15 retro photographs that you won’t find in history books (16 photos)

Old photographs deserve attention because they allow us to touch history, find out how they lived and what they did people in the old days. The images in this post offer you go on a fascinating excursion into the past.





1. Gymnastic pyramid in the thirties, USSR



2. A man and a woman pull a cargo ship through a canal in the Netherlands in 1931.





3. Firefighters and municipal workers inspect a new water pumping system in Istanbul, Turkey, 1931.



4. Man selling sponges, Austria, 1904



5. Woman near the house, 1910



6. Women play volleyball on stilts. California, USA, 1942



7. An engineering student talks about a robot, 1950



8. Women firefighters on a converted motorcycle, London, 1932



9. Model sitting in light clothing and demonstrating the power of a thermal lamp. Germany, 1960



10. Two engineers fixing Disney's robot caveman, 1964



11. Family living in one room, New York, 1890



12. Historical event: discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922



13. A rally of Soviet-Hungarian friendship took place at the plant of heavy and unique machine tools in Ulyanovsk, 1986



14. Woman wearing a Spanish Flu mask, England, 1919



15. Royal Hussars training, England, 1935