Photographer Paul Castelnau took this colour autochrome photo of French soldiers in Ballersdorf, Alsace, France during WW1 - June 22 1917 VS Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
The changing face of St Bartholomew-the-Great's gatehouse in Smithfield, which was built in 1595 and some point bricked over. It was bombed during a WW1 Zeppelin raid knocking off some bricks revealing its Tudor half-timbered facade. It was restored to how it looks today. 1916 VS Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
Morris and Salom Electrobats in front of the Old Metropolitan Opera House on Manhattan's 39th Street in 1898. The Electrobats are electric battery-powered cars that served as early taxis in NYC. [3019×1809]4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
M7 Priest, 2nd Armored Division, at the intersection of Holgate Street and the Paris-Cherbourg Railway, Carentan, France. - 18 June 1944 VS Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
Originally built in 1915 the elevated station at Forest Ave, New York City - Apr 28 1916 and now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
The changing face of St Bartholomew-the-Great's gatehouse in Smithfield, London. It was built in 1595 and at some point bricked over. After it was bombed during a WW1 Zeppelin raid some bricks were knocked off revealing its Tudor half-timbered facade. It was restored, & this is how it looks today.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/london
101-years-ago April 22, 1919, A parade at Market St and 5th marks the return of the 91st Division from France. The Division fought in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives of WW14yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/sanfrancisco
From left to right Zion Karasanti, Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri standing looking at the Wall during the Six-Day War, June 7, 1967 and Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
Canadian soldiers pass through ruined buildings as they enter Cambrai. In the back ground is the Eglise Saint-Gery de Cambrai - Oct 9, 1918 VS Sep 20184yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
Mrs. Edna Egbert swings at the police trying to get her off the ledge of No. 497 Dean Street, NYC near the Barclay’s Center today. Mrs. Egbert was distraught because her son hadn't written her - 1942 VS now.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
World War 1 in the Alps. Austrians and Italian Armies fought each other in the mountain tops of the Alps. This is the Austrian barracks in Marmolada, location Sass delle Undici. Wooden part was used as an accommodation, but then there're caves with gun slits. September 24, 1917 VS Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
[April 8, 1920] The Chicago Post Office has adopted roller skates for its clerks as they enable them to work more rapidly, thereby saving valuable time. Photo shows two clerks with skates handling parcel post.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
Ruins of the Sube Fountain in the main square, Rheims, France - 1919 VS 20184yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
French Senegalese soldiers stand to attention under an Armenian flag flying in Allied-occupied Turkey on this day 100 years ago, Dec 10, 19194yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/vexillology
The Fontinettes Canal boat elevator, finished in 1888, was built to connect the River Aa to the Neufosse Canal in the French commune of Arques until it stopped in 1967. It raised or lowered canal boats 42 feet, and can still be viewed. 1918 VS NOW4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
[December 28, 1919] A little Siberian maid and the three Russian bear cubs that pull her sleigh over the snow crust to and from school at a lively clip. Northern Russia has so far escaped the ravages of Bolshevism.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 25, 1920] Excavation for the Reflecting Pool at the US Capital. Work on the new Lincoln Memorial grounds is underway. Excavating for the big mirror lake.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 8, 1920] On a visit to Hawaii, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) becomes the first member of the British royal family to try surfing4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 2 1920] A man sprays the inside of a London General Omnibus Co bus with anti-flu preparation during the flu epidemic, London4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 20, 1919] Turkeys hang in a butcher shop in England, ready for sale at Christmas4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
Canadian paramilitary forces fire live ammunition into the crowd to disperse peaceful protestors. With dozens of protestors wounded private contractors on horseback then charge the demonstrators - June 21, 1919, 101-years-ago would become known as Bloody Saturday4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/Winnipeg
[April 6, 1920] Jack Johnson shaking hands with Billy Silver, Deputy Sheriff of Imperial County, California. One step more and Johnson would be on United States soil and under arrest for bail-jumping in Chicago 8 years before.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 21, 1919] 84 Years Old Civil War Veteran of Philadelphia, Wearing at the Fifty-third G. A. R. Reunion at Columbus, Ohio, the Exact Equipment with which He Marched Away to the War with the 71st Pennsylvania Regiment in 18614yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
1st pilot of Japan Post Airmail - 1919. Is this woman using Teeth blackening or Ohaguro?4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/japan
[March 16, 1920] The unveiling of the monument to nurse Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans during World War One, by the Dowager Queen Alexandra in St Martin's Place, London4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
A 102-year-old WWI poster about food hoarding during the Great War - Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food! - 1918 by the Canada Food Board.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/britishcolumbia
[December 16, 1919] Siberian Mother Mourns Sons Killed by Tsarist Troops4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
The Plaza de Mayo of Buenos Aires, totally covered by the white snow on June 22, 19184yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/argentina
[November 22, 1919] A Black mother cries over Lynching in America4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 10, 1919] Autochrome picture of French Senegalese soldiers standing to attention under an Armenian flag, in Cilicia, Turkey. Probably during the short-lived Armenian Autonomous Zone when the Allies were trying to set up a home for refugees and survivors of the Armenian Genocide4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 14, 1919] As more and more British soldiers are killed in Ireland the military start fortifying their barracks4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 8, 1919] The Bodensee airship lands in Stockholm, the only landing of a zeppelin in Sweden4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 18, 1919] Thousands of trucks abandoned by the Americans in France4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 23, 1919] Fighting the White Plague - Several hundred modern young crusaders—Philadelphia school children—form a living tuberculosis double cross4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
