Your favourite powerful historical images

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Falling Man from 9/11. Such a powerful image from a tragic day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man

That is the most heartbreaking photo

[Anonymous]

I love just about any photo of Albert Einstein, but my favorite is the one of him teaching some black men:

https://www.cfhu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Einstein-at-Lincoln-University-800-768x512.jpg

[Anonymous]

The one of Coretta Scott King with her children at MLK Jrs funeral always moves me.

[Anonymous]

When I think of the horrors of colonialism, I think of the photo of the man whose daughter was killed by the Belgian imperial forces as punishment for him having not met his quota of rubber for the day. They delivered her hands and feet to him and the photo is of him staring at it. Heartbreaking.

[Anonymous]

Wow, the photo of the woman dying after an abortion as well as of the man staring at his deceased daughter’s hands & feet are haunting me so much right now. 😣

I have never seen these photos.

Does anyone know what time period they originate from??

[Anonymous]

Great thread OP. I won’t repeat several remarkable pictures already mentioned. However I think of some of the profound pictures of child labor and poverty by Lewis Hine and others are very powerful and they haven’t been mentioned yet. There are several that were and are very impactful but here are a few:

[Anonymous]

PP here. Also, this picture of Ruby Bridges is extremely powerful. It is absolutely horrifying what this country put that child through, and yet she radiates strength in the photo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, the photo of the woman dying after an abortion as well as of the man staring at his deceased daughter’s hands & feet are haunting me so much right now. 😣

I have never seen these photos.

Does anyone know what time period they originate from??

Gerri Santoro died in 1964 as did so many others before and after

[Anonymous]

Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Also, this picture of Ruby Bridges is extremely powerful. It is absolutely horrifying what this country put that child through, and yet she radiates strength in the photo.

Thought of this one also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913:

I hadnt seen this. Good one.

[Anonymous]

The okc firefighter holding the baby.

[Anonymous]

Holocaust pictures are always moving to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913:

Yuck. I can't believe Union soldiers would honor illegal racist warlords like this.

Imagine if civil rights groups today threw a banquet in the honor of 1/6 insurrectionists!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MacArthur and the emperor of Japan

What’s so great about this? Tall ungainly white man with short prissy Asian man.