25 Interesting Historical Photos That Give A New Perspective Into The Past

There is something almost magical about vintage photos that captures our attention and imagination. The grainy and soft aesthetic of photos taken in the past evokes a sense of warmth and nostalgia within us for a time gone by, inciting our curiosity as to what the lives of the people during that period were like.  The Untold Tales Of The Past Instagram account is a haven of such nostalgia-inducing material with its collection of historical moments captured on film. Scroll to check out a few of their very best posts, which we’ve shared in the gallery below. 

#1 The Athlete Who Lost $10.000 To Help A Struggling Competitor

Image source: untoldtales.jpg Jacqueline Nyetipei Kiplimo did something that stunned the world during the 2010 Zheng-Kai Marathon when she witnessed a disabled competitor struggling to drink water who was a double amputee. Instead of seeing her moment to run ahead of this struggling athlete, she ran along side of him from the 6.2 mile mark to the 23 mile mark (10km mark to the 38km mark), helping him drink water at all of the watering stations. The aide that she so compassionately provided her fellow competitor slowed her run time down and caused her to lose her first place position and place 2nd in the race — costing her the win and the $10,000 cash prize. Jacqueline Nyetipei Kiplimo showed the world that day that to her, being compassionate and helping one another was more important than winning a race that she had been preparing for her entire life.

#2 Vietnam Veterans Protesting The Vietnam War, “We Won’t Fight Another Rich Man's War”. 1970

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#3 A Better Walk In The Park, 1937

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#4 Charles Thompson Being Welcomed By His New Classmates, Just 4 Months Earlier The Supreme Court Rules That Racial Segregation Was Unconstitutional

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#5 Two Boys Teaching Each Other Parts Of Their Culture

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#6 Anatoly Golimbievsky, A Heavily Decorated Soviet Veteran Who Lost Both Legs In The Second World War, Acknowledges The Salute Of Four Young Sailors From The Nakhimov Navy School On V-Day In Leningrad In 1989

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#7 A Young Inuit Girl Carrying Her Pet Husky On Her Back. 1920's

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#8 Louis Armstrong, An American Trumpeter And One Of The Most Influential Artists In Jazz History, Drawing A Trumpet And Autographing The Side Of A Young Man's Head In Nice, France, 1961

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#9 Kiss In Central Park, C. 1974

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#10 Orgone Accumulator, A Device Sold In The 1950s To Allow A Person Sitting Inside To Attract Orgone, A Massless 'Healing Energy'

Image source: untoldtales.jpg The FDA noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day."

#11 A Little French Girl Gives An American Soldier A Kiss On Valentine’s Day, 1945

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#12 The Statue Of Liberty ? Towering Over Paris Just Before Being Disassembled And Shipped To New York

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#13 Bruce Lee Doing Two Finger One Arm Push UPS, Ca. 1970s

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#14 Nudity Is God’s Creation, 1979

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#15 A Milkman Makes His Way Through The Rubble Following A German Bombing Raid In London, 1940

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#16 Together, An Armless Man (Charles Tripp) And A Legless Man (Eli Bowen) Can Ride A Tandem. 1890s

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#17 Nurse Showing Newspaper Headline About Polio Vaccine To A Man On Chest Respirator Due To Polio, 1955

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#18 A Game Of Unicycle Basketball In Harlem, C. 1960s

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#19 As Soviets Approach Berlin, The Citizens Of The City Did Their Best To Take Care Of Zoo Animals, 1945

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#20 Police Officer Unaware Of The Imminent Danger, 1959

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#21 London, 1939

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#22 Night Fishing, 1948

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#23 An Anti KKK Group Called 'The Invisible Jungle, Knights Of The Tiger's Eye,' A New Secret Order

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#24 David Henseley, Young Child Crippled By Polio With Both Legs In Braces, Soliciting Funds In Public Fundraising Driver For A New Polio Hospital, 1948

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#25 Picture Of Male Lovers From 1850 - 1950 When Being Gay Was Illegal

Image source: untoldtales.jpg Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, who are married, collected over 2,800 images over the last 20 years from flea markets, estate sales and family archives before digitising them for their book Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love. The subjects vary from 19th century working class men to fashionably dressed businessmen, students, soldiers and sailors.