Rock Mushroom in Zegartowice, Poland. During WW1 Austro-Hungarian officers stand next to the mushroom rock - Over a 100-years-ago and Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/poland
[December 7, 1919] Japan asks America to help her simplify clothes for women. Japanese dresses are usually ripped apart and laundered once a year4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
105-years-ago May 8, 1915, #OnThisDay anti-German riots gut German-owned businesses following the sinking of the SS #Lusitania. In this picture rioters outside the Kaiserhof Hotel - 1322 Blanshard Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/britishcolumbia
The mortal remains of 111 American soldiers who died fighting the Soviets in Russia. Their bodies lie on the pier at Hoboken, NJ after being landed from the funeral ship USS Lake Daraga - November 23, 19194yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/newjersey
100-years-ago on April 23, 1920, in Dublin, Ireland. Lady's Well a is miraculous well which is believed to cure all ailments. Irish boys line up to procure their special water - April 23, 1920, VS Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/Dublin
[Mar 21, 1920] Dan O'Brien, 'King of the Hoboes,' addresses a gathering of his colleagues on the steps of the Capitol Building, Washington DC4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 13, 1919] Protest by the Anti-Vaccination League outside of Old City Hall in Toronto, Canada4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 24, 1920] British armoured cars provide reinforcements to the troops guarding the 104 Sinn Fein prisoners who are on a hunger strike in Dublin Prison, Dublin, Ireland4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 15, 1920] The Duesenberg that Tommy Milton used to set a new world land speed record on Daytona Beach. The car featured two eight-cylinder Duesenberg blocks mounted on a common crankcase geared to run together4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 21 1919] Which does she want? Which way will Mexico go?5yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 25, 1920] US government set to deport 3,000 people living in America as they are members of a political party4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 28, 1919] “The color line has reached the north” cartoon from the Chicago Tribune newspaper while the 1919 Chicago race riots were still raging on5yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 10, 1919] 50 people killed in Berlin when hungry mob riots attacks police and kills, eats their horses5yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
May 1, 1920, 100-year-old autochrome colour picture of soldiers at the Auteuil Metro station in Paris as riots break out across France4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/paris
[November 2, 1919] New York Tribune - Miss Elizabeth C. Blanding, aged 87, said to be the oldest actively engaged school teacher in America, who has just started teaching her seventy-first class of primary grade children at a private school at Attleboro, Massachusetts4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Mar 13 1920] Paramilitary supporters of the Kapp Putsch, wearing helmets with swastika symbols, in Berlin. Kapp Putsch was an attempted coup #OnThisDay which tried to overthrow the German Weimar Republic and establish an autocratic government in its place.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
Winnipeg dismisses almost its entire police force for refusing to sign a pledge promising to neither belong to a union nor participate in a sympathetic strike. Replaced with untrained, but better paid, special constables who patrolled the streets with clubs - Jun 9, 1919, 101-years ago4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/Winnipeg
In Mulhudart County, Dublin, Ireland, there is miraculous well which is believed to cure all ailments. Irish peasants who have come to procure their special water - April 23, 1920, VS Now4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/OldPhotosInRealLife
[August 5, 1919] Republican Senators predict that next World War will be caused by Imperial Japanese Expansion in China5yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 28, 1919] Flag Almost Causes a riot! The Humanity Flag, is combination of the British Union Jack, the French Tri-color and the US Stars and Stripes. Nearly caused a riot when displayed the other day in a Washington novelty shop. The capital authorities have stopped its sale4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
Aug 20 1914 Fine Belgian gentlemen off to fight the Germans Belgian Carabiniers with dog drawn machine gun carts move up to oppose the advancing German Army during the retreat to Antwerp IWM (Q 81728)5yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/belgium
[July 31, 1919] Pictures of a White mob stoning a Black man on the front page of The West Virginian5yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 5, 1919] Hamburg American Line’s new commercial Airship, Zeppelin LZ 120 Bodensee4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
The Humanity Flag. Combo of Union Jack, the French Tri-color and Stars and Stripes. When it was sold in Washington DC in 1919 it almost started a riot4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/vexillology
[August 2, 1919] Heavily armed motorcycle and foot policemen of Chicago during the Chicago Race Riot5yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 19, 1919] New-York Tribune When you rub Radior Peau de Velour into the pores of your face you are really energizing your skin with actual Radium ... because of their radium content in any cream or powder:-they perpetuate beauty4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 14, 1919] The window tickling profession. There's no choking off the alarm clock and creeping back to bed over in Yorkshire, England. This window tickler is a sure remedy for oversleeping. The tickler wielders have formed a union and boosted their rates4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 24, 1919] Mexicans hide their hate of Americans so they will continue to cross the border and spend money on vices4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
Before alarm clocks. In Yorkshire, England a window tickler taps the window of his client in order to wake him up - December 14, 19194yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/yorkshire
