We have compiled the photographs that will remain in our memories and what happened at the moments when those historical photographs were taken for you, not letting them disappear in the dusty pages of history. Let's take you to our content for interesting frames that you will travel in time!
One of the only known photographs of Mexican general and President Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna. Antonio is famous for coming to power 11 times in Mexico and losing more than half of Mexico to the USA in 1848. To this day, some consider him the worst man in Mexican history.
An ordinary day for Oregon loggers. (1918)
The last photo of Congressman Leo Ryan resting after investigating the situation at the 'Jonestown' religious colony. The stain on Ryan's shirt is from being stabbed after members told Ryan of their desire to escape. A few hours after the photo was taken, Ryan and hundreds of others were killed on the orders of the cult leader. (1978)
Captain Francis Fenton's facial expression etched in photographs. In the frame in which the photograph was taken, Fenton was told that his battle-weary company was almost out of rations and ammunition but had been ordered to continue fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. (September 1950.)
A photograph of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacres. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French began a mass murder of Algerian independence protesters. The massacre began on the day the war in Europe ended. Between 6,000 and 30,000 people were killed in the massacre (1945).
A 1970s photograph of sex trafficker, drug dealer and author Robert Beck, aka 'Iceberg Slim'. His 24-year experience in the US sex trade from 1936 to 1960 was one of the main inspirations for his 1967 novel 'The Pimp', which shocked audiences with its extremely explicit violence and sexuality.
Early 1900s photograph of a death mask modelled on the cadaver of Napoleon Bonaparte.
A Falun Gong demonstrator arrested by police in Tiananmen Square on 12 October 2000. At least 300 people protesting against the ban on the Falun Gong religious movement were arrested in the square that day, making it the largest demonstration in Tiananmen Square since 1989.
Photograph of the mummified body of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II when his mummified body was discovered in 1881. Ramesses lived into his 90s, serving his empire for more than 66 years, and is considered by some to be Egypt's most successful pharaoh.
A photograph of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, lying on his deathbed at Windsor Castle (16 December 1861).
A bar in New York on the night of the end of alcohol prohibition in 1933.
A Lama in Times Square (New York, 1957)