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22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

Fascinating photos we found deep down in the vault of history.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 5 months ago in Ftw

Have you ever felt the urge to put a message in a bottle and send it out into the ocean? What would it say?


It is human nature to think about the past, and wonder about the future. We'd all love to experience a few days in ancient times or even a few decades ago, and I for one desperately want a sneak peek into what the next few hundred years will look like for the human race. Time capsules are the closest we can come to reaching different generations; delivering messages untouched by the history in between. The r/HistoricalCapsule subreddit is a place for people to share historical photos that feel like they were just opened from a time capsule. 


One striking image shows a man in a canoe paddling down the Nile River in Egypt, with the great pyramids behind him. The image is from 1927, and the area looks peaceful and underdeveloped. The same can certainly not be said for what is one of the most popular modern tourist destinations in the world today. But the great pyramids, which have stood unmoving for the majority of recorded human history, have looked down upon it all; their own version of a time capsule. 

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    The Microsoft staff, 1978.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Flight Attendants from New Zealand in the 1960s.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    This is what a trip to McDonald’s looked like in 1969.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Last four couples in a dance marathon, Chicago, circa 1930.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    A 1960's ‘Conversation Pit.’

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    American physicist Harold Agnew holding the core of the atomic bomb that was used in Nagasaki, 1945.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    The Nile by the Giza Pyramids, Egypt, 1927.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    A white child touches the shield of a black state trooper at a KKK rally in Gainesville, GA, 1992.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Two little kids dancing on the streets of New York City, 1940.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Actress Jayne Mansfield with her husband Mickey Hargitay and their daughter Mariska, 1964.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Guardsman fainted during a ceremony, but other guards kept their attention. London, 1966.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Rob Lowe, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Robert Downey Jr. at the Governors Ball after the 1988 Academy Awards.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Northumbrian miner sits down to eat his evening meal, 1937.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    In 1973, Marlon Brando rejected his Oscar for The Godfather to allow Sacheen Littlefeather to protest Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Kenny Baker, R2D2, eating a sandwich on the set of Star Wars.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    While cleaning up from the World Trade Centers falling, crews found a shipwreck 7ft below the foundation that dated back to 1773.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    Mickey the shoeshine boy, New York, 1947. Photograph by Stanley Kubrick.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    An acoustic listening device used by the Dutch army for hearing enemy airplanes, between World War I and II.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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    The first Royce car in Cooke Street 1904.

    22 Fascinating Photos From History and Days Gone By

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