These images show some interesting moments that marked the last century. They also include some unusual images that you probably haven’t seen before.

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A woman with a pushchair that protects against gas attacks in 1938

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The German airship Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey 6th May 1937

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To promote women’s rights in 1907, Annette Kellerman wears the first one piece swimsuit. She was arrested for indecency.

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In 1901, Annie Edison Taylor was the first person to survive going over the Niagara Falls. The barrel was padded [...]

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A cage to give a baby living in an apartment sufficient natural light and air in 1937.

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A little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins after an air raid on London in 1940

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Walter Yeo, wounded in battle (left pic), was one of the first persons to undergo plastic surgery and skin transplant [...]

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Measuring swimsuits in the 1920s to ensure that they were not too short. If they were the women were fined.

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Hotel owner pours acid into his swimming pool while black people are swimming in it -1964

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A mother and her son watch the mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb test a in Las Vegas, 1953

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Chicago in 1948. A mother hides her face in disgrace after putting her chldren up for sale

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Evelyn Mc Hale, aged 23, jumped from the 83rd floor of the Empire States Building and landed on a United [...]

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The first day after Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right in 1967