47 of the most haunting photos from history

 

Captured 16-year-old German anti-aircraft soldier during WW2, 1945

 

1929 – Boarding of British Airship R101 – This would likely be the Airships last voyage as it crashed shortly after in France. 

 

WW1 photo of German friends in a trench bunker. Photos on the wall and one being a photo of a woman.

 

An American serviceman shares his rations with two Japanese children on the island of Okinawa, 1945

 

Men waiting in line for the possibility of a job during the Great Depression

 

6-year old Jewel Walker picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day (1916)

 

Christmas dinner, 1936. Dinner consisted of potatoes, cabbage, and pie.

 

General Sherman overlooking Atlanta, 1864.

 

Lady and her horse on a snowy day in 1899.

 

Mother and daughter watch a tall ship navigate the Thames in London, 1880.

 

Old woman smoking a pipe on her porch, Appalachia Mountains, 1917.

 

Three young girls working as oyster shuckers. Port Royal, South Carolina, USA. 1909. Photograph by Lewis Hine.

 

A ghostly yet mesmerizing image from 1900.

 

Rainy nights in London, 1899.

 

Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911.

 

5-year-old Harold Walker picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day, Oklahoma, 1916.

 

Part of the infamous crime-ridden slum in New York City known as the Five Points. Photo by Jacob Riis, 1872.

 

One of the oldest people to have been photographed in 1840-1850.

 

A cult-like, early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club

 

A tent belonging to the missing campers of the Dyatlov pass

 

A boy is treated for a bite from a Russell’s viper as his father watches on

 

Terrifying Santa Claus.

 

Gas Masks for babies.

 

Inside a train in the 1800s.

 

A sharecropper and his wife in Missisipspi, 1937.

 

Josephine Smith digging a grave at the Drouin Cemetery during World War II

 

A photo of the bomb over Nagasaki mid-explosion

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