 1910, the steamship Princess May ran aground in Alaska due to dense fog, carrying nearly 150 people, but all of them were unharmed.
In 1913, a Mongolian woman was trapped inside a wooden box, a cruel punishment.
In 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her 9-year-old cousin, Francis Griffiths, posedly posed for a photo with the "Curtinley Fairy."
It was one of the biggest hoaxes of the 20th century, and they didn't admit that the photos were faked until 1983.
On January 15, 1919, a molasses storage tank on Boston's North Side ruptured, leaking up to 2.3 million gallons (about 10456011 liters) of molasses onto the street at a speed of 56 kilometers per hour, ultimately killing 21 people and injuring 150.
In Washington, D.C., 1922, Beach Officer Bill Norton measured the distance between a woman's knee and the bottom of her swimsuit to make sure it wasn't too long, which was in line with regulations at the time.
In 1922, shortly after King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered near Luxor, Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the innermost part of the tomb for the first time.
In April 1926, many Ku Klux Klan members strolled down Main Street and had a great time on the Ferris wheel of the Mobile Carnival. They even posed for a photo at the request of the carnival owner, and the story made the front page of the local newspaper the next day.
In 1927, during the Tour de France, cyclists were allowed to smoke freely.
On the afternoon of May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg, bearing the swastika, flew over New York City, and a few hours later, it crashed in a historic fire in the town of Manchester, New Jersey, USA.
In 1937, members of the Young Pioneers, a youth group of the Soviet government, put on gas masks while participating in offensive preparation exercises in the Leningrad region.
On November 10, 1938, Maryland inventor George Stern unveiled his invention: a highly volatile liquid that evaporates so quickly that the gas released does not ignite.
Interestingly, Stern believes that its only practical use is to create horror effects for horror films.
In 1938, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, a woman tested a stroller in Hexstable, England, to protect against a poison gas attack.
In Montreal, 1939, women wear plastic headdresses to protect themselves from a blizzard.
In 1942, during World War II, a Syrian bear named Wojtek was drafted into the Second Polish Army.
He was treated like a regular soldier, with a rank, paybook, and serial number. In the picture, he sits with a comrade-in-arms and poses for a photo.
Around 1945, during World War II, a soldier sprayed a mixture of DDT and kerosene inside an Italian house to control malaria.
Las Vegas in 1955 was still desolate.
In 1961, Soviet doctor Leonid Rogotsov found out that he had acute appendicitis while he was at a Russian base in Antarctica.
Unfortunately, he was the only doctor there.
Due to the raging snowstorm and the outdoor temperature of more than minus 50 degrees, he could not leave, so he had to perform an appendectomy on himself.
You know what? He survived and returned to work in just two days. This is amazing.
